Biography
Moacyr Eyck Alvaro Marques da Silva da Cunha e Fernandes, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Santos, São Paulo State 12 August 1899 – São Paulo 19 July 1959)
Presented possibly the first case of transitory tremulous lens in literature (1937)
TECHNIQUES
Developed Moacyr Alvaro technique or operation for correcting vertical and horizontal declinations in ocular muscles insertions
Described the correction of hypertropia by vertical displacement of horizontal rectus muscles of the same eye and the first to suggest transposition of both horizontal rectus muscles for hypertropia
Simultaneous surgical correction of vertical and horizontal deviations. Ophthalm. 120:191-7, 1950
Novo método de enucleação permitindo perfeita movimentação da prótese (A new enucleation method that permits perfect prosthesis motion)
Novo método de ciclopegia para a graduação de óculos. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. São Paulo 23(2):46-51, 1939
With C. Rezende. A operação de Kuhnt-Szymanosky modificada (1932)
DEVICES
Apparatus for measuring the angle gamma. Trans. Amer. Acad. Ophthal. Oto-laryng. 46:141-3, 1946
Apparelho para medição do ângulo formado pelo eixo óptico com o eixo visual. Arq. Bras. Oftalm. 6:12-8, 1943
Invented double chair for physician and patient
A necrology is available in http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/63/1/157.pdf