Phenylephrine is an a-adrenergic receptor agonist used in topical preparations such as eye drops, ear drops, and skin creams. We present the case of a 60-year-old man who had suffered acute myocardial infarction and a cerebrovascular accident in 1980. In April 2009 he attended the Ophthalmology Emergency Department of our hospital with a bilateral mucopurulent conjunctival secretion that had de...

During routine dilation of 48 newborns, systemic responses and pupil dilation were monitored. Both 10 percent aqueous and viscous phenylephrine caused blanching around the eyes and produced considerable rise in blood pressure. Dilatation average 4.7 mm. In a double blind study, a 2.5 percent solution caused no skin blanching and no change in pressure or heart rate. Average dilation was 4.5 mm. ...

This is the English summary of our tropics proposal. We are proposing the creation of an inria projett, named tropics. Here at inria, we use to call projett what is usually known as a teamm. The goal of this team is to study and develop software tools dedicated to the analysis and transformation of scientiic programs. 1 People in the team Researchers on a permanent position: Laurent Hascot (sci...

OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation between multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) parameters and the severity of myopia in adults and children. DESIGN Observational study. METHODS Multifocal electroretinograms were recorded using the VERIS system from randomly selected eyes of 104 children and 31 adults with various degrees of myopia. Dawson, Trick, and Litzkow fiber electrodes were used ...

BACKGROUND Scotopic function is an important marker of many retinal diseases and is increasingly used as an outcome measure in clinical trials, such as those investigating gene therapy for Lebers congenital amaurosis. Scotopic visual function has traditionally been measured using an adapted perimetry system such as the Humphrey field analyser (HFA). However this system does not control for fixa...