Changes in binocular function in anisometropic nonstrabismic children with optical correction and occlusion therapy.

Purpose: To identify factors that influence binocular function in anisometropic, nonstrabismic children before and after optical correction and amblyopia therapy.

Methods: This was a prospective observational study of consecutive patients with nonstrabismic anisometropia. Visual acuity and responses to the 4(Δ) base-out prism test, the Worth 4-dot test, and the TNO test were recorded after spectacle correction and every 3 months for 1 year.

Evaluation of intralesional propranolol for periocular capillary hemangioma.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of intralesional propranolol injection in the management of periocular capillary hemangioma.

Methods: A prospective study was performed in 22 consecutive patients with periocular hemangioma. Twelve patients underwent intralesional propranolol injection and ten patients underwent intralesional triamcinolone injection.

Torsional ultrasound mode versus combined torsional and conventional ultrasound mode phacoemulsification for eyes with hard cataract.

Purpose: To compare torsional versus combined torsional and conventional ultrasound modes in hard cataract surgery regarding ultrasound energy and time and effect on corneal endothelium.

Settings: Kasr El Aini hospital, Cairo University, and International Eye Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.

Methodology: Ninety-eight eyes of 63 patients were enrolled in this prospective comparative randomized masked clinical study.

The use of mitomycin C with autologous limbal-conjunctival autograft transplantation for management of recurrent pterygium.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare recurrence rates upon using mitomycin C (MMC) with limbal-conjunctival autograft for treating recurrent pterygia.

Methodology: An interventional, prospective, comparative clinical study was performed in 30 eyes (26 patients) with recurrent pterygia, allocated into two groups: Group A (19 eyes) operated by pterygium excision and limbal-conjunctival autograft transplantation (L-CAT) without MMC and Group B (20 eyes) operated with injection of 0.1 mL of MMC 0.

Comparative performance of intraocular lenses in eyes with cataract and uveitis.

Purpose: To evaluate the postoperative outcomes in uveitic eyes after phacoemulsification and posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Setting: Multicenter (19) international study.

Methods: This prospective randomized comparative interventional case series comprised 140 eyes of 140 patients who had phacoemulsification and implantation of IOLs of various materials: hydrophobic acrylic (n = 48), silicone (n = 44), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) (n = 26), or heparin-surface-modified PMMA (HSM PMMA) (n = 22).

Comparison of corneal pachymetry using ultrasound and Orbscan II.

Purpose: To compare Orbscan II pachymetry with ultrasonic pachymetry in eyes having corneal refractive surgery.

Setting: Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.

Methods: In this comparative prospective study, 72 eyes (36 patients) were divided into 4 groups: Group 1, 16 eyes with haze after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK); Group 2, 12 eyes with no haze after PRK; Group 3, 24 eyes that had uneventful laser in situ keratomileusis; Group 4, 20 normal eyes.