Terrien's marginal degeneration is a rare bilateral condition. Most investigators have thought that it was a degenerative origin, and emphasized the lack of significant inflammatory signs and symptoms. Several reports in Korea, except one case of perforation reported only mild conjunctival injection. But, recent reports suggested the possibility of inflammatory process and immune phenomenon. We experienced one case of Terrien's marginal degeneration accompanied with the iritis and treated with topical steroid, conjunctival flap and therapeutic contact lens.
Cornea* ; Humans ; Iritis* ; Korea ; Research Personnel

Terrien's marginal degeneration is a rare bilateral condition. Most investigators have thought that it was a degenerative origin, and emphasized the lack of significant inflammatory signs and symptoms. Several reports in Korea, except one case of perforation reported only mild conjunctival injection. But, recent reports suggested the possibility of inflammatory process and immune phenomenon. We experienced one case of Terrien's marginal degeneration accompanied with the iritis and treated with topical steroid, conjunctival flap and therapeutic contact lens.
Cornea* ; Humans ; Iritis* ; Korea ; Research Personnel

PURPOSE: Behcet's disease is a chronic, recurrent, multisystemic disorder, which visual prognosis is poor. The clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Behcet's disease in Korean were evaluated. METHODS: The clinical records on 3,175 patients with Behcet's disease diagnosed at Behcet's disease clinic in Severance Hospital between November 1983 and December 1999 were reviewed. RESULTS: Among all 3,175 patients, the men/women ratio of Behcet's disease was 1:1.6. The age of disease onset was the highest in the thirties (33.8%). The most frequent major and minor symptom was oral ulcer (97.7%) and arthritis (32.8%) respectively, and the proportion of ocular symptom was 19.3%. The most frequent initial symptom was oral ulcer (77.4%). The ratio of men/women with ocular symptom was 1:0.98. The mean interval between the initial symptom and ocular symptom was 34 months, and the most common ocular symptom was iritis (79.0%). The most frequent systemic drug administered in patients with ocular involvement was colchicines (35%). Visual acuity was worsened in 56% of the eyes followed for over 24 months. CONCLUSIONS: The authors notice the characteristics of Behcet's disease in Korean and suggest that the continuous and nationwide survey is further necessary.
Arthritis ; Humans ; Iritis ; Oral Ulcer ; Prognosis ; Visual Acuity

Syphilitic interstitial keratitis is known as a rare disease in recent time. Authors experienced 5 cases of interstitial keratitis due to congenital syphilis. All the cases sh owed positive serologic test for syphilis (VDRL), 4 cases showed Hutchinson's teeth and 2 cases showed iritis. A brief review and relating literatures are presented.
Iritis ; Keratitis* ; Rare Diseases ; Serologic Tests ; Syphilis ; Syphilis, Congenital*

The vitrectomy and silicone oil injection has been used occasionally for the advertent retinal detachment, but the silicone oil placement within the vitreous cavity may cause the complications in such as band keratopathy, emulsification of silicone oil, iritis and glaucoma, etc. Especially, in the phakic eyes, the silicone oil may enter the anterior chamber in the form of a suspension of fine globules resembling an inverted hypopyon and it is called the hyperoleon. The authors observed a case of hyperoleon 4 months after surgery, reporting it with the review of literatures.
Anterior Chamber ; Glaucoma ; Iritis ; Retinal Detachment ; Silicone Oils ; Vitrectomy

The clinical triad of Behcet's Disease is relapsing iritis and ulcers of the mouth and genitalia. The diagnosis of Behcet's Disease is based only on clinical grounds, as there are no pathognomic or histologic features. A reported case of Behcet's Disease with neurologic manifestations that have undergone computerized tomography of the brain have demonstrated lesion of decreased density with negative contrast enhancement in basal ganglia which is similar with the other reported cases.
Basal Ganglia ; Brain ; Diagnosis ; Genitalia ; Iritis ; Mouth ; Neurologic Manifestations ; Ulcer

We reported the case of Mr. M.H. Lee aged 46 years, who was first seen March. 4, 1972. The Chief complaint was pain on the left forehead and nausea for one day. Tension with the Schiotz tonometer was 45mmHg. The skin of left side of the forehead, inside of the eyebrow, left side of the radix nasi and nostril showed irregular papule formation in small circumscribed areas 2 days after admission. Acute iritis finding was occurred 6 days after the onset. The clinical course was one month. Sensitivity of the cornea was recovered and vision was improved to normal without posterior synechia or corneal ulcer.
Cornea ; Corneal Ulcer ; Eyebrows ; Forehead ; Glaucoma* ; Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus* ; Herpes Zoster* ; Iritis ; Nausea ; Skin

In this paper I report the two cases of Dannheim's anterior chamber lens operation in the monocular aphakic patient for the first time in Korea. The first case(19 years old male patient with traumatic cataract in his left eye) had been {)perated on July 10, 1960. After operation his corrected visual acuity was 0.8 wearing glass (Sph. +12.00D.). On Aug. 2S, 1960 he had taken another operation for the insertion of Dannheim's anterior chamber lens (power; +12.50D., size; 12.5mm.). On Oct. 8. 1960 the visual acuity was 0.9 with adding Sph. -5.50D. glass in front of his left eye. Through the slit lamp examination the loop of the anterior chamber lens was well fixed into the chamber angle and remained in situ. He has carried a very comfortable life without any remarkable trouble for 16 years untill nowadays. The second case (50 years old male patient with senile cataract complicated by secondary glaucoma in his left eye) had been operated intracapsullary on Jan. 15, 1960. After cataract operation he had used corneal contact lens and his corrected visual acuity for distant was 1.5 (Sph. +14.50D. Rad. 7.8) and I.O.P. was within normal limit. 9 years after cataract operation he refused to wear contact lens due to discomfortness and therefore he had reoperated to insert Dannheim's anterior chamber lens (same as case 1.) on Sept. 10. 1969. After operation his visual acuity was 0.8 for distant vision, but slight movement of the anterior chamber lens was noticed by slit lamp examination. On Jan. 12. 1970. he had had moderate iritis and slightly elevated I.O.P. (20.6mmHg.). Those symptoms had subsided after 7 day's treatment by local instillation of 2% T-pilocarpine sol. and oral acetazolamide and corticosteroid medication. On March 7, 1973. he revisited my clinic due to a severe ocular pain in his left eye. At that time the I.O.P. was 30mmHg. and the visual acuity was reduced to 0.04 due to severe anterior uveitis. And so I removed the anterior chamber lens on March 8. 1973. The Fixation of anterior chamber lens into the filtration angle is very important factor for the determination of the prognosis of operation. The continuous experiment and development of the method to fix the loop of the anterior chamber lens into the filtration angle is required for the sake of successful operation.
Acetazolamide ; Anterior Chamber* ; Cataract ; Filtration ; Glass ; Glaucoma ; Humans ; Iritis ; Korea ; Male ; Prognosis ; Uveitis, Anterior ; Visual Acuity

The clinical triad of relapsing iritis, ulcers of the mouth and genitalia was first described in 1937 by Halusi Behcet. This entity, originally confined to the above triad of symptoms, appears to be a systemic disease manifested by skin lesions, thrombophlebitis, neurologic or visceral syptoms. The exact etiology of this syndrome has not been established. However, in recent years, many investigators suggested that the autoimmune mechanism could be the cause of this disease, and imrnunotherapeutic agents have been shown to have beneficial effects in controlling recurrent episodes of major manifestations. (countiuned..)
Behcet Syndrome* ; Genitalia ; Humans ; Iritis ; Mouth ; Research Personnel ; Skin ; Thrombophlebitis ; Ulcer

To evaluate the efficacy and immediate complications of Q-switched Nd:YAG laser iridotomy in the treatment of angle closure glaucoma, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser iridotomy using coherent model 7900(U.S.A.)was performed on 50 eyes, 43 patients with angle closure glaucoma between Feb. 1987 and Mar. 1988. Forty-six eyes of Thirty-nine Patients had been followed up {or more than 2 months. Four eyes were lost to follow-up. Among 50 treated eyes, 46 required a single laser session for patency and four eyes required two sessions. Intraocular pressure was significantly decreased after Q-switched Nd: YAG laser iridotomy and the continuous use of previous glaucoma medications as necessary(p<0.01). Immediate postoperative intraocular pressure elevation was seen in two Nd:YAG-treated eyes. Thirty-five eyes treated with the Nd:YAG laser had minimal bleeding from the iridotomy site. Forty-four Nd:YAG-treated eyes had transient iritis.
Glaucoma* ; Glaucoma, Angle-Closure ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Intraocular Pressure ; Iritis ; Lasers, Solid-State ; Lost to Follow-Up