Ophthalmic Surgery in Prion Diseases

Ophthalmic Surgery in Prion Diseases

Eleven (1.8%) of 597 patients underwent ophthalmic surgery within 1 month before the onset of prion disease or after the onset. All ophthalmologists reused surgical instruments that had been incompletely sterilized to eliminate infectious prion protein. Ophthalmologists should be aware of prion diseases as a possible cause of visual symptoms and use disposable instruments whenever possible.

Ophthalmic Surgery

book without padding and covers quite enough oround for those for whom it poses to be written, and it well represents the practice of the present da}7. From its clearness and conciseness, and from the fact that it covers not too much ground but quite enough, we should say that it should rank as one of the best of students' text-books. We see that the authors recognise extraction of the lens in ...

Ophthalmic Surgery

F.R.C.S., and W. A. rrost, F.R.C.S. London: Cassell & Co. 1887. The book before us well maintains the excellent reputation of The Clinical Manuals for Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Our authors are well-known ophthalmic surgeons, thoroughly competent to write upon their speciality, both from large practical experience and from wide literary knowledge of it. This volume is very readable...

Ophthalmic Surgery

Cocaine in Ophthalmic Surgery

Cystitis, necessitating the washing out of his bladder and draiuiug of his urine four times a day ; as this operation was attended with severe pain, I prescribed an injection of 1 ?/0 Cucaine, which allowed the catheter to be passed without pain or rigor until the original disease became somewhat cured, and the patient now passes the catheter himself, the great dread he had of the process havin...