Two-mm chord manual small-incision cataract surgery with phacofracture: A brief exposition of the surgical technique.

We describe a surgical technique for manual small-incision cataract extraction with 2-mm chord incision with phacofracture. The authors describe a curvilinear 2-mm chord incision 1.5 mm behind the limbus and antiparallel to the limbus with back cuts of variable length; 1.

Early postoperative astigmatism in 2-mm manual small incision cataract surgery with phacofracture.

Purpose: India's cataract surgery rate has been hovering around a creditable 6000 per million population but the coverage is variable across the geography and demography with sharp urban rural divide. Smaller incisions in manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) with phacofracture have been credited with lower astigmatism and faster recovery, which is especially useful for patients traveling for surgeries.

Methods: In this retrospective chart analysis based observational study of 66 eyes, we describe the early postoperative results with 2 mm MSICS with phacofracture.

Echographic study of extraocular muscle thickness in normal Indian population.

Purpose: To establish normative data of extraocular muscle (EOM) dimensions, both vertically and horizontally, using a reproducible echographic method in various age groups.

Methods: Two hundred eyes of 100 healthy subjects (50 males and rest females) were included in this prospective observational study. All subjects were divided into 5 groups with an interval of 10 years from 10 to 60 years.

Report on ocular biometry of microphthalmos, retinal dystrophy, flash electroretinography, ocular coherence tomography, genetic analysis and the surgical challenge of entropion correction in a rare case of Hallermann-Streiff-Francois syndrome.

Purpose: To report new aspects of the phenotype including Retinal dystrophy and surgical challenges in Hallermann-Streiff Francois syndrome (HSFS).

Methods: Detailed phenotype of a female with HSFS was evaluated including skeletal changes, comprehensive eye examination, detailed ocular biometry, electroretinography and macular Ocular coherence tomography. Surgical notes of lid surgery for entropion were reviewed.

Review of endogenous endophthalmitis during pregnancy including case series.

Endogenous endophthalmitis during pregnancy is a rare condition with few reports of such infections in the peri- and post-partum period. We reviewed the literature on endogenous endophthalmitis in pregnancy and also report a series of four patients who presented to our institution from January 2011 to September 2011. We retrospectively reviewed four patients who developed endogenous endophthalmitis either during pregnancy (two patients) or in the post-partum period (two patients--one after abortion and one after normal term delivery).

Sankara Nethralaya Diabetic Retinopathy Epidemiology and Molecular Genetic Study (SN--DREAMS III): study design and research methodology.

Background: To describe the methodology of the Sankara Nethralaya Diabetic Retinopathy Epidemiology and Molecular Genetic Study III, an ongoing epidemiological study to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy in rural population of Kanchipuram and Thiravallur districts of Tamil Nadu, India and to elucidate the clinical, anthropometric, biochemical and genetic risk factors associated with diabetic retinopathy in this rural population.

Methods: Sankara Nethralaya Diabetic Retinopathy Epidemiology and Molecular Genetic Study III will be a mobile van based epidemiological study; 11,760 participants aged ≥ 40 years will be recruited from the study areas. Eligible subjects will undergo blood sugar estimation to diagnose diabetes.

Foveal atrophy and macular hole formation following intravitreal ranibizumab with/without photodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

Background: To report the occurrence of foveal atrophy and macular hole formation following intravitreal ranibizumab with or without photodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascularization caused by age-related macular degeneration.

Methods: This was a retrospective, interventional case series, in which 78 eyes of 76 patients were treated for wet age-related macular degeneration between February 2007 and August 2007. Of these, three eyes developed foveal atrophy following treatment.