Application of a symptoms score questionnaire after conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy: outcomes.

Objective: To evaluate medium/long term outcomes and patient satisfaction through relief of symptoms and improved quality of life (QoL) after Jones tube conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy (JT-CDCR) using the Naso Lacrimal Duct Obstruction symptom-score (NLDO-SS).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective, non-comparative, multicentric study including patients with complete obstruction of the superior and inferior proximal lacrimal drainage system. All patients underwent JT-CDCR, and the patency of the tube was evaluated with saline irrigation and endoscopic examination.

Non-invasive peri-orbital rejuvenation: radiofrequency dual radiowave energy source (RF) and light emission diode system (LED).

Introduction: Non-ablative skin rejuvenation is becoming increasingly popular. Ellman RF produces an electric current that generates heat in the dermis producing a contraction of the collagen. LED is a non heating light emission system that induces fibroblast proliferation.

Comparison of ocular hemodynamics measured by a new retinal blood flowmeter and color Doppler imaging.

Background And Objective: To compare measurements of a new retinal blood flow device with central retinal artery blood velocity.

Materials And Methods: One randomly selected eye from each of 13 subjects was examined. Blood flow was measured by laser blood flowmeter and velocity by color Doppler imaging.

Comparative analysis of the effects of dorzolamide and latanoprost on ocular hemodynamics in normal tension glaucoma patients.

Purpose: To compare the effects of latanoprost (Xalatan) and dorzolamide (Trusopt) on ocular hemodynamics in normal-tension glaucoma patients.

Methods: A randomized, single-masked, parallel design study was conducted. After a 4-week washout period, 20 normal tension glaucoma patients, recruited from a single university-based ophthalmology clinic, received either latanoprost once daily or dorzolamide 3 times daily for 4 weeks.

Reduced cerebrovascular blood flow velocities and vasoreactivity in open-angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To compare cerebral blood flow velocities between open-angle glaucoma (OAG) patients and controls, at baseline and during hyperoxia.

Design: Observational cohort study.

Methods: A prospective study was conducted in a single institution.

Pulsatile ocular blood flow during pregnancy.

Purpose: To study pulsatile ocular blood flow (POBF) throughout pregnancy.

Methods: We enrolled twenty-seven healthy women in the first trimester of gestation, only ten of which were followed through the second trimester, and fourteen non pregnant healthy women. In each subject we measured POBF with the POBF pneumotonometer (OBF Ltd.

Effect of intravenous droperidol on intraocular pressure and retrobulbar hemodynamics.

Purpose: Topically-applied dopamine antagonists reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) and inrease retinal blood flow in animal models. We examined the acute effects of intravenous infusion of a dopamine blocker (droperidol) on these parameters in healthy humans.

Methods: Sixteen subjects free from ocular or systemic disease (mean age 33 +/- 10 yrs) received either 5 mg i.