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A case of the tumor of the orbita is presented. It caused large exophthalmus and partial damage of orbital bones without any loss in the visual acuity in the 20-year period of increasing. Before operation a tumor of the lacrimal gland or an angioma was suspected. A histopathological examination of the whole removed tumor revealed the presence of mixed tumor cells.
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Eye Neoplasms/pathology , Lacrimal Apparatus/pathology , Exophthalmos/etiology , Eye Neoplasms/surgery , Female , Humans , Lacrimal Apparatus/surgery , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Middle AgedABSTRACT
The studies comprised 41 patients, aged 18-67, with type I and II diabetes. The function of ocular muscles was evaluated basing on the examination of eye movements, muscles balance and binocular vision. In 6 patients, binocular vision and in 31 ocular muscles balance were disturbed. No relationship was found between the function of eye muscles and the age of patients, duration of diabetes and changes in the fundus of the eye.
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Diabetes Mellitus/physiopathology , Oculomotor Muscles/physiology , Vision, Binocular/physiology , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Forty four patients with virus conjunctivitis, keratitis, uveitis and retinitis were treated by acyclovir in tablets--5 times a day 400 mg.; the results were satisfactory. The drug was well tolerated and it could be used also in patients who showed hypersensitivity for acyclovir after ++intra-conjunctival application in the form of ointment.
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Acyclovir/administration & dosage , Eye Infections, Viral/drug therapy , Administration, Oral , Adult , Aged , Conjunctivitis, Viral/drug therapy , Female , Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus/drug therapy , Humans , Iritis/drug therapy , Keratitis, Dendritic/drug therapy , Male , Middle Aged , Retinitis/drug therapy , Time FactorsABSTRACT
Ophthalmological examinations were carried out in 42 patients (aged 16-45 years) after kidney transplantation in whom malignant hypertension was discovered before transplantation. The first funduscopy revealed pathological changes of various type and grade (I-IV), in 17 patients the visual acuity was lowered and in 18 the ERG record was pathological (residual or extinguished). The control examinations performed in 19 patients after 1-5 years showed that the changes typical for malignant hypertension receded in 7; the fundus of the rest of the patients was the same as before. The lack of improvement in the ERG record points to a permanent lesion of the retinal activity after passed malignant hypertension in spite of normalization of the arterial pressure.
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Eye Diseases/etiology , Hypertension, Malignant/surgery , Kidney Transplantation , Retina/physiopathology , Vision, Low/etiology , Adolescent , Adult , Electroretinography , Humans , Hypertension, Malignant/complications , Hypertension, Renal/surgery , Middle Aged , Vision, Low/diagnosis , Visual Acuity/physiologyABSTRACT
Presented is a case of a woman-patient with a mixed tumor of the lacrimal gland which grew to an infrequently seen size. The tumor was excised and identified as a non-malignant one. Three years after surgery came a renewed extensive expansion of the tumor. Exenteration of the orbit was performed and histopathological examination revealed a mixed malignant tumor of the gland.
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Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases/pathology , Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal/pathology , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Neoplasm Invasiveness , Neoplasm Recurrence, LocalABSTRACT
Analysis of the clinical course of retinal degeneration in 40 patients in whom one suspected a retinal dystrophy "sine pigmento", a sector or unilateral dystrophy or a mixed conerod form. Eventually the diagnosis was possible only after performing a complex of investigations: the visual acuity, visual field, adaptation, the ERG and in some cases also the fluorescein angiography. No exact correlation between the results of a particular test could be established but the degree of abnormality of some of them was decisive for the moment of the first reference of the patient for examination by an ophthalmic specialist. In the course of observation the progress of the condition was evident but the dynamics of it was not the same and it was dependent on many factors.
