The effect of segmental scleral buckling (SB) on ocular circulation was evaluated by measurements of the ocular pulse amplitude (PA) and the ophthalmic artery pressure (OAP). In this study the OAP was defined as the intraocular pressure (IOP) at which the PA disappeared during increasing IOP. Twenty four patients with unilateral rhegmatogenous retinal detachment who underwent SB of varying exte...

Background: A scleral buckling procedure repairs retinal detachments by indenting the sclera under the retinal breaks. One of the complications is diplopia, which typically subsides once the muscle heals. Persistent diplopia lasting longer than three to six months is reported in 0.5% 25% of patients. Case Reports: The cases presented demonstrate the use of optometric vision therapy and/or prism...

The results in 90 patients with superior bullous rhegmatogenous detachments operated on over a period of 10 years are presented. In only 70% of cases treated by scleral buckling, with or without drainage of subretinal fluid, was retinal reattachment achieved with a single operation. More recently the treatment of patients by external drainage, air injection into the vitreous cavity, and subsequ...

The occurrence of acquired conjunctival inclusion cysts following various ophthalmic surgeries such as strabismus surgery, scleral buckling, pars plana vitrectomy, ptosis surgery and phacoemulsification has been reported. We report two cases of conjunctival inclusion cysts following manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS) in two male patients aged 65 and 67 years. The cysts originated fro...

Removal of the crystalline lens is associated with a substantial increase in the rate of retinal tears and detachments. Retinal detachment (RD) occurs in 2 to 3% of eyes following intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE), 0.5 to 2 % of eyes following extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) but is believed to occur in a smaller percentage of eyes following phacoemulsification. RD frequently occ...

Accepted for publication 24 November 1993 Case report A 55-year-old white man presented with an 8 month history of poor vision in the left eye. He had a history of mild asthma and 2 years previously had suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by a left middle cerebral artery aneurysm which was subsequently clipped. There was no visual disturbance associated with the subarachnoid haemorrhage....

BACKGROUND Toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation can be an effective method for correcting corneal astigmatism in patients with vitreoretinal diseases and cataract. Our purpose is to report the outcome of toric IOL implantation in two cases - a patient with scleral-buckle-induced regular corneal astigmatism and a patient with keratoconus following pars plana vitrectomy. As far as we are awa...