Purpose To describe the ocular findings in a patient with fucosidosis, a rare inborn lysosomal storage disease. Observations A 14 year-old female presented with angiokeratomas corporis diffusum, coarse facial features, poor verbal skills, hearing impairment and mild developmental delay. A lysosomal storage enzyme screen confirmed absent activity of α-l-fucosidase consistent with a diagnosis o...

The ocular and systemic findings in four children with mucolipidosis IV (ML IV), a new variant of mucolipidosis, are described. Corneal clouding from birth or early infancy is a prominent feature in all of the patients and in two of them, this was the presenting symptom. Psychomotor retardation usually does not become apparent until the end of the first year of life. Conjunctival biopsies revea...

PURPOSE To describe epidemiological findings of ocular trauma in childhood in an emergency unit. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out including patients under 16 years old who were treated for ocular trauma at the emergency unit of the Federal University of São Paulo from September 2001 to September 2004. Age, sex, involved eye, place, circumstance and mechanism of injury, initial vi...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multisystem autoimmune disease. Ocular complications occur in up to one-third of patients with SLE. The ocular findings may represent the initial manifestation of the disease and may lead to severe ocular morbidity and loss of vision. Early diagnosis and prompt management of patients with SLE are mandatory and require collaboration between the oph...

purpose : to evaluate the accuracy of ocular sonography in measurement of size of intraocular foreign bodies (iofb) methods : in a case series study, 58 consecutive patients with intraocular foreign body were included. ocular sonography was performed to detect intraocular foreign body and the results were compared with the same intraoperative findings. results : metallic material was found to b...