Ophthalmopathy
eye diseases
Schwartz syndrome: retinal detachment with high intraocular pressure
May 11th
Schwartz syndrome: retinal detachment with high intraocular pressure
A famous painter of 40 years old man in local came to me with his left eye seeing blur and covered for a month. No swelling feelings of his both eyes. But the intraocular pressure are OD 55mmHg, OS 35mmHg. I dilated both eyes. His left retina were nearly fully detached. Right eye had 4 hole in different three peripheral zones. So scleral buckling was performed on the right eye and vitrectomy performed on the left eye. A lot of tiny holes were found in the left eye during operation process. Pneumatic retinopexy More >
Lymphoepithelial carcinoma in orbit
May 3rd
lymphoepithelial carcinoma in orbit
A middle age man with manifestation of right eye swelling and without pain, eye movement disability and exophthalmos. CT scan was made to define the limitation and location of the tumor. A 3.0mm*2.5mm tumor was extracted from the upper orbit in the surgery. Pathology and immunization results demonstrated as follow: I supposed that the tumor was a metastatic one. Maybe origined from nasopharynxor sinus nearby. But the CT image didn’t show anything.
There were four articles mentioned in the pubmed. 1. [On a primary lymphoepithelial tumor (Schmincke) of the orbit] 2. A 20-year series of orbital exenteration. 3. More >
Vitrectomy and a young man with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Apr 20th
Vitrectomy and type 1 diabetes mellitus
A 20 years old undergraduate who was a patient of type 1 diabetic mellitus, had a vitrectomy surgery days ago because of the proliferative diabetic retinopathy. There were heavy multiple hemorrhages and neovascular tissues in front of the retina. Fortunately, the retina detachment was not total because of the 8 times laser therapy on the retina pre-surgery. A lot of time was spent on the removal of the neovascular tissue in surgery.
As we know, diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. The diabetic retinopathy does not occur for at More >
Congenital cataract of a young man
Apr 17th
Congenital cataract of a young man
I met a young man came to me asking for eye routine test. I found both of his eyes are presenting crystal lens local opacity. Left lens is more severer than right. I asked him to alternately cover one eye to feel which eye could see more clearly. He could not tell which one. You know, some of mild congenital cataract does not effect visual acuity.