The Effect of Therapeutic Meibomian Glands Expression on Evaporative Dry Eye: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: To determine the clinical benefits of Meibomian gland expression therapy for the treatment of dry-eye disease caused by Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD).

Methods: In a prospective randomized controlled double-masked trial, 87 eyes of 44 patients with MGD and dry-eye symptoms were enrolled. Patients were randomly assigned into two groups; a study group that received therapeutic Meibomian gland expression once every month, and a control group that received sham treatment.

The association of keratoconus with blepharitis.

Background: Identifying potentially treatable risk factors for the progression of keratoconus is of great importance. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between blepharitis and keratoconus.

Methods: In this prospective, comparative, observational study, 50 keratoconus participants from the central district of the Clalit Health Services Health Maintenance Organization in Israel underwent comprehensive eye examination.

Correlation between central corneal thickness and myopia.

Purpose: To analyze the correlation between central corneal thickness (CCT) and myopia in refractive surgery candidates.

Materials And Methods: Patients that underwent myopic laser refractive surgery between January 2000 and December 2014 were included. Preoperative CCT was measured by ultrasonic pachymetry, and refractive status determined by manifest and cycloplegic refraction.

Corneal Breakthrough Haze After Photorefractive Keratectomy With Mitomycin C: Incidence and Risk Factors.

Purpose: To identify preoperative and intraoperative factors affecting breakthrough corneal haze incidence after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) with mitomycin C (MMC).

Methods: In this retrospective study of PRK performed at the Care Vision Refractive Laser Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, a total of 7535 eyes (n = 3854 patients; mean age ± SD, 26 ± 6 years; 55% men) underwent PRK with intraoperative MMC application. Patients with histories of corneal pathology or surgery were excluded.

Risk factors predicting steroid-induced ocular hypertension after photorefractive keratectomy.

Purpose: To assess the risk factors contributing to steroid-induced ocular hypertension after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK).

Setting: Care Laser Centers, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Treatment of adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis with a combination of povidone-iodine 1.0% and dexamethasone 0.1% drops: a clinical prospective controlled randomized study.

Purpose: To determine the efficacy of combination povidone-iodine (PVP-I) 1.0% eyedrops and dexamethasone 0.1% eyedrops in the treatment of adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis.

Effect of Anisometropia on the Predictability and Accuracy of Refractive Surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the predictability and accuracy of refractive surgery among adults with myopic anisometropia.

Methods: Consecutive cases of myopic eyes that underwent bilateral laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) or bilateral photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) during a 12-year period in a single center were included. Myopic anisometropia was defined as a difference greater than 1.

Factors Predicting the Need for Retreatment After Laser Refractive Surgery.

Purpose: To identify the potential risk factors that increase the likelihood of requiring retreatment after refractive surgery.

Methods: This retrospective study included patients who underwent laser in situ keratomileusis or photorefractive keratectomy between January 2005 and December 2012 at the Care-Vision Laser Centers, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Patients were divided into 2 groups according to whether they underwent additional refractive surgery (retreatment) during the study period.

Comparison of Three Epithelial Removal Techniques in PRK: Mechanical, Alcohol-assisted, and Transepithelial Laser.

Purpose: To compare the visual and refractive results obtained after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in patients who underwent one of three different epithelial removal techniques.

Methods: The authors reviewed the medical files of consecutive eyes with myopia and myopic astigmatism that were treated during a 10-year period by mechanical PRK, alcohol-assisted PRK, or transepithelial PRK (in the phototherapeutic keratectomy mode), and observed for more than 1 year.

Results: A total of 3,417 patients (3,417 eyes) were included in this study.

Factors affecting laser in situ keratomileusis flap thickness: comparison of 2 microkeratome heads.

Purpose: To identify the potential factors affect that affect the thickness of corneal flaps created using 2 different microkeratome heads.

Setting: Care-Vision Laser Centers, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Design: Retrospective comparative study.

Monovision surgery in myopic presbyopes: visual function and satisfaction.

Purpose: To describe our experience with monovision excimer laser correction in individuals with myopic presbyopia.

Methods: This prospective interventional case series was conducted in a private refractive surgery center on 40 patients with presbyopia aged 40 years and older, who were treated with monovision refractive surgery between 2010 and 2011. The dominant eye was corrected for distance vision and the nondominant eye was corrected for near vision, with anisometropia of ≥1.

Human aqueous humor phosphatase activity in cataract and glaucoma.

Purpose: To investigate the presence and activity of protein phosphatase-2A (PPase2A), protein phosphatase-2C (PPase2C), and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) in the human aqueous humor (AH) of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and cataract and to study the correlation between these phosphatases and the redox state of the AH.

Methods: Eighty-six cataract patients and 29 POAG patients who were scheduled for cataract surgery with or without glaucoma surgery were enrolled in the study. PPase2A, PPase2C, and PTPs levels in AH were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, Western blot analyses, and spectral

Methods: The redox state was measured by spectral and fluorescent methods.

Prevalence of Epilepsy among Cataract Patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of epilepsy among patients undergoing cataract surgery.

Design: A retrospective observational case control study.

Methods: We calculated the prevalence of epilepsy among all the patients older than 50 years who underwent cataract surgery (years 2000-2007, n = 12,984) in a district of the largest health maintenance organization in Israel (the Central District of Clalit Health Services) and among 25,968 age and gender matched controls.

Homologous scleral graft for corneal perforation in a child.

Purpose: To show the emergency use of preserved homologous sclera for the repair of a perforated cornea in a young child.

Methods: Our case was a 3.5-year-old boy who presented with an acute corneal ulcer and endophthalmitis, which was complicated by a developing corneal melting and perforation of 2.

Retained ophthalmic viscosurgical device material in the capsular bag 6 months after phacoemulsification.

We present a 63-year-old man who developed low-grade endophthalmitis 6 months after phacoemulsification and implantation of a foldable posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL). The capsular bag was distended, but shallowing of the anterior chamber was not observed. Chemical analysis of the clear fluid aspirated from the capsular bag behind the IOL revealed the presence of an ophthalmic viscosurgical device.

Surgical management of corneal plaques in vernal keratoconjunctivitis: a clinicopathologic study.

Purpose: To describe the surgical management and histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings in corneal plaques of shield ulcers in vernal keratoconjunctivitis.

Patients And Methods: Three children (ages 4, 7.5, and 9) presented with corneal plaques unresponsive to conservative systemic and topical medical treatment.

Devastating endophthalmitis caused by Serratia marcescens in two recipients after transplantation of corneal grafts from the same donor.

We report two cases of severe endophthalmitis, which were caused by Serratia marcescens, and developed in the immediate postoperative period in two recipients of corneal grafts from the same donor. The cause of the donor's death was massive CVA. He had been on mechanical ventilation for 12 days before he died, and had shown no sign of infectious disease while in the hospital.