Unilateral Congenital Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction, Is It An Amblyogenic Factor?

Background/aims: To evaluate the refractive status, axial length, and prevalence of amblyopia among Saudi children with unilateral congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (UCNLDO) compared to the unaffected fellow eye.

Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed for children with UCNLDO at two eye institutes in Eastern Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2015. The outcomes of syringing determined UNCLDO.

Surgical outcomes in children with primary congenital glaucoma: a 20-year experience.

Purpose: To describe demographic criteria of primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) subjects and to evaluate the surgical outcomes of children who underwent angle surgery over a 20-year period.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of patients diagnosed with PCG who underwent trabeculotomy, trabeculectomy, or combined trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy (CTT). The surgery was considered to be successful if intraocular pressure (IOP) was 21 mm Hg or less with or without treatment.

Safety of Simultaneous Bilateral Intraocular Surgery Under General Anesthesia in Pediatric Patients.

Objective: To evaluate the risks and benefits of simultaneous bilateral intraocular surgery (SBIS) in pediatric patients at a university hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who are placed under general anesthesia for the procedure.

Methods: This retrospective, noncomparative case study comprised 15 children, who underwent bilateral cataract surgery and/or primary or secondary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in one sitting between November 2008 and July 2014. Seven patients had bilateral lensectomy primary posterior capsulotomy and anterior vitrectomy, and the remaining eight patients had bilateral IOL implantation at the capsular bag either primarily IOL implantation (two cases) at the time of cataract extraction or secondary IOL implantation at the capsular bag (six cases).

Age, gender and refractive error association with intraocular pressure in healthy Saudi participants: A cross-sectional study.

Purpose: To determine the distribution of intraocular pressure (IOP) and its association with age, gender and refractive error in non-glaucomatous Saudi participants.

Design: Hospital-based cross-sectional observational study during Vision Day Screening Program.

Participants: 458 participants living in the Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Effect of Horizontal Strabismus Surgery on the Refractive Status.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of horizontal strabismus surgery on the refractive and astigmatic status of eyes following horizontal muscle surgery using double-angle vector analysis.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of 137 patients (250 eyes) conducted between February 1997 and October 2010 in patients who had unilateral or bilateral recession or monocular recession and/or underwent resection of horizontal muscles by a single surgeon. Refraction data were obtained at 1-2 weeks preoperative and at 4-6 weeks and 4-6 months postoperative.

Indications and techniques employed for keratoplasty in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia: 6 years of experience.

Background And Objectives: Keratoplasty services in Saudi Arabia have progressed steadily in the past few decades. We sought to identify the leading indications and types of keratoplasty performed in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia over a six-year period and to compare these indications with published data.

Design And Setting: This was a retrospective descriptive analysis of the records of patients who underwent keratoplasty at four ophthalmology centers in the Eastern Province between 2008 and 2013.

A clinic-based study of refractive errors, strabismus, and amblyopia in pediatric age-group.

Purpose: The purpose of this cross-sectional observational study was to determine the distribution and patterns of refractive errors, strabismus, and amblyopia in children seen at a pediatric eye care.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted in a Private Hospital in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from March to July 2013. During this period, a total of 1350 children, aged 1-15 years were seen at this Center's Pediatric Ophthalmology Unit.

Macular and retinal nerve fiber thickness in recovered and persistent amblyopia.

The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of increased macular or retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT) in amblyopic eyes, find if the increased macular or RNFLT is related to the lack of response in amblyopic eyes, and to explore whether the increased central macular thickness (CMT) in amblyopic eyes is purely related to the hyperopia. This is a prospective descriptive study. CMT and peripapillary RNFLT were measured by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography to evaluate 60 patients with unilateral-treated amblyopia (median age 11.

A peculiar case of a retained inert piece of fireworks as an intraocular foreign body in the anterior chamber.

This is a descriptive case report of a seven-year-old boy presented in January 2007 with decreased vision in the right eye, for 2 months after sustaining a trauma while he was playing with fireworks during the Eid holiday. He was treated in a suburban hospital for corneal laceration and was prescribed a topical antibiotic and a topical steroid. When the child presented to us, a slit lamp examination revealed a thread in the anterior chamber, his un-aided visual acuity was 6/60 on a Snellen chart.

Familial bilateral combined hamartoma of retina and retinal pigment epithelium associated with neurofibromatosis 1.

We report a family of three siblings followed between 2005 and 2011 with bilateral combined hamartoma of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium, with the age of diagnosis ranging from 7 to 13 years. The main reason for consultation was reduction of vision and squint. The diagnosis was determined based on the clinical findings on fundus examination: increased pigmentation at the macula with slightly elevated, gray-white macular lesion, tortuosity of perimacular blood vessels and glial epiretinal membrane.