Ocular trauma is the most frequent cause of monocular blindness. Ocular surface injury is the commonest among ocular injuries. Corneal abrasion and foreign body are the most common corneal injuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors report a new technique to treat complete cranial nerve III palsy. A 15-year-old girl underwent botulinum toxin injection into the lateral rectus muscle, nasal transposition of both the superior and inferior oblique muscles to the medial rectus insertion, and absorbable suture globe fixation to the nasal orbital periosteum. Six months postoperatively, her primary position eye deviation was within 12 prism diopters of orthotropia with limitation of ductions in all directions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the vitreous concentration of bevacizumab after injection for the treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). A premature neonate diagnosed with type 1 ROP was treated in both eyes with 0.625 mg intravitreal bevacizumab injection at 32 weeks' postconceptual age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess changes in macular thickness after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK), using optical coherence tomography.
Design: Prospective interventional case series.
Methods: setting: Institutional.
Purpose: Parry-Romberg syndrome (PRS) is a rare disease of unknown etiology and pathogenesis, characterized by progressive hemifacial atrophy. Diverse ocular manifestations were reported in association with PRS, including enophthalmos, lid retraction, blepharoptosis, restrictive strabismus, ocular motor nerve dysfunction, Horner syndrome, reduced corneal sensitivity, band keratopathy, episcleritis, uveitis, neuroretinitis, and retinal vasculitis.
Methods: Descriptive case report.