A 47-year-old man presented at the Ophthalmology Department of Saku City Asama General Hospital complaining of hyperemia and pain after industrial sodium hydroxide (approx. 40% concentration) had entered his left eye. With an epithelial defect of the bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva, ischemia of the inferior third of the limbal conjunctiva, a total corneal epithelial defect and mild corneal str...

Holoprosencephaly is the most common embryonic brain defect. Foetuses who survive during intrauterine life are born with varying grades of brain and facial deformities. Extra craniofacial manifestations are common. Vertebral segmentation defects are rarely seen with holoprosencephaly, mainly in association with holoprosencephaly diencephalic hamartoblastoma (HDH) association. A female infant wa...

Orbital defects after malignant tumor removal represent a major problem for satisfactory reconstruction. Treatment and surgical reconstruction according to the regular surgical protocol improves with each new case contributing to continuous improvement of surgical techniques in order to achieve better reconstruction of the defect. In our modification in 20 patients there was presented a new met...

patients and methods previously recorded data of 231 patients who underwent surgical closure of vsd between january 2009 and january 2012 at the rajaie cardiovascular medical and research center were retrospectively reviewed. vsd surgical repair was performed using continues suturing technique in group a patients (n = 163, 70.6%) and interrupted suturing technique in group b patients (n = 68, 2...

OBJECTIVE To assess the internal reflectivity of the retinal nerve fiber layer in normal, ocular hypertensive, and glaucomatous eyes using optical coherence tomography. METHODS All patients underwent complete ophthalmic examination and achromatic automated perimetry. Intraocular pressure was 21 mm Hg or less for low-tension glaucoma and normal eyes and at least 25 mm Hg on 2 separate occasion...

BACKGROUND Patients with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) are strongly predisposed to the development of numerous cutaneous cancers. However, the extent of ocular pathology in these patients has not been adequately studied. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of tumors involving the ocular surface and ocular adnexa from 6 XP patients. Histopathological evaluation and immunohistochemistry was...

BACKGROUND With the advancement of techniques for haematopoietic cell transplantation, the number of transplant survivors is increasing rapidly and so are the chances of chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD). The ocular manifestations of this disease have not been explored in our local population. This study was conducted to determine the frequency of ocular complications in cases of cGVHD ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the sensitivity of measuring cognitive processing in the ocular motor system as a marker for recovery of deficit in post stroke patients. METHODS 15 patients (mean age 60.6 years, mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score 2.25) and 10 age matched control subjects (mean age 63.3 years) participated in the study. We included mildly affected acute stroke...

Purpose: To study the frequency and characteristics of ocular manifestations in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the state of São Paulo. Methods: From March, 1996 to November, 1998, 64 patients (48 females, 16 males, age 17 59 years) with MS underwent ophthalmologic examination and computerized visual field perimeter testing. Results: Forty-four (68.75%) of the 64 examined patients pres...