Importance. There is a conflict about the content of the macular folds in nanophthalmic eyes in the literature. Our study clearly demonstrated that papillomacular folds seen in nanophthalmos or posterior microphthalmos were only composed of neurosensory retina without involvement of retinal pigment epithelium and choroid. Observations. This is a report of two consecutive nanophthalmic patients ...

Baum, J. D. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 247. Retinal artery tortuosity in ex-premature infants. 18-year follow-up on eyes of premature infants. Ophthalmic examinations have been performed on 52 expremature infants who had reached their late teens. These patients all weighed 1500 g or less at birth, and were born during a period of transition from liberal to restricted oxygen t...

OBJECTIVES To describe a Brazilian family with oculodentodigital dysplasia (ODDD) and to screen for mutations in the gap junction protein alpha 1 (GJA1) gene in this family. METHODS Twelve members of a 3-generation family with ODDD underwent screening for mutations of the GJA1 gene and a comprehensive ophthalmic examination. We defined ODDD on the basis of clinical characteristics described i...

BACKGROUND The northeastern region (NER) of India is geographically isolated and ethno-culturally different from the rest of the country. There is lacuna regarding the data on causes of blindness and severe visual impairment in children from this region. AIM To determine the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness amongst children from schools for the blind in the four states of NER ...

PURPOSE To determine the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment features in a group of pediatric patients with cataracts treated at our hospital. The aim was to improve the visual prognosis in these patients. METHODS 79 children with cataracts were reviewed retrospectively during an 18 year period (1986-2004). This involved patients with congenital cataracts and those who acquired them later. ...

Baum, J. D. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 247. Retinal artery tortuosity in ex-premature infants. 18-year follow-up on eyes of premature infants. Ophthalmic examinations have been performed on 52 expremature infants who had reached their late teens. These patients all weighed 1500 g or less at birth, and were born during a period of transition from liberal to restricted oxygen t...

The ocular and systemic changes in incontinentia pigmenti are reviewed here and a case is reported with fundus changes which have not been described previously. Incontinentia pigmenti (IP) is characterised by ectodermal defects, with occasional associated mesodermal abnormalities. The typical skin lesions are blue-grey to chocolate-brown arranged along the naevus lines of Blaschko. These occur ...

OBJECTIVE To report chronic central serous choroidopathy with severe visual loss in hyperopic microphthalmic identical twins. METHODS The index patient was first examined in 1994, at age 31, and has been followed up closely for 17 years. He had repeated fluorescein and indocyanine green angiograms, OCT, ultrasound biometry, and recently also autofluorescence and EDI OCT. His twin brother was ...

PURPOSE To observe the frequency of the occurrence of the anophthalmic socket in the Middle West region of the state of São Paulo and to describe the demographic profile of the carriers in a population-based data. METHODS A cross-sectional study involve a random sampling carried out in twelve cities of the Middle West region of the state of São Paulo, for which the reference center is the cit...

Heat-produced necrotizing lesions of the chick embryo pigment epithelium and retina are repaired by regeneration in these tissues. Regeneration is usually incomplete and may be disorderly. Quantitative effects are technically difficult, but eyes of 4 to 5 days' incubation seem more capable of recovery than those injured after 7 days of incubation. Regeneration of pigment epithelium precedes reg...