Scheimpflug Camera and Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography in Pachymetry Evaluation of Diabetic Patients.

Aim: The comparative analysis of the central and peripheral corneal thicknesses using two different imaging systems: Scheimpflug camera and swept-source OCT was performed to investigate the differences in corneal thickness analysis in diabetic patients.

Materials And Methods: The study group consisted of the 147 eyes of 107 diabetic patients who were examined and compared with 138 eyes of 89 nondiabetic cataract patients. The inclusion criteria for the study group was diabetes mellitus type II identified no less than 10 years ago, with NPDR not requiring prior laser treatment.

Total Penetrating Keratoplasty: Indications, Therapeutic Approach, and Long-Term Follow-Up.

Purpose: Evaluation of the indications, anatomical and functional results, and complications of total penetrating keratoplasty (TPK) in disorders involving whole cornea.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed outcomes of the surgical treatment of 47 eyes of 46 patients that underwent TPK. Indications were infectious keratitis, autoimmune disease, injury of the eyeball (mainly chemical burns), and other combined disorders.

Measurements of Corneal Thickness in Eyes with Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome: Comparative Study of Different Image Processing Protocols.

Purpose: Comparative analysis of central and peripheral corneal thickness in PEX patients using three different imaging systems: Pentacam-Scheimpflug device, time-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) Visante, and swept-source OCT Casia.

Materials And Methods: 128 eyes of 80 patients with diagnosed PEX were examined and compared with 112 normal, non-PEX eyes of 72 cataract patients. The study parameters included 5 measured zones: central and 4 peripheral (superior, inferior, nasal, and temporal).

Differences in Surgical Management of Corneal Perforations, Measured over Six Years.

. To report the surgical approach, anatomical and functional results, and complications in the group of patients with corneal perforation. .

Cultivated Oral Mucosa Epithelium in Ocular Surface Reconstruction in Aniridia Patients.

Purpose: Efficacy of cultivated oral mucosa epithelial transplantation (COMET) procedure in corneal epithelium restoration of aniridia patients.

Methods: Study subjects were aniridia patients (13 patients; 17 eyes) with irregular, vascular conjunctival pannus involving visual axis who underwent autologous transplantation of cultivated epithelium. For the procedure oral mucosa epithelial cells were obtained from buccal mucosa with further enzymatic treatment.

[Culture of the corneal epithelium--comparison of the mitotic potential of limbal cells from living and cadaveric donors].

Purpose: We analyse effectiveness of corneal limbal cells' culture prepared from heart-beating organ donors, that include living donors and from cadaver donors buttons following 3 days storage in 4 degrees C in Likorol.

Material And Methods: For experiment 12 adults (living and heart-beating organ donors) aged 28-63 (mean 46.3) and 12 corneal buttons of cadaver (aged 18-51, mean 34.