FLUORESCENCE ophthalmoscopy is an important manoeuvre that can provide a great deal of information about certain pathological lesions of the retina and choroid, but simple observation of the fundus appearances after intravenous fluorescein injection has tended to be neglected in favour of photographic recordings. The apparatus required for the latter is expensive and time-consuming, and often r...

PURPOSE To assess the reproducibility and accuracy of ultrasound (US) measurements in determining the distance between corneoscleral limbus and retinal break and its relation with the distance measured by indirect ophthalmoscopy, in patients undergoing a laser retinopexy procedure. METHODS Forty-four patients with a single retinal break, scheduled for laser a retinopexy procedure (26 phakic p...

Attention is drawn to the possibility of performing monocular indirect ophthalmoscopy with a pen torch and a condensing lens when facilities for binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy are not available.

PURPOSE To assess the accuracy and reliability of smartphone ophthalmoscopy, we compared the ability of a smartphone ophthalmoscope with that of a slit-lamp biomicroscope to grade diabetic retinopathy (DR) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). DESIGN Clinical-based, prospective, comparative instrument study. METHODS This comparative clinical study was performed in 120 outpatients (240 ey...

BACKGROUND Detection of hypertensive retinopathy (HR) with direct ophthalmoscopy is part of the assessment of hypertensive patients. Its use has been questioned because of its subjectivity and high interobserver variability. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of HR in hypertensive patients under outpatient monitoring, the correlation between diagnosis and ophthalmoscopy and angiography, an...