purpose : to report a case of congenital macular macrovessels case report : an 8-year-old girl was referred for decreased vision in her right eye. her best corrected visual acuity (bcva) in the right eye was 20/200 and in the left eye 20/20. anterior segment examinations were normal in both eyes. posterior segment examination of the right eye showed abnormal macrovessels crossing the macula and...

C ataracts normally occur in the later decades of life, which is also at a time when there is higher incidence of ocular tumors. Before a patient undergoes cataract surgery, it is important that surgeons perform a complete eye examination that includes careful funduscopy. The surgeon must be able to distinguish ocular tumors from other lesions and, should a lesion be identified, send patients f...

BACKGROUND X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) is a relatively rare vitreoretinal dystrophy that causes visual loss in young men. Recently, a gene responsible for this disease, designated XLRS1, was identified, and several deleterious gene mutations were reported. OBJECTIVE To analyze Japanese patients clinically diagnosed as having XLRS formutational changes in the XLRS1 gene. METHODS Ten patien...

Purpose To report the first sequential cross-over treatment with the longest ophthalmic follow-up in a case of X-linked juvenile retinoschisis (XLRS) successfully treated with topical dorzolamide. Observations A healthy 34 year-old man presented with one month history of decreased visual acuity in his left eye. Funduscopy was significant for a blunted and cystoid-like foveal reflex in both ey...

BACKGROUND Recently, in patients with normal tension glaucoma (NTG) elevated levels of antiphosphatidylserine antibodies (APSA), a subgroup of antiphospholipid antibodies (APLA) were found. Progressive sensorineural hearing loss (PSHL) is associated with autoimmune diseases and also the presence of APLA. METHODS To investigate a possible association between NTG and PSHL, 34 patients (age rang...

BACKGROUND Purtscher's retinopathy is a sight threatening, occlusive microvasculopathy associated with trauma, it is rarely reported after long bone fractures. CASE PRESENTATION A 20-year-old female sustained a femoral shaft fracture (AO 32-A2.3) in a ski accident colliding with a snowgun and was treated with intramedullary nailing one hour after the accident. 14 hours after surgery the patie...

A 42-year-old woman presented with loss of vision and progressive proptosis in her right eye from one year before. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/30 and 20/20 in her right and left eyes, respectively. A mild relative afferent pupillary defect existed on the right side. Exophthalmometric readings were 27 and 20 mm in the right and left eyes, respectively with no ocular deviation or restrict...

The present study was conducted to find out the role of serum lipids in the development of diabetic retinopathy in type II Diabetes Mellitus. One hundred fifty subjects aged 30-70 years attending OPD at Old Civil hospital, Surat, participated in the study and were divided into three groups. Group I included 50 healthy non-diabetic subjects who served as control. Group II included 50 diabetic su...

To report a single case of improvement on choroidal metastasis of breast cancer after laser photocoagulation. A 52-year-old female patient who complained of visual disturbance of the right eye with multiple states of metastasis of breast carcinoma. On initial examination, the right best-corrected visual acuity was 0.63. Right fundoscopy revealed an elevated mass-like lesion temporal to the macu...

OBJECTIVES Arteriogenic erectile dysfunction (ED) is a target organ disease of atherosclerosis, and therefore might be a predictor of systemic atherosclerosis. Being systemic, it might be possible to evaluate the extent of atherosclerosis from retinal vascular findings. We investigated the possible correlation between penile cavernosal artery blood flow and retinal vascular findings in patients...