A degeneração macular relacionada à idade (DMRI) é uma doença degenerativa que afeta a retina central e envolve a membrana de Bruch, o epitélio pigmentar da retina e os fotorreceptores. Estudos recentes têm mostrado que polimorfismos dos genes CFH, LOC387715 e VEGF estão associados com a DMRI. Neste trabalho, é feita uma revisão da literatura para análise da associação entre os principais polimorfismos genéticos e a resposta às diferentes modalidades terapêuticas existentes. Observa-se que os pacientes portadores dos alelos de […]

Trachoma is a disease known thousand years ago and still as a potential blindness disease all over the world. The authors call attention to the factors related with the transmission, present historical data and distribution of the disease in Brazil and in the world, comment on the agent, the signs and symptoms of this chronic conjunctivitis. Still, reinforce the need to enable professionals for the diagnosis, detection and treatment.The reflection of these attitudes will be the contribution to the elimination […]

O exame de ultrassonografia é um dos mais realizados pelos oftalmologistas. A ecografia é o exame de eleição para analisar o segmento anterior ou posterior do globo ocular quando há opacidade de meios intraoculares. Trata-se de método de imagem com resolução maior para observação dos olhos do que a ressonância magnética nuclear ou a tomografia axial computadorizada […].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate trabeculetomies results with peribulbar anesthesia and general anesthesia and to watch the influence by this two techniques in the surgery result. METHODS: It was analyzed charts of 25 patients with uncontrolled glaucoma that undergone trabeculectomy, 11 patients had general anesthesia and 14 with peribulbar anesthesia. It was included in this study pseudophakic patients with glaucoma. We excluded other ocular patologies such as diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. Visual acuity, intraocular pressure, number of medications and demographic data […]

PURPOSE: Measure of efficacy and the security of intraoperative of mitomycin C (MMC) in the pterygium surgery. METHODS: Realized prospective analysis of 102 patients (204 eyes) divided in two groups submitted intraoperative MMC 0.02 % for 2 minutes or saline solution 0.9%. The patients were available in 1º, 7 º, 21º, 30º, 60º and 90º days of postoperative. RESULTS: The pterygium was more prevalence in females (58,33%). The age various 33 to 69 years. The recidive (9) was in the […]

OBJECTIVE: To verify possible correlations between the biomechanical state of the cornea before surgery and the results of stromal ring segments implant for keratoconus. METHODS: Nineteen eyes of 19 patients with keratoconus were evaluated before and 12 months after stromal ring segment implant surgery. The implant of one or two Ferrara ring segments was performed accordingly to the nomogram, considering corneal thickness, ectasy pattern on topography and astigmatism. The Wilcoxon test was performed to verify the differences between visual acuity […]

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the knowledge base of Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas medical students regarding ophthalmic emergencies (OE). METHODS: Cross-sectional survey among first-year and sixth-year medical students based on data collection obtained through a standardized questionnaire containing a self-evaluation test in which the students had to evaluate their knowledge into “good”, “average” or “insufficient”, and 10 multiple choice questions covering the OE themes. The data were evaluated using measures of central tendency and Student’s T test for assessing the continous […]

We described a 35 years old female patient with bilateral visual loss and pain on eye movement, mild papillary edema in acute phase, arcuate scotoma and complementary test positive for antinuclear antibodies that did not respond to corticosteroid therapy. The lack of clinical criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) didn’t prevent the institution of the specific treatment with corticosteroids and azathioprine. After seven months the diagnosis was made after a skin manifestation of the disease. This case shows the value […]