Showing papers in "Ophthalmology in 1994"

TL;DR: Although visual loss is still common in this diabetic population, the incidence of blindness may be decreasing, and several modifiable risk factors are associated with loss of vision.

TL;DR: The Rotterdam Study as discussed by the authors assessed the prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in a defined population in the Netherlands, and the overall prevalence of POAG was 1.10% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.09,1.11).

TL;DR: The authors' experience regarding the safety of ICG for digital angiography and their recommendations for its use in the ophthalmic setting are described and a registry of adverse reactions to ICG was established.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the predisposing factors, timing of symptoms, diagnosis, causative organisms, source of infection, and visual outcome in cases of endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis.

TL;DR: Risk of graft failure varies substantially, even within a high-risk population, and the number of risk factors present should be considered by the patient and surgeon when contemplating transplantation and planning follow-up.

TL;DR: Primary trabeculectomy appears to have the desired effect in preserving visual function in patients with high-tension glaucoma, with particular regard to the level of intraocular pressure control and the amount of visual field decay.

TL;DR: Trauma, including contact lens wear, is the most commonly associated risk factor, and the mainstay of therapy is topical natamycin with the increasing use of imidazoles.

TL;DR: The surgical excision of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization may stabilize or improve visual acuity in selected cases and patients with focal disorders of the retinal pigment epithelium-Bruch's membrane complex appear to have a better surgical outcome than those with diffuse disease.

TL;DR: Several clinical variables can be measured in patients at the presentation of keratoconus that influence the probability of a subsequent PK, and a linear model of disease progression is proposed.

TL;DR: Except in corrections greater than 6 diopters, complications after PRK are rare and assuming an appropriate patient selection, PRK may be considered a relatively safe procedure compared with other refractive procedures.

TL;DR: In this article, the relation of older-onset diabetes to open-angle glaucoma was evaluated in a population-based study of age-related eye disease (n = 4926).

TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal study of 552 patients undergoing first eye cataract surgery by 1 of 75 ophthalmologists practicing in Columbus, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, or Houston, Texas was conducted.

TL;DR: The Heidelberg retina tomograph enables fast and reliable measurement of the optic disc topography and therefore may allow exact follow-up of patients.

TL;DR: The progressive outer retinal necrosis syndrome (RORS) is a recently recognized variant of necrotizing herpetic retinopathy as discussed by the authors, and it is characterized by features that distinguish it from cytomegalovirus (CGV) and acute retinal retinopathies.

TL;DR: Compared with photocoagulation BPD-PDT allows endothelial-bound intraluminal photothrombosis, sparing important structures such as neural retina and Bruch's membrane, and may provide a more selective treatment of juxtafoveal and subfoveal neovascular membranes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the clinicopathologic features of a benign syndrome ("silent sinus syndrome") with this constellation of features and discuss the possible pathophysiology, which affects individuals at approximately the fourth decade of life.

TL;DR: Ten years after cataract extraction, eyes continued to lose endothelial cells from the central cornea at a rate of 2.5% per year, 2.0 times the rate in healthy unoperated eyes, and postoperative eyes with cornea guttata continued to losing cells at more than twice this rate.

TL;DR: Patients with visual loss due to giant cell arteritis had a 34% chance for some improvement in visual function after corticosteroid treatment andIntravenous therapy may diminish the likelihood of fellow eye involvement and was associated with a slightly better prognosis for visual improvement.

TL;DR: The topical corticosteroid regimen used in this study was significantly better than placebo in reducing persistence or progression ofStromal inflammation and in shortening the duration of herpes simplex stromal keratitis.

TL;DR: The observation that chorioretinitis never progressed to endophthalmitis suggests that systemic antifungal agents provided adequate ocular therapy, and patients with candidemia who have the risk factors noted above warrant formal ophthalmologic examination.

TL;DR: This initial report indicates that high-density porous polyethylene can be used successfully as an implant in anophthalmic socket surgery and its advantages over other similar implants include a significantly lower material cost and the ability to suture the extraocular muscles directly to it without the need for a covering material such as fascia or sclera.

TL;DR: There was no statistically or clinically significant beneficial effect of oral acyclovir in treating HSV stromal keratitis in patients receiving concomitant topical corticosteroids and trifluridine, but visual acuity improved over 6 months in significantly more patients in the acy Clovir group than in the placebo group.

TL;DR: In most patients with optic neuritis, visual recovery is rapid, and the only factor of value in predicting the visual outcome is initial severity of visual loss, however, even when initial loss is severe,Visual recovery is still good in most patients.

TL;DR: Cortical vitreous peeling and gas tamponade can allow the macular hole to settle and the edges to re-approximate and the residual defect can be sealed by Müller cells.

TL;DR: The overall efficacy and safety of procedures such as radial keratotomy and photorefractive keratectomy likely will be improved once the unpredictable variables of contact lens-induced warpage and occult ectatic disease are eliminated by topographic screening before surgery.

TL;DR: The risk of visual loss in the second eye is documented as being between 7% and 10% per year in patients with unilateral visual loss related to age-related macular disease.

TL;DR: It is proposed that all-trans-retinol dehydrogenase, a photoreceptor outer segment enzyme, may be defective in fundus flavimaculatus and the histopathologic changes in the retina correlate with clinical progression of the disease process.

TL;DR: Porous polyethylene sheets offer several distinct advantages when used for orbital reconstruction, and permitted predictable, stable results with few complications in this series of orbital reconstructions.

TL;DR: In a patient with scleritis, examination of visual acuity, anterior uvea, cornea, lens, intraocular pressure, and fundus must be performed in every follow-up visit, and a meticulous approach for detection of a specific associated disease must be undertaken since the first visit.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a 1-year follow-up time is likely to identify a recurrence of the pterygium after its removal.