A medical diabetic clinic was examined for evidence of diabetic eye disease. Of 681 patients invited for ocular examination 96.6% attended for screening. The results for insulin dependent diabetics (IDDs) and non-insulin dependent diabetics (NIDDs) were analysed separately and the major findings were: Cataracts were present in 40.8% of IDDs and 46.2% of NIDDs, with an increased incidence with a...

PURPOSE To evaluate the fluorescein angiography and infrared autofluorescence finding in patients with confirmed Behcet׳s disease (BD) but without clinical ocular signs. METHODS In this prospective, non-interventional case series, montage fluorescein angiography (MFA) and infrared autofluorescence imaging were performed for all patients with confirmed BD but without ocular signs in clinical e...

OBJECTIVE To examine the yield of ophthalmologic examination in the diagnostic workup of unexplained sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of ophthalmologic findings in children with unilateral or bilateral SNHL between January 1998 and May 2000. SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. PARTICIPANTS Children 18 years or younger presenting with unil...

The histopathology of the posterior half of one eye and the optic nerves of a man with Hunter's syndrome, who was known to have disc oedema without raised intracranial pressure for 11 years of his life, is reported. The possible pathogenesis of the disc oedema is discussed; an important contributory factor was the deposition of abnormal mucopolysaccharides within the sclera. This caused gross t...

Beatriz de A. F. Gomes, Marcony R. Santhiago, Priscilla Magalhães, Newton Kara-Junior, Mário N. L. de Azevedo, Haroldo V. Moraes Jr. I Ophthalmology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. II Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. III Rheumatology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. IV Ophthalmology Department, Faculd...

AIMS To evaluate ophthalmological findings in children adopted from eastern Europe. METHODS A prospective study on 72/99 children, born 1990-5 and adopted from eastern Europe to western Sweden during 1993-7 was performed. The children (41 boys; mean age 7.5 years) were compared with an age and sex matched reference group ("ref") of Swedish children. RESULTS 78% of the adopted children had a...

BACKGROUND Refractive errors, strabismus, nystagmus, amblyopia, and cortical visual impairment are observed in 50 to 90 % of patients with cerebral palsy. Ocular abnormalities are known to differ according to cerebral palsy type, and spastic type has been reported to be more likely to be associated with ocular defects than the athetoid and ataxic types. METHODS A retrospective review of medic...

We describe two brothers with Joubert syndrome (JS). JS diagnosis was made on the basis of neurological findings and the presence of the characteristic "molar tooth sign", which was subsequently confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging. Both brothers demonstrated ptosis, hypotropia, exotropia, and horizontal pendular nystagmus. The younger brother had mild chorioretinal discoloration at the peri...

AIM To investigate ophthalmologic findings in children with thalassemia major (TM) and compare the findings with healthy controls. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 43 children with thalassemia major from pediatric hematology outpatient clinics from two university hospitals and age/sex matched 47 healthy children were included in the study. After a complete ophthalmic examination, tear func...