Showing papers in "American Journal of Ophthalmology in 1981"

TL;DR: Results of slit-lamp examinations, ophthalmoscopy, intraocular pressure, electroretinography, and light electron microscopy all remained normal throughout the three-month course of the experiment, demonstrating the lack of ocular toxicity of triamcinolone acetonide in the rabbit.

TL;DR: Eight neonates who had total, monocular, congenital cataracts with surgery, occlusion, and contact lenses were treated, and visual results in all eight patients were good.

TL;DR: Cystoid macular edema was present in two eyes that contained peripheral choroidal melanomas, and in a third eye from a patient with diabetes only, and retinal vascular changes, consisting mainly of endothelial cell abnormalities, were found in all cases but were far more common in the two eyes from diabetic patients.

TL;DR: No statistical relationship was found between either anatomic success or functional result and the presence of aphakia, demarcation lines, vitreous hemorrhage, detachments of the pars plana epithelium, or predetachment glaucoma being treated.

TL;DR: Clinical findings and ultrasonographic biometric measurements suggested that axial elongation of the eye may occur as a result of neonatal eyelid closure, a finding similar to that for experimental myopia produced in neonatal animals after eyelid fusion.

TL;DR: 11 overweight men who had the floppy eyelid syndrome, a disorder of unknown origin manifested by an easily everted, floppy upper eyelid and papillary conjunctivitis of the upper palpebral conjunctiva, were examined.

TL;DR: In 14 of 27 eyes with choroidal neovascular membranes associated with severe myopia, visual acuity deteriorated two or more lines on the Snellen chart and 12 of the 27 eyes became legally blind.

TL;DR: This hypothesis that diabetics are more likely to be referred to ophthalmologists and therefore to have cataracts removed is tested with data from two population surveys and results were generally consistent with those of previous studies of extracted cataract for persons under the age of 70 years and for persons aged 70 years or more.

TL;DR: Clinically, 32 patients with myelinated retinal nerve fibers had comparable overall features, visual field defects less extensive than expected on the basis of ophthalmoscopic appearance, and normal findings on fluorescein angiography.

TL;DR: Peripheral retinal tears were the most frequent intraoperative complication, and should be identified and treated at the end of the operation.

TL;DR: Comparative studies of demodicids from man and other mammals suggest that keratinization, hyperplasia, distension, and melanocyte aggregation may be even more extensive if large populations of D. folliculorum build up in the follicles of the eyelid.

TL;DR: The overall incidence of early increases in intraocular pressure in aphakic eyes was only slightly less than those found in earlier studies, but when these aphkic eyes were separated into two groups, 20 of 30 eyes with preoperative glaucoma had early increases whereas only three of 30 without preoperativeGLA did.

TL;DR: In the treatment of acute and chronic herpetic keratitis, an idoxuridine-liposome preparation was more effective than a comparable therapeutic regimen of idoxURidine alone.

TL;DR: Self-inoculation of the eye with contaminated saline is a hazard for soft contact-lens wearers who use home-prepared saline solution and commercial distilled water, even brands recommended for use with soft contact lenses, was found to be contaminated with gram-negative bacteria before use.

TL;DR: It is found that the loss of initial corneal flattening following radial keratotomy corresponded with the contracture of the wound as demonstrated by histopathologic and ultrastructural study.

TL;DR: A preliminary analysis of the data was used to build a model to predict the outcome of penetrating keratoplasty in herpes simplex keratitis, and it showed that there were significant differences in outcome between the groups in the sample.

TL;DR: The existence of the thick subcanalicular tissue, which is considered to be endothelial meshwork, indicates an immature stage of the trabecular meshwork and may be one of the primary causes of increased intraocular pressure in congenital glaucoma.

TL;DR: Patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis had significantly increased levels of both proteins in their tears compared with the other subjects tested; levels of major basic protein seemed to correlate with the severity of the disease.

TL;DR: The clinical, histologic, and electron microscopic observations were similar to those found in eyes injected with tissue-cultured skin fibroblasts and may explain the contractability of the strand.

TL;DR: A satisfactory visual outcome was associated with treatment by goniotomy and the refractive error proved to be a valuable indicator of operative success or disease progression.

TL;DR: The surgical treatment of basal cell carcinoma should always include the use of frozen-section monitoring of the surgical margins, especially important in the morphea, multicentric, and ulcerative types, in which the invasive extent of the tumor is often not apparent clinically.

TL;DR: Fellow eyes initially classified as normal developed fewer macular holes than fellow eyes with initial pigment epithelial defects or cystic formation.

TL;DR: There was no linear relationship (covariation) between cup-disk ratio and refractive error or intraocular pressure, but there was a tendency toward increasing cup- disk ratio with increasing age.

TL;DR: Patients with keratomycosis with topical and subconjunctival miconazole with Candida infections and Aspergillus infections with clinical evidence of corneal infection disappeared, and posttreatment visual acuities were at least as good as (and usually better than) pretreatment visual acUities.

TL;DR: In this series of 18 procedures, a new small endoscope is used in posterior segment surgery in situations where the operating microscope or binocular indirect ophthalmoscope provided an inadequate view.

TL;DR: The increased pigment within the trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal may indicate that the glaucoma sometimes associated with pigment dispersion is caused by pigmentary obstruction, although congenital imperfections of the outflow channels may also be a factor.

TL;DR: Clinical data from one patient treated successfully during infancy indicated that the deleterious effects of visual deprivation from birth may be preventable, and stimulus deprivation amblyopia does respond to occlusion therapy of the nondeprived eye.