With selected patients glaucoma filtration surgery is highly successful. However, there is
growing evidence that chronic topical medical therapy has a deleterious effect on surgical …

Medical and pharmacologic research of recent years has led to the development of many
potent and efficacious topical ophthalmic medications. Unfortunately, many of these drugs …

Scanning electron microscopy was found to be of considerable use in evaluating the effects
of various commonly used drugs, vehicles, and preservatives on the corneal surface. Of the …

The degradation of chlorobutanol in aqueous solutions appears to be a specific hydroxide-
ion-catalyzed reaction. The overall rate equation was found to be equal to k 1 …

• Three patients with soft contact lenses had acute onset of a red eye that clinically appeared
consistent with an adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis. The signs and symptoms cleared within …

Large bulbar conjunctival follicles developed in 12 patients who received dipivefrin therapy
for prolonged periods in the management of chronic open-angle glaucoma. In four patients …

Abstract Anticholinesterase (Anti-ChE) agents occupy a prominent place in ocular therapy.
They are employed locally in the eye mainly to induce miosis, increase the power of …

The purpose of this study was to characterize by immunofluorescent microscopy, the
cytoskeletal proteins actin and myosin and the protein calmodulin (CaM) in trephined, n …

No report can be found in the contemporary ophthalmic literature of an irritative conjunctival
reaction due to the use ofl-epinephrine bitartrate (Epitrate) solution. This report describes …

Posner 4 thinks that ptosis has a dominant heredity and is transmitted by either sex. There is
little doubt that ptosis is hereditary and readily transmitted 2 (p. 4679). Berke 5 in the past …