OBJECTIVE To report the 6-year incidence of visual loss and associated risk factors in African Americans with type 1 diabetes mellitus. METHODS African Americans with type 1 diabetes (n=483) who participated in the New Jersey 725 study were reexamined as part of a 6-year follow-up. Best-corrected visual acuity, a structured clinical interview, fundus photographs, and blood pressure measuremen...

PURPOSE Infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) can be idiopathic or associated with ocular or systemic disease. The ocular oscillation of INS directly contributes to loss of visual acuity. In this study, visual acuity development in patients with INS was examined. METHODS Children with INS were classified as having idiopathic INS (n = 84) or INS with an associated sensory deficit: INS and albinis...

A 54-year-old healthy male presented complaining of sudden loss of vision in the right eye. Initial visual acuity was counting fingers. The patient's acute vision loss developed after sexual activity. Color fundus photos and fluorescein angiography were performed showing a large subinternal limiting membrane hemorrhage in the macular area. A 23-gauge sutureless pars plana vitrectomy with brilli...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the outcomes of secondary sensory strabismus surgery and to discuss the effect of visual acuity on success. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of patients with sensory strabismus who underwent recession-resection on the eye with vision loss were reviewed. Only patients with visual acuity of ≤0.2 in the operated eye were enrolled. Data including age at surgery,...

A 40-year-old man presented with painless sudden visual loss due to a central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) in his right eye. Three months later, he had painless acute visual loss in his left eye with visual acuity of 20/100 and a swollen optic disc. After oral prednisone treatment, the disc swelling resolved and acuity recovered to 20/20. Five months later, the patient experienced another ep...

PURPOSE The aim of this systematic review was to synthesize and appraise the evidence of the benefits of presbyopic correction on the cornea for visual function. SUMMARY Comprehensive search was conducted in MEDLINE using keywords like "presbylasik", "presbyopic refractive surgery", "corneal pseudoaccommodation" and "corneal multifocality". We reviewed corrected and uncorrected visual acuitie...

PURPOSE Confocal adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) images provide a sensitive measure of cone structure. However, the relationship between structural findings of diminished cone reflectivity and visual function is unclear. We used fundus-referenced testing to evaluate visual function in regions of apparent cone loss identified using confocal AOSLO images. METHODS A patient...