PURPOSE To report a case of bullous keratopathy secondary to iridoschisis treated by non-Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (nDSAEK). CASE REPORT A 79-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with loss of vision in the left eye. Slit lamp examination of her left eye showed a shallow anterior chamber with cataract and schisis in the inferior quadrant of iris stroma. Bul...

a special hope that it muy be of use to many who have at present very vague ideas of the different diseases to which the eye is liable, and more especially to one large class of assistantsurgeons, mary of whom can operate very dexterously for cataract, but beyond that have not the faintest idea of diagnosis of other ophthalmic diseases. I was particularly struck with this by a question put to m...

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CA SE PRE SENTATION A 72-year-old white woman was referred to us 9 days after she experienced an episode of acute angle-closure glaucoma in her right eye. She had presented to the referring ophthalmologist with a complaint of a rightsided periorbital headache, nausea, and blurry vision upon awakening. Her right eye’s IOP was in the 50s and could not be medically controlled. The referring ophtha...

A 32-year old woman presented with visual loss in her right eye on8/9/95. She was diagnosed with bilateral pars planitis with vitreoushemorrhage and inferior snowbank in the left eye in 1986. Subsequently she developed rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in that eye. Pars plana vitrecromy with endolaser panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) and scleral buckling OS was done. One year later she had cat...

Trantas (I 907) made the first recorded observations on the angle of the anterior chamber, which he viewed through an ophthalmoscope while indenting the sclera at the limbus on the opposite side. He introduced the term gonioscopy, and found that a view could be obtained using either direct or indirect ophthalmoscopy. A few years later the first attempt to view the angle through a contact lens w...