Use of Plasma Rich in Growth Factors for Ocular Surface Disorders: A Systematic Review.

Purpose: Ocular surface disorders (OSDs) can severely affect vision and quality of life. Autologous blood products, such as plasma rich in growth factors (PRGF), are recently available to treat OSDs refractory to traditional therapies. This review aims to summarize the efficacy and safety of PRGF in OSDs.

Depth, size of infiltrate, and the microbe - The trio that prognosticates the outcome of infective keratitis.

Purpose: To analyze the influence of infiltrate size, depth, and organism on the outcome of microbial keratitis.

Design: Retrospective comparative study.

Methods: Medical records of patients with infective keratitis, who reported from January 2015 to December 2019 to a tertiary eye care center, were analyzed.

Aqueous deficiency dry eye in post conjunctivitis cicatrization - Effect of deep thermal punctal cautery.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of deep thermal punctal cautery in eyes with post-conjunctivitis cicatrization.

Methods: This retrospective study consisted of patients who underwent deep thermal punctal cautery for post-conjunctivitis dry eye (PCDE). The diagnosis was based on a history suggestive of viral conjunctivitis in past followed by the onset of present clinical features of aqueous deficiency dry eye (ATD).

Management of coexisting bilateral ocular surface disease in xeroderma pigmentosum - sequence and outcomes.

Purpose: To report a rare presentation of bilateral, coexisting ocular surface disease in a case of Xeroderma pigmentosum and its successful management.

Methods: Case report.

Results: A 21-year-old male with Xeroderma pigmentosum presented with bilateral ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) along with central guttae in the right eye and corneal decompensation of the left eye.

Preliminary experience & rationale of primary allo Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation (SLET) following surgical excision of Ocular Surface Tumors.

Aim: To report the preliminary outcomes and elucidate the possible rationale of alloSLET for primary ocular surface reconstruction following excision of extensive ocular surface tumors.

Methods: Retrospective interventional case series with a minimum postoperative follow up of 1 year. AlloSLET was performed along with wide surgical excision and cryotherapy in 3 eyes.

Pediatric Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty.

Purpose: To report the technique and outcome of Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) in pediatric patients older than 6 years of age.

Design: Institutional interventional retrospective case series.

Methods: This study included 5 eyes of patients less than 15 years of age with endothelial dysfunction who underwent DMEK.

Surgical Management of Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency.

Treatment of limbal stem cell deficiency is challenging. Multiple options can be adopted according to the underlying cause and the patient and physician preferences. Stem cell transplant is a common treatment modality and several techniques have been described with outcomes varying by the laterality of the condition.