Accuracy of a novel method for IOP measurement without applying pressure on the cornea.

Purpose: To assess the accuracy of a prototype novel instrument for intra ocular pressure (IOP) measurements not involving corneal pressure application.

Design: Prospective case control study.

Methods: An institutional study including 16 healthy volunteers without ocular pathology.

SELF-DESIGNATION OF THE TREATED EYE BEFORE INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS: Prevalence and Predictors of Incorrect Calling.

Purpose: To identify risk factors for incorrect self-identification of the treatment eye before intravitreal injections.

Methods: This prospective study included consecutive patients who were asked to designate the eye for which the intravitreal injection was intended and were subsequently divided into two groups according to whether or not they identified the correct eye.

Results: Overall, 349 eyes (n = 349) were included, and 8.

Hydration of small leaking corneal perforations with cefuroxime.

Purpose: To describe a new technique for sealing small corneal perforations after penetrating trauma.

Methods: Corneal perforations in six eyes were sealed using a stromal cefuroxime hydration technique. This technique is identical to the current method used to seal leaking incisions upon completion of cataract surgery except for the use of cefuroxime instead of balanced salt solution.

Comparison of anti-vascular endothelial growth factors, laser treatments and a combination of the both for treatment of central retinal vein occlusion.

Aim: To compare changes in visual acuity and macular edema in patients with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) treated with intravitreal injections of bevacizumab, macular grid photocoagulation combined with pan retinal photocoagulation (PRP), or both (bevacizumab+grid+PRP).

Methods: Our study is a retrospective cohort clinical study that examined patients that suffered from ischemic CRVO with macular edema. Study inclusion criteria were ischemic CRVO with macula edema and the availability of complete medical records for at least 12mo after treatment.

Is Episcleritis Associated to Glaucoma?

Objective: The aim of this study was to show possible connection between episcleritis and open-angle glaucoma.

Design: This was a retrospective study.

Materials And Methods: Data on 21 patients who suffered from episcleritis and had no previous attack of episcleritis or glaucoma were collected for a period of 8 years (from 2004 to 2011).

Bevacizumab for CRVO Associated CME: Effect of Timing and Frequency of Injections on Final Visual Outcome.

Purpose. Injection of anti-VEGF antibody into the vitreous body is a well-established treatment for ischemic central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) associated macular edema. Various treatment regimens regarding the timing, number, and frequency of injections have been proposed.

Ascorbate prophylaxis with mitomycin-C for corneal haze after laser-assisted sub-epithelial keratectomy.

Background: Corneal haze is a significant complication of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy (LASEK).

Objectives: To evaluate the effect of ascorbic acid supplementation in addition to perioperative topical mitomycin-C for the prevention of haze after LASEK.

Methods: We performed a retrospective, non-randomized case series study of two groups of 48 consecutive patients (96 myopic eyes) who had LASEK surgery.

[Globe subluxation in thyroid orbitopathy].

We report the clinical and radiographic findings of a female patient who presented to the emergency room in acute distress due to a subluxated globe. The patient had a 10 year history of poorly controlled Grave's disease and associated orbitopathy. In the past, one previous report dealt with this rare phenomenon in association with Grave's disease and attributed the mechanism of this acute event to enlargement of the orbital fat compartment and extensibility of nearly normal extraocular muscles ("lipogenic"--type I orbitopathy).

Topical glaucoma therapy as a risk factor for nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Purpose: To investigate a possible association between primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction (PANDO).

Design: Retrospective, comparative study.

Methods: The study group consisted of 209 consecutive eyes (178 patients) whose lacrimal system had PANDO in patients more than 50 years of age during the 10-year study period.

Effect of timing of external dacryocystorhinostomy on surgical outcome.

Purpose: To present our experience with external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) outcome and to compare cases of early and late DCR.

Methods: Retrospective data review of all patients who had external DCR with silicone intubation in a 7-year period. Data were collected and analyzed concerning patients' preoperative and postoperative symptoms, and the lacrimal drainage system examination before, during, and after surgery.

Orbital fractures complicated by late enophthalmos: higher prevalence in patients with multiple trauma.

Purpose: To present our experience with orbital fracture treatment outcomes in patients with multiple trauma and those suffering localized orbital trauma.

Methods: Retrospective data review of all patients examined for ocular motility problems and/or enophthalmos following orbital trauma in a 4-year period.

Results: Forty-three patients were included in the study: 31 (72%) had localized orbital trauma (LOT) and 12 (28%) had concomitant traumatic insults to other organs (MT).

Desferrioxamine and zinc-desferrioxamine reduce lens oxidative damage.

Our purpose was to investigate the quality and morphology of cultured bovine lenses after exposure to hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) in the presence or absence of desferrioxamine (DFO) or zinc-desferrioxamine (Zn-DFO). Intact bovine lenses were cultured and exposed to HBO of 100% oxygen at 2.5 ATA for 120 min.

Zinc-desferrioxamine reduces damage to lenses exposed to hyperbaric oxygen and has an ameliorative effect on catalase and Na, K-ATPase activities.

Our purpose was to investigate the effects of exposure to high partial pressure of oxygen on lens optical quality and on the activities of lenticular catalase and Na, K-ATPase in culture and to examine the effect of zinc-desferrioxamine (Zn-DFO) addition to cultured lenses exposed to high oxygen partial pressure on these parameters. Bovine lenses, kept in organ culture, were exposed to different combinations of partial pressure of oxygen with and without addition of Zn-DFO complex (20 microM) and examined during a 14-day period. Lens optical quality, catalase, and Na, K-ATPase activity were compared between study and control groups.

One medial triangular Tutoplast sling as a frontalis suspension for adult myogenic blepharoptosis.

Purpose: The treatment of choice for medium to severe blepharoptosis with minimal or no levator function is frontalis suspension with a sling, using a rectangular or rhomboid sling placement technique. We describe the short-term, follow-up results of frontalis suspension surgery for adult myogenic blepharoptosis using Tutoplast, a commercially available fascia lata allograft.

Methods: We conducted a consecutive, interventional case study.

[Oxygen effect on ocular lens].

Background: Cataract is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Clinical observations and laboratory results have shown that oxygen has a possible toxic role in cataract formation.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to demonstrate, measure and characterize the damage caused to bovine lenses in organ culture as a result of their exposure to hyperbaric oxygen pressure.

[Upper lid frontalis suspension as a treatment for essential blepharospasm].

Background: Essential blepharospasm is a progressive disease of unknown etiology causing a significant decline in the quality of life of patients suffering from the disease. Currently used treatment for this condition is repeated injections of Botulinum toxin. Some of the patients' therapeutic response to Botox injections is insufficient, and some develop ocular complications.

Haptoglobin phenotype in age-related macular degeneration patients.

Purpose: To investigate a possible role of the haptoglobin phenotype in the development of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in human subjects.

Design: Prospective, observational, comparative population study.

Methods: The study was carried out in an institutional setting.

Posterior lamellar gold-weight extrusion.

We report a case of a man who had undergone gold eyelid loading for lagophthalmos 22 years earlier. During examination for a complaint of foreign body sensation in the operated eye, the gold weight was found under the palpebral conjunctiva. Although extrusion of a gold weight through the skin anteriorly is well recognized, posterior extrusion has not been previously reported.