Background: The association of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) with other neurological disorders is uncommon. Case presentation: We report a 25-year-old female with LGMD who suffered from slowly progressive proximal muscular weakness and atrophy since she was 12 years of age. The patient recently presented with acute loss of left side visual acuity. After evaluation, findings were sugges...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the safety and efficacy of verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT) in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the chart records and fluorescein angiography of patients with subfoveal CNV who were treated with verteporfin PDT between September 2001 and March 2003 an...

Visual acuity and quantitative perimetry (Octopus Program 32) testing was performed in the acute (< 30 days after onset) and convalescent (> 3 months after onset) phases of disease in 27 patients with untreated NAION. Initial group mean acuity and sensitivity loss were compared to final values using the t test. Proportions of patients demonstrating a change of > 2 lines acuity or > 2 dB mean se...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of levodopa-carbidopa on improvement of visual acuity, color vision, and visual field in patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (naion) with onset less than 6 wks. methods: in this double-blind randomized controlled trial, 13 patients were treated with levodopa-carbidopa and 12 patients were treated with placebo for 3 weeks. after 6 months,...

Here we report a case of unexplained sudden visual loss after removal of silicone oil for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment repair. A patient with visual loss in one eye after removal of silicone oil was investigated with best-corrected Snellen visual acuity assessment, fundus biomicroscopy, optical coherence tomography, color fundus photograph, fluorescein angiography, electrophysiologic exami...

Vitreous loss is a serious complication of cataract surgery. Following vitreous loss it is common practice to perform a primary implantation of an anterior chamber lens (AC-IOL). We retrospectively analysed 642 consecutive cases of cataract extraction performed between 1983 and 1986 with special attention to those patients in whom vitreous loss occurred and an AC-IOL was placed. There were 27 s...