To the Editorial Committee of the BRMSH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY SIRs,-I read with interest the article of Choremis, Joannides, and Kyriakides on " Severe Ophthalmological Complications following Favism" (Brit. J. Ophthal. (1960) 44, 353). Since the authors state that "such complications were encountered for the first time and no information was found in the literature", I should like to refer ...

Ocular drug delivery is one of the most fascinating and challenging endeavours facing the research world of pharmaceutics. The poor uptake of many ocular drugs is mainly due to the rapid elimination process by tear turnover. A prolonged precorneal residence time would result in higher absorption for some drugs, a prolonged duration of their therapeutic effect. Recently, in-situ gel formulations...

although measurement of intracranial pressure by noninvasive methods has been suggested, but mainly invasive methods are used for this purpose-increase in episcleral venous pressure can be expected to result in a linear increase in intraocular pressure. congested oculat veins with capillary leakage and hemorrhage are seen when the icp is increased, thus theoretically measurement of intraocular ...

A married woman aged 47 years came to the Chatterjee Memorial Eye Hospital on November 2, 1954, with the history of sudden onset of pain and tenderness of the left eye 3 weeks previously. Since then she had noticed a small abscess-like swelling with redness around it in the upper part of the eyeball. Examination.-An almost round punched-out hole in the sclera was seen near the 12 o'clock positi...

The aim of this paper was to prove the relation between serum lipid values (cholesterol, triglyceride, low density cholesterol, high density cholesterol and primary open -angle glaucoma. The study includes two patient groups: 50 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and 50 patients without this disease. However, all 100 patients were tested for serum lipid values. The research covered a per...

THE measurement of the resistance to outflow of the aqueous humour by the procedure of tonography has recently aroused interest in the continuous recording of the intra-ocular pressure (IOP). There are, in addition, numerous other physiological and clinical investigations which could be performed if it were possible to obtain a continuous and accurate record of the IOP in human subjects. Such r...