Dacryoscintigraphy used for diagnosing the lacrimal apparatus pathology in 27 patients has revealed the advantage of this method over the previously used methods (the West's color test, X-ray contrast dacryoscintigraphy, diagnostic washing of tear passages) having a number of shortcomings. Of a special value is dacryoscintigraphy for diagnosing functional disturbances in the lacrimal apparatus. However, a full information about the state of tear passages can be received only by complex usage of all the mentioned methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe paper emphasizes the importance of prophylactic examinations and expediency of dispensary observation over patients with various eye pathologies in conditions of the in-patients eye office. On the basis of 2089 patients with various eye diseases the authors make a detailed analysis of results of a 5-year observation over a dispensary group of patients (102 persons) with maculodystrophies, aged from 36 to 92 years. With the help of a wide spectrum of medicinal preparations and non-medicamentous treatment stabilization of visual functions could be achieved in 76% of cases of maculodystrophies in patients aged under 60 years and in 65%--above 60 years.
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