Biometry and refractive outcome of eyes filled with silicone oil by standardized echography and partial coherence interferometry.

Background: We evaluated the validity of calculations for refractive outcome in cataract surgery in silicone oil-filled eyes. The retrosilicone space (RSS) was included in these calculations.

Methods: In a prospective study the axial length (AL) of silicone oil-filled eyes was measured.

Outcome after treatment of ametropia with implantable contact lenses.

Objective: To evaluate long-term results after insertion of implantable contact lenses (ICLs) in phakic eyes.

Design: Prospective, noncomparative, interventional case series.

Participants: Seventy-five phakic eyes (65 myopic, 10 hyperopic eyes) of 45 patients aged 21.

Glare and halo phenomena after laser in situ keratomileusis.

Purpose: To simulate and measure subjectively observed glare and halos after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Setting: University of Vienna, Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology, Vienna, Austria.

Methods: In 16 eyes of 10 patients, the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and subjectively observed glare and halo size under mesopic conditions were measured before LASIK and 1, 3, and 6 months postoperatively.

Effect of tenascin and fibronectin on the migration of human corneal fibroblasts.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of fibronectin and tenascin on the migration of corneal fibroblasts.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Vienna, Medical School, Vienna, Austria.

Methods: Using human corneal fibroblasts, a monolayer migration assay was performed to measure corneal fibroblast movement.

Comparison of visual acuities at different distances and defocus curves.

Purpose: To evaluate how visual acuities at different distances correlate with results from defocus curves.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology and Institute of Medical Physics, University of Vienna, Medical School, Vienna, and Department of Ophthalmology, Krankenhaus St. Pölten, St.

Changes of axial length and keratometry after keratoplasty for keratoconus using the guided trephine system.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the cause of increasing myopia after penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus with the guided trephine system.

Design: Prospective interventional study cohort.

Methods: Thirty eyes (28 patients) after keratoplasty for keratoconus were examined.

Long-term impairment of the lacrimal glands after radioiodine therapy: a cross-sectional study.

Impairment of the lacrimal glands after external radiation has been well documented, but there are only a few reports on the effects of radioiodine therapy on the lacrimal glands. Long-term effects of high-dose radioiodine therapy on tear secretion have not previously been studied. We investigated 175 eyes of 88 patients with a history of radioiodine therapy for thyroid carcinoma (68 females, 20 males; mean age 55+/-16 years, range 17-81 years) and compared them with a sex- and age-matched control group ( n=39).

Long-term endothelial changes in phakic eyes with posterior chamber intraocular lenses.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term endothelial cell changes in phakic eyes after implantation of a posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens to correct high ametropia.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Methods: Thirty-four eyes of 21 patients having implantation of an implantable contact lens (ICL, Staar Surgical) for high myopia or hyperopia were prospectively examined.

Quantitative performance of bifocal and multifocal intraocular lenses in a model eye: point spread function in multifocal intraocular lenses.

Objective: To compare the optical properties of bifocal diffractive and multifocal refractive intraocular lenses.

Methods: A model eye with a pupil 4.5 mm in diameter was used to determine the point spread function (PSF) of the distance focus and near focus of a diffractive bifocal intraocular lens (IOL) (model 811E; Pharmacia Inc, Columbus, Ohio) and of a refractive multifocal IOL (model SA40N; Allergan Optical Inc, Irvine, Calif) to compare them with PSFs of foci of corresponding monofocal lenses.