Comparison of torsional amplitudes between emmetropes and myopes using after-image slides.

Purpose: To describe the influence of corrected refractive error on measured torsional fusional amplitudes (TA) by comparing the TA between emmetropes and spectacle corrected myopes, using the after-image slides of the synoptophore, as targets.

Methods: Fifty emmetropes (Group I) and 50 myopes (Group II) with best-corrected acuity of 6/6 in each eye were included in the study. Near point of convergence (NPC), near point of accommodation (NPA), and horizontal fusional amplitudes (HFA) were assessed in all the subjects.

Keratitis due to Fusarium langsethiae: clinical profile, molecular identification, and susceptibility to antifungals.

We report a case of keratitis due to Fusarium langsethiae in a 56-year-old man. The patient presented with pain and tearing of 10 days duration in the right eye, which had sustained a paddy stalk injury. On examination, a hypopyon corneal ulcer was noted in the right eye.

Keratoconjunctivitis caused by an unusual retained conjunctival foreign body: a frequently unrecognized entity.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe a case series of keratoconjunctivitis caused by a retained bindi (dot) in six children who presented to a tertiary eye care facility in Southern India.

Patients And Methods: Over a period of 11 years (January 2000 and January 2012), six children (all female, ranging in age from 6 months to 3 years) were diagnosed with ocular manifestations subsequent to a retained bindi.

Results: All patients presented with redness, photophobia, extensive lacrimation, and blepharospasm.

Scleral-fixated intraocular lens implantation in microspherophakia.

Background: In microspherophakia, abnormal laxity of the lenticular zonules leads to development of a spherical lens and possible subluxation. We evaluated long-term results of lens removal with scleral-fixated intraocular lens (SFIOL) implantation in microspherophakia.

Materials And Methods: Case series.

Putative free radical-scavenging activity of an extract of Cineraria maritima in preventing selenite-induced cataractogenesis in Wistar rat pups.

Purpose: To investigate the possible free radical-scavenging activity of an extract of Cineraria maritima on selenite-induced cataractous lenses in Wistar rat pups.

Methods: In the present study, Wistar rat pups were divided into three experimental groups. On P10, Group I (control) rat pups received an intraperitoneal injection of 0.