The opioid peptide biphalin modulates human corneal epithelial wound healing in vitro.

Purpose: Analgesic drugs, including nonselective opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, should be used with great precautions to relieve pain after trauma to the corneal epithelium because of their unfavorable effects on wound healing. Biphalin is a synthetic opioid peptide that has been demonstrated to possess a strong analgesic effect on rodents. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of biphalin on human corneal epithelial wound healing.

Efficacy of Intense Pulsed Light Treatment for Moderate to Severe Acute Blepharitis or Blepharoconjunctivitis: A Retrospective Case Series.

Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of periocular intense pulsed light (IPL) therapy in the treatment of moderate to severe acute blepharitis or blepharoconjunctivitis.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective study performed in one institution. Eleven patients who received bilateral periocular IPL therapy using an IPL device (E>Eye, ESwin, Paris, France) were retrospectively evaluated.

Comparison of half-dose versus half-fluence versus standard photodynamic therapy in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy.

Purpose: To compare the efficacy and safety of half-dose vs. half-fluence vs. standard photodynamic therapy (PDT) in patients with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (cCSC).

A novel surgical technique for prevention of Ahmed glaucoma valve tube exposure: long scleral flap augmented with Tenon advancement and duplication.

Background: To describe a new technique and present its long-term outcome for prevention of Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) tube exposure in patients with refractory glaucoma.

Methods: Twenty-seven eyes of 24 patients (mean age, 50 years; age range, 16-78 years; 8 females, 16 males) with refractory glaucoma who had the AGV implant were retrospectively reviewed. For AGV implantation, a long scleral flap combined with Tenon advancement and duplication was used.