title: [Ocular changes during pregnancy].
abstract: Pregnancy can cause several alterations in human eye function in healthy condition as well in ocular disease; these effects on the eyes are divided into three categories: physiologic alterations, ocular diseases changes already existing before the pregnancy, and pathological alterations. The present text proposes a bibliographical revision on the theme. The authors researched PubMed (MEDLINE) and LILACS databases.
authors.affiliation: Hospital São Joaquim da Real e Benemérita Sociedade Portuguesa de Beneficência, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. ewazowzky@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Enéias Bezerra
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Gouveia
authors.forename: Paulo Sergio Pereira
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Conceição
authors.forename: Maira Saad de Avila
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Morales
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005123:Eye / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*