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Original Articles

Clinical science

• Activated protein C resistance in patients with central retinal vein occlusion (1 October, 1997)

  J Larsson, A Sellman, B Bauer
• Influence of advanced recipient and donor age on the outcome of corneal transplantation (1 October, 1997)

  Keryn A Williams, Sylvia M Muehlberg, Rowena F Lewis, Douglas J Coster
• Aging changes of the optic nerve head in relation to open angle glaucoma (1 October, 1997)

  D F Garway-Heath, G Wollstein, R A Hitchings
• Sensitivity and specificity of optic disc variables and analysis of a new variable (MP/D) for glaucoma diagnosis with the Glaucoma-Scope (1 October, 1997)

  Yves Lachkar, Howard Cohn
• Intraocular pressure and central visual field of normal tension glaucoma (1 October, 1997)

  Makoto Araie, Mariko Kitazawa, Nobuyuki Koseki
• Scanning laser polarimetry of the retinal nerve fibre layer in primary open angle and capsular glaucoma (1 October, 1997)

  Gábor Holló, Ildikó Süveges, Attila Nagymihály, Péter Vargha
• Pseudoexfoliation syndrome and secondary cataract (1 October, 1997)

  Michael Küchle, Andrea Amberg, Peter Martus, Nhung X Nguyen, Gottfried O H Naumann
• A double masked comparison of the intraocular pressure reducing effect of latanoprost 0.005% and 0.001% administered once daily in open angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension (1 October, 1997)

  Björn Friström, Sven Erik G Nilsson
• Laser scanning tomography of the optic nerve head in ocular hypertension and glaucoma (1 October, 1997)

  Wendy V Hatch, John G Flanagan, Edward E Etchells, Donna E Williams-Lyn, Graham E Trope
• Incidence of delayed onset infection after trabeculectomy with adjunctive mitomycin C or 5-fluorouracil treatment (1 October, 1997)

  Kiyofumi Mochizuki, Shuichi Jikihara, Yuko Ando, Nobuhide Hori, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Kitazawa
• A randomised prospective comparison of operative peripheral iridectomy and Nd:YAG laser iridotomy treatment of acute angle closure glaucoma: 3 year visual acuity and intraocular pressure control outcome (1 October, 1997)

  B W Fleck, E Wright, E A Fairley
• Improvements in clinical and functional vision and perceived visual disability after first and second eye cataract surgery (1 October, 1997)

  David B Elliott, Aftab Patla, Mark A Bullimore
• Cataract progression in India (1 October, 1997)

  M Srinivasan, Rahim Rahmathullah, Clifford R Blair, Aparna C Murphy, Roy W Beck, John H Wilkins, John P Whitcher, Gilbert Smolin
• Smoking and neovascular form of age related macular degeneration in late middle aged males: findings from a case-control study in Japan (1 October, 1997)

  Akiko Tamakoshi, Mitsuko Yuzawa, Mizuo Matsui, Masanobu Uyama, Nakako Kubo Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Ohno
• National survey of blindness and low vision in Lebanon (1 October, 1997)

  A M Mansour, Kassem Kassak, Monique Chaya, Talal Hourani, Abla Sibai, M N Alameddine

Laboratory science

• Phacoemulsification versus extracapsular cataract extraction: a comparative study of cell survival and growth on the human capsular bag in vitro (1 October, 1997)

  M Quinlan, I M Wormstone, G Duncan, P D Davies
• A role for vitamin A in the formation of ocular lipofuscin (1 October, 1997)

  Julie Wassell, Mike Boulton
• Localisation of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors to cells of vascular and avascular epiretinal membranes (1 October, 1997)

  Ying-Shan Chen, Sean F Hackett, Carl-Ludwig Schoenfeld, Melissa A Vinores, Stanley A Vinores, Peter A Campochiaro