European journal of ophthalmology
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To evaluate the efficacy and clinical effects of local retrobulbar anesthesia using ropivacaine in vitreoretinal surgery. ⋯ Ropivacaine used for retrobulbar-peribulbar combined anesthesia in vitreoretinal surgery showed excellent clinical efficacy as regards analgesia and muscle akinesia.
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Case Reports
Hyperacute unilateral gonococcal endophthalmitis in an HIV-infected man without genital infection.
To demonstrate the necessity of obtaining an accurate history from patients presenting abnormal evolution of ophthalmologic diseases. ⋯ An accurate history should be obtained by patients with an abnormal course of an ophthalmologic disease, focusing on immunologic deficiencies that can cause extremely serious ophthalmologic complications with ensuing risk of visual impairment or ocular loss (bulbar enucleation).