The clinical and genetic relationships between Alzheimer’ s disease(AD)and glaucoma remain obscure.The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of openangle glaucoma(OAG)in patients with AD and whether the a...
Purpose: To determine whether colour vision improves following reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma patients. Methods: The medical records of 29 glaucoma patients (41 eyes) were reviewed. Inclusion crit...
Purpose: To investigate visual function and ocular morphology in children born after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)-and compare them with visual function and ocular morphology in matched children born after s...
Aims: To describe the occurrence of pseudoexfoliation in three Gozitan families. Methods: Three families with a high incidence of pseudoexfoliation were identified. All members of the three families who agreed to part...
Objective: To determine the distribution of intraocular pressure (IOP) as measured by a noncontact tonometer (NCT) and risk factors responsible for ocular hypertension in elderly Chinese people. Design: Population-bas...
Objectives: To address inadequate retinopathy screening at a largely indigent clinic and to explore perceived barriers, using qualitative techniques. Methods: Responses were analyzed from structured focus groups of pa...
Purpose: The aim of this work was to establish visual acuity norms in 17-18- year-olds. Methods: In a previous, populationbased study carried out in 1998, a total of 1046 12-13-year-old children were examined with a f...
Background: To obtain a driver’s licence certain requirements for visual acui ty and visual field have to be fulfilled. Mesopic contrast and glare sensitivity are not regularly tested and are not crucial to passing t...
Introduction.Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease has various anatomoclinical present ations including a rare form with preponderant visual signs described by Heidenh ain. In this form, the visual symptoms may be isolated for...
PURPOSE: To report a novel mutation in the RLBP1 gene and optical coherence to mographic findings in a Japanese patient with retinitis punctata albescens. DESI GN: Observational case report. METHODS: The RLBP1 gene wa...