Although epidemic dropsy was recognised in 1877 when it appeared as an epidemic outbreak in Calcutta, it came to the attention of ophthalmologists only in 1909, when Maynard' reported the occurrence of glaucoma in cases of the disease. Epidemic dropsy is an acute toxic disease characterised initially by gastrointestinal disturbances, lowgrade fever followed by oedema of the extremities, especia...

Correspondence to: Dr David Perkin, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, St Dunstan’s Road, London W6 8RP, UK; d.perkin@imperial. ac.uk _________________________ T he conditions or syndromes to be considered in this article are summarised in table 1. Many are seen relatively infrequently in neurological practice. Among 4000 successi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the type and frequency of ophthalmologic changes occurring in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). MATERIAL/METHODS One hundred consecutive patients (196 eyes) with idiopathic PD and a control group consisting of 100 healthy patients (196 eyes) matched for age and sex underwent a complete ophthalmological examination of both eyes, including a...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this prospective, noncomparative consecutive study was to examine active and retired amateur boxers in order to evaluate the nature and incidence of ocular pathologic conditions related to the boxing practice. RESULTS A total of 35 boxers were included in this study. The mean age of the boxers was 28.09±7.57 years (range 18-52 years). Sixteen (45.7%) boxers had >5 ye...

how to cite this article: paul sp, ahmed s, painless loss of vision as the first presentation of undiagnosed neurofibromatosis 1 in a child. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015;9(4):58-60. abstract objective a 10 year old presented with painless loss of vision as the first manifestation of neurofibromatosis 1 (nf1). clinical assessment detected diagnostic features of nf1 and magnetic resonance ima...

This ophthalmological perspective of general medicine attempts to deal with the more common situations encountered clinically in general ophthalmic practice. Some priority has been given to the clinical usefulness of data. A comprehensive review would involve a wide range of rare conditions and has not been attempted. However, some mention of rarities is made in the context of important diVeren...

although ancient greek physicians studied a great number of ocular diseases in their medical texts such as glaucoma, cataract, trachoma, chalazion, trichiasis, entropion, ectropion and pterygion, in ancient greek art there were only few examples which represent ophthalmic diseases. these examples are found especially in portraits, and the ophthalmological disease is an important feature of the ...