Optic neuritis.

Optic neuritis usually presents with painful monocular vision loss in younger patients. Spontaneous improvement in vision occurs over weeks, and treatment with high-dose intravenous steroids increases the rate but not extent of visual recovery. Risk of progression to multiple sclerosis (MS) is largely dictated by baseline brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Surgery for trichiasis by ophthalmologists versus integrated eye care workers: a randomized trial.

Objective: To study the outcome of bilamellar tarsal rotation (BTR) trichiasis surgery performed by ophthalmologists versus that done by integrated eye care workers (IECWs).

Design: Randomized prospective interventional trial.

Participants: Nine hundred eighty-two patients with various degrees of trachomatous trichiasis in central Ethiopia.