PURPOSE: To evaluate prevalence of diabetes mellitus in a group of patients with glaucoma; to verify if there is association between diabetes mellitus and glaucoma; to verify other associated risk factors. METHODS: Fifty(50) glaucoma patients had their medical records analyzed in a retrospective way. Registered data included sex, age, ethnic group, family history of glaucoma and personal history of type 2 diabetes mellitus. RESULTS: Five (10%) of all evaluated patients had type 2 diabetes mellitus. 3 of them were female […]

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the morpho-functional profile of the evaluation of patients with diabetic retinopathy without severe loss of visual acuity in a public hospital of reference in endocrinology, determining in this sample, the relation between the time of diabetes, age and visual acuity with the retinal thickness measured by the optical Coherence tomography (OCT) and fundus picture (FP). METHODS: Prospective, linear study was carried through, in transversal cut of 61 consecutive patients with diabetic retinopathy registered in the HRT, and […]

The authors report one case of orbital fracture of the floor and the medial walls after trauma with an intact ocular globe displacement into the maxillary sinus. The same authors emphasize the treatment, complications and the rarity of this case. In this case the patient developed a good visual acuity and a loss of ocular motility as complication (except abduction) .

Os autores relatam um caso de fratura de assoalho e parede medial de órbita após trauma com deslocamento de globo ocular intacto para o seio maxilar. Os mesmos autores enfatizam o tratamento, complicações e a raridade da entidade. Neste caso o paciente desenvolveu uma boa acuidade visual e uma perda de motilidade ocular como complicação (exceto abdução).

One case of post-phacoemulsification refractive surprise in a posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy patient is reported herein. Its likely causative factor, as well as our approach once it was recognized are discussed in this report.

An intraocular infection is the most terrible complication after a trabeculectomy, usually with significant anatomical consequences and irreversible functional impairment. The case of a 40-year-old male patient with congenital glaucoma, submitted to a trabeculectomy on both eyes at the age of 13, is presented. At the age of 32 a second trabeculectomy with mitomycin C was performed on the right eye. Eight years later he presented with an endophthalmitis in the same eye. Despite intensive local treatment and intravitreous injection, […]

Eletroretinographic findings show that the transient decreased vision seen in patients with the multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) is related to metabolic disturbances at the level of the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptor complex. In this paper, we present a patient with a typical picture of MEWDS associated to macular edema, which could also be a factor to reduce vision in this disorder. Case report of a 53-year-old woman complaining about unilateral decreased vision of 7 days’ duration was […]

PRPÓSITO: Achados eletroretinográficos revelam que a baixa visual transitória observada em pacientes com a síndrome dos múltiplos e evanescentes pontos brancos na retina (MEWDS) está relacionada a distúrbios metabólicos ao nível do epitélio pigmentado da retina e dos fotorreceptores. No presente artigo, nós apresentamos um paciente com um quadro típico de MEWDS associado a edema macular, o qual pode ser um fator que reduz a acuidade visual. : Relato de caso. Sexo feminino, 53 anos, queixando-se de baixa visual há 7 […]