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Aspergillosis , Aspergillus/isolation & purification , Endophthalmitis/microbiology , Eye Infections, Fungal , Glucocorticoids/therapeutic use , Aged , Antifungal Agents/therapeutic use , Aspergillosis/diagnosis , Aspergillosis/drug therapy , Aspergillosis/etiology , Drug Therapy, Combination , Endophthalmitis/drug therapy , Endophthalmitis/pathology , Eye Infections, Fungal/diagnosis , Eye Infections, Fungal/drug therapy , Eye Infections, Fungal/etiology , Fatal Outcome , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
PURPOSE/METHODS: The case of a 7-month-old infant illustrates the diagnostic findings, including magnetic resonance imaging, and the difficulties of treating congenital corneal anesthesia. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: The diagnosis of sporadic idiopathic congenital corneal anesthesia was one of exclusion. Normal gasserian ganglia were demonstrated on magnetic resonance imaging. Visual rehabilitation was successful with continuous lubrication, arm splinting at bedtime, and treatment of amblyopia. It continues to be essential for the parents to monitor the corneal status.
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Cornea/abnormalities , Hypesthesia/congenital , Female , Humans , Hypesthesia/therapy , Infant , Mineral Oil/therapeutic use , Petrolatum/therapeutic useSubject(s)
Cysticercosis/complications , Orbital Diseases/complications , Acute Disease , Adult , Animals , Cellulitis/etiology , Humans , Male , Orbital Diseases/parasitologySubject(s)
Health Care Reform/economics , Health Policy , Physicians , Transients and Migrants , Canada , Politics , United StatesSubject(s)
Abducens Nerve , Horner Syndrome/complications , Horner Syndrome/diagnosis , Paralysis/complications , Paralysis/diagnosis , Cranial Nerve Diseases/complications , Cranial Nerve Diseases/diagnosis , Female , Humans , Hypohidrosis/diagnosis , Middle Aged , Sympathetic Fibers, Postganglionic/pathologySubject(s)
Horner Syndrome/diagnosis , Sweating , Anthraquinones/chemistry , Carbonates/chemistry , Humans , Starch/chemistrySubject(s)
Eye Injuries/etiology , Hockey , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Humans , Hyphema/etiology , Nasal Bone/injuries , Skull Fractures/etiologyABSTRACT
The foregoing selection of terms is but a small component of our expansive current ophthalmic vocabulary. It serves, nonetheless, as an interesting example of the role played by other languages in the formation of today's ophthalmic lexicon. To the credit of our medical forefathers and their creativity, an awareness of the etymologic basis of the words which we used daily in ophthalmology can be both entertaining and enlightening.
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Ophthalmology , Terminology as Topic , VocabularyABSTRACT
Two infants were born with bilateral Peters' anomaly. The first baby was a girl, born prematurely at 35 weeks of gestation and who died 8 days later. The second infant was a boy, born at 38 weeks of gestation, who had severe conotruncal abnormality of the heart. Both babies had distinctive facial dysmorphism and severe central nervous system abnormalities including partial or complete absence of the corpus callosum and cerebral calcifications. Biochemical and genetic investigations showed no abnormalities in either child and there was no family history of genetic disorders. Neither case showed evidence of an intrauterine infection. Postmortem ocular findings in the first infant included bilateral herniation of the ruptured cataractous lens into the posterior corneal defect, iridocorneal adhesions, persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous, and total retinal detachment. The left eye of the second infant was eviscerated at 11 months of age because of recurrent, spontaneous perforation. Pathologic ocular findings included large fragments of lens material adherent to the posterior corneal stroma through a large central defect in Descemet's membrane and endothelium, fibrovascular proliferation of the adjacent corneal stroma, and iridocorneal adhesions.
