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Acta Clin Croat
December 2012
Copenhagen University Eye Department, Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
After a brief historical oculometry review, the purpose is to bring a longitudinal update on an unselected Danish high myopia series, which was first presented at 1978 SIDUO. The sample was recruited from a Copenhagen school cohort (N=9,423, born 1948) as 14-year-olds with myopia of at least -6 D (n=39) in 1962. Clinical follow-up studies were conducted in 1976, 1986, 1995 and 2002, with A-scan ultrasound oculometry (Kretztechnik 7000, immersion method; and Sonometrics 400, contact method) as a regular part of the schedule.
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December 2012
Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
The first beginnings of ophthalmic echography in Croatia started at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. When the two largest medical institutions in Croatia, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital (former Dr. Mladen Stojanović General Hospital) and Zagreb University Hospital Center, both in Zagreb, were supplied with ultrasonic diagnostic devices, Krautkrimer/ Siemens Echoophthalmograph and Echoophtalmograph 7200 MA Kretz, they had to start using the instruments.
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