AIMS To evaluate the efficacy of amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for ocular surface reconstruction. METHODS 10 consecutive patients who underwent AMT were included. The indications were: group ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS During the healing of corneal epithelial wounds with limbal involvement, conjunctival epithelium often migrates across the denuded limbus to cover the corneal surface. It is believed ...

Background: Cataract remains the leading cause of global blindness. Evidence from population-based surveys, carried out up to 2000, and the launch of the VISION 2020 initiative to address avoidable ...

2 Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy (GDLD) is a rare autosomal recessive form of corneal dystrophy ...

AIMS To estimate the incidence of corneal melting or necrotising keratitis in association with systemic disease in the Yorkshire Region and to determine the type and duration of the systemic ...

Aims To investigate the relationship between quantitative iris parameters and angle closure disease. Methods Participants with angle closure were recruited prospectively from glaucoma clinics.

Forty-nine patients with open-angle glaucoma and 32 controls were studied at each of 2 medical centres, one in California and one in England. A 12-point questionnaire was answered before, immediately ...

2 L V Prasad Eye Institute, Brien Holden Eye Research Center, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India 3 L V Prasad Eye Institute, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India Correspondence to Dr Savitri Sharma, L V ...

Mr Michael O’ Keefe, The Children’s Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. AIMS/BACKGROUND Pharmacological penalisation of non-amblyopic eyes is an infrequently used alternative to occlusion for ...

1 Glaucoma Research Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London EC1V 2PD, UK 2 Department of Research and Development, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London EC1V 2PD, UK Correspondence to: D F Garway-Heath MD, ...

1 School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China 2 First Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, ...

The most common cause of bilateral and unilateral exophthalmus among adults is Graves’ disease. Unilateral exophthalmus, although frequently seen in connection with thyroid diseases, has a much larger ...