Report of a 48 year-old male with bilateral decrease in vision due to choroidal neovascularization secondary to angioid streaks. Best corrected visual acuity was 20/80 in the right eye and counting fingers at 2 meters on the left eye. Patient underwent intravitreal injection of Ranibizumab (Lucentis) in the eye with worse visual acuity. Fifteen days after treatment patient reported better visual acuity on the fellow eye, which was measured to be 20/25. Treatment result was evaluated with visual acuity and […]

Continuing medical updating is crucial for the safety and good quality of medical practice. Today, the less expensive, easy and trustful way of acquiring medical knowledge is through literature review in electronic data banks, which are available on the internet. Accordingly, a minimum knowledge on behalf of the reader is necessary to critically evaluate scientific articles and not to have his clinical practice based on information which cannot stand for the truth (1,2) […].

Complaints of headache compatible with different aetiologies are very common in the clinical practice of neurologists, general practitioners, otorhinolaryngologists, ophthalmologists, dentists, and even psychiatrists […].

PURPOSE: To investigate the perception of physicians about the experience of ambulatory with children who have a serious eye disease and how they understand their interference in the mother-child relationship. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were performed with ophthalmologists (sectors of retina, glaucoma, anterior segment and pediatric ophthalmology), and observation of outpatient appointments of a public hospital during three months. RESULTS: Idealization of the physician’s and mother’s role; physician’s difficulties on giving the diagnosis; and the acknowledgment that the professionals have an […]

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate induced astigmatism in progressive addition lenses into deflectometer measurements. METHODS: Eleven progressive addition lenses were included with power away from +1.00D and addition 2.00D. Induced astigmatism was assessed twelve points in the zone intermediate, with six on each side of the progressive corridor in deflectometer. RESULTS: There are significant differences between the sums of induced astigmatism on each side of the corridor and in the general in progressive addition lenses studied, with coefficient of variation with strong dispersion […]

OBJECTIVE: We intend to evaluate the prevalence of visual disorders among 8 to 10-year-old students from a public school in Pouso Alegre, state of Minas Gerais, as well as verify the possible legitimacy of the correlation between a poor school performance and some kind of visual deficit. METHODS: We conducted a transversal and quantitative study whose target were the students enrolled in the elementary course (2nd to 4th grade) of Pio XII Municipal School in the academic year of 2009. […]

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the knowledge of medical students from Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), about refractive surgery, as well as analyzing the percentage of students that presents refractive errors, their correction methods and their interest (or not) in the surgical procedure. METHODS: We conducted a survey using self-evaluation questionnaire (previously tested) among 154 medical students from first to fourth year, between september and november 2011. RESULTS: It was reported that 70.8% of students had some type of refractive error, and myopia […]

PURPOSE: To evaluate the outcome and safety of phacoemulsification performed under topical anesthesiain cases with several complexities. METHODS: Cases performed under topical anesthesia from january 2009 to april 2011 were analyzed. Variables analyzed included patients age, sex, race, systemic diseases, eyes comorbidities, type of cataract, visual acuity before and after the surgery, complications, number of conversions to peribulbar anesthesia and IOL power. Patients with uncompleted data were excluded from analysis. RESULTS: A total of 111 eyes were analyzed; only cases […]