Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: A cta Ophthalmologica is under- going continuous change to better serve our readers and authors.The editorial in this issue describes how Acta will increasingly use the Net, for submission of manuscripts, to speed up the review process, to make articles available as soon as they have been accepted and produced, and to publish full text versions of Nordic theses at a very affordable cost.This issue contains many papers that should be interesting to practising ophthalmologists.A 25 year ophthalmic follow-up of 65 patients with juvenile chronic arthritis is reported by Fledelius and coworkers.The results are encouraging.Sixty-three patients actually had vision good enough to fulfil the legal requirements for a driver's licence; only two were socially blind.Some of the ocular complications occurred after childhood, and the authors recommend life-long ophthalmic follow-up of ANA-positive patients with juvenile chronic arthritis.Results from another large cohort, of
Author: Anders Heijl
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2073928213