Ocul Immunol Inflamm
December 2024
Purpose: To determine the patterns of uveitis evident in patients presenting at the Uveitis Department of a tertiary care eye hospital located in Karachi, Pakistan.
Study Design: Prospective cross-sectional study.
Location And Duration Of Study: This study was conducted at Layton Rahmatullah Benevolent Trust (LRBT) Tertiary Teaching Eye Hospital-Korangi, Karachi, Pakistan from August 2020 to July 2023.
Background: This prospective experimental study was conducted on 40 eyes of 40 patients with complicated uveitic cataracts to compare a single intraoperative intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) with oral steroids for inflammation control after cataract extraction.
Methods: The IVTA group (19 eyes) received an intravitreal injection of 4 mg/0.1 ml triamcinolone acetonide intraoperatively, and the oral steroid group (19 eyes) received oral steroids peri-operatively.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
December 2022
A series of nine eyes of five patients at LRBT Tertiary Teaching Eye Hospital, from July 2020 to June 2021 is reported. Five patients with high clinical suspicion of CMV Retinitis were treated with weekly intravitreal injections of 2.0 mg ganciclovir for 3 weeks.
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November 2022
Objective: To determine the outcomes of using perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL) as postoperative tamponade in complex inferior retinal detachments.
Study Design: Quasi-experimental study.
Place And Duration Of Study: Layton Rahmatullah Benevolent Trust (LRBT) Eye Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, from January 2020 to December 2021.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
February 2022
Objective: To assess the functional and surgical long-term outcomes following epiretinal membrane surgery.
Study Design: Case series.
Place And Duration Of Study: Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust Tertiary Care Eye Hospital, Karachi, from January 2016 to December 2020.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
April 2014
Objective: To determine degree of agreement between visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and Papanicolaou's (Pap) smear as screening methods for cervical cancer.
Study Design: A cross-sectional study.
Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, from July to December 2012.
Objective: To compare the obstetric outcome in terms of risk of low birth weight, preterm delivery, cesarean section rate and anemia in primigravid adolescents and older primigravida.
Study Design: Cohort study.
Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, from July to December 2012.