Macular spectral domain optical coherence tomography findings in Tanzanian endemic optic neuropathy.

Bilateral optic neuropathy in Dar es Salaam is now considered endemic and is estimated to affect 0.3-2.4% of young adults.

Effect of intraocular lens edge profile on posterior capsule opacification after extracapsular cataract surgery in a developing country.

Purpose: To determine whether square-edged polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) intraocular lenses (IOLs) reduce posterior capsule opacification (PCO) in the context of extracapsular cataract surgery in a developing country.

Setting: A rural hospital in India.

Methods: This was a prospective randomized double-masked fellow-eye controlled study.

The effect of antibiotic treatment on active trachoma and ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection.

Antibiotics are one of four arms of the SAFE strategy for the control of trachoma, an eye infection that is responsible for more cases of blindness than any condition other than cataract. The evidence for the use of topical tetracycline and oral tetracycline, doxycycline, erythromycin, cotrimoxazole and azithromycin in trachoma are reviewed here and a number of issues are nominated as research and policy priorities.