Publications by authors named "Ivana Mravicic"

Purpose: To determine if the changes in stereoacuity and aniseikonia, following bilateral implantation of presbyopia correcting intraocular lenses could be predicted from preoperative measurements of higher order aberrations (HOAs), axial lengths (AL), refractive errors (RE) and corrected visual acuities (CVAs).

Patients And Methods: Stereoacuity (Randot tests, @6m & 40cm, in steps of 20 arcsecs") vertical and horizontal aniseikonia (Awaya test @6m, in steps of 1%) with best correction and HOAs (Shack-Hartmann aberrometer) were measured before, 3 and 6 months after uncomplicated bilateral phacoemulsification. Twenty patients (I) underwent a mix-and-match procedure (Tecnis MF, ZKB00 in one eye and ZLB00 in the other), 17 (II) were implanted with a trifocal (AT LISA 839 triMP) and 18 (III) with a one-piece diffractive (Synergy OU) intraocular lens.

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Background: Congenital fibrosis of extraocular muscles ( CFEOM) is a group of genetically defined eye-moving disorders. The syndrome is clinically characterized by congenital non-progressive ophthalmoplegia caused by dysinervation of the cranial nerves with or without ptosis. As a main sign of a CFEOM, extraocular muscles get shrunken and fibrotic, which makes surgery more technically demanding and the result more unpredictable, which makes the treatment challenging and highly customized.

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Background: Corneal ectasia is a sight-threatening complication of corneal refractive surgery characterized by progressive steepening and thinning of the cornea and subsequent loss of best-corrected visual acuity.

Objective: To report the clinical outcomes following treatment of post-laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) induced ectasia.

Methods: This is a retrospective case series of 7 patients (10 eyes) which developed post-LASIK ectasia.

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Background: Among various visual functions, stereoacuity, or the ability to perceive depth, is the most sophisticated binocular function. Many publications discuss the influence of retinal image formation by multifocal intraocular lenses on glare and contrast sensitivity, but only a few present results of testing binocular vision in patients with multifocal intraocular lenses.

Objective: This article is designed to review the results of testing binocular vision in patients with multifocal intraocular lenses implanted in cataract surgery.

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Purpose: To compare and evaluate improvement in corrected distant visual acuity (CDVA) between myopia and hyperopia after laser keratomileusis (LASIK) in adult patients with anisometropic amblyopia.

Materials And Methods: This prospective clinical study included 103 amblyopic eyes (103 patients), which underwent LASIK correction of refractive error from January 2013 to January 2018. Uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), CDVA, spherical equivalent (SE), postoperative astigmatism, and intraocular pressure were evaluated at time points of 1, 6, and 12 months.

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Introduction: DVD is a rare, poorly understood eye motility disorder of unknown etiology. In socially unacceptable deviation, surgical treatment is an option. We present patients operated with three different surgical methods.

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Introduction: In the field of ophthalmology, laser technology is used in many basic and clinical disciplines and specialities. It has played an important role in promoting the development of ophthalmology.

Aim: This article is designed to review the evolution of laser technology in refractive surgeries in ophthalmology, mainly focusing on the characteristics of the excimer laser applied in corneal refractive surgery.

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Purpose: To determine the significance of changes and and inter-relationships between three markers of binocular function (aniseikonia, distance and near stereoacuity) following unremarkable LASIK at 3 and 6 months postoperatively.

Methods: All patients underwent LASIK using the Schwind Amaris 750S and the flaps were created using Intralase 150 kHz. Patients were I, monocular myopes II, binocular myopes III, binocular hyperopes IV, binocular astigmats V, anisometropes and VI, matched age and gender control (n = 20 in each group except III where n = 18).

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Residual esotropia is a common problem following bilateral medial rectus (MR) recessions for esotropia. The patient was 30 years old men who underwent bilateral MR recession of both eyes in the childhood. Recession was repeated on the right eye few years after the first surgery, but residual esotropia progressed.

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It has been shown that amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) improves healing of the epithelium defects as it serves as a basement membrane for endothelial cells growth, prevents inflammatory cell infiltration and reduces apoptosis in keratocytes. Having in mind the healing properties of AM we investigated the efficacy of AMT in persistent epithelial defect (PED) on the corneal graft. 80 corneal grafts were prospectively followed up for presence of PED 10 months after surgery.

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Fungal keratitis represents one of the most difficult forms of microbial keratitis to diagnose and treat successfully. It is difficult to obtain correct diagnosis and topical antifungal preparations. Fungi can cause severe stromal necrosis and enter the anterior chamber by penetrating an intact Descemet membrane.

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The loss of the corneal endothelial cells, especially in a first postoperative year, has been observed in patients who underwent penetrating keratoplasty (PK). The implantation of new generation of "iris claw" phakic IOL (Verisyse) in refractive cases has been shown to cause clinicaly insignificant endothelial cell loss. In our prospective case series we investigated the endothelial cell loss and clinical outcome in patients that either underwent PK and implantation of PCIOL or PK and implantation of Verisyse IOL.

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Multifocal intraocular lenses (MFIOL) enable good near and far vision after cataract surgery. Excellent results with cataract patients encouraged ophthalmologists to implant MFIOL after clear lens extraction (CLE). There are two types of MFIOL: diffractive and refractive.

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