Seventy patients, submitted to oxygen encephalography and oxygen myelography, were examined by retinal funduscopy to establish the incidence of intraocular haemorrhages, a complication reported to be frequent by other investigators. We did not discover any retinal haemorrhages. Pathogenetic factors influencing intracranial or intraocular venous pressure or both are discussed, particularly the e...

The following case illustrates how an orbital tumour may mimic a posterior segment mass on funduscopy by virtue of its indentation of the globe. Imaging techniques are shown to be vital in the elucidation of the true pathology. Case report A 30-year-old woman complained of severe throbbing pain in the right orbital region, associated with lacrimation and nausea, which had been intensifying over...

RESEARCHDESIGNANDMETHODSdSerial (3–5) HbA1c values collected in a 2-year period before enrollment were available from 8,260 subjects from 9 centers (of 15,773 patients from 19 centers). HbA1c variability was measured as the intraindividual SD of 4.52 6 0.76 values. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) was assessed by dilated funduscopy. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was defined based on albuminuria, as mea...

PURPOSE To assess the influence of wavelength on retinal light damage in rat with funduscopy and histology and to determine a detailed action spectrum. METHODS Adult Long Evans rats were anesthetized, and small patches of retina were exposed to narrow-band irradiations in the range of 320 to 600 nm using a Xenon arc and Maxwellian view conditions. After 3 days, the retina was examined with fu...

INTRODUCTION An entirely new type of staphyloma has been recently described as dome-shaped macula (DSM). It is characterized by an abnormal convex macular contour within the concavity of a posterior staphyloma. We found DSM associated with serous macular detachment (SMD) and tilted disc in two consecutive cases. CASE REPORTS Case 1: A 37-year-old female presented to our department because of ...

BACKGROUND Clinical examination of the region of the eye mainly affected in patients with intermediate uveitis is difficult and often hampered by media opacities. In that perspective ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) promises to be a valuable additional diagnostic tool. METHODS UBM was performed at a sound frequency of 50 MHz on 26 eyes of 13 patients with intermediate uveitis in order to determ...

Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) was first described in the French-Canadian founder population of Quebec in 1978, but genetically confirmed patients have now been reported in individuals from Europe and Japan. Ataxia, dysarthria, spasticity with extensor plantar reflexes, distal muscle wasting, sensorimotor neuropathy and horizontal gaze-evoked nystagmus consti...

A 59-year-old woman with history of noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus and systemic hypertension presented with decreased vision in her left eye since 2 months ago. Bestcorrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/20 and 20/400 in the right and left eyes respectively. Relative afferent pupillary defect was negative. Anterior segment examination was unremarkable except for mild posterior subcapsula...

OBJECTIVE Optic disk drusen are relatively benign lesions of the eye but can cause visual symptoms and may occasionally mimic papilledema on funduscopy. We studied the range of sonographic findings and determined if sonography can be used to diagnose this condition in the absence of typical funduscopic findings. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Sonography of the eyes was performed in 12 patients with kno...