This study suggests that contact diode laser cyclophotocoagulation is an effective method and a valid alternative to cyclocryocoagulation in the treatment of refractory glaucoma including congenital glaucoma.

Nasal antigen administration successfully suppresses a model of organ-specific autoimmune disease, experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU)

Methods: Female Lewis rats were immunised with retinal extract (RE) and then treated as follows. Group 1 received no specific therapy and served as control; group 2 were fed CsA from day 7 to day 20 post immunisation; group 3 received inhalational tolerance therapy with RE in addition to CsA; tolerance therapy was continued after day 20 when CsA was stopped.Experiments varying the timing and dosage of both tolerising and immunising antigen were also performed, the details of which are described. Incidence, day of onset and clinical activity were recorded and histo pathological assessment of intraocular inflammation, in particular the extent of autoimmune target-organ damage, was graded semiquantitatively.

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