A 33-year-old woman was admitted for a pseudocroup-like cough and wheezing after general anesthesia. Several months ago, she had undergone cardiac re-operation and turbinectomy, both of which had involved difficult intubations. Bronchoscopy indicated a pin-hall-like subglottic stenosis; therefore, emergency tracheotomy was performed. Six years later, a computed tomography scan demonstrated prog...

and in the mother affords very strong evidence in favour of this disease as the cause of the macular foci and thereby-through impaired vision-indirectly of the strabismus. Despite the pronounced concordance the strabismus must in these patients be considered as exogenously conditioned. We were able to find two reports in the literature of monozygotic twins suffering from toxoplasmosis and lesio...

SUMMARY The aim of this work was to describe the clinical aspects of eye malformations observed at the ophthalmology unit of the Yaoundé Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS We carried out a retrospective study of all malformations of the eye and its adnexae observed among children aged 0-5 years who were seen at the ophthalmology unit from January 2003 to Dec...

PURPOSE To describe a case of congenital unilateral giant coloboma and its successful surgical repair with 33 years of follow-up. CASE REPORT A 6-year-old boy presented with a congenital unilateral giant coloboma of the right upper eyelid associated with madarosis of the eyebrows, microphthalmos, dystopia of the hair, and coloboma of the apex of the nose. The patient underwent surgical repair...

BACKGROUND Kabuki syndrome is a multi-system disorder with peculiar facial features, and ophthalmic abnormalities are frequently involved. This case report of a child with Kabuki syndrome describes two new previously unreported ophthalmic conditions. CASE PRESENTATION A 3-year-old Taiwanese boy with Kabuki syndrome had a short stature, spinal dysraphism, intellectual disability and typical fa...