[Experimental morphological study of oktselon as a resorbable suture material in ophthalmic surgery]. / Eksperimental'no-morfologicheskoe issledovanie oktselona kak rassasyvaiushchegosia shovnogo materiala v oftal'mokhirurgii.

Tissue reaction of the eye ball and its adnexa on a home-made synthetic resolving suture material oktselon was studied in experiment on 50 rabbit eyes. It was established that oktselon provides firm scarring of all tissues; its resorption begins by the 20th-30th day and is accompanied by macrophagal reaction, and 6 months later the thread is practically fully replaced by the conjunctival tissue. A long-term stay of sutures in different tissues is practically, areactive, is accompanied by no vascular reaction, necrosis or tissue suppuration. The oktselon threads possess a wide spectrum of indications to their usage and may be recommended for use in ophthalmic surgery.

[Surgical treatment of congenital nystagmus in children]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie vrozhdennogo nistagma u detei.

The paper describes results after surgical treatment of congenital nystagmus in 47 patients, aged 6--16 years; of them 34 patients had a jerk nystagmus with a neutral zone in the dextro- or levoversion and a forced position of the head, and 13 had a pendular nystagmus. In case of jerk nystagmus, bilateral recession--resection of horizontal muscles after Helveston was made, and in case of pendular nystagmus--a "faden-operation" after Cüppers. In most of patients (80%) the effect was positive: improvement of head position, decrease of nystagmus amplitude, increase of visual acuity. The best results were achieved in patients with jerk nystagmus. The authors recommend to use surgical treatment of congenital nystagmus in a more wider scale.