Restoring Vision Success Stories
A teenage boy presented with a ruptured globe and a traumatic cataract resulting from an eye injury caused by a stick.
A 4-year-old child who had a corneal transplant performed elsewhere presented with orbital cellulitis.
A 12-year-old boy with leukemia and thrombosis of several large veins in his brain complained of recurrent headaches.
This is a 4-month-old female with both eyes turning outward which is very unusual as usually one eye is fixating, and one eye is turned out. This young baby has bilateral exotropia due to an unusual type of strabismus, which we call Duane's Type II.
This three-year-old girl was flown here to the James Hall Eye Center from Tajikistan in Central Asia. The first picture shows her with bilateral excessive tearing due to a tear duct obstruction on both sides. She also has esotropia -crossed eyes.
This several month old infant has eyes looking downward and bilateral upper eyelid retraction. We call this the "setting sun sign" as the eyes appear to be "setting". This child has nothing wrong with the eyes but this is a sign of increased pressure in the brain.
Dr. Pollard examined a 3-year-old child with extreme nearsightedness. When the child was fitted with glasses for the first time, he looked at the doctor and smiled.
Dr. Pollard operated on twin girls born with severe ptosis (droopy eyelids) resulting in a slit-like opening of only 1-2 mm.
A 3-year-old boy accidentally sprayed both eyes with a cleaning solution. The chemical caused severe corneal abrasions. After the doctor irrigated the child's eyes with normal saline to neutralize the chemical, he recovered completely.
A 12-year-old male presented with the right eye turned outward called exotropia and both upper eyelids drooping, which is called bilateral ptosis. This young male had been twice to the emergency room and had been examined by 2 pediatricians and one pediatric neurologist.