As discussed in last issue’s Lindstrom’s Perspective, some ocular media opacities warrant surgical intervention and some do not. To me an opacity in the vitreous is no different from an opacity in the ...

IN 1953 Kantarjian and DeJong 1 first described the A presence of vitreous opacities in a family with amyloidosis. Subsequently, Rukavina and his coworkers 2 reported cases with vitreous opacities in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW YORK — Pars plana vitrectomy was efficacious and had a similar risk profile to other procedures for the ...

the lens, the transparent structure located behind the iris the cornea, the eye’s outermost layer the retina, the tissue lining the back of the eyes the vitreous body, a clear gel-like substance that ...

We present a case of familial ocular amyloidosis currently without systemic involvement. Ocular features included vitreous opacities and secondary glaucoma. The patient had a transthyretin mutation ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Low-dose atropine drops showed potential as a noninvasive alternative for managing vitreous floaters, a small retrospective study suggested. A majority of patients who completed ...

Sooner or later, almost everyone experiences seeing shadows or strands floating in their field of vision: these are called floaters or vitreous floaters, and they are images of small particles that ...

To evaluate real-time duplex colour Doppler examination with colour and pulse Doppler ultrasonography (US) (colour Doppler imaging (CDI)) for detection of the retinal detachment from membranous ...

Ocular inflammatory disease, including uveitis, scleritis, and orbital inflammatory disease, can be acute or chronic, infec­tious, non-infectious, or present as a masquerade syndrome. Therefore, its ...