[Vitreoretinal surgery in Oman].

Purpose: Vitreoretinal diseases in Middle Eastern countries currently rank in importance behind cataract, trachoma and glaucoma. This study reports on the most frequent causes of vitreoretinal diseases and the results of vitreoretinal surgery in Oman in order to gain insights into requirements in training and equipment.

Methods: Demographic data and biomicroscopic examinations were performed over a 5-year period.

Traditional medicine in oman: its role in ophthalmology.

Aim: To present three patients with ocular disease who developed a range of complications following use of traditional medications.

Settings And Design: Case series

Methods: Three patients who were examined in the Ophthalmic department of a tertiary care teaching hospital in the Sultanate of Oman between 2003 and 2004, seeking care following use of traditional medicines and or healing practices for various ophthalmic problems described below.

Results: The first patient was a computer professional with a chalazion; the patient used a plant extract from 'Calotropis procera' as a part of the treatment.

In vivo morphometry of corneal endothelial cells in pseudoexfoliation keratopathy with glaucoma and cataract.

Background: This study was designed to define correlations between in vivo morphometric and demographic data of pseudoexfoliation (PEX) keratopathy patients from Omani Arab origin with cataract and glaucoma.

Methods: In a non-randomized controlled comparative case series, 69 adult patients (43 males and 26 females) with 78 cataract and 48 glaucoma eyes with corneal PEX material were assessed by confocal biomicroscopy (Confoscan 2, Nidek) and values compared to normative US and Omani Arab population values. Descriptive statistics.

Visually evoked potentials after panretinal photocoagulation in omani patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.

Aim: To report on the changes of latency and amplitudes of the pattern VEP in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus II and I before and after panretinal laser treatment.

Design: Single center hospital based comparative study.

Methods: One hundred eyes of patients with proliferative diabetic vitreoretinopathy, and HbA1C ≥ 10 percent were subjected to Pattern Visually Evoked Potentials (Medtronic keyopint system, Nicolet) prior to and 4 weeks after PRP.