They see, they learn: Pre-COVID-19 prevalence of refractive errors in school children in suburban areas of North India.

Purpose: India has the largest population of youth in the world, thereby making them important contributors to the "India of Tomorrow". Over 80% of knowledge gained is by the visual sense, thereby making school screening programs a necessity in our country. Data from the pre-COVID era, that is, 2017-18 was collected from close to 19,000 children in Gurugram, Haryana, a tier two city in National Capital Region, India.

The painless eye: Neurotrophic keratitis in a child suffering from hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy type IV.

Hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy (HSAN) is a group of inherited disorders (total 5 types) that are associated with sensory dysfunction and varying degrees of autonomic dysfunction. HSAN type IV (HSAN-IV) or congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis (CIPA) is a rare genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. We report a case of this very rare genetic disease in a 3-year-old girl child, born to a family in north India with ocular features of neurotrophic keratitis.

An Unusual Case of Solitary Idiopathic Pigmented Vitreous Cyst.

Vitreous cysts are a rare finding and rarely cause any visual disturbances. They are often classified as idiopathic when their etiology cannot be determined. They may be congenital or acquired and pigmented or nonpigmented.

Etiological causes and epidemiological characteristics of patients with occupational corneal foreign bodies: A prospective study in a hospital-based setting in India.

Purpose: Corneal foreign bodies (CFBs) due to occupational exposure have been largely ignored in Indian literature, especially nonmetal workers. Our study looks at a broad range of occupations and settings that contribute to CFB in our local Indian population.

The Study Objective Was To: determine the occupations, level of education and demographics of patients presenting with CFB acquired during occupational work.