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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Carcinoid Tumor*

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Hedgehogs ; Tinea ; Trichophyton

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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Candidiasis* ; Fluconazole*

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

To investigate the retinal toxicity of ciprofloxacin on retina, 23 New Zealand white rabbits received vitrectomy with intravitreal infusion that contain of 1 g/ml, 2 g/ml, 5 g/ml, 10 g/ml, and 25 g/ml of ciprofloxacin(20 eyes) or balanced salt solution(BSS) only(3 eyes). In transmission elctron microscope, no disintegration of all retinal layers and slightly irregular pattern of disc of outer segment of rod were observed in 1, 2 and 5 g/ml of ciprofloxacin groups at 14 days postinfusion. In concentration of 10 g/ml or greater, retina showed destroyed inner and outer segment of the photoreceptor cells, pyknotic nuclei in the outer nuclear layer, lucent vacoules and pigment granules in apical cytoplasm of the retinal pigment epithelium(RPE), loss of photoreceptor outer segment-RPE integration. This study suggest that infusion with 5 g/ml or less of ciprofloxacin may be safe when used in the treatment of bacterial endophthalmitis.
Ciprofloxacin* ; Cytoplasm ; Endophthalmitis ; Photoreceptor Cells ; Rabbits ; Retina* ; Retinaldehyde ; Vitrectomy

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*

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Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita* ; Epidermolysis Bullosa*

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Herpes Zoster* ; Male ; Penis