purpose: to compare the efficacy and safety of two local anesthetic methods; retrobulbar anesthesia and parabulbar anesthesia using ptfe intravenous cannula without needle in extracapsular cataract surgery. method: a randomized prospective partially blind study was conducted on 66 eyes of 66 patients with senile cataract who were scheduled for ecce and pc iol surgery. after randomization, 35 pa...

BACKGROUND External dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is often performed under local anesthesia (LA) without adequate knowledge of the pain experienced by the patient. MATERIAL/METHODS We subdivided our surgical technique into stages easily understood by the patients (introducing cotton tipped applicators, performing parabulbar injection, creating the incision, bone cracking (opening the ostium), m...

During 3-year study of 73 patients with dental inflammation, sinusitis, otitis and 5 cases with granuloma, in 9 cases we observed the development of central retinitis. All patients were medicated with the same antibiotics and parabulbar depo of Prednisolonacetate. To 50% of these patients, we suggested eye protection with Yellow Medical filters during two months. In the first group with medicat...

134 patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) (aging 47-75 years) were treated in therapy procedure with parabulbar injections of Methylprednisolone Acetate and Prednisolone Acetate. In the first group of patients with AMD (n = 71 patients) were treated with Methylprednisolone acetate, and second group (n = 63 patients) with Prednisolone acetate. Each patient was given doses of 60 mg...

In the north Croatian Adriatic area in the period of seven years (from January 2001 to September 2007) 475 patients (39 to 80 years of age) with dry form of age related macular degeneration (AMD) were diagnosed. Complete ophthalmologic examination with special reference to visual field testing (Perimetric analysis) was performed. Peripheral visual field defects were found in 85% of patients. El...

BACKGROUND Transient ocular misalignment as a complication of parabulbar and peribulbar anesthesia has already been reported in the literature. The aim of our study was to present a case of irreversible iatrogenic vertical strabismus after cataract surgery, which had to be operated on. METHODS Clinical and orthoptic evaluation of a female patient with vertical diplopia after phacoemulsificati...

INTRODUCTION We aim to describe a mechanism of vision loss following vitrectomy surgery with retrobulbar block (RBB) associated with severe vascular stasis of the optic nerve and macula in order to improve safety of local anesthesia for ophthalmic surgery. CASE PRESENTATION We report three cases of patients who underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with retrobulbar anesthesia with no retrobul...