Microforceps-Assisted Transscleral Fixation of Intraocular Lens.

Purpose: This study presents a novel technique for intraocular lens (IOL) fixation. The technique can be used on single-piece acrylic IOLs and can manage patients who are either with aphakia or with a dislocated IOL.

Methods: One end of the Gore-Tex suture is tied into the optic-haptic junction of the IOL.

Orbital and conjunctival nontuberculous mycobacteria infection.

A 64-year-old female developed refractory red-eye with itching and watery discharge 2 weeks after being injured by a comb in the left eye. It presented as diffuse pinkish thickening of the bulbar conjunctiva. Biopsy and histological examinations revealed granulomatous inflammation with microgranuloma.

Dermis-fat graft as treatment of early implant exposure in a postpenetrating keratoplasty patient with nontraumatic eyeball rupture.

Orbital implant exposure may be the most common complication after evisceration surgery with orbital implantation. Management of implant exposure is a vital issue for oculoplastic surgeons. We present the case of a patient with nontraumatic eyeball rupture receiving dermis-fat graft after early implant exposure.

Risk of skin cancer in patients with pterygium: a nationwide population-based cohort study in Taiwan.

This study investigated the association between pterygium and skin cancer linking to ultraviolet (UV) radiation using claims data from 1997-2010, obtained from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. The study included 19,701 patients with pterygium and 78,804 sex- and age-frequency-matched comparison subjects. Multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to assess the relationship between pterygium and risk of skin cancer by the end of 2010.

Atypical Rosai-Dorfman disease with lacrimal gland involvement.

Purpose: Rosai-Dorfman disease is a rare, benign, idiopathic histocytic proliferative disorder that typically presents in young adults with painless cervical lymphadenopathy. Here we report an atypical case of Rosai-Dorfman disease involving orbit tissue and lacrimal gland, unilaterally.

Case: A 69-year-old Asian women developed a painless palpable mass with local edema over the left upper eyelid over several months.

Polymorphisms in steroidogenesis genes, sex steroid levels, and high myopia in the Taiwanese population.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship among single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in steroidogenesis enzyme genes, serum levels of sex steroids, and high myopia in Taiwanese male and female populations.

Methods: A campus-based sample of 283 cases (145 males and 138 females) with high myopia and 280 controls (144 males and 136 females) with low myopia or emmetropia was studied. Estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone levels were determined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits.

The association of haplotype at the lumican gene with high myopia susceptibility in Taiwanese patients.

Objective: To investigate the association of genetic polymorphisms in the dermatan sulfate proteoglycan 3 (DSPG3), lumican (LUM), and decorin (DCN) genes (component genes of the sclera) with high myopia susceptibility in Taiwanese people.

Design: Prospective case-control study.

Participants: Hospital clinic-based samples of 120 unrelated patients with extremely high myopia were studied.

The association of membrane frizzled-related protein (MFRP) gene with acute angle-closure glaucoma--a pilot study.

Purpose: The membrane frizzled-related protein (MFRP) has been proposed as a probable candidate gene for extreme hyperopia and nanophthalmos, which are factors for angle-closure glaucoma. The purpose of our study was to investigate whether there are significant associations between angle-closure glaucoma and sequence variants in the MFRP gene reported previously in Taiwanese subjects.

Methods: Genomic DNA was collected from 63 subjects with angle-closure glaucoma and 66 age-matched and gender-matched controls without angle-closure glaucoma.