Authors experienced five different cases of keratitis such as metaherpetic keratitis, bullous keratitis, chemical keratitis and superficial punctate keratitis have been markedly improved by subconjunctival injection of Tathion (30-50mg), a glutathion prepartion. All cases showed remarkable improvement with better visual acuity following the treatment. Especially it was another choice of treatment in persisting case of metaherpetic keratitis with parenchymal infiltration. No side effects have been observed during this procedure.
Keratitis* ; Visual Acuity

The objects of the refractive examination are to check the refractive state of the eyes and to correct the refractive errors with glasses. This paper is directed to the basic methods of subjective and objective refractive examination.
Eyeglasses ; Glass ; Refractive Errors

Ketalar, a new parenteral anesthetic, was used as a clinical trial for 14 surgical cases ranged from 2 to 15 year old children, and also intraocular pressures of their patient's sound eyes were measured before and after Ketalar injection, I.M. 5-10 mg/kg. Unlike conventional anesthetic agents, Ketalar caused a significant rise in intraocular pressure within 5 minutes and then the pressure improved to normal range about 15 minutes after Ketalar injection. Ketalar could not recommended as a general anethetic agent in case who should examine the intraocular pressure. In eye surgery under 15 year old children, this agent would be a safe and effective general anesthetic, and in an emergent eye injured case, Ketalar is an agent of first choice and can injects to patient regardless of diet intake.
Adolescent ; Anesthetics ; Child* ; Diet ; Humans ; Intraocular Pressure* ; Ketamine* ; Reference Values

In search of the effect of air pollution on the eye, the authors examined ocular symptoms and diseases in both an urban(Seoul) and two rural populations (Suwon and Changsung). The Prevalence rate of ocular symptoms and diseases between 109 occupational drivers of more than 3 years career in Seoul area which is one of the air polluted urban areas and 150 populations in the two different rural areas as a control group were compared. The prevalence rate of ocular symptoms was 89% in Seoul, 10% in Suwon and 23% in Changsung area, and those of ocular diseases were 35%, 6% and 10% in the same areas, respectively. The prevalence rate of ocular symptoms and diseases is respectively 3 to 4 times more prevalent in occupational drivers than in the control groups. Many other etiologic factors such as occupation, labor condition, environmental stress or different way of living may influence the prevalence rate between the two groups, however, it would be presumed that the main causative factor to cause ocular symptoms and diseases is probably due to air pollution.
Air Pollution ; Gyeonggi-do ; Occupations ; Prevalence* ; Rural Population* ; Seoul

Authore examined for the width, the trabecular pigment band and the iris process of the chamber angle in the non-glaucomatous eyes of the Korean people (total 86 eyes, among (them male 58 eyes, female 28 eyes, and ages of 7-67) by using the 3 mirror contact lens and slit-lamp (Goldmann 900). And these findings were evaluated with the age and the sex distribution. Also these preliminary data are now assisting in the study of pathologic findings of the chamber angle.
Female ; Humans ; Iris ; Male ; Sex Distribution

The authors analysed statistically 223 cases of the eye injuries among 17,547 out-patients who visited to our clinic located at down-town of the city during Jan. 1965 to Sept. 1967. The incidence of the eye injuries is remarkably lower than the other reports from other communities. As far as the objects of eye injuries were concerned, ironpiece, fist and coal-dust were more frequent in 21~40 year-age group, while in under 10 year age group, knife, nail and finger-tip were more frequent. Male was exceedingly prevalent (162) than female (61). 21~30 year age group was also prevalent in regard to the incidence of the injuries.
Eye Injuries* ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Outpatients*

No abstract available.
Corneal Diseases*

The permeability of rabbit corneal endothelium stored at 4 degrees C in M-K medium for period of 3, 5, 9 and 14 days to radioactive sucrose(molecular weight 360), inulin (molecular weight 5,200), and dextran (morecular weight 82,400) was measured. The corneal endothelium stored in M-K medium up to 14 days was examined with light and electron microscope. The endothelial permeability to non-electrolytes was decreased according to the molecular weight of these increased. The permeability of fresh cornea to suerose was about 4 times greater than to inulin and 50 times than to dextran, but in M-K medium stored groups the permeability to sucrose was about 2.5 times greater than to inulin and 36 times than to dextran. The permeability of M-K medium preserved cornea for 14 days was significantly different from that of fresh corneal endothelium. The light and electron microscopic findings of 3, 5 and 9 days stored corneal endothelium were almost normal except of early changes of mitochondria, but in the 14 days-stored groups there were marked degenerative change of cytoplasm and nucleus were noted.
Cornea ; Cytoplasm ; Dextrans ; Endothelium, Corneal* ; Inulin ; Mitochondria ; Molecular Weight ; Permeability* ; Sucrose

The clinical and statistical evaluations of the 157 corneal grafted eyes which were operated at the Dept. of Ophthalmology, St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic Medical College from April, 1967 to May, 1978 were done. The fonow-up period ranged from 4 months to 11 years. The results were as follows: 1. Age incidence of corneal grafted patients was highest in the 20's and lowest in the age group under 10 years and over 50 years of age. 2. Male and female ratio was approximately 3:1. 3. The four major causes requiring corneal graft, the highest percentage wag occupied by trauma (38 eyes, 24.2%) followed by Herpes simplex keratitis(30 eyes, 19.1%), measles (24 eyes, 15.3%) and phlyctenular keratitis(15 eyes, 9.6%). At the time of keratoplasty, the cnndition of the majority of the cornea were either Leucoma cornea (77 eyes, 49.0%) or Leucoma cnrnea adherens (38 eyes, 24.2%). 4. One hundred and fourty-two eyes(90.4%) had penetrating keratoplasty operations and 15 eyeg(9.6%) lamellar grafts. 5. Eighty five point four percentage of ths total grafted eyes maintained clarity of grafted cornea. 6. The causes of the 23 opaque grafts were graft rejection (l4 eyes, 60.9 %), recurrence of the Herpes simplex keratitis(2 eyes, 8.7%), neovascularization of the donor cornea(2 eyes, 8.7%) and others(5 eyes, 21.7%). 7. Five eyes had penetrating keratoplasty and cataract operation simultaneously. Four eyes retained clarity of the cornea with improvement of visual acuity: however, one eye was unsuccessful due to vitreous body touching the corneal endothelium. 8. Post-operative visual improvement was seen in 118 eyes (75.2%). Useful vision (F.C. -0.4) was obtained in 84 eyes (71.8%) among 118 eyes. Twenty-four eyes improved to vigual acuity of greater than 0.4 while 9 eyes improved to less than F.C. (finger count).
Cataract ; Cornea ; Corneal Transplantation ; Endothelium, Corneal ; Female ; Graft Rejection ; Herpes Simplex ; Humans ; Incidence ; Keratoplasty, Penetrating ; Male ; Measles ; Ophthalmology ; Recurrence ; Tissue Donors ; Transplants* ; Visual Acuity ; Vitreous Body

During a four-week postoperative course, the central and peripheral corneal thicknesses of 23 intracapsular cataract extraction cases (only one case by extracapsular) were measured with the Mishima-Hedbys modification of the Haag-Streit Corneal Pachometer. The results were as follows: 1. Before surgery, the mean of the average central corneal thickness was 0.52 +/- 0.02(S.D.)mm in central part and 0.64 +/- 0.03mm in peripheral part. 2. During 2~3 postoperative days, the central corneal thickness was increased highly and its mean thickness was 0.70 +/- 0.08mm (34.6% increment), and there after the corneal thickness was found to be decreasing to the mean value of 0.53 +/- 0.03mm on 17~20 postoperative days which there was no significant difference from original thickness (P>0.05). 3. Peripheral corneal thickness also increased slightly (0.75 +/- 0.04mm, 14%increment) on 2-3 postoperative days and there after the peripheral thickness was gradually decreased to the original thickness up to 12~13 postoperative days (0.66 +/- 0.04mm, P>0.05) which reveals much earlier improvement than that of the central corneal thickness (17~20 POD).
Cataract Extraction ; Cataract*