We report a case of a 49-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with blurred vision and vomiting, hours after taking two tablets of 250 mg of acetazolamide. The anterior chamber was bilaterally flat, with normal intraocular pressure in both eyes. An ultrasound biomicroscopic (UBM) examination showed bilateral ciliary effusion and complete appositional angle closure in all qua...

PURPOSE To investigate anterior segment parameters in obese patients in comparison to healthy individuals. METHODS Thirty-four obese subjects and 34 age-sex-matched healthy subjects were enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study. Ophthalmological examinations including intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal thickness (CCT), anterior chamber depth (ACD), anterior chamber volume (...

Purpose. To measure the anterior chamber volume (ACV) and determine factors associated with the ACV in healthy Chinese adults. Methods. In this cross-sectional study, we used swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) to measure ACV and other anterior segment parameters. Factors associated with ACV were also determined. Results. A total of 313 healthy Chinese adults were enrolled. The a...

PURPOSE To compare the performance of gonioscopy and noncontact morphometry with anterior chamber tomography (High Resolution Pentacam - HR) using optical Scheimpflug images in the evaluation of the anterior chamber angle (ACA). METHODS Transversal study. 112 eyes from 74 subjects evaluated at the Glaucoma Department, Fluminense Federal University, underwent gonioscopy and Pentacam HR. Using ...

As a general rule normal saline is employed which has been made up by the hospital dispenser and stored in glass-stoppered hottles. As these are not sterile on the outside. the usual procedure is for a nurse who has not scrubbed up, to pour the saline into a sterilized undine or container. In doing this there is a. very good chance that she will contaminate the neck of the bottle with her finge...

Every one who has any extended experience in operating, as most of us have, in these parts, must have constantly met with cases in which pieces of residual cortex refuse, in a most teasing way, to be delivered by external manipulation of' the eyeball, and which ultimately have to extracted by the scoop, the use of which appreciably diminishes the certainty of success. Some six years ago, after ...