The authors examined 60 children (91 eyes), aged 5 months to 17 years, with retinal detachment in the ROP course; 19 eyes were selected for the surgery, 5 eyes with the active ROP phase and 14 myopic eyes with the vitreo-retinal changes resulting from ROP. The segmental or encircling scleral buckling was performed in 19 eyes, in 4 eyes the vitrectomy and the endo-tamponade was used. In 12 eyes ...

RETINAL detachment is sometimes due to retinal breaks anterior to the ora serrata in the pars plana ciliaris. This clinical feature has previously been reported by Schepens and Bahn (1950), Schepens (1951), Dobbie and Phillips (1962), and Cox, Schepens, and Freeman (1966) in relation to retinal detachment. Weidenthal and Schepens (1966), who were able to produce retinal breaks at the pars plana...

The interaction of cells with their substratum is an important determinant of cell behaviour, influencing attachment, proliferation, and motility. Such interactions are mediated by cell surface receptors which bind to attachment factors, like the glycoprotein laminin in basement membranes. We have previously shown that expression of the 67-kDa laminin receptor (67LR) is elevated in proliferatin...

AIM To review the rate of retinal detachment after macular hole surgery in patients who received vitrectomy and scleral buckle versus those who had vitrectomy alone. METHODS All patient charts and hospital records were examined for patients who underwent vitrectomy surgery for macular hole between September 1993 and June 1997. A total of 326 patients were identified and all were followed for ...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of early vitrectomy for aggressive posterior retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) to stop progression of retinal detachment. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series. METHODS Twenty-two eyes (15 patients) with aggressive posterior ROP underwent vitrectomy with or without lens sparing, because retinal photocoagulation failed to stop progression...

TRAUMATIC retinal detachment may or may not be associated with hypotony. In some cases iridocyclitis precedes the detachment, which is then termed secondary (Duke-Elder, 1940), and in these circumstances there is frequently a marked hypotension. Rarely, however, the reverse may occur and a detachment may be associated with a secondary iridocycitis giving rise to secondary glaucoma. This is thou...

We operated on nine eyes in eight patients with retinal detachment associated with acute retinal necrosis (ARN) syndrome. The patients were treated with scleral buckling, vitreoretinal surgery, or a combination of these treatments. Vitrectomised eyes underwent combinations of lensectomy, membrane dissection, scleral buckling, air-fluid exchange, endolaser photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and reti...

Background Degenerative retinal diseases, including age related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and hereditary retinal dystrophies are major causes of blindness. The principal defect in these diseases is cell loss which is amenable to both cell based neuroprotective and neuroregenerative therapies. To briefly review the lines of research and potential candidates for cell based therapies among ...

aim and background: complex nature of children`s affectionate problems requires assessment and usage of modern treatments. the present study aimed to investigate the effects of attachment-based therapy on depression symptoms in girl students of primary school who had attachment problems. methods and materials: this study was an empirical plan with pretest-posttest, follow up and control group. ...