Publications by authors named "Mohamed H Nasef"

Purpose: To assess the topographic and visual outcomes of corneal cross-linking (CXL) for post-LASIK ectasia.

Methods: A retrospective case series of patients who had progressive post-LASIK ectasia, with at least 2 years of follow-up. They had epithelium-off CXL.

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Purpose: To compare the subjective manifest astigmatism to the corneal topographic astigmatism in patients with keratoconus.

Methods: This retrospective study included data of 230 keratoconic eyes of 115 patients. Topographic corneal astigmatism (TA), which was measured by pentacam, was compared and correlated to manifest refractive cylinder (MRC) in terms of power, axis, vector components, and mean vector.

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Purpose: To investigate the safety and efficacy of green thermal laser as an adjunctive therapy for the treatment of resistant infectious keratitis (IK) in the Delta region of Egypt.

Methods: A retrospective case series of 150 patients, within a 4 year duration, with resistant IK, who failed to respond to specific medical treatment alone for 7 days, were included. They all received green thermal laser photocoagulation treatment to the cornea as an adjunctive to medical treatment.

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Purpose: To study the predisposing factors, clinical manifestations, and treatment outcome of patients with Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) at Tanta University's Ophthalmology Hospital in Tanta, Egypt.

Methods: A retrospective study of 42 patients (44 eyes) with Acanthamoeba keratitis who had medical records available for review over 4 years.

Results: Forty-four eyes of 42 patients were treated for AK over the study period.

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