Achondroplasia is a congenital disorder resulting from a specific disturbance in endochondral bone formation. The ophthalmic features reportedly associated with achondroplasia are telecanthus, exotropia, inferior oblique overaction, angle anomalies and cone-rod dystrophy. This is first report of chorioretinal coloboma in achondroplasia. An 8-year-old female was diagnosed with a developmental delay, known as achondroplasia, seven months after birth. Upon her initial visit, visual acuity was 0.3 in both eyes. The patient had telecanthus but normal ocular motility. Findings were normal upon anterior segment examination. Fundus examination of both eyes revealed about 1,500 microm sized chorioretinal coloboma inferior to the optic nerve head. Upon fluorescent angiography, there was chorioretinal coloboma without any other lesions. Afterward, there was no change in the fundus lesion, and best corrected visual acuity was 0.6 in both eyes. Chorioretinal coloboma is associated with choroidal and retinal detachment. As chorioretinal coloboma and achondroplasia are developmental disorders in the embryonic stage, early detection and regular ophthalmologic examination would be essential in patients with achondroplasia.
Achondroplasia/*complications/diagnosis ; Child ; Choroid/*abnormalities ; Choroid Diseases/*complications/diagnosis ; Coloboma/*complications/diagnosis ; Female ; Humans ; Ophthalmoscopes ; Tomography, Optical Coherence ; Visual Acuity

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Hedgehogs ; Tinea ; Trichophyton

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Carcinoid Tumor*

Cataract operation was carried out in 7 glaucomatous eyes with prolonged ocular hypotony after trageculectomy with intraoperative mitomycin C. In all cases, The postoperative intraocular pressure(IOP) rose and the postopeative average IOP was 6.0+/-2.0mmHg higher than their preoperative average IOP. The preexisting bleb was reduced in size eyes that underwent phacoemulsification and posterior chamber intraocular lens(PC-IOL) implantation. But. It was not changed in extracapsular cataract extraction and IOL implantation. In our study, cataract operation in eyes that had lens opacity with prolonged hypotony induced IOP rise and was beneficial to hypotony.
Blister ; Cataract Extraction ; Cataract* ; Mitomycin* ; Ocular Hypotension* ; Phacoemulsification ; Trabeculectomy*

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Herpes Zoster* ; Male ; Penis

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Candidiasis* ; Fluconazole*

PURPOSE: The authors report a case of optic nerve evulsion with literature review. METHOD: 15-year-old boy, who had optic nerve evulsion by tear of inferior rectus and medial rectus muscles, and hypotony by retinal and choroidal detachment RESULTS: we could preserve the eyeball with normal pressure by pars plana vitrectomy, endolaser photocoagulation and silicone oil injection
Adolescent ; Choroid ; Humans ; Light Coagulation ; Male ; Muscles ; Optic Nerve Injuries ; Optic Nerve* ; Retinaldehyde ; Silicone Oils ; Vitrectomy

PURPOSE: Untill now, AMT at the early stage of corneal ulcer has been prohibited by the reasons that measurement of progression of ulcer by active pathogens was difficult through the transplanted amniotic membrane and anxiety about worsening by decreased permeability of antibiotics. This study has investigated the effect of early AMT in the bacterial corneal ulcer. METHODS: We made experimental bacterial corneal ulcer in 10 rabbits with Staphylococcus epidermidis, which typically has a more indolent clinical course. After certification of infection, fresh amniotic membranes, soaked by fortified antibiotics was transplanted to 5 eyes to which we dropped fortified antibiotics. And to another 5 eyes we applied only fortified antibiotics. After observing the progression of corneal ulcer for 4 weeks, we compared the degree of corneal opacity and histopathologic changes between the two groups to measure the effect of early AMP in the bacterial corneal ulcer. RESULTS: Corneal ulcer was healed in the all 5 cases of early AMT-performed group, And compared with the group without AMT, successful decrement of corneal opacity was observed in the 4 cases of early AMT-performed group. Histopathologic observation has revealed only mild inflammation and the maintenance of parallel architecture of stromal collagens. CONCLUSIONS: In the experimental corneal ulcer with Staphylococcus Epidermidis, we observed healing of the ulcer with decrement of corneal opacity, result from early transplantation of amniotic membrane, soaked in fortified antibiotics followed by dropping of fortified antibiotics at an early stage of ulcer.
Amnion* ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Anxiety ; Certification ; Collagen ; Corneal Opacity ; Corneal Ulcer* ; Inflammation ; Permeability ; Rabbits ; Staphylococcus epidermidis* ; Staphylococcus* ; Ulcer

The nutcracker syndrome is the congestion of left renal vein due to the compression of left renal vein by the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery and has been known as the cause of hematuria with or without left renal flank pain, mild to moderate proteinuria and orthostatic proteinuria. We present here one case of 13.5 year of girl has severe typical nutcracker syndrome with orthostatic protinuria and idiopathic chronic fatigue.
Aorta ; Child* ; Estrogens, Conjugated (USP) ; Fatigue* ; Female ; Flank Pain ; Hematuria ; Humans ; Mesenteric Artery, Superior ; Proteinuria* ; Renal Veins

Unilateral nevoid telangiectasia is a rare but clinica.lly distinct dermatosis first deacribed by Zeisler in 1922. It had been also called as linear telangiectasia or unilateral telangiectasia. Wilkin suggested the term unilateral dermatomal superficial telangiectasia, in 1977. There are some reports of congenital unilateral nevoid telangiectasia but it usually occurs in women during the puberty and the third decade. Clinically it is characterized by superficial telangiectatic lesions distributed along the dermatomes uniIaterally and usually on the upper part of the body. It was reported that unilateral nevoid telangiectasia was related with elevated serum estrogen level in the many cases. We present two patients, 23-year and 25-year-old male soldiers, whose leaions were consistent with unilateral nevoid telangiectasia elinically and histopathologically.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Estrogens ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Military Personnel ; Puberty ; Skin Diseases ; Telangiectasis*