Table of Contents - WOC 2012

WOC2012 Abstract Book
IS-HIS-MO 365 (3)
IOL and Ridley
Alio Jorge (1,2)
1. Vissum Corporation
2. Division of Ophthalmology, Universidad Miguel Hernandez
Cataract surgery has achieved one of the most important improvements in
surgery and quality of life in the 20th century for the elderly person. At the
middle of the 20th century, cataract surgery had reached a level in which
lens removal was feasible but with the major limitation of aphakic hyperopia
induction. This remained unsolved until Harold Ridley had the innovative idea
of introducing a plastic lens into the eye. This presentation shows the clinical
and scientific environment at Ridley›s time for the correction of aphakia until its
modern consequences.
IS-HIS-MO 365 (4)
Excimer Laser
Marshall John (1)
1. Moorfields Eye Hospital
Abstract not available
IS-HIS-MO 365 (5)
Vesalius. 500 Years of Ocular Anatomy
De Laey Jean Jacques (1)
1. International Council of Ophthalmology
Although Vesalius deserves the title of father of modern anatomy, his
description of the ocular structures was rudimentary. He described a musculus
retractorius bulbi, only found in lower mammals. The lens, the role of which
as an optical device he recognized, was placed too centrally. The optic nerve
was not correctly located and as Galenus, Vesalius only described seven
cranial nerves. The Galenian concept of ocular anatomy was to stay until the
introduction of the microscope. Zinn will be the first modern ocular anatomist.
IS-HIS-MO 365 (6)
The Blind Spot and the Yellow Spot
Gloor Balder
Abstract not available
IS-HIS-MO 365 (7)
Charles Schepens - From Mouscron to Boston
Tasman Bill (1)
1. Wills Eye Hospital
Dr. Charles Schepens was born in Mouscron, Belgium. During WWII he went
to the south of France where he worked for the underground in Mendive,
France. Ultimately Dr. Schepens got to England where he built a prototype
binocular indirect ophthalmoscope out of scrap metal scrounged from rubble
after a rocket attack near Moorfields. His binocular indirect ophthalmoscope
made it possible to find the retinal breaks that caused retinal detachment and
increased the success rate of surgical repair exponentially.
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FP-WFS-MO 366 (1)
Spectacle Compliance Amongst Rural Secondary School Children in
Pune District, India
Gogate Parikshit (1,4) , Mukhopadhyaya Debapriya (1,2) , Mahadik Ashok (3,4) ,
Shinde Amit (2)
1. Dr. Gogate›s Eye Clinic
2. Bharti Vidyapeeth Medical College, School of Optometry
3. District Blindness Control Society
4. Lions NAB Eye Hospital
Aim: to study the compliance of spectacle wear among rural secondary school
children in Pune district who were dispensed free spectacles one year ago
under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (education for all scheme).
Methods: The children were examined by a team of optometrists who collected
the demographic details, observed if the child was wearing the spectacle and
performed ocular examination. The students were asked to give reasons for
non-wear in a closed ended questionnaire.
Results: Of the 2312 students who were dispensed spectacles in year 2009,
1018 were re-examined in 2010. 523 (51.4%) were female, the average age
was 12.1 yrs. 300 (29.5%) were wearing their spectacles at the time of the
visit. Compliance was positively correlated with fathers education (p= 0.016),
magnitude of refractive error (p