Szemészet, 2004 (141. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

2004-06-01 / 2. szám

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Szemészet

The winners of the Society’s “15 March” award were Zsuzsa Récsán with László Módis (first prize). The 1991 winners of the Papolczy scholarships were: Péter Vincze and László Bárkái; Jenő Tóth with Gábor Holló and Ernő Popik; and István Ember with Péter Rády.

The obituaries of the year were for Károly Thész (former chief surgeon, from Szekszárd), and Fritz Hollwich (retired Director of the Münster eye-clinic, and former editor-in-chief of the journal Klinische Monatsblätter), who was an honorary member. On 25 September, Professor Emeritus Béla Boros died. He was in his 89lh year. His obituary in “Szemészet” was written by Bálint Kovács.

The Society held its 1992 general assembly in Győr. Unfortunately there are no accounts of the congresses in “Szemészet” for this period; the only available information is that the competition for the best paper written by an author under the age of 35 was won by András Seres from Szeged.

The Director of the 1st Department of Ophthalmology, Ildikó Süveges, was invited to deliver lectures as a visiting professor at several Finnish universities. She gave lectures on the subjects of retinopathy of prematurity, proliferative retinopathy, and retinal diseases.

Ildikó Süveges also received the Ferenc Markhot memorial medal awarded by the hospital of Eger. This medal had previously been awarded to only 2 other ophthalmologists, namely Magda Radnót and Béla Alberth. The 1992 winners of the Papolczy awards were: Mihály Bak and colleagues; Csilla Gaál with Zsuzsa Pelle and Ágnes Szabó; Gábor Holló and Mária Varga; Zsuzsa Kónya and Árpád Bereczki. The Papolczy Foundation also gave financial support to “Szemészet”; the Society expressed its gratitude for this in the pages of the journal.

The 2nd International Retina Workshop (1992) was held in the Pécs eye-clinic from 26-28 August. The organiser was Zsolt Bíró. A book by András Berta, “Enzymology of the tears” was published in the USA. Mihály Végh was elected as a member of the executive committee of the Dublin-based European Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

The 1993 “Szemészet” published the proceedings of the scientific session on corneal topography held on 27 November 1992. The proceedings of the scientific sessions held in 1993 were also published. In 1993, Professor Margit Varga celebrated her 70th birthday, and “Szemészet” published a message of congratulations.

In 1992 András Berta established the Hungarian Keratoplasty Register, which he has been maintaining since that time. On 1 January 1993 the first Hungarian “cornea bank”, was established in Budapest by Zsuzsa Boytha. On 1 January 1994 the “Lions Club” eye-bank was established in Debrecen (Director, László Módis).

The venue of the 1993 general assembly was the north-Hungarian town of Gyöngös. In this year the first prize of the “15 March” scholarships was not awarded. The second prize went to Zoltán Zsolt Nagy and György Bátor, and the third prize was given to Attila Ács. The winners of the awards for doctors under 35 were Judit Dohán (Budapest) and Ágnes Halmos (Szombathely).

István Győrffy published an announcement in “Szemészet”. He called the attention of the Society to the fact that, from the autumn of that year, his numismatic collection on the theme of ophthalmology would be on display in the Semmelweis Museum of the History of Medicine. The collection, the fruit of his 50 years interest in the subject, consisted of some 150 pieces. The collection was also displayed for the benefit of the congress participants from 7 November in Vienna, after the end of the congress of the Julius Hirschberg International Society for the History of Ophthalmology. At this same congress there were in fact Hungarian participants from the Society, and lectures were delivered by Magdolna Zajácz and László Pintér.

On 2 September the Society held its 1993 general assembly, with 238 participants. On this occasion an account was given by Péter Jobbágyi, the organiser of the 1992 Congress, of the proceedings of that event. Regrettably however, no details of his account were published in the journal.

In this year György Salacz published a noteworthy article titled “The state of cataract surgery in Hungary in 1993”. From his account, we learn that in 1993 there were altogether 22 398 cataract surgeries performed in Hungary, based on the results of a questionnaire. 82% of the surgeries were combined with an IOL implantation. Phacoemulsification was then in use in 4 institutions, but only on an experimental basis. 8.7% of the surgeries used the ICCE technique.

György Imre announced the formation of a special-interest Glaucoma Section within the Society, with himself as President of the new body. The new group held its first session on 4 March 1994. On 24 November 1994 the special-interest Retina Section was established. There were 9 founding members, who elected Bálint Kovács as President and György Salacz as General Secretary.

The Society held an “Orbita Conference” on 6-7 May 1994, arranged jointly with the Hungarian Endocrinology Society. The conference included contributions from foreign lecturers. Budapest was once more the venue for an international congress, the European Cornea Conference held on 27-28 May. An international symposium on plastic surgery was organised in Szeged by Professor Kolozsvári. Lecturers from abroad were Collins from London, and Bonavolante from Naples. Several further-education programmes were also organised by university departments.

The Society held the 1994 scientific session in Pécs. The organiser was Bálint Kovács. On the same occasion a general assembly was held, where an executive committee of 54 members was elected. The President was Ildikó Süveges, the General Secretary György Salacz. The first prize of the “15 March” scholarship was awarded to Zsuzsa Récsán and Katalin Gombos. The winners of the Papolczy award were Ágnes Szabó, Zsuzsa Pelle, Károly Korompai, and Cecília Karkó.

It was Ildikó Süveges who first called the attention of the Hungarian profession to the applications of the excimer laser, in her report of her experiences with the instrument. The first report on its use had appeared in 1983. At a scientific ses-Magdolna Zajácz