Description Fuchs Spots is a term used to describe a raised, circular, pigmented lesion at the macular which develops after a subretinal haemorrhage has been absorbed. It is associated with moderate to high myopia. History of Fuchs Spots 1862 –…
Description Fuchs uveitis syndrome is a chronic non-granulomatous condition of uncertain cause. There is usually unilateral heretochromia iridis, white eye with stellate and grey-white keratic precipitates. There are no posterior synechiae. On Gonioscopy may see fine radial angle vessels which are…
Description Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy is characterised by bilateral endothelial cell loss. Examination signs include: central guttata – the presence of irregular warts or excrescences on Descemet membrane secreted by abnormal endothelial cells tiny dark spots caused by distribution of…
Eduard Tolosa i Colomer (1900 - 1981) was a Spanish neurosurgeon. described the superior orbital fissure syndrome in 1954 (Tolosa-Hunt syndrome)
Marie Colinet von Hilden (c1560 - c1640) was a Swiss midwife and surgeon. First recorded ophthalmic extraction of metal from a patients eye with a magnet (1624)
Margaret Burton (née Cleland) Horan (1909 - 2004) was an Australian paediatrician. Nance-Horan syndrome (1974)
Mette Warburg (1926 - 2015) was a Danish ophthalmologist; leader in the fields of pediatric ophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics. Walker-Warburg syndrome (1971)
Ester Elisabeth Groenblad (1898 - 1970) was a Swedish ophthalmologist. Grönblad-Strandberg syndrome in 1929
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: severe unilateral periorbital headache and ophthalmoplegia resulting from a non-caseating granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous sinus and/or superior orbital fissure.
Charles Bonnet syndrome: Visual hallucinations in psychologically normal elderly people and most commonly associated in individuals with visual impairment .
Charles Bonnet (1720 - 1793) was a Swiss naturalist and philosopher. Described Charles Bonnet syndrome in 1760; visual hallucinations of his visually impaired grandfather
Ingegerd Frøyshov Larsen (1937 - ) Norwegian physician and endocrinologist. Hansen-Larsen-Berg syndrome (1976)