Category: Medications and treatment

EXOPHTHALMOS PROPTOSIS
Publish date July 16, 2012

EXOPHTHALMOS (PROPTOSIS)

Protrusion of the eyeball, walleyed eyes. It may be inherent with skull malformations (craniostenosis). Acquired exophthalmos is a result of increased orbital content. Acute exophthalmos is caused by a sudden disruption in blood circulation and lymph flow (retrobulbar hemorrhage, venous stasis, vasomotor-allergic edema), or an inflammation of the orbital contents (cellulitis, thrombophlebitis, periostitis, tenonitis). Chronic […]

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Publish date July 16, 2012

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY > LASER IN OPHTHALMOLOGY

LASER is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”. Ophthalmologic laser is a source of laser light mounted on a bio-microscope. Directed into the eye, the laser beam causes local photocoagulation. The trace of photocoagulation on the tissue is called a laser seal. The impulse of the laser light which causes photocoagulation […]

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Publish date July 16, 2012

SPECIAL WAYS OF OPHTHALMIC TREATMENT

Subconjunctival treatment   Subconjunctivally are given antibiotics, mydriatics atropine (mydriatic cocktail = atropine + adrenaline + ksilocain), antibiotics and steroids at iridocyclitis and corneal ulcers. Autohema is a subconjunctival injection of blood taken from a patient’s vein. Instead of the patient’s blood, the patient’s serum is increasingly being used. It is used for topic ulcers […]

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Publish date July 16, 2012

MEDICATIONS

  DRIPPING THE EYE DROPS   Pull the lower eyelid downwards and drip one to two drops into the lower transient furrow. The patient should keep the eyes closed for a minute or two in order that the blinking does not wash away the medication. One should avoid dripping into the cornea because it causes […]

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