Choroid metastasis have been considered the most common ocular malignancy. Early detection allows arrangements to provide tumor reduction and to improve visual quality. Many treatments have been proposed to aim these objectives. This work reviews clinical characteristics, diagnosis and monitoring methods, characteristics of complementary exams, and treatments used in patients with this disease.

Nowadays the use of drugs for prevention of neonatal conjunctivitis (NC) has been questioned in some developed countries, due to the high level of prenatal care. In Brazil, although no official data on the occurrence of NC is available, several recent studies has shown high prevalence of genital infection in childbearing age and pregnant women. This, coupled with the 30% to 50% transmission rate of genital chlamydia and gonococcus from mother to newborn, leads to the conclusion that chemoprophylaxis is […]

OBJECTIVE: In the last decade the handheld computers have been popularized among health professionals, on the USA, for instance, among 60-70% of medical students already use them. Make clinical information available on these devices can aid teaching medical practices, however, the way they are structured may influence students’ satisfaction and learning. The purpose of this paper is to present MDFluxo evaluation, a program developed in handheld computers to aid ophthalmology teaching. METHODS: The program was developed with structured flowcharts extracted […]

PURPOSE: To analyze the care, complications and way of acquisition related to contact lenses wear among medical students from Faculdade de Medicina do ABC (Santo André -SP). METHODS: Questionnaire applied to medical students from the first to the sixth year from Faculdade de Medicina do ABC (Santo André -SP) was analyzed. RESULTS: 61 medical studants answered the questionnaire. 52,5% reported some ocular complications. Despite the majority (70,5%) contact lenses wear being satisfied about the contact lenses, 67% wants to operate […]

PURPOSE: Observe the effects of corneal intrastromal injection of biguanide at 0.02%, 0.1% and 0.5% in rabbits’ eyes. METHODS: Doble blind prospective study. 8 rabbits were used, randomly identified and divided into 4 groups, with 2 rabbits each, with the administration of 0.2 ml of the drug via intrastromal, in the right eye. The first group received biguanide at a concentration of 0.02%, the second one at 0.1%, the third at 0.5% and the fourth group (control) was given a […]

PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to compare visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, reading speed and quality of life of postoperative pseudophakic patients with unilateral or bilateral ReZoom multifocal intraocular lenses. METHODS: Comparative, prospective, not randomized study including 38 eyes of 24 patients were divided into a group with bilateral implantation (14 patients) and another with unilateral implantation (10 patients). The ophthalmological examination included visual acuity preoperative close, intermediate and far away, best corrected visual acuity, corneal topography, contrast sensitivity, […]

PURPOSE: To evaluate the quality of life of glaucoma patients comparing public health system, and private practice, through the questionnaire National Eye Institute 25-Item Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ). METHODS: A cross-sectional study, developed through the application of NEI-VFQ questionnaire in 83 non-consecutive glaucoma patients at different stages of the disease, and 51 from public health system, and 32 patients from private clinic. RESULTS: Statistically significant difference between groups was demonstrated in subdomains related to the “general health”, “general vision”, “ocular […]