Showing papers in "Ophthalmology in 1981"

TL;DR: High-speed photography, using picture rates up to 500/sec, has confirmed many key aspects of the tear drainage process reported over the years by various investigators, including the role of elastic expansion of the channels during the opening phase of the blink.

TL;DR: It was demonstrated that the midperipheral retina was far more prone to undergo capillary nonperfusion than the posterior retina, and was more pronounced in eyes with neovascularized eyes.

TL;DR: The records of 27 patients who developed retinal arterial obstruction (RAO) prior to the age of 30 years were studied to ascertain associated systemic and ocular findings as possible etiologic factors.

TL;DR: Correlating the CT scan features of patients with orbital Graves' disease with histopathologic observations allows one to focus more specifically on the distinguishing features of this disease with future research implications.

TL;DR: A 57-year-old woman with metastatic breast carcinoma treated by surgery and high-dosage tamoxifen chemotherapy developed tamoxIFen retinopathy characterized by white superficial retractile retinal lesions primarily in the paramacular area, which seemed to represent products of axonal degeneration.

TL;DR: OCP has a variable course because there were patients in all stages who did not progress and the acute manifestations of OCP may cause rapid shrinkage of the conjunctiva and may be suppressed systemic corticosteroids.

TL;DR: The findings of a clinicopathologic correlative study of 18 cases of drusen are definitely related to axonal degeneration of the optic nervehead and the first ultrastructural study of this disease in the literature are reported.

TL;DR: Photography was far more reliable than ophthalmoscopy in detecting early retinopathy and equivalent to angiography and the dimensions of a proposed clinical trial were computed to test the effect of tight metabolic control in prevention of Retinopathy.

TL;DR: Regression analysis of the results showed that the intraocular pressure can be predictably reduced to a level approaching the episcleral tissue pressure, and it is felt that surgery should be undertaken as soon as simple medication fails to control the intra-ocular pressure.

TL;DR: Uncontrolled adult open angle glaucoma was treated with a new argon laser technique in which 100 spots are applied 360 degrees around the trabecular meshwork, restoring function to the normal outflow systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective survey of ophthalmic manifestations of neurofibromatosis (NFT) has been conducted and the results of the survey have not been published.

TL;DR: The successful management of suppurative microbial keratitis requires five steps: to make the clinical diagnosis, to perform the proper laboratory procedures, to initiate antimicrobial therapy, to modify the initial therapy, and to terminate therapy.

TL;DR: Laser iridotomy appears to have particular advantages in certain patients, particularly those with chronic angle closure glaucoma, aphakic pupillary block, or incomplete surgical iridectomy.

TL;DR: Most eyes with normal maculas, minimal pigment epithelial changes, atrophic maculae, or fibrous macular scars did not change stage, but eyes with vitelliform or pseudohypopyon lesions progressed to later atrophicmacular stages.

TL;DR: Argon laser trabecular surgery appears to be effective in lowering intraocular pressure with many advantages over standard filtering surgery and appears to function by improving outflow facility as manifested by a statistically significant increase in outflow for six months post-treatment.

TL;DR: Laser goniotherapy appears to be a beneficial mode of therapy for open angle glaucoma in many patients, however, longer follow-up is needed, and its role in secondary and aphakicglaucomas needs to be defined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a wide variety of diagnostic tests including biopsies and found the following abnormalities: peripheral blood eosinophilia (9/29 patients); elevated ESR (17/27); elevated antinuclear antibody titres in the Tolosa-Hunt variant (2/2); hypercomplementemia (2 /3); and mild CSF pleocytosis (2 2/6).

TL;DR: The factors that seem most significant in creating excessive postoperative astigmatism are delineated and the difficulty of creating a circular recipient hole of the same size and shape as the donor button appears to be a prime area for clinical research and technical development.

TL;DR: Choroidal detachment in five groups of postoperative patients was studied, and inflammation, infection, cataract formation, and corneal edema were uncommonly encountered.

TL;DR: The results of keratomileusis for the correction of myopia and aphakia are analyzed, comparing them, along with the accidents and complications of the first series, with those of the last series.

TL;DR: The risk of developing NVG was found to be approximately 60% in those eyes with extensive retinal ischemia and none of the 22 eyes with an ischemic CRVO treated with panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) prior to the onset of NVI developed NVG.

TL;DR: Long-term follow-up of the initial 75 cases of traction macular detachment secondary to diabetic retinopathy revealed that 62% of the initially improved cases remained improved.

TL;DR: The clinical circumstances likely to lead to B cereus infection, as well as the manifestations of the disease itself, are sufficiently distinctive to alert the ophthalmologist to the possibility of this infection.

TL;DR: The rate of aqueous formation was measured with fluorophotometry in a group of 113 normal human subjects who ranged in age from 20 to 83 years and was remarkably stable.

TL;DR: A technique for the upper lid retraction that involves an anterior approach similar to aponeurotic ptosis surgery is presented, but instead of advancing the ap oneurosis, it is recessed and Müller's muscle is completely extirpated.

TL;DR: Substantial experimental and clinical evidence is revealed for continued research in the area of prostaglandin inhibitors for the possible prevention or treatment of this disorder.

TL;DR: The degree of superior oblique or inferior oblique tightness correlates well with clinical overaction of these muscles, allowing better distinction between oblique overaction and dissociated vertical deviation.

TL;DR: The majority of myopic patients had an improved best-corrected visual acuity postoperatively after keratophakia and keratomileusis, and inaccuracy in achieving the desired refractive result appeared to be the major disadvantage of these techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, a surgical procedure is described to perform orbital decompression in patients suffering from orbitopathy in Graves' Disease, which employs exposure of the orbit through a lateral incision and an inferior fornix incision.

TL;DR: Constriction of visual fields with age was marked and correlated well with diminution in dark adaptation, and in phakic eyes tended to decrease from 20/30 to 20/200 in ten years or less, while aphakic Eyes exhibited generally slower loss of vision.