Spontaneous hyphema associated with ocular syphilis

Spontaneous hyphema associated with anterior uveitis.

Few reports have described hyphema in association with anterior uveitis. Five cases of anterior chamber haemorrhage are reported in patients with five different anterior uveitic entities: Reiter's syndrome, juvenile chronic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, idiopathic anterior uveitis, and herpes simplex. Hyphema has been reported in association with idiopathic non-granulomatous anterior uveit...

Spontaneous hyphema secondary to iris vascular tufts.

[Choroidal detachment associated with delayed spontaneous ocular hypotony].

CASE REPORTS We report two cases of delayed spontaneous hypotony associated with choroidal detachment and hypotony maculopathy. Both patients had undergone uneventful cataract extractions 10 and 6 years prior to the occurrence of apparently spontaneous hypotony. Trabeculectomy was combined with phacoemulsification in one of them. Both had been receiving timolol at the time of presentation. DI...

Experimental Ocular Syphilis and Neurosyphilis.

The challenge in clinical syphilis to-day is the detection of the disease in the sero-negative patient. The magnitude of this problem is evident when one considers that over 100 cases of ocular syphilis and neurosyphilis have been encountered in this institution within the past year (Smith, 1964; Smith and Moore, 1964; Smith and Taylor, 1965). Ofparamount importance is the fact that the majorit...

Uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema syndrome associated with recurrent vitreous hemorrhage.

CASE REPORT A 61-year-old pseudophakic male with recurrent blurred vision episodes associated with uveitis, hyphema, glaucoma and vitreous hemorrhage. Iris transillumination defects and apposition of the optic and iris were found. The patient was diagnosed with Uveitis-Glaucoma-Hyphema (UGH) Syndrome. DISCUSSION Mechanical irritation of the iris is a consequence of intraocular lens malpositio...