Three patients were admitted to our clinic with symptoms of conjunctivitis. On ocular examination, moving larvae were seen in the conjunctival sac. All of the larvae were immobilized by topical cyclopentolate and removed mechanically under topical anesthesia. The patients healed without any complications after the treatment. Physicians should consider ophthalmomyiasis externa in patients presen...

PURPOSE To compare pre- and postcycloplegic autorefraction in two separate age samples of Australian school children. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study of random cluster samples. METHODS Autorefraction was performed before and after cycloplegia, using 1% cyclopentolate, in the right eyes of 2,233 12-year-old and 210 6-year-old children. RESULTS The mean spherical equivalent (S...

PURPOSE To determine the effect of the cyclopentolate 1% on the cylindrical and spherical components of the refraction. METHODS Three hundred seventy-five eyes of 195 subjects, including 74 males and 121 females, aged from 3 to 59 years were refracted before and 30 min after cyclopentolate 1% eye drop instillation. To compare cylindrical data, power vector analysis (J0 and J45 cross cylinder)...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of pharmacologic pupillary dilatation on anterior chamber depth (ACD) and anterior chamber angle (ACA) in eyes with exfoliation syndrome (XFS). METHODS Thirty-six eyes of 36 patients with XFS were evaluated with slit-lamp examination, Goldmann applanation tonometry and ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) under standard light conditions. ...

Rabbit retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) has an alpha-1 adrenoreceptor that substantially reduces RPE short circuit current (Isc) when stimulated. Since phenylephrine is a potent alpha adrenergic agonist frequently used to obtain pupil dilation, we examined the effect of topically applied phenylephrine for pupil dilation on RPE transport. Naive black dutch-belted rabbits received either one drop...