“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of unconscious, love life suicidal, leg amputee, eyes newly blind, a means locomotion for newborn, knowledge and confidence young mother, voice those too weak to speak” (Virginia Henderson) [1].

Visual tasks that involve judging distance or depth obviously benefit from considering retinal disparities and ocular convergence, but various simple visual thresholds are also lower when looking with two eyes. This is also true for stereo-blind subjects. One benefit of using two eyes is that looking with two eyes provides two chances of making the critical distinction. From the literature it w...

To assess inapparent visual field defects in patients with multiple sclerosis free from optic neuritis. During 5 years period 120 patients with multiple sclerosis were examined at the University Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb University Hospital Center. They were divided into three groups with 40 patients each: patients with acute unilateral optic neuritis, referred to ophthalmologist and ...

BACKGROUND A training course for cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation was organised in April 1997 at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, Nigeria. Operations were performed by six Nigerian consultant ophthalmologists under the supervision of two surgeons from Aravind Eye Hospital, India. METHODS A total of 175 eyes with uncomplicated cataracts were operated on after careful selecti...

years; range 41-77 years. There were 16 (35.6%) male patients and 29(64.4%) female patients. Thirty-eight (84.4%) patients (40 eyes) had central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), 7 (15.6%) patients (8 eyes) had branch vein occlusion (BRVO), and 29 (60.4%) eyes (all CRVO) had ischaemic vein occlusion. Twenty-eight (58.3%) eyes were blind, while 18 (37.5%) had visual impairment. Twenty-five (55.6%) ...

OBJECTIVES To report an important complication of ocular evisceration therapy for blind, painful eyes that has been unreported in the literature, and to stress the need for careful preoperative evaluation to exclude occult neoplasms prior to therapy. DESIGN Multicenter, retrospective, nonrandomized clinicopathological case series of patients found to have previously unsuspected uveal malignan...