Evaluation of cautery in manual small-incision cataract surgery.

Purpose: Manual small-incision cataract surgery (MSICS) has a major role in tackling cataract blindness in our country. Cauterization of sclera is one of the important steps performed in MSICS to have bloodless field during surgery. Only few studies have addressed the effect of cautery on post-operative astigmatism.

Effect of Uncomplicated Cataract Surgery on Central Macular Thickness in Diabetic and Non-diabetic Subjects.

Purpose: To assess the quantitative changes of macula in diabetic and non-diabetic eyes after uncomplicated cataract surgery.

Methods: In this prospective interventional study being performed in a tertiary healthcare hospital, a total of 660 eyes were divided into two groups. Group 1 included 330 eyes from healthy subjects and group 2 included 330 eyes from well-controlled diabetic subjects with no diabetic retinopathy planned for phacoemulsification with foldable IOL implantation by the same surgeon under similar settings.

Association of the severity of meibomian gland dysfunction with dyslipidemia in Indian population.

Purpose: To correlate the severity of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) with the serum lipoprotein levels.

Methods: The study was conducted as a prospective observational study over a period of 18 months. Ninety patients diagnosed with MGD were enrolled after they gave their informed consent according to the inclusion-exclusion criteria.

Neuroretinitis as presenting and the only presentation of Lyme disease: Diagnosis and management.

We present a case of neuroretinitis as presenting and the only presentation of Lyme disease in a 25-year-old female who visited hilly areas in the Himalayas of North India. She presented with right eye sudden and painless blurring of vision. Her vision at presentation was 20/60.

Retinopathy of prematurity: risk factors and role of antenatal betamethasone in Indian preterm newborn babies.

Background: Increase in the survival of preterm neonates has led to increased incidence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Among various risk factors, only prematurity is well-established and role of others is still not clear. Effect of antenatal betamethasone on ROP severity is also controversial.

Changing spectrum of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and variations among siblings of multiple gestation.

Objective: To assess the changing spectrum of ROP, and to compare the siblings of multiple gestations with regard to incidence and severity of ROP.

Methods: A prospective study was done among a total of 158 infants (including 19 twin pairs), selected for ROP screening as per American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) criteria. Data collected was analysed to assess the changing ROP spectrum in comparison to year 2002 ROP screening data from the authors' centre, and the variations among siblings of multiple gestation.

Coagulation profile in diabetes and its association with diabetic microvascular complications.

Objectives: To investigate the haemostatic parameters and to assesss their relationship with microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Materials And Methods: Coagulation and fibrinolysis parameters were measured in 60 type 2 diabetic patients (M:F 1:1) with (n=40) and without (n=20) diabetic microvascular complications and in 30 nondiabetic healthy subjects (M:F 1:1).

Results: The mean age of diabetic patients and healthy controls was 56.

Bilateral anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy in Takayasu arteritis.

This report describes a case of a young male with bilateral, asymmetrical AION. He was subsequently diagnosed with Takayasu's disease.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia presenting as masquerade syndrome.

An 11-year-old child presented with plastic iridocyclitis and hypopyon. Subsequent paracentesis revealed leukemic infiltrates. A bone marrow biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of acute lymphocytic leukemia.