Publications by authors named "Siganos D"
Purpose: To assess the influence of recipient corneal pathology on the performance of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (PDCT) (Swiss Microtechnology AG) by comparing it to Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) in post-penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) eyes.
Methods: Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured in 40 post-PKP eyes of 40 patients using PDCT and GAT. The study patients were divided into two groups.
Purpose: To assess the performance of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (PDCT) (Swiss Microtechnology AG) by comparing it to Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and noncontact air tonometry (NCT) in keratoconic eyes.
Methods: Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured in both eyes of 32 patients with keratoconus using PDCT, GAT, and NCT. IOP measurements were also obtained with all 3 instruments in 46 patients with healthy eyes in the same age range, which served as controls.
Purpose: To assess the performance of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (PDCT) (Swiss Microtechnology AG) by comparing it to Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and noncontact air tonometry (NCT) before and after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).
Setting: Vlemma Eye Institute, Athens, Greece.
Methods: Intraocular pressure was measured in 118 eyes before and 1 and 4 weeks after LASIK using GAT, NCT, and the PDCT, which allows direct, digital, transcorneal measurement of intraocular pressure.
Purpose: To determine the efficacy of brimonidine tartrate 0.2% drops given 2 times a day in reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) spikes during the first 24 hours after phacoemulsification cataract surgery.
Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital of Patras Agios Andreas, Patras, Greece.
Purpose: To correlate cycloplegic subjective refraction with cycloplegic autorefractometry in eyes that have had laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).
Setting: Vlemma Eye Institute, Athens, Greece.
Methods: Subjective refraction and autorefractometry under cycloplegia were performed in 73 eyes of 46 patients 1, 6, and 12 months after LASIK to correct myopia or myopic astigmatism.
Ferrara intrastromal corneal rings for the correction of keratoconus.
J Cataract Refract Surg
November 2002
Purpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Ferrara intrastromal corneal rings in the treatment of eyes with keratoconus without central corneal scarring.
Setting: Vlemma Eye Institute, Athens, Greece.
Methods: Twenty-six patients with bilateral keratoconus, clear central corneas, and contact lens intolerance participated in the study.
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) on tear secretion.
Methods: A non-consecutive series of 42 eyes of 42 patients had LASIK for the correction of myopia and myopic astigmatism. The fellow eye served as a control.
Tear secretion following spherical and astigmatic excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.
J Cataract Refract Surg
November 2000
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of spherical and astigmatic excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy (PRK and PARK, respectively) on tear secretion.
Setting: The Vlemma Eye Center, Athens, Greece.
Methods: Forty-eight eyes of 48 patients had PRK (28 eyes) or PARK (20 eyes) for the correction of myopia and combined myopic astigmatism.
Clear lens extraction and intraocular lens implantation in Marfan's syndrome.
J Cataract Refract Surg
May 2000
Intracapsular clear crystalline lens extraction and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation were performed in 4 highly myopic eyes of 2 patients with Marfan's syndrome. One eye of each patient received an anterior chamber IOL and the other, a scleral-fixated posterior chamber IOL. The preoperative spherical equivalent ranged between -14.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To describe the clinical and optical problems encountered in contact lens fitting following refractive surgery for high myopia.
Methods: Following refractive surgery for high myopia (greater than -10.00 D) we corrected residual refractive errors with contact lenses in the four eyes of two patients.
Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in a randomized sample of the inhabitants of the island of Crete.
Patients And Methods: In 18 different villages in all four prefectures of the island of Crete, patients were randomly selected from 1993 through 1998, and an in situ study was accomplished. The sampling fraction (covered by the 1991 census) in each village was approximately 5%.
Purpose: This paper presents the results of the last seven years with LASIK for the treatment of myopia.
Methods: 4170 eyes of 3163 patients with a mean preoperative spherical equivalent--9.66 diopters were submitted to LASIK.
We examined 63 patients with beta-thalassemia whose ages range from 7 to 57 years. Lens opacities were presented in 14 patients--22%. The period these persons had transfusions and were submitted to iron chelating drug--deferoxamine and the concentration of there serum ferritin in the last seven years were noted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To relate myopic regression after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) to subepithelial haze at the first postoperative month.
Methods: One hundred nineteen eyes of 119 patients underwent excimer laser PRK for treatment of myopia up to -8.00 D.
Background: The Autonomous Technologies LADARVision excimer laser system utilizes an eye tracking mechanism and a small spot for photorefractive keratectomy.
Methods: One hundred and two eyes of 102 patients were treated for -1.50 to -6.
Purpose: This study compared the duration of corneal reepithelialization between photorefractive (PRK) and photoastigmatic (PARK) keratectomy and evaluated the possible correlation of the epithelial healing rate with clinical parameters as well as the refractive outcome.
Methods: The duration until complete reepithelialization was examined in 33 eyes of 33 patients (14 men), not suffering from any known disease, who underwent PRK or PARK surgery. In all cases, a +0.
Background: We report 2 eyes of 2 patients with nystagmus and myopia who underwent photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) to correct myopia.
Methods: A 32-year old male patient with a baseline spectacle-corrected visual acuity of 20/40 had PRK with an Aesculap Meditec MEL 60 excimer laser with a suction ring system for correction of a spherical equivalent of -8.25 diopters (D).
Background: Disposable soft contact lenses are known to be colonized by bacteria and play a key role in bacterial keratitis pathogenesis. Such lenses, commonly used after laser refractive surgery procedures in which postoperative corneal infiltrations are sometimes observed, are potentially a substrate for bacterial inoculation. This study evaluates the extent of such a contamination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Our results of clear lens extraction and intraocular lens implantation to correct hyperopia from +6.75 to +13.75 D are presented, as well as evaluation of two intraocular lens calculation formulae.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the efficacy of topical zinc desferrioxamine in acute corneal alkali injury in rabbits.
Methods: Twenty rabbits were anesthetized and a standardized alkali burn (1N NaOH) was performed in the center of the cornea (7.5-mm diameter).
Purpose: To present our early experience in methodology and results of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) in treating moderate and high myopia.
Setting: Vardinoyannion Eye Institute of Crete and the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece.
Methods: Forty-three moderately to highly myopic eyes has LASIK.