As a general rule normal saline is employed which has been made up by the hospital dispenser and stored in glass-stoppered hottles. As these are not sterile on the outside. the usual procedure is for a nurse who has not scrubbed up, to pour the saline into a sterilized undine or container. In doing this there is a. very good chance that she will contaminate the neck of the bottle with her finge...

OBJECTIVES To describe the measurement of anterior chamber area and anterior chamber volume by anterior-segment optical coherence tomography and to investigate the association of these parameters with the presence of narrow angles. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of subjects aged at least 50 years without ophthalmic symptoms recruited from a community clinic. All participants underwe...

Every one who has any extended experience in operating, as most of us have, in these parts, must have constantly met with cases in which pieces of residual cortex refuse, in a most teasing way, to be delivered by external manipulation of' the eyeball, and which ultimately have to extracted by the scoop, the use of which appreciably diminishes the certainty of success. Some six years ago, after ...

In a retrospective study of flat anterior chamber after cataract extraction, which was carried out at the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary (I959-I970), an incidence of 7-58 per cent. was found among 8,553 cases. Re-formation of the anterior chamber usually occurred after therapy with mydriatics (Reese, 1949), miotics, acetazolamide (Thorpe, 1954), or osmotic agents (Jaffe and Light,...

Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) is a major form of glaucoma in Asia. It is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI) is the standard firstline intervention in both acute and chronic forms. It is successful in preventing recurrence of acute attacks and virtually eliminates the risk of an acute attack in the fellow eye. Peripheral iridotomy eliminates pupillar...

purpose: to report the development of cataract after corneal damage by dungle beetle prongs. case report: a 28 year-old man, resident of the village chah setareh, sabzevar, presented complaining of trauma to the right eye with the dangle beetle while motorcycling. slit lamp examination revealed six corneal perforations, hyphema (50% of anterior chamber) percent, iris sphincter rupture, and rupt...

the present study introduces a rare case with secondary glaucoma due to anterior chamber lipoma and uveitis in a pekingese dog in iran. a four-year-old castrated male pekingese dog was referred to the private clinic with impaired vision of the left eye, pain, rubbing the left eye onto carpet, presence of a milkycoloured mass into the anterior chamber, and loss of appetite. the clinical examinat...