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Prescribing of Spectacle Lenses.
SIRS,-The attention of the Council of British Ophthalmologists has been drawn to the difficulty which the Services and the Ministry of Health are experiencing in obtaining spectacle lenses to supply their urgent needs, and it has been suggested that the situation could be helped by a simplification of the prescriptions supplied by civilian ophthalmic surgeons. LThe Council has considered the qu...
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Majority of the advances in spectacle lens continue to occur in the area of progressive lens design by most of the spectacle lens manufacturers. Since the introduction of progressive addition lenses (PALs) in 1959 by Essilor, it has gained worldwide acceptance for the treatment of presbyopia. While progressive lens design, manufacturing and dispensing techniques have grown at a good pace in the...
متن کاملEvaluation and management of unilateral ptosis and avoiding contralateral ptosis.
Treating unilateral ptosis can be challenging and a proper preoperative evaluation may help prevent unexpected outcomes on the contralateral lid. Preoperative evaluation should include testing for Hering's law, which remains useful in understanding the phenomenon of induced contralateral eyelid retraction in the context of ptosis. Approximately 10% to 20% of patients with unilateral ptosis have...
متن کاملRecognising aponeurotic ptosis.
Thirteen patients who had ptosis surgery undertaken for disinsertion of the aponeurosis of the levator palpebrae superioris were reviewed. Pre-operatively all the patients had characteristic clinical signs of levator disinsertion which was confirmed at surgery and corrected by reposition of the disinserted aponeurosis. Five of these patients were initially mistakenly diagnosed as having a neuro...
متن کاملAcute unilateral isolated ptosis.
A 64-year-old man presented with a 2-day history of acute onset painless left ptosis. He had no other symptoms; importantly pupils were equal and reactive and eye movements were full. There was no palpable mass or swelling. He was systemically well with no headache, other focal neurological signs, or symptoms of fatigue. CT imaging showed swelling of the levator palpebrae superioris suggestive ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Optometry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0045-5075
DOI: 10.15353/cjo.70.696