PURPOSE To examine the influences of ethnicity, parental myopia, and near work on spherical equivalent refraction (SER) and axial length (AL) in a population-based sample of 12-year-old Australian children. METHODS Year-7 children in the Sydney Myopia Study (n = 2353, 75.3% response) underwent an ophthalmic examination including cycloplegic autorefraction (1% cyclopentolate) and ocular biomet...

PREVious papers (Lowe, 1964a) have remarked that when the pupils of eyes with shallow anterior chambers, narrow angles, and open peripheral iridectomies are dilated with homatropine, a considerable proportion of the eyes with persistently narrow angles develop angle-closure, a consequent fall in outflow facility, and a rise in intra-ocular pressure that may reach the fifties within two hours. W...

the purpose of this investigation was directed to propose sensitive, accurate and reproducible methods of analysis that can be applied to determine distigmine bromide (dtb), cyclopentolate hydrochloride (cphc), diaveridine hydrochloride (dvhc) and tetrahydrozoline hydrochloride (thhc) drugs in pure form and pharmaceutical preparations via charge-transfer complex formation with 7,7,8,8-tetracyan...

PURPOSE To evaluate pupil dilation with intra-cameral injection of preservative-free lidocaine 1% (ICL) versus topical eye midriatics during phacoemulsification. METHODS This case-control study included 40 patients with similar bilateral senile cataract scheduled for phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. patient's first eye received topical midriatic eye drops as contro...

Purpose. To present the success of posaconazole in two cases with recalcitrant fugal keratitis that were resistant to conventional antifungal drugs. Method. We presented two cases that were treated with posaconazole after the failure of fluconazole or voriconazole, amphotericin B, and natamycin therapy. Case 1 was a 62-year-old man with a history of ocular trauma. He had been using topical fluo...

Objective We aimed to investigate the incidence and the severity of retinopathy of extremely premature infants and to evaluate the risk factors and outcome of the cases. Materials and Methods Out of 200 premature births, we retrospectively reviewed 9 cases that developed ROP. We excluded cases where ROP developed in newborns > 30 weeks of gestational age and cases where medical notes were una...

Aim. To describe keratitis due to Chaetomium sp. occurring in a 65-year-old woman who presented with a corneal ulcer with hypopyon of the right eye with a history of trauma by vegetable matter. Method. Multiple scrapings were obtained from the ulcer. A lactophenol cotton blue wet mount and a Gram-stained smear of the scrapings were made. Scrapings were also inoculated onto various culture media...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the anterior structures of the human eye by partial coherence interferometry and to determine its precision for eyes under normal and cycloplegic conditions. METHODS The dual-beam version of partial coherence interferometry, a recently developed noninvasive optical ranging technique, enables high resolution measurements of several intraocula...

La retinoscopia, como técnica objetiva de evaluación del estado refractivo, es especialmente útil en la edad infantil. Mohindra (RM) una alternativa para aquellos pacientes los que no viable retinoscopia mediante ciclopléjico (RC). En el presente estudio se pretende comparar ambas técnicas determinar su correlación y concordancia. Se seleccionaron a 47 niños niñas con edades comprendidas entre ...