1/4. Nanophthalmos with uveal effusion. A new clinical entity.Five patients exhibited the association of nanophthalmos and uveal effusion, apparently on a familial basis. glaucoma, occurring in the fourth to sixth decades of life, required surgical intervention that was followed by the development of secondary retinal and choroidal detachment. Recognition of this syndrome is important because: (1) surgical procedures for glaucoma should be avoided, if possible, in order to prevent the development of uveal effusion; (2) retinal detachment surgical procedures are ineffective in uveal effusion and should be avoided, and (3) choroidal elevation occurring in the uveal effusion phase may be erroneously diagnosed as an intraocular tumor and unnecessary enucleation may follow.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = life (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/4. Form vision deprivation amblyopia: further observations.Nine cases of esotropia occurring in deprivation amblyopia, where exotropia rather than esotropia is usually found, showed a refractive error of hypermetropia. This fact suggested that an accommodative factor is largely responsible for the development of esotropia. A- or V-pattern strabismus was encountered in a higher incidence in deprivation amblyopia than in ordinary strabismus. Pattern-reversal VEP showed more prominent abnormality than flash VEP did. Studies of the sensitive period of the visual system revealed that the sensitivity is likely to be low for a month or two after birth and increases with a peak around the 18th month of age, decreasing thereafter with a waning slope to the end of the 8th year of life.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = life (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/4. Anterior segment pathology associated with hypermetropia.Eight children presented who suffered from pathological changes of the anterior chamber as part of Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome. All of them had associated hypermetropia. Hypermetropia in these cases may have resulted from disturbed development of the anterior segment of the eyes during fetal life.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = life (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/4. Accommodative esotropia during the first year of life.Two infants developed accommodative esotropia during their first six months of life. One infant, whose age at onset was 4 1/2 months, had 4.50 diopters of hyperopia. The second infant, whose age at onset was 5 months, had 3.50 diopters of hyperopia. In both infants, the eyes completely aligned with hyperopic correction. Two points are stressed. First, when the amount of hyperopia exceeds 3.00, consideration should be given to an accommodative element as the cause of the esotropia, even if the child is only 4 to 6 months old. Second, even with small angles of esotropia, an accommodative element should be considered, if there is a substantial amount of hyperopia.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 5keywords = life (Clic here for more details about this article) |