Eye Donation Counsellor Skill Evaluation Tool (EDC-SET): A step toward improved eye donation counseling.

Purpose: The expansion of the Hospital Corneal Retrieval Programme (HCRP) and the role of Eye Donation Counsellors (EDCs) have shown promising results in increasing donor cornea availability. To further enhance EDC competency and improve cornea availability for transplantation, the study proposes the Eye Donation Counsellor Skill Evaluation Tool (EDC-SET). Key words: Competency assessment, corneal blindness, Eye Donation Counsellors (EDCs), eye health, Hospital Corneal Retrieval Programme (HCRP), skill evaluation.

Training Indian ophthalmologists in phacoemulsification surgery: Nine-year results of a unique two-week multicentric training program.

Purpose: To assess the outcome of 2 weeks phacoemulsification training program that is a unique collaboration between premier ophthalmic training institutes of India and Alcon Inc. initiated 10 years ago.

Methods: Cataract surgeons eager to adopt phacoemulsification surgery as the primary treatment modality were enrolled in an intensive 2 weeks training program across seven premier ophthalmic institutes in India.

Delhi Infectious Keratitis Study: Update on Clinico-Microbiological Profile and Outcomes of Infectious Keratitis.

Purpose: To study the clinico-microbiological profile and outcomes of infectious keratitis (IK) at a tertiary eye care center in North India.

Methods: This is a retrospective, hospital-based, cross-sectional study. One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six corneal microbiological reports were identified from January 2017 to December 2018, out of which 625 patients of IK fulfilled the inclusion criteria.

Practical use of rubric for assessment of eye bank professionals for eye retrieval and its role in improving eye retrieval process in eye banks: An Indo-American experience.

Purpose: To study the practical use of the Rubric for Assessment of Eye Bank Professionals for Eye Retrieval (RAEPER) as a competency assessment tool by organizing a workshop in two eye banks - one in India and other in America.

Methods: Two-day workshop was conducted in two eye banks - named Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH) in India and Miracles in Sight (MIS) in America. Day 1 of workshop comprised of didactic lectures and discussions and day 2 was eye retrieval assessment done on human eyes in a wet lab setting.

Acute stromal keratitis in clinics - are we missing microsporidia?

To report 3 cases of microsporidial stromal keratitis presenting as a diagnostic dilemma to a tertiary eye care center in north India. Three eyes of 3 patients underwent therapeutic keratoplasty for microsporidial stromal keratitis. A decision for early surgery was taken as the patients were not responding to conventional medical management and were worsening clinically.

Eye donation in north India: Trends, awareness, influences and barriers.

Purpose: To understand trends, awareness, influences and barriers to eye donation in Indian society.

Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in Delhi from March 2017 to February 2018. About 10 hospitals collaborated with the Eye Bank under Human Cornea Retrieval Program (HCRP).

Sphingomonas paucimobilis keratitis post cataract surgery: First case report from India.

Sphingomonas paucimobilis is a rare, aerobic Gram-negative soil bacillus rarely associated with intraocular infections. With only 3 cases of ophthalmic manifestations reported so far, we are presenting the fi rst case of S. Paucimobilis, causing keratitisafter cataract surgery, from India.

Increased postoperative anterior chamber inflammation secondary to heat-resistant endotoxins.

Purpose: To evaluate the cause of clusters of increased postoperative anterior chamber inflammation after uneventful cataract surgery, and to examine its relation to the presence of endotoxins in sterile consumables.

Setting: Tertiary eye center in north India.

Design: Single-center retrospective case series.

Early Results of Penetrating Keratoplasty in Patients With Unilateral Chemical Injury After Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation.

Purpose: To evaluate clinical outcomes of sequential PKP in eyes with unilateral chemical injury, which have previously undergone autologous simple limbal epithelial transplantation (SLET) at a tertiary eye center in North India.

Methods: This is a single-center, retrospective, noncomparative interventional case series reviewing patients with unilateral limbal stem cell deficiency treated by SLET and sequential PKP between 2012 and 2017. The primary outcome was defined as allograft survival, defined as a completely epithelialized, clear, avascular graft.

Alacrima, a rare cause of pediatric dry eye.

We report the case of a 12-year-old boy who presented with a history of 4-5 years of severe bilateral photophobia, with exacerbation and increased ocular pain for 3-4 days. There were no systemic signs, and serology tests were negative; however, parents noted crying without tears since birth. Computerized tomography of the orbits revealed bilateral hypoplasia of lacrimal glands.

Results of simple limbal epithelial transplantation in unilateral ocular surface burn.

Purpose: This study aimed to report the long-term outcomes of autologous Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation (SLET) performed for unilateral limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) following chemical burn at a tertiary eye center in North India.

Methods: This was a single-center prospective interventional case series of patients who developed unilateral LSCD after suffering from ocular surface burns and who underwent SLET between October 2012 and May 2016 with a follow-up period of at least 6 months. The primary outcome measure was restoration of a completely epithelized, stable, and avascular corneal surface.

Evaluation of a new electronic preoperative reference marker for toric intraocular lens implantation by two different methods of analysis: Adobe Photoshop versus iTrace.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to compare two different methods of analysis of preoperative reference marking for toric intraocular lens (IOL) after marking with an electronic marker.

Setting/venue: Cataract and IOL Implantation Service, Shroff Eye Centre, New Delhi, India.

Patients And Methods: Fifty-two eyes of thirty patients planned for toric IOL implantation were included in the study.