Xerophthalmia and Blindness

A Clinical Study of Nutritional Xerophthalmia and Night-blindness

[Night blindness and xerophthalmia after surgery for morbid obesity].

CASE REPORT We describe ocular findings due to a vitamin A deficiency in a 50-year-old man. The patient had undergone intestinal bypass surgery two years before. After therapy with oral vitamin A the symptoms improved. DISCUSSION The incidence of morbid obesity is increasing throughout much of the developed world, with intestinal bypass surgery the treatment of choice for most people with the...

A Clinical Study of Nutritional Xerophthalmia and Night-Blindness.

Corneal xerophthalmia and keratomalacia.

Detailed examinations were conducted on 162 consecutive children with nutritional keratopathy. Surface changes ranged from mild haziness through generalized xerosis and formation of thickened keratinized plaques. Diffuse stromal edema occured early in the disease. Stromal loss took two forms: relatively small, sharply demarcated, eccentric, noninfiltrated cylindrical ulcers of varying depth; an...

Xerophthalmia in Rwandan refugees.