Clinical and Social Features of Patients with Eye Injuries Admitted to a Tertiary Hospital: A Five-Year Retrospective Study from Crete, Greece.

Eye injuries are a major cause of visual disability worldwide and may present a burden to both quality of life of the sufferers and healthcare services. The aim of this study was to extract and triangulate information on the demographic, clinical, and social features of eye-injured adult patients admitted to a tertiary hospital in Greece. The design was a five-year retrospective study of eye-injured adult patients, admitted to the General University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete (GUHH), the single tertiary referral hospital on the island.

Ocular trauma, visual acuity related to time of referral and psychosocial determinants, during COVID‑19 pandemic: A prospective study.

The aim of the present study was to explore the associations between visual outcomes of ocular injury patients in a tertiary hospital unit with clinical and demographic variables and to evaluate the psychosocial impact of the injury on the patients. An 18-month prospective study of 30 eye-injured adult patients was conducted in the General University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, a tertiary referral hospital. All severe eye injury case information was prospectively collected between February 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021.

Extraocular Muscle Volumetry for Assessment of Thyroid Eye Disease.

Background: In this study we evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of extraocular muscle volumetry in detecting thyroid eye disease and to compare the results with simple measurements of maximal medial rectus (MR) diameter.

Methods: Cross-sectional study that included 47 eyes of 47 patients with thyroid eye disease and 47 healthy controls. Patients underwent slitlamp examination and imaging consisting of computed tomography scans.

Association between HPV detection in swab samples and tissue specimens and ophthalmic pterygium recurrence.

Purpose: To investigate the presence of HPV on the ocular surface after surgical excision of HPV infected pterygia and the possible correlation of HPV with pterygium postoperative recurrence.

Materials And Methods: Both exfoliative pterygium swab samples and respective tissue specimens were received and analyzed with real-time PCR for the detection of HPV-infected pterygia. In addition, swab samples from patients that had HPV-infected pterygia with no recurrence after 1 year of follow-up, as well as swab samples from patients with healthy conjunctiva, were analyzed.

Case Report: Intracranial Hypertension Secondary to Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a common cause of acute flaccid paralysis, is characterized by a rapidly progressive, usually symmetric weakness of the extremities. Headache and intracranial hypertension (ICHT) are very rare complications of GBS. Herein we report our current case of an obese girl with typical signs of GBS associated with autonomic dysfunction, cranial nerve deficits and increased intracranial pressure (ICP).

Corneal Stromal Demarcation Line Depth Following Standard and a Modified High Intensity Corneal Cross-linking Protocol.

Purpose: To compare the corneal stromal demarcation line depth using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) after corneal cross-linking (CXL) using two different treatment protocols: the standard Dresden protocol (30 minutes with 3 mW/cm(2)) and a modified high intensity protocol (7 minutes with 18 mW/cm(2)), corresponding to a total surface dose of 5.4 and 7.5 J/cm(2), respectively.

Evaluation of corneal stromal demarcation line depth following standard and a modified-accelerated collagen cross-linking protocol.

Purpose: To compare the corneal stromal demarcation line depth using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) after corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) using 2 different treatment protocols: the standard Dresden protocol (30 minutes with 3 mW/cm(2)) and a modified-accelerated protocol (14 minutes with 9 mW/cm(2)).

Design: Prospective, comparative study.

Methods: Forty-three keratoconic patients (52 eyes) were enrolled.

Diffuse lamellar keratitis in the femtosecond-assisted LASIK flap tunnel.

Here we report a case of a 29-year-old myopic female who underwent femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) and, on the first postoperative day slit-lamp examination revealed a dense, white, granular reaction with the presence of some blood droplets (stage I diffuse lamellar keratitis [DLK]) in her left eye, specifically localized into the femtosecond LASIK flap tunnel (not extended to the flap interface). The patient received intensive treatment with topical corticosteroids and 5 days later the granular reaction had completely resolved. A new site of DLK, ie, the flap tunnel, in femtosecond-assisted LASIK is presented.

Corneal stroma demarcation line after standard and high-intensity collagen crosslinking determined with anterior segment optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To use anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) to compare corneal stroma demarcation line depth after corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) with 2 treatment protocols.

Setting: Vardinoyiannion Eye Institute of Crete, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Design: Prospective comparative interventional case series.