introduction: consumption of morphine, during pregnancy, in addition to inducing defects in the mother’s nervous system function, caused defects or delays in the formation and evolution of embryonic visual system. in the present study, changes in lens development were assessed in embryos exposed to morphine in utero. methods: female wistar rats (250-300 g) were mated with male rats and pregnanc...

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Case 1—A nine-year-old white girl was seen at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in December, 1969, because of poor vision. The parents first sus­ pected that she had decreased vision at age two and one-half years after a bout of measles. At the age of six years, two examiners had recorded her visual acuity at 20/200 in each eye. At the age of seven years, because of the poor vision and pale disks...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate visual field abnormalities after an episode of optic neuritis among participants in the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial. METHODS Three readers independently evaluated 10 443 visual fields from 454 patients and classified visual field abnormalities into 21 different monocular categories representing 3 general types of visual loss: diffuse, localized, and artifactual. Class...