[The organization of work in the pediatric department of an urban ophthalmologic hospital]. / Organizatsiia raboty detskogo otdeleniia v sostave gorodskoi oftal'mologicheskoi bol'nitsy.

The paper analyses the work of a children ophthalmological department and of a centre of microsurgery in children created on its basis, that are attributed to the structure of the town ophthalmological clinical hospital in Kharkov. The paper presents data on the structure of eye pathology, surgical activity (it makes up 60%), suggestions for optimizing the work of the department. A positive role in optimization of work in children department is its belonging to a big ophthalmological hospital. This allows to widely use for children the whole store of diagnostic means, different surgical equipment, other technical means. Of importance is a permanent contact with the chair of children ophthalmology, enrollment of physicians into research work, constant improvement of their skill.

[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.