Ophthalmic psychoneurosis: natural history.

Carotid-ophthalmic aneurysms – protective features making them a rare cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage

Objective: To review the rate of carotid-ophthalmic aneurysm (COA) rupture and to identify protective features that may contribute to their low rupture rate. Methods: We reviewed the records of 790 patients with 773 aneurysms greater than 2 mm treated by endovascular routes between 2002 and 2012 at our institution. Seventy five carotidophthalmic aneurysms were identified in 72 patients. Three i...

Mastalgia: psychoneurosis or organic disease?

To test the traditional surgical view that pain in the breast is largely an expression of psychoneurosis, the Middelesex Hospital Questionnaire was given to 317 women with mastalgia and 170 controls with varicose veins. Their scores were compared with those of 173 women psychiatric outpatients tested by the designers of the questionnaire. The results were broadly similar in the mastalgia and va...

Stereotactic surgery for the relief of suicidal and severe depression and intractable psychoneurosis.

Treatment of cystic cavities in X-linked juvenile retinoschisis: The first sequential cross-over treatment regimen with dorzolamide

Purpose To report the first sequential cross-over treatment with the longest ophthalmic follow-up in a case of X-linked juvenile retinoschisis (XLRS) successfully treated with topical dorzolamide. Observations A healthy 34 year-old man presented with one month history of decreased visual acuity in his left eye. Funduscopy was significant for a blunted and cystoid-like foveal reflex in both ey...

Seven-year evaluation of idiopathic multiple retinal pigment epithelium detachments

Objective: To analyze a 7-year natural history of idiopathic multiple retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) detachment based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Methods: Case report. SD-OCT imaging (Topcon 3D OCT-1000). Results: A 55-year-old female presented with three foci of pigment epithelium detachment (PED) in her left eye. Her past ophthalmic and medical history was uneventful. The ...