Pedro Lagleyze Gastelú, Argentine ophthalmologist  (Buenos Aires 03 September 1855 – Buenos Aires 14 August 1916)

Son of French immigrants

Described the aneurismatic degeneration of the retinal arteries or Lagleyze-Von Hippel disease (1888)

Developed surgical procedures and instruments

OPERATIONS/APPARATUSES

An operation for entropion for upper and lower eyelid (Lagleyze technique)

Operation for entropion and trichiasis by a new method. Ann. Ophthalm. St. Louis 14:473-7, 1905

A tucking operation of the eye for strabismus with muscle shortening (Lagleyze method)

Nuevo procedimiento para el acortamiento muscular en el estrabismo (1891)

Placing ocular prosthesis employing paraffin spheres after nucleation (Lagleyze method)  

A procedure for pterygion

Transconjunctival approach for treatment of cysts (1884)

Auto-ophthalmoscopic procedure

Amputation of anterior segment of ocular globe 

Lagleyze needle

A device for demonstrating ocular refraction states