Ocular allergies encompass a number of inflammatory diseases in the ocular surface which have different hypersensitivity mechanisms and occur in 20% of population. They can be classified as being type I hypersensitivity mediated (PAC, SAC), type I and IV (VKC, AKC) and type IV (BKC, GPC). The most prevalent forms are PAC and SAC. The chronic presentations are mostly related to visual impairment due to remodeling in the ocular surface caused by chronic inflammation. Dry eye disease and keratoconus are […]

The authors make a review of drusenoid retinal pigment epithelium detachments(DPDs), a form of retinal pigment epithelium detachment(PED) that evolves from confluent and large soft drusen.Drusenoidretinal pigment epithelial detachments are a recognized element of the “dry” AMD. Until now, no treatment is indicated in drusenoid PEDs. The authors describe the clinical characteristics of drusenoid retinal pigment epithelium detachments (DPEDs) and make a review of the DPEDs related in the international literature. We related in this revision paper the multimodal advanced […]

Os autores fazem uma revisão do descolamento do epitélio pigmentar tipo drusenoide e apresentam dois casos desta patologiaassociada à degeneração macular relacionadaà idade descrevendo seus achados em avançados exames com imagem da retina.Neste artigo de revisão da literatura sobre os achados característicos dodescolamento do epitélio pigmentar tipodrusenoide e sua evolução descrevemos os achados de dois casosassociados à degeneração macular relacionada à idade, forma seca, utilizando exames como SD-OCT, fundusautofluorescencia e angiografia com indocianinaverde, além de retinografiacolorida e fluoresceínica. Odescolamento do […]

The article reports that medical undergraduates in the college studied showed great lack of knowledge about the primary open-angle glaucoma, a disease that, if not diagnosed and treated properly, can lead to irreversible blindness […].

The current therapeutic approach to diabetic retinopathy, based on the high level of scientific evidence, includes drugs administered via intraocular injection into the vitreous cavity associated or not to laser photocoagulation of the retina, besides a multidisciplinary approach for systemic metabolic control. The treatment is indicated in the proliferative form of the disease and/or diabetic macular edema (the main cause of visual loss).The ETDRS – Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study – has defined the laser treatment strategies in the diabetic retinopathy according […]

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of Adenovirus as a etiologic agent of conjunctivitis on a ophthalmic clinic in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Methods: Samples of conjunctival secretion from 91 patients clinically diagnosed with conjunctivitis were subjected to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using degenerate primers targeted to the gene encoding the structural protein II. Positive samples were subsequently subjected to sequencing and genotyping. Results: PCR results showed 36.3% prevalence of Adenovirus. No differences between the […]

Aim: To evaluate life quality of elderly people with acquired low vision before and after hearing and speech intervention. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The study was made with 52 elderly people with acquired low vision. Two questionnaires that measures life quality were used in this study. The first was ‘Low Quality of Life Vision (LVQOL)’ and the second the ‘National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEIVFQ-25)’. The study included people with more than 60 years with acquired […]

Purpose: To describe the impact of aged-related macular degeneration (AMD) on vision-related quality of life (QOL) on a sample of portuguese patients and explore the association with vision, Central Foveal Thickness (CFT) and demographic variables in a Portuguese population. Methods: Observational, interview study of 68 patients with clinical diagnosis of NV AMD seen between January and April 2011 at the Ophthalmology Department of Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was measured with a Portuguese version of […]