BACKGROUND To evaluate the visual outcome following cataract surgery with pupillary sphincterotomy in eyes with coexisting corneal opacity. METHODS Patients with leucomatous corneal opacity with significant cataract were enrolled for the study. The uncorrected visual acuity and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) were recorded and the anterior segment was thoroughly evaluated by a slit lamp b...

PURPOSE To obtain estimates of the prevalence of lens opacities in an Indian setting by using photographically acquired lens images. METHODS In 11 randomly sampled villages from a rural district of Haryana, North India, 1443 people (median age 60 years), 52% women, were identified from enumeration of the > or =50-year age group; 87% attended an eye examination. Digital images of cortical and ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between fetal and infant growth, as measured by birthweight and weight at 1 year and the development of age-related lens opacities. METHODS A total of 1428 men and women who were born in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, between 1920 and 1930, and for whom records of birthweight and weight at 1 year were available, were traced and invi...

appointment to the patient than this. During the early years of his career the eye-surgeon is also very disappointed with his results after this operation if lie takes the trouble to find out how small the amount of improvement is and he feels inclined to abandon the operation. The common causes of failure are : (1) Iris adherent to cornea. (2) Too small an iridectomy. (3) Extensive opacity of ...

A DNA synthesis inhibitoT, hvdroxyurea (HU} CS× 10-2M), was added to the oTgan culture medium for a rat crystalline lens (male, white Wistar rats weighing 1OO g) . 1. 0n the 3rd day, a macroscopic examination revealcd diffuse opacity of the posterior capsule. Because of remeval of HU from the culture medium on the Srd day the crystalline lens had become lucid on the 6th day, approximately the s...

Purpose: To assess the frequency of exfoliation syndrome (XFS) in Jordanian patients scheduled for cataract surgery. Methods: A retrospective chart review was conducted on 445 consecutive patients who had cataract surgery at our center over one year. Data collected included age, sex, presence of XFS, predominant type of lens opacity and intraocular pressure (IOP). Results: Mean age of the total...

IT IS uncertain whether senile lens opacities are more frequent in diabetics than in nondiabetics (Andersen, 1925; Waite and Beetham, 1935; Heinsius and Arndt, 1950; Dollfus, 1954; Kato, Amaha, Hagai, and Matui, 1960; Tulloch, 1962), yet cataract extraction is undoubtedly commoner, by a factor of five times or so, in known diabetics than in nondiabetics (Caird, Hutchinson, and Pirie, 1964). The...

PURPOSE To investigate the biochemical mechanisms involved in the cataract induced by lovastatin, a commonly used cholesterol-lowering agent. METHODS The effects of lovastatin on lens transparency and on lens epithelial cell proliferation and structure have been investigated using organ-cultured rat lenses and cultured epithelial cells from human and rabbit lenses, respectively. Lens histolog...

PURPOSE To investigate the preventive effect of dietary zerumbone against UVB-induced cataractogenesis. METHODS A total of 50 six-week-old female ICR mice were split into five groups (each contained 10 mice) and exposed to UVB (0.72 J/cm(2)/daily) at noon for 7 days, except for the blank control group. The mice with UVB exposure were fed with zerumbone as a dietary supplement at 0, 1, 10, and...