We measured three aspects of vision in children treated for unilateral congenital cataract: visual resolution, the symmetry of optokinetic nystagmus (OKN), and peripheral vision. Good visual resolution was achieved by children who had had the earliest treatment and who had had the normal eye patched close to 50% of the waking time throughout early childhood. All children treated for unilateral ...

A 83-year-old woman underwent phacoemulsification in the left eye, complicated by posterior capsular rupture and dislocation of nuclear fragments vitreous cavity. She was aphakic referred to Clinica Oculistica, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale, Udine, Italy. After 2 days, she pars plana vitrectomy, with removal fragments, secondary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. The used a ...


 Introduction: Dislocated lens can be subluxated (partial) or luxated (complete), which cause visual impairment in children. Conservative rehabilitation is an option for treatment.
 Purpose: This study reports the possibility of bilateral children.
 Case Report: A 3-year-old boy came to outpatient clinic Dr. Saiful Anwar General Hospital with complaints blurred vision on both ey...

Miles Center for Pediatric Ophthalmology, Storm Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Supported in part by NIH grant EY-14793, an unrestricted grant to MUSC-SEI from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, NY. and Grady Lyman Fund The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in any product mentioned herein. Glaucoma in ...

BACKGROUND To determine the rate of glaucoma following congenital cataract surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital (MEH), and to investigate potential risk factors for glaucoma in our case series. METHODS A retrospective case notes review was undertaken of all congenital cataract lensectomies performed at MEH between 1994 and 2000. The following parameters were ascertained: age at surgery, unilate...

Purpose: Human ciliary muscles were studied in terms of their response to carbachol in order to evaluate functional changes caused by ageing and disuse after lens extraction. Methods: Human ciliary muscles of 10 enucleated phakic eyebafls(5 cases under 70, 5 of 70 years or over) and an enucleated aphakic eyeball of an 63 year old individual obtained at autopsy were dissected in the meridional d...

BACKGROUND It is well-known that lensectomy surgery during the first year of life increases one's risk of aphakic glaucoma. However, it is controversial whether there is a specific time period during the first year of life after which performing lensectomy surgery has a lower risk of aphakic glaucoma development. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed of all patients ...

Intramembrane changes occurring in dysfunctional corneal endothelial cell membranes were examined using freeze-fracture and transmission electron microscopy techniques. Three categories of dysfunctional endothelium were examined: aphakic bullous keratopathy, pseudophakic bullous keratopathy and Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy. Keratoconus corneas and a donor eye bank eye were examined as normal co...