The Relationship Between Dry Eye in Adults with Indications for Kidney Transplantation and Influence Factors.

Purpose: Patients with end-stage renal failure are susceptible to dry eye disease. This study explores the relationship between dry eye disease and influence factors.

Patients And Methods: The control group consisted of 57 healthy subjects who were kidney donors.

Clinical Characteristics and Histopathology of Idiopathic Epiretinal Membrane in Vietnam.

Background: Idiopathic epiretinal membrane (iERM) is an avascular proliferation of different types of cells between the posterior vitreous cortex and the internal limiting membrane. That causes visual impairment including blurry, distortion, scotoma. Many studies of iERM were done to describe the clinical characteristics and investigate the histopathology of this disease.

Bullous Keratopathy Secondary to Anterior Chamber Angle Foreign Body.

Background: Penetrating ocular trauma with intraocular foreign body is a serious injury often resulting in loss of vision. Anterior chamber foreign bodies account for a considerable portion of all cases of all intraocular foreign bodies (up to 15%); however, they can be missed due to inconspicuous location.

Case Report: We report two cases of retained intraocular foreign bodies in the iridocorneal angle that was missed at the first ophthalmic examination.

Evaluation of Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery Outcomes After Penetrating Keratoplasty.

Background: Cataract is one of the reasons which causes impaired visual acuity (VA) of the eyes after penetrating keratoplasy (PK), which can be treated by cataract surgery after PK or triple procedure. Cataract surgery after PK has advantages that parameters of the eyes such as axial length, anterior chamber depth (ACD) as well as corneal curvature are stabilized after removing all sutures postoperatively, and intraocular lens (IOL) power can be calculated correctly. Therefore, postoperative VA will be improved significantly.

Penetrating Keratoplasty for Keratoconus in Vietnamese Patients.

Background: Keratoconus is an ectatic corneal disorder that can impair the visual acuity. Up to now, penetrating keratoplasty (PK) remains the most common surgical procedure to treat severe keratoconus. In Vietnam, most keratoconus patients come to visit doctor at severe stage and were treated by PK, so we conduct this study.

Tissue-Cultured Human Cord Lining Epithelial Cells in Treatment of Persistent Corneal Epithelial Defect.

Background: Persistent corneal epithelial defect (PED) is a consequence of many ocular surface disorders. Although many therapies have been suggested, the treatment of this disease have faced a lot of difficulties up to now. The transplatation of cultivated amniotic epithelial cells sheets is the new promised method for PED.

Amniotic membrane transplantation for Mooren's ulcer.

Background: To describe the outcome of surgery using amniotic membrane transplantation for Mooren's ulcer.

Design: A prospective interventional case series from the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology.

Participants: Eighteen eyes of 14 patients with Mooren's ulcer.