Quality of life improvement in dry eye patients after intense pulsed light therapy compared to punctal plugs.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) improvement in evaporative dry eye patients after treatment with intense pulsed light (IPL) therapy compared to punctal plug insertion.

Methods: A prospective comparative interventional study included 30 patients with moderate-to-severe evaporative dry eye. Patients' QOL affection before and after treatment was assessed by the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire.

Unilateral surgery for pediatric sensory exotropia: clinical characteristics and surgical results.

Background: To delineate the clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of large angle sensory exotropia in pediatric patients.

Methods: The medical records of 54 large angle exotropia ≥40 PD patients aged from 1 to 18 years who were operated on between 2018 and 2021 and were followed up for 1 year were reviewed and contacted. Clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes were analyzed retrospectively.

Safety and efficacy of pterygium extended removal followed by extended conjunctival transplant for recurrent pterygia.

Purpose: To study the safety and efficacy of pterygium extended removal followed by extended conjunctival transplant for recurrent pterygia.

Methods: Thirty-three eyes of 33 subjects with recurrent pterygia were enrolled in this prospective case series study. Pterygium extended removal followed by extended conjunctival transplantation was performed in all subjects.

Management of Bi-Punctal Stenosis by One-Snip Punctoplasty Combined with Silicone Intubation.

Purpose: Assessment of the efficacy of upper and lower one-snip punctoplasty combined with silicone tube stenting for the management of bi-punctal stenosis.

Methods: Prospective interventional case series of 20 patients (33 eyes, 66 puncta) with epiphora due to bi-punctal stenosis. All the patients were subjected to bi-punctal 1-snip punctoplasty with silicone intubation, and the tube was kept for 3 months.

Pattern of Intermediate Uveitis in an Egyptian Cohort.

: To describe the clinical experience with intermediate uveitis at six Egyptian tertiary eye centers.: A multicenter retrospective chart review of all patients with intermediate uveitis seen at six ocular inflammation referral clinics in Egypt between January 2010 and January 2017.: The study included a total of 781 patients with intermediate uveitis.

Resistant Infantile Bacterial Conjunctivitis in Egypt: A Microbiology Study.

Purpose: To study the microbiological aspects of infantile bacterial conjunctivitis resistant to empirical topical antibiotic therapy in Egypt.

Methods: Ninety-two eyes of 86 infants with bacterial conjunctivitis were included in this prospective study. They all failed to show evidence of clinical improvement after 2 weeks of empirical topical antibiotic therapy.

Orbital Dermoid Cyst: Classification and its Impact on Surgical Management.

Purpose: Analysis of different clinical types of orbital dermoid cyst, and studying the impact of preoperative classification on the proposed surgical procedure.

Methods: A retrospective study of orbital dermoid cyst cases. The clinical and imaging data were reviewed.

The cosmetic outcome of external dacryocystorhinostomy scar and factors affecting it.

Purpose: To study the cosmetic outcome of external dacryocystorhinostomy (Ex-DCR) and to detect the factors affecting it.

Patients And Methods: Prospective randomized interventional study included forty patients who were treated by 40 Ex-DCRs. In twenty patients, medial canthal vertical incision was used and in the other twenty cases, subciliary incision was used.

Clinical and imaging characteristics of orbital metastatic lesions among Egyptian patients.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to review the demographic, clinical, and imaging features of Egyptian patients with orbital metastases.

Methods: The study was a retrospective study of patients with orbital metastatic lesions over the last 15 years.

Results: The study included 37 patients.

Four petals evisceration for atrophia bulbi.

Purpose: To study the use of four petals evisceration in atrophia bulbi to allow insertion of large orbital implant.

Materials And Methods: An interventional case series. All cases were atrophia bulbi.

Ultrasound biomicroscopy as a diagnostic tool in infants with primary congenital glaucoma.

Purpose: Studying the role of ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) in detection of anterior segment changes in infants with primary congenital glaucoma (PCG).

Methods: Cross-sectional study that included 25 eyes of 15 patients suffering from PCG and a control group of 15 eyes of ten age- and sex-matched participants. Diagnosis of PCG was based on clinical data (intraocular pressure, corneal diameter, fundus examination and amplitude-modulation scan measurement of axial length).

Lacrimal fossa lesions: a review of 146 cases in Egypt.

Purpose: The incidence and clinical and imaging criteria of different pathological forms of lacrimal fossa lesions in the Delta region of Egypt were studied.

Methods: A retrospective study of patients with lacrimal fossa lesions for the past 10 years was conducted. A total of 146 cases were identified.

Orbital metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma: report of 6 cases.

A series of 6 consecutive cases of orbital metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were reported in the last 5 years. All patients were men. The age of patients ranged between 47 and 70 years.