Showing papers in "American Journal of Ophthalmology in 1977"

TL;DR: A syndrome that occurred in both hard and soft contact lens wearers was characterized by increased mucus, itching, decreased lens tolerance, and giant papillae in the upper tarsal conjunctiva.

TL;DR: Biopsy of conjunctival goblet cells may be carried out by pressing a piece of Millipore filter on the conjuctival surface and the filter adheres to the surface and pulls off one or more layers of epithelial cells and gobleT cells.

TL;DR: A history of complete eyelid occlusion during part of the first year of life was associated with dense amblyopia and eccentric fixation in some patients, but in other patients this history was compatible with the eventual development of useful vision.

TL;DR: In 168 eyes with preretinal membranes studied histopathologically, five major distinct types of membranes were categorized: glial, fibrous, 22 cortical vitreous, 16 retinal pigment epithelium, 15 fibroinflammatory, 24 combinations, and one endothelial and melanomatous membrane each.

TL;DR: The original (1969) classification of the Eye Changes of Graves' Disease has been retained except for Classes 1 and 3, but Class 1 has been limited so that proptosis of 23 mm or greater is placed in Class 3, even if the patient is asymptomatic.

TL;DR: By transmission electron microscopy, this work studied 38 epiretinal membranes obtained from human eyes by vitrectomy operation in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and observed spicule-like crystals between the cells in the glial membrane specimens, identified as calcium phosphates by energy-dispersive x-ray analysis.

TL;DR: Patients who developed Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (V-K-H) syndrome after corticosteroid therapy probably altered the clinical picture in this disease, although other possibilities, including a skewed patient population, may account for these differences.

TL;DR: An accurate method of aiming the proton beam within the eye was developed and a change in the "color" of the tumor in the first two patients was observed and resolution of two serous retinal detachments.

TL;DR: An extract of the vitreous body, inhibited the growth of new blood vessels induced by tumors in the rabbit cornea by an inert, continuously releasing polymer.

TL;DR: In one prospective study, 75 eyes (47 children with congenital glaucoma) were treated by trabeculotomy, and one failure occurred in an eye in which the angle appeared to be totally closed on gonioscopic examination.

TL;DR: The most common causes of acquired oculomotor nerve palsy were blunt trauma and infectious processes, both local and systemic, and neoplasms, aneurysms, and ophthalmoplegic migraine caused the other cases.

TL;DR: Reversible cupping in congenital glaucoma can be best explained by compression or posterior movement of optic disk tissues--a result of the incomplete collagenous structural framework of the lamina cribrosa during late gestation and early neonatal life.

TL;DR: The designation "uveomeningoencephalitic syndrome" stresses the key features of V-K-H, namely the uveal involvement and signs of meningeal irritation (that is, headaches, personality changes, and cerebrospinal fluid alterations).

TL;DR: Endophthalmitis developed in a 61-year-old man after an intraocular lens implantation, a whitish opacity developed, visual acuity decreased to light perception, and the eye was enucleated.

TL;DR: To distinguish optic nerve conduction defects from macular disease in patients with otherwise unexplained loss of central vision, the best visual acuity with correction at distance in unilateral defects was determined and the recovery time was prolonged.

TL;DR: In five of seven patients with posterior pole melanomas, radiation retinopathy developed after treatment with resultant decrease in vision, and radioactive phosphorus uptake determinations before and after treatment did not tumor destruction.

TL;DR: Characteristic early lesions of congenital amaurosis appeared to be produced by deposits consisting of loose outer segments and apical processes of the pigmental epithelial cell and macrophages.

TL;DR: Three generations of a family showed alterations in the retinal pigment epithelium along with mild visual disturbance, which are similar to those seen in other pigment epithelial dystrophies such as reticular dystrophy and butterfly-shaped Dystrophy.

TL;DR: The impaired blinking motion may be responsible for the punctate staining of the inferior corneal epithelium by producing exposure and inadequacies in the tear film and patients may benefit from blink training, application of tear substitutes, or soft contact lenses more than from the customary prescription of topical cortisone eyedrops.

TL;DR: The statistical predominance of females and left eyes was more significant among patients whose eyes were straight in primary position, and the amount of underaction of the lateral and medial rectus muscles could be determined, and could be used to predict whether the patients' eyes were esotropic, exotropic, or straight inPrimary position.

TL;DR: Twelve patients with various stages of ocular cicatricial pemphigoid were studied, finding that acute disease may be associated with the presence of complement in the conjunctiva and the importance of tissue-fixed immunoglobulins in the pathogenesis of this condition is reinforced.

TL;DR: Analysis of pre- and postoperative corneal endothelial photographs of 33 intraocular lens patients found an average endothelial cell density loss of 14%.

TL;DR: The systemic criteria for Behçet's disease were present in one patient, and partially fulfilled in the second, and the progressive course of retinal necrosis, vitreoretinal interface contraction, and consequent retinal detachment was documented.