purpose : to evaluate the visual results of amblyopic therapy in pediatric patients with monocular abnormalities. methods : the hospital records of visually immature patients with unilateral organic ocular abnormalities and decreased visual acuity, who presented to the pediatric ophthalmology clinic over a one year period, were reviewed. those who had 8 years old of age or less and underwent am...

IMPORTANCE Although anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) results in improved vision overall, loss of substantial vision can occur. Understanding the processes that lead to loss of vision may lead to preventive strategies. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence, characteristics, causes, and baseline predictors of sustained visual...

post cardiac surgery ophthalmic complications are uncommon, and sudden visual loss is one of the most important ophthalmic problems in these patients. we report a 54-year-old woman that suffered transient sudden bilateral visual loss seven days after orthotopic heart transplantation. in ophthalmologic examination positive findings were bilateral normal size pupils without direct and indirect pu...

BACKGROUND No more than half of patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)-associated optic pathway gliomas (OPGs) develop vision loss. Prospectively identifying those who will require therapy remains challenging, because no reliable factors have yet been identified that predict future vision loss. To determine whether brain tissue microstructure is associated with visual acuity loss, we exam...

PURPOSE To examine the potential for visual acuity loss, and its relation to extent and location of optic pathway gliomas in a cohort of children with neurofibromatosis type 1 studied with magnetic resonance imaging. METHODS We reviewed the neuro-ophthalmologic records and brain/orbital magnetic resonance imaging scans for 43 consecutive pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 and op...

purpose: to report a case of unilateral severe visual loss and bilateral optic disc cupping secondary to brain metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma patient and findings: a 48 year-old woman presented with severe visual loss of left eye without redness or pain or any systemic findings .clinical findings included decreased visual acuity of left eye to 4 m cf and (+3) positive marcus-gunn reflex ....

purpose: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the artisan phakic intraocular lens (piol) for the correction of high myopia. methods: in this prospective study of 22 eyes of 14 patients with high myopia, artisan piols (ophtec bv) were implanted. uncorrected visual acuity (ucva), best corrected visual acuity (bcva), refraction, astigmatism, safety, and predictability were analyzed. results: the...

Can vision tests predict subsequent loss of acuity? The association between performance on several low contrast spatial vision measures, glare recovery, color discrimination, flicker sensitivity, stereopsis and ocular disease status at baseline and acuity loss 4.4 years later was examined in a large aged random sample with good initial acuity. In univariate analyses, several vision measures, re...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate choroidal osteoma for tumor growth, tumor decalcification, related choroidal neovascularization, visual acuity loss, and poor visual acuity. DESIGN Retrospective nonrandomized single-center case series. SETTING Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa. PARTICIPANTS There were 74 eyes of 61 patients with choroidal os...