Skip to main content

Methods for evaluation of lens changes

International Ophthalmology volume 12, pages 227–235 (1988)Cite this article

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.

Access options

Buy single article

Instant access to the full article PDF.

43,34 €

Price includes VAT (Finland)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

References

  1. Brown NAP. Atlas of Ophthalmology. Section on the Lens. Spalton D, ed. London: Gower, 1983.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Hockwin O, Eckerskorn W, Schmidtmann V, Dragomirescu I, Korte I, Laser H. Epidemiological study of the association between lens cataract and case history, blood composition, and enzymes involved in lens carbohydrate metabolism. Lens Res 1984; 2: 23–41.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Chylack LT, Leske MC. Validity and reliability of photoderived human cataract classification. ARVO Sarosta Abstracts. Suppl to Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1986; 27: p 44.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Sparrow JM, Bron AJ, Brown NAP, Ayliffe W, Hill AR. The Oxford clinical cataract classification and grading system. Int. Ophthalmol 1986; 9: 207–25.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Brown NAP, Bron AJ, Ayliffe W, Sparrow JM, Hill AR. The objective assessment of cataract. Eye 1987; 1: 234–46.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Pirie A. Colour and solubility of the proteins of human cataracts. Invest Ophthalmol 1968; 7: 634–50.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Duncan G. On classifying human cataractous lenses. In: Duncan G, ed. Mechanisms of cataract formation in the human lens. London: Academic Press, 1981: p 1–5.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Crews SJ. Posterior subcapsular lens opacities in patients on long term corticosteroid therapy. Br Med J 1963:1644–6.

  9. Brown N, Gardener RJM. Lowe Syndrome: Identification of the carrier state. In: Bergsma D, Bron AJ, Cotlier EJP, eds. The eye in inborn errors of metabolism. 1976: 579–91.

  10. Clayton RM, Cuthbert J, Phillips CI, Bartholomew RS, Stokoe NL, Ffytche T, McK Reid J, Duffy J, Seth J, Alexander M. Analysis of individual cataract patients and their lenses: A progress report. Exp Eye Res 1980; 31: 553–66.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Leibowitz HM, Krueger DE, Maunder LR, Milton RC, Kini MM, Kahn HA, Nickerson RJ, Pool J, Colton T, Ganley JP, Lowenstein JI, Dauber TR. The Framingham Eye Study monograph. Surv Ophthalmol Suppl 1980; 24: 350–64.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Cotlier E, Fagadau W, Cicchetti DV. Methods for evaluation of medical therapy of senile and diabetic cataracts. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1982; 102: 416–22.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Hockwin D, Eckerskorn U, Schmidtmann W, Dragomirescu V, Korte I, Laser H. Epidemiological study of the association between lens cataract and case history, blood composition, and enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism. Lens Res 1984; 2: 23–41.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Chylack LT, White O, Tung WH. Classification of human cataractous change by the American co-operative cataract research group method. Slaged simplification of cataract classification. Invest Ophthalmol 1984; 25: 166–73.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Leske MC, Chylack LT, Khu P, Sperduto R, McKarthy D, Wu SY. Evaluation of a simple classification system based on standard photographs. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (Suppl) 1987; 28: 323.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Bron AJ, Brown NAP. Perinuclear lens retro-dots: a role for ascorbate in cataractogenesis. Brit J Ophthalmol 1987; 71: 86–95.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Cotlier E. Senile cataracts: Evidence for acceleration by diabetes and deceleration by salicylate. Can J Ophthalmol 1981; 16: 113–18.

    Google Scholar 

  18. West S, Rosenthal F, Newland HS, Taylor HR. A comparison of methods for typing and grading lens opacities for field surveys. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (Suppl) 26: 119.

  19. Chylack LT, Rosner B, Cheng HM, McCarthy D, Pennett M. Sources of variance in the objective documentation of human cataractous change with Topcon SL-45 and Neitz-CTR retro-illumination photography and computerizes image analysis. Current Eye Res 1987; 6: 1381–40.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Niesel von P. Spaltlampenphotographie mit der Haag-Streit Spaltlampe 900. Ophthalmologica (Basel) 1966; 151: 489–504.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Brown N. Quantitative slit-image photography of the lens. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1972; 92: 303–17.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Hockwin O, Dragomirescu V. Die Scheimpflug-photographie des Vorden Augenabschnittes. Zeitschrift fur Praktische Augenheilkunde 1981; 2: 129–36.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Chylack LT, Cheng HM, White O, Rosner B. Variance associated with objective documentation in vivo of human cataractous change with Topcon SL-45 and Neitz lens photography. Proc Int Soc Eye Res 1984; 111: 143 (Abstract).

    Google Scholar 

  24. West S, Rosenthal F, Newland HS, Taylor HR. A comparison of methods for typing and grading lens opacities for field surveys. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (Suppl) 1985; 26: 119.

    Google Scholar 

  25. Chen SY, Chylack LT, White O. Topcon SL-45 photography, a suitable technique for documenting nuclear, but not cortical cataractous changes in vivo. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (Suppl) 26: 119.

  26. Fincham EF. Photographic recording of opacities of the ocular media. Brit J Ophthalmol 1955; 39: 85–9.

    Google Scholar 

  27. Kawara T, Obazawa H. A new method for retro-illumination photography of cataractous lens opacities. Amer J Ophthalmol 1980; 90: 186–9.

    Google Scholar 

  28. Brown NAP, Dawson T. A new British ophthalmic camera. Brit J Photog 1987; 134:1253–4.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Laing RA, Bursell SE, In vivo photomicrography of the crystalline lens. Arch Ophthalmol 1981; 99: 688–90.

    Google Scholar 

  30. Bron AJ, Matsuda K. Specular microscopy of the human lens. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1981; 101: 163–9.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Brown N. Macrophotography of the anterior segment of the eye. Brit J Ophthalmol 1970; 54: 697–701.

    Google Scholar 

  32. Brown NAP, Bron AJ. An estimate of the human lens epithelial cell size in vivo. Exp Eye Res 1987; 44: 899–906.

    Google Scholar 

  33. Brown NAP, Bron AJ, Sparrow JM. An estimate of the size and shape of the human lens fibre in vivo. Brit J Ophthalmol 1987; 71: 916–22.

    Google Scholar 

  34. Hockwin O, Dragomirescu V, Laser H. Measurement of lens transparency and of its disturbance by densitometric image analysis of Scheimpflug photographs. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1982; 219: 255–62.

    Google Scholar 

  35. Maclean H, Taylor CJ. An objective staging for cortical cataract in vivo aided by pattern analysing computer. Exp Eye Res 1981; 33: 597–602.

    Google Scholar 

  36. Mayer H, Irion KM. New approach to area image analysis of scheimpflug photos of the anterior eye segment. Ophthalmic Res 1985; 17: 106–10.

    Google Scholar 

  37. Hockwin O, Laser H, Wegener A. Investigation on rat eyes with diabetic cataract and naphthalene cataract by Zeiss-Scheimpflug measuring system SLC. Graefe's Arch Clin Exptl Ophthalmol 1986; 224: 502–6.

    Google Scholar 

  38. Delmarcelle Y, Francois J, Collignon-Brach J, Luyckx-Baccus J, Verbraeken H. Biometrie Oculaire Clinique. Bul Soc Belge Ophthal 1976; 172: Fasc 1.

  39. Brown N, Hungerford J. The influence of the size of the lens in ocular disease. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1982; 102: 359–63.

    Google Scholar 

  40. Coleman DJ. Unified model for accommodative mechanism. Amer J Ophthalmol 1970; 69:1063-XX.

    Google Scholar 

  41. Koretz JF, Handleman GH, Brown NAP. Analysis of human crystalline lens curve as a function of accomodative state and age. Vision Research 1984; 24: 1141-XX.

    Google Scholar 

  42. Weale RA. Real light scatter in the human crystalline lens. v. Graefe's Arch Clin Exptl Ophthalmol 1986; 224:463–6.

    Google Scholar 

  43. Blumenthal M, Bodenheimer J, Krushelensky A, Rothkoff L. New Tyndall photometer. Arch Ophthalmol 1977; 95: 323–4.

    Google Scholar 

  44. Ben-Sira I, Weinberger D, Bodenheimer J, Yassur Y. Clinical method for measurement of light back scattering from the in vivo human lens. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1980; 19: 435–4XX.

    Google Scholar 

  45. Tanaka T, Benedek GB. Observations of protein diffusivity in intact human and bovine lenses with application to cataract. Invest Ophthalmol 1975; 14: 449–56.

    Google Scholar 

  46. Weiss JN, Rand LT, Gleason RE, Soledner HS. Laser light scattering spectroscopy of in vivo human lenses. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1984; 25: 594–8.

    Google Scholar 

  47. Benedek GB, Chylack LT, Libondi T, Magnante P, Pennet M. Quantitative detection of the molecular changes associated with early cataractogenesis in the living human lens using quasi-elastic light scattering. Current Eye Res 1987; 6:1421–32.

    Google Scholar 

  48. Klang G. Measurements and studies of the fluorescence of the human lens in vivo. Acta Ophthalmologica (Suppl) 1948; 31: 1–152.

    Google Scholar 

  49. Van Heyningen R. Fluorescent Glucosides in the human lens. Nature (Lond) 1971; 230: 393–4.

    Google Scholar 

  50. Helve J, Nieminen H. Autofluorescence of the human diabetic lens in vivo. Am J Ophthalmol 1976; 81: 491–4.

    Google Scholar 

  51. Occhipinti JR, Mosier MA, Burstein NL. Autofluorescence and light transmission in the aging crystalline lens. Ophthalmologica (Basel) 1986; 192: 203–9.

    Google Scholar 

  52. Lerman S, Hockwin O. Ultraviolet-visible slit-lamp densitography of the human eye. Exp Eye Res 1981; 33: 587–96.

    Google Scholar 

  53. Jacobs R, Krohn DL. Fluorescence intensity profile of human lens sections. Invest Ophth Vis Sci 1981; 20: 117–20.

    Google Scholar 

  54. Mosier MA, Occhipinti JR, Burstein NL. Autofluorescence of the crystalline lens in diabetes. Arch Ophthalmol 1986; 104:1340–3.

    Google Scholar 

  55. Bleeker JC, van Best JA, Vrij L, van der Velde EA, Oosterhuis JA. Autofluorescence of the lens in diabetic and healthy subjects by fluorophotometry. Invest Ophth Vis Sic 1986; 27: 791–4.

    Google Scholar 

  56. Lerman S. Lens fluorescence in aging and cataract formation. Documenta Ophthalmologica proceedings series 1976; 8: 241–60.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Affiliations

  1. Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Walton Street, OX2 6AW, Oxford, UK

    Nicholas A. P. Brown, Anthony J. Bron & John M. Sparrow

Authors
  1. Nicholas A. P. Brown
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Anthony J. Bron
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. John M. Sparrow
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and Permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Brown, N.A.P., Bron, A.J. & Sparrow, J.M. Methods for evaluation of lens changes. Int Ophthalmol 12, 227–235 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133938

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133938

Keywords

  • Public Health
  • Lens Change