Publications by authors named "Samah M Fawzy"
Purpose: To examine the long-term effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection on the corneal endothelium.
Methods: This was a comparative, cross-sectional study that included subjects who had recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least 6 months (group 1) and a group of age- and sex-matched controls with no prior symptomatology or documentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection (group 2). After full ophthalmological evaluation, specular microscopy was used to examine the endothelial cell parameters, including endothelial cell density, coefficient of variation, hexagonality, average area, and central corneal thickness.
Aim: To evaluate the role of medical treatment in the management of inflammatory punctum stenosis guided by spectral domain anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT).
Methods: This prospective study included 60 patients complaining of epiphora due to inflammatory punctual stenosis. They were divided into two groups: Group A (30 patients) treated with a combination of preservative free hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 3.
Purpose: Investigating the efficacy of intravitreal injection of erythropoietin (EPO) in managing indirect traumatic optic neuropathy (ITON) of different durations.
Methods: A case series that included two groups of ITON patients: recent ITON group (<3 months trauma duration; 7 eyes) and old duration ITON group (3-36 months; 7 eyes). Diagnostic computerized tomography (CT) and baseline flash visual evoked response (VER) were performed at the presentation time.
Objective: To measure the prevalence of amblyopia and amblyogenic factors among primary school children and to evaluate distance visual acuity (VA) as a screening test to detect amblyopia and define its cutoff value.
Subjects And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on primary school children in two schools in Central Cairo. Children underwent assessment of visual acuity using Landolt broken ring.
. Long-term mitomycin C (MMC) effects on photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) were compared in simple myopic and astigmatic patients. In this observational cohort study, subjects were selected based on preoperative and postoperative data collected from medical records; they were divided into simple myopia with/without MMC and myopic astigmatism with/without MMC groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To analyze the post operative results of targeting zero spherical aberration by selecting the best-fit aspheric intraocular lens (IOL), based on preoperative corneal spherical aberration of patients with phacoemulsification surgery.
Setting: AlHokama Eye Specialist Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Period: From the 1st of October 2012 until the 10th of April 2013.
Purpose: To find out the mean corneal spherical aberration and its changes with age in Saudi population.
Setting: AlHokama Eye Specialist Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Methods: Three hundred (300) eyes of 185 Saudi subjects (97 men and 88 women), whose age ranged from 15 to 85 years old, with matched refractive errors, were divided into three groups according to their age, 100 for each.
Purpose: To study the pattern of ocular aberrations in amblyopic children, and evaluate a possible relation to etiology and treatment outcomes of amblyopia.
Methods: The WaveScan Wavefront System (AMO, Santa Ana, CA, USA) aberrometer was used to assess 75 eyes (60 children) after instillation of 1% cyclopentolate eyedrops. There were 29 males and 31 females with a mean age of 9.