Look at Megan. Not just at her distinctively chimpanzee features – her accentuated brow ridge, her prognathic face, her coarse, black hair – but at the totality of her being; her darting eyes, her slow, studied movements, the gestures she makes as her companion, Jadine, passes nearby. Can there be any doubt that behind certain obvious differences in her appearance, resides a mind nearly identic...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease with widespread prevalence. It presents with in various range and often with the presence of non-specific clinical signs and symptoms. Brucellosis also may cause different manifestations in eyes such as uveitis, keratitis, conjunctivitis and neuro-ophthalmic defects. Ocular brucellosis is rare among children. Herein, we present a 7-year-old girl with systemic a...

Macular edema (ME) in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) often impairs central vision dramatically. A 41-year-old woman diagnosed with RP was referred to our outpatient clinic due to severe visual deterioration in both eyes. The patient was treated with topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, topical corticosteroids and intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injections, but her ME recurred. Intravitreal 0....

purpose : to report a patient with urrets-zavalia (u-z) syndrome after penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) in both eyes case report : a 22-year-old woman with keratoconus associated with a central full thickness scar in both eyes underwent pkp in her right eye that was postoperatively associated with a fixed dilated pupil and severe fibrin reaction, posterior synechiae and mild anterior sub capsular...

An elderly woman undergoing treatment for organizing pneumonia and Graves’s disease complained of severe headache after a reduction of her oral prednisolone dose (5 mg/ day to 2.5 mg/day). Although her headache resolved spontaneously, it recurred with severe ophthalmalgia and she showed bloodshot eyes. Enhanced MRI revealed a thickened dura mater with a contrast effect (Picture A and C: coronal...

A 36-year old woman presented with a dark spot in her right eye for one week. She had a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) diagnosed on the basis of ANA positivity with a 1:320 titer, joint swelling, butterfly rash, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and anti-phospholipid syndrome with positive anti-cardiolipin antibodies. She had been diagnosed with lupus choroidopathy two months p...

April 2011, Vol. 101, No. 4 SAMJ The patient sustained an accidental injury that resulted in broken glass causing a penetrating eye injury in her left eye. A corneal laceration with iris prolapse was not identified at a secondary hospital. Eight weeks after the injury, she presented at Groote Schuur Hospital complaining of decreased vision and severe pain in both eyes. The diagnosis was sympath...

Ocular Ischemic Syndrome (OIS) is a disorder, which consists of constellation of signs and symptoms secondary to chronic ocular hypoperfusion. We report a case of 35 years old Pakistani female who presented to us with gradual fall of vision in both eyes. On examination, she had bilateral OIS and ischemic optic neuropathy. The patient had past history of transient ischemic attack and facial pals...

Ione Fine is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She studied Experimental Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford, and did her PhD with Robert Jacobs at Rochester, NY. She then fell in love with a Californian, so she moved to the University of California, San Diego to do a post-doc with Donald MacLeod and Karen Dobkins. After a brief spell at Second Sight Medi...