Diagnostic value of intravenous fluorescein studies.

Fluorescein and fluorescein glucuronide pharmacokinetics after intravenous injection.

The permeability of the blood-retinal and blood-aqueous barriers to fluorescein (F) and the rate of aqueous flow can be estimated by measurements of F in the vitreous, aqueous, and plasma after systemic administration. F is commonly measured by fluorescence, but fluorescein glucuronide (FG), a metabolite of F, also fluoresces. To assess the influence of FG on the quantitation of F by fluorescen...

The diagnosis of pupillary block by intravenous injection of fluorescein.

In 1865, Bowman was the first to recog­ nize the clinical entity of pupillary block, which he observed more frequently after cataract extraction without iridectomy than after cataract extraction with iridectomy. Bowman described this condition only as occurring shortly after discission of a sec­ ondary cataract. From his description it may be surmised that the mechanism in­ volved was obstructi...

Timing of color fundus photographs and intravenous fluorescein angiography.

Diagnostic Value of Lectins in Differentiation of Molar Placentas

Objective(s)Distinction of hydatidiform moles from non-molar specimens and subclassification of hydatidiform moles as complete and partial are important for clinical practice, but diagnosis based solely on histomorphology suffers from poor interobserver reproducibility. Nowadays, pathologists rely on molecular techniques, however these methods are technically difficult, relatively expensive, an...

Does Intravenous Fluorescein Interfere With Clinical Laboratory Testing?

Blood and urine laboratory samples taken subsequent to administration of intravenous fluorescein may demonstrate false abnormal values, depending upon the sensitivity of different laboratory instruments, or patient variability. Fluorescein angiography is so widely used as a diagnostic tool in ophthalmology that we often fail to pause and consider its effects on the diagnosis of other medical co...