Cataract Grading in Pure Senile Cataracts: Pentacam versus LOCS III.

Purpose: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of Pentacam Cataract Grading Scale (PCGS) versus the Lens Opacities Classification System (LOCS III) in scaling pure age-related cataract.

Methods: Between April 2016 and May 2017, eyes of 281 patients were evaluated for grading of lens opacity. We used LOCS III and PCGS.

Assessment of tear inflammatory cytokines concentration in patients with diabetes with varying severity of involvement.

Diabetic retinopathy (DR), as one of the most important causes of blindness in Western societies, is a common micro-vasculopathy associated with diabetes. There is growing evidence of the role of inflammation in its development. This study was designed to measure cytokines in patients with diabetes with different stages of retinopathy .

Management of uncomplicated primary retinal rhegmatogenous detachment.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the vitreoretinal surgery outcomes in patients with uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Design: This was a retrospective, nonrandomized consecutive case series study.

Participants: Six hundred and eighty-three eyes with primary uncomplicated RRD between 2013 and 2017 were included in this study.

A systematic review of Amblyopia prevalence among the children of the world.

to assess the prevalence of Amblyopia disease in the children of the world. In order to perform this systematic review, PICO was considered as the research question. Then, the preferred keywords were searched in Medline (via PubMed), Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and ProQuest databases.

Comparison of the effect of mitomycin C and bevacizumab-methylcellulose mixture on combined phacoemulsification and non-penetrating deep sclerectomy surgery on the intraocular pressure (a clinical trial study).

Purpose: Comparison of the effect of mitomycin C (MMC) versus bevacizumab-methylcellulose mixture (BMM) on combined phacoemulsification and non-penetrating deep sclerectomy surgery on the intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma was made.

Methods: The current study is a controlled, randomized, double-blind clinical trial. Thirty-eight patients were enrolled, with a total of 40 eyes, and underwent a combined phacoemulsification and non-penetrating deep sclerectomy surgery from 2016 to 2017.

Tear film inflammatory mediators in patients with keratoconus.

To determine the concentration of inflammatory mediators in the tear film of patients with keratoconus. Basal tears from patients with keratoconus and from normal controls were collected using a capillary tube. Patients with keratoconus were examined in a routine fashion, and keratometric readings were also taken from corneal topographic maps .

Characteristics and clinical presentations of pediatric retinoblastoma in North-western Iran.

Aim: To report the characteristics and clinical presentations of retinoblastoma in a series of pediatric patients from Iran.

Methods: In this retrospective study, profiles of pediatric patients with retinoblastoma archived in a referral eye hospital in north-west of Iran during 7 years (n=40 patients with 57 eyes) were reviewed. Demographics, as well as the laterality, clinical manifestations and the types of treatment were the major endpoints.

Surgical treatment of severely traumatized eyes with no light perception.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of surgical intervention in severely traumatized eyes with no light perception (NLP).

Methods: In this prospective interventional case series, 18 eyes of 18 patients with severe ocular trauma whose vision was documented as NLP and with relative afferent pupillary defect of 3 to 4+ underwent deep vitrectomy and other appropriate procedures 1 to 3 times.

Results: Vision was NLP in all eyes at the time of surgery, which was performed 3 days to 14 days after the initial trauma.