Recsod® has been used for treating epilepsy and ophthalmological disease. Oxidative stress has been demonstrated to be a pathogenic chain of these diseases. Parameters of proand antioxidant systems were studied in all the patients treated. Recsod® drug was shown to produce positive effect in all the patients. Improvement of patients’ clinical condition correlated with an increase in antioxidant...

Phosphate buffers are used in many ophthalmological preparations for adjustment of the pH. The use of eye medication containing a phosphate buffer in patients with pronounced damage to the corneal surface can result in corneal calcification as a result of precipitation of calcium phosphate. On the basis of individual case reports, ophthalmological preparations containing phosphate were subjecte...

WITH the increase of West Indian immigration to Great Britain in recent years, cryptogenic, bilateral amblyopia has been encountered with greater frequency among West Indians in ophthalmological and neurological clinics in London. The present series comprises seventeen cases seen personally in various hospitals, mostly at Moorfields Eye Hospital (Table). Included in this series is the daughter ...

Neuro-ophthalmological symptoms in vertigo and dizziness. The vestibular and visual systems are closely linked in the genesis of vertigo and dizziness. An examination of these two systems is helpful in the search for an aetiological diagnosis. In ENT, this double approach can also help to avoid certain ophthalmological pitfalls such as the mistaken idea that a squint cannot be of vestibular ori...

The aim of this report is to investigate the possible causes of acute acquired onset of transient esotropia (AATE) in children and to help to differentiate ophthalmoplegic migraine (OM) from accommodative spasm (AS). A case of an 8-year-old Caucasian female affected by AATE and diplopia is described. The day before AATE onset, the patient complained of slight headache without nausea and vomitin...

Of 76 children with histiocytosis X 18 had orbital involvement, and four developed additional neuro-ophthalmic complications. No instance of intraocular involvement was detected. Among those patients with ophthalmic involvement the main problems were bilateral or unilateral proptosis, ptosis, papilloedema, optic atrophy, and seventh nerve palsy. Only one patient developed a severe visual defect...

Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) or spinocerebellar ataxia type-3 (SCA3) is a rare and progressive neurodegenerative disorder, as well as the most frequently inherited spinocerebellar ataxia. It has extensive polymorphic features, described through a spectrum of neurological, and especially, ophthalmological manifestations. Besides the deterioration of the oculomotor systems, degeneration predomina...

Deterioration of visual function occured in 60% of 117 patients with pituitary adenoma. After transsphenoidal operation, both eyes regained normal visual acuity and visual fields in 28.2% of 64 patients, improvement was noted in 50%, no change was found in 15.6%, and a slight progression was observed in 6.2%. In those cases with unimpaired optic disc before the operation, visual functions b...