Influence of lighting on visual performance.

Purpose: This review emphasizes the effect of light on visual efficiency, the impact of different lighting focuses, types of lighting, and their influence on vision and productivity. Light sources and standards are intriguing subjects for ophthalmologists. Guidelines regarding the level of lighting influence on visual activities can enhance visual performance.

A 15-Year Review of Corneal Transplant in Brazil.

Purpose: To analyze 15-year of corneal transplant in Brazil.

Methods: Cross-sectional, retrospective, observational, and analytical study, between available data from the Brazilian Transplant Registry (January 2002-December 2016), collected by the Brazilian Association of Organ Transplantation was performed. The variables analyzed per year were number of corneal transplants, corneal transplants per million people (pmp), corneal transplant teams, and individuals on the waiting list for corneal transplants.

Corneal involvement in systemic inflammatory diseases.

Corneal involvement in patients with systemic inflammatory disorders may be sight threatening, and it may be associated with a life-threatening disease. Significant systemic inflammatory diseases in this context are autoimmune connective tissue diseases, systemic autoimmune dermatological disorders, and autoimmune diseases of the lacrimal system. Keratoconjunctivitis sicca is usually the most common ocular finding in these patients.

[Epidemiological profile of keratomycosis at the HC-UNICAMP].

Background: Fungal keratitis is an important cause of corneal infection mainly in tropical countries. With high morbidity due to delay in diagnosis, laboratory examination is mandatory in these cases. However, technical difficulties in obtaining samples generate a large number of false negatives.

Validity of recall absent schoolchildren to free eye health projects.

Purpose: To analyze the results of recall absent schoolchildren to eye health projects.

Methods: Cross-sectional study. Visual screening was performed in schoolchildren attending 1(st) to 4(th) grades at public schools, from 7 to 10 years-old, to select and forward to complete ophthalmic evaluation.

Corneal wavefront-guided photorefractive keratectomy with mitomycin-C for hyperopia after radial keratotomy: two-year follow-up.

Purpose: To assess corneal wavefront-guided photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) to correct hyperopia after radial keratotomy (RK).

Setting: Sadalla Amin Ghanem Eye Hospital, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Design: Case series.

Why are there defaulters in eye health projects?

Purpose: To identify barriers to attendance for eye examination of schoolchildren.

Methods: Cross-sectional study. Students in grades 1-4 in elementary school in Guarulhos (Brazil) were screened and referred for ophthalmic examination in 2006.

Oral azithromycin for treatment of posterior blepharitis.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of oral azithromycin in patients with posterior blepharitis.

Methods: Twenty-six eyes of 13 patients with posterior blepharitis diagnosed by a qualified ophthalmologist were enrolled in this study. Patients were instructed to use oral azithromycin 500 mg per day for 3 days in 3 cycles with 7-day intervals.

Two-year outcome of partial lacrimal punctal occlusion in the management of dry eye related to Sjögren syndrome.

Purpose: To analyze the influence of thermal partial punctal occlusion on the ocular surface of dry eye related to Sjögren syndrome.

Material And Methods: Thirty-seven eyes of 19 patients (3 male and 16 female; 49.11 ± 14.

Clinical treatment of ocular Demodex folliculorum by systemic ivermectin.

Purpose: To report clinical outcomes of the treatment of ocular Demodex folliculorum with oral ivermectin.

Design: Noncomparative, interventional case series.

Methods: Setting.

[Influence of cataract surgical correction on working perception].

Purpose: To analyze the benefits after cataract surgery in professional activities.

Methods: A prospective, randomized study was conducted at the Clinical Hospital of the University of São Paulo. The patients had cataract surgery by phacoemulsification (PHACO) and by extracapsular extraction (EECP).

Post-visit at ophthalmology emergency service: frequency and perception of the doctors on duty and users.

Purpose: To check the occurrence of post-visit, the patient's understanding and the assessments of the doctor on duty about the efficacy of the process, at the ophthalmology emergency sector.

Methods: It was conducted a transversal, analytical research among doctors on duty and patients being seen consecutively in the ophthalmology emergency sector of Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo.

Results: The sample was made of 28 doctors on duty and 561 patients, 51.

[Perception of the users, health professionals and managers of the assistance model of the Regional Ophthalmologic Hospital of Divinolândia--SP].

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the assistance quality through the perception of the users and municipal health managers (mayors, health secretaries and screening team).

Methods: A transversal and descriptive study was carried out.

Results: The sample was comprised by 359 users and 48 managers.

[Safety of photorefractive keratectomy with mitomycin-C for the treatment of hyperopia after radial keratotomy].

Purpose: To evaluate the safety of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) with mitomycin-C (MMC) in eyes with hyperopia after radial keratotomy.

Methods: Sixty eyes of 36 consecutive patients treated with corneal wavefront-guided PRK using an Esiris-Schwind excimer laser were prospectively evaluated. Corneal epithelium was mechanically removed, followed by photoablation and use of 0.

[Corneal wavefront-guided photorefractive keratectomy with mitomycin-C for consecutive hyperopia after radial keratotomy].

Purpose: To assess the efficacy, predictability and stability of corneal wavefront-guided photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) for correcting hyperopia and astigmatism after radial keratotomy.

Methods: In a prospective study, 60 eyes of 36 consecutive patients were treated with corneal wavefront-guided PRK with 0.02% mitomycin-C using an Esiris-Schwind excimer laser.

[Low-price glasses: Divinolândia (SP) experience].

Introduction: In Divinolândia (SP), the Consortium of Development of São João da Boa Vista Region Policy (CONDERG), in partnership with State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), has founded an eyeglass store to produce low cost glasses to distribute freely to their customers. The purpose is to analyze the evolution and working process of CONDERG eyeglass store in the last 13 years, since its foundation.

Methods: Data were collected from CONDERG store files from 1988 to 2001.

The effects of chronic exposure to traffic derived air pollution on the ocular surface.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the clinical relevance of chronic exposure to ambient levels of traffic derived air pollution on the ocular surface.

Methods: A panel study involving 55 volunteers was carried out in São Paulo, Brazil. We measured the mean individual levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) exposure for 7 days.

Self-medication: initial treatments used by patients seen in an ophthalmologic emergency room.

Objective: This study seeks to identify practices of self-medication in the treatment of ocular emergencies. We examine patients' use of both homemade preparations and manufactured products before seeking specialized care.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analytic survey of consecutive patients seen in the ophthalmology emergency room of a teaching hospital.

Visual impairment secondary to congenital glaucoma in children: visual responses, optical correction and use of low vision AIDS.

Introduction: Congenital glaucoma is frequently associated with visual impairment due to optic nerve damage, corneal opacities, cataracts and amblyopia. Poor vision in childhood is related to global developmental problems, and referral to vision habilitation/rehabilitation services should be without delay to promote efficient management of the impaired vision.

Objective: To analyze data concerning visual response, the use of optical correction and prescribed low vision aids in a population of children with congenital glaucoma.

Ultrasonographic findings in patients examined in cataract detection-and-treatment campaigns: a retrospective study.

Introduction: A cataract is defined as an opacity of any portion of the lens, regardless of visual acuity. In some advanced cases of cataracts, in which good fundus visualization is not possible, an ultrasound examination provides better assessment of the posterior segment of the globe.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the ultrasonographic records of patients with advanced cataracts who were examined during cataract campaigns.

Early keratocyte apoptosis after epithelial scrape injury in the human cornea.

Animal studies in mice, rats, rabbits, pigs and hens demonstrated that anterior keratocytes undergo programmed cell death or apoptosis after corneal epithelial injury. Many other wound healing changes subsequently follow the keratocyte apoptosis response. This study evaluated early keratocyte apoptosis after corneal epithelial scrape injury in human eyes scheduled for enucleation for malignancy.

Customized topography-guided photorefractive keratectomy with the MEL-70 platform and mitomycin C to correct hyperopia after radial keratotomy.

Purpose: To evaluate topography-guided photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) for correcting hyperopia and astigmatism after radial keratotomy (RK).

Methods: Prospective study of 12 consecutive patients (19 eyes) who were treated with topography-guided PRK with 0.02% mitomycin C using an Asclepion-Meditec MEL-70 excimer laser with a 9.