Abstract Objective: To analyze patients’ quality of life before and after cataract removal surgery associated with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. Methods: This is an observational, prospective, case series study. Data were collected at a private ophthalmology service in Aracaju – SE, from August 2018 to July 2019. The quality of life assessment of patients before and after 4 months of cataract surgery, using the phacoemulsification technique associated with IOL implantation, was performed by applying the validated Brazilian version of the […]

Abstract Objective: To analyze the profile of the eye test in a reference institution in the State of Paraíba, and to identify the municipalities that refer their patients, prevalence of care and distribution of the test according to age and gender. Method: Documentary research, retrospective, descriptive research with quantitative approach. Data collection involved all newborn care (newborns), population of 418 patients. Inclusion criteria were newborns born or referred to the locus of the research, both sexes. Newborns born outside the […]

Abstract We report a case of bilateral occult macular dystrophy in a 70-year-old woman with progressive low visual acuity, without justifiable fundoscopic or angiographic findings. Imaging tests were done to excluding expansive lesions and electrophysiological tests that suggested the diagnosis.

Abstract Purpose: To assess long, intermediate and near uncorrected visual acuity after a tetrafocal diffractive intraocular lens implantation, presence of dystopic phenomenon and patient satisfaction after surgery. Methods: Retrospective, observational study performed in Puerta de Hierro Specialties Hospital, in Jalisco, México. That included 100 eyes after phacoemulsification surgery by femtosecond assistance, followed by tetrafocal diffractive intraocular lens implantation due to cataract. Long, intermediate and near visual acuity without correction was measured, and presence or absence of dystopic phenomenon, plus patient […]

Abstract Objective: To analyze the prevalence of alterations in funduscopy of patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and/or Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) referred to the Ophthalmology Reference Service, located in a Basic Health Unit of the city of Patos, Paraíba). Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, which involving a total of 22 patients. For data collection, a questionnaire on ocular health was used. In addition, the research members participated in the Snellen visual acuity test and visual acuity […]

Wolfram Syndrome consists of a neurodegenerative pathology of genetic character, also known by the acronym DIDMOAD that translates the main findings of this disease, Diabetes Insipidus, Diabetes Mellitus, Optic Atrophy and Deafness. The article report the case of a patient diagnosed clinically with this syndrome in a general ophthalmology out patient clinic. Considering that patients with this genetic alteration have more than one cranial nerve affected by the disease and clinical history without meningitis or other neurological alterations, one has […]

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of predisposing factors of low visual acuity among the students of the Geraldo Reis University College in Niterói-RJ. Methods: This was a cross-sectional observational study during which the visual acuity of the volunteer students who adhered to the assent term was measured. Those students whose visual acuity did not exceed 0.8 in at least one eye or who presented a difference between the eyes of two lines or more in the Snellen table were selected […]

Objective: In this review we critically evaluated the publications on the intraocular implant of the Scharioth Macular Lens (SML) in patients with advanced stages of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). Methods: The literature search was done in Pubmed and Google Scholar database, with the term dry AMD, devices and Scharioth Macula Lens. We use prospective, retrospective articles or case reports published in English or Portuguese in the last five years under these terms. Results: A total of 19 articles were found, […]