purpose: to report treatment with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (ivta) in a patient with cystoid macular edema (cme) secondary to retinitis pigmentosa (rp). case report: a 22-year-old male patient with rp presented with progressive visual loss. visual acuity was 9/10 in the right eye and 10/10 in the left eye without refractive error. examination revealed cme in the right eye. after fail...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive value of flash visual-evoked potentials (VEP), relative afferent pupillary defect, and presence of orbital fractures in patients with traumatic optic neuropathy. METHODS A prospective study was conducted in 15 patients with indirect traumatic optic neuropathy. All patients underwent a thorough ophthalmic examination. Initial...

PURPOSE To investigate the efficacy of a computerized visual acuity test, the SNU visual acuity test for children. METHODS Fifty-six children, ranging from 1 to 5 years of age, were included. In a dark room, children gazed at and followed a circular dot with 50% contrast moving at a fixed velocity of 10 pixels/sec on a computer monitor. Eye movement was captured using a charge coupled device ...

purpose: to determine the effect of grid pattern laser photocoagulation on diabetic diffuse macular edema with assessment of visual outcome. patients & methods: the author reviewed the medical records of 84 eyes of 62 patients with diabetic diffuse macular edema treated with grid pattern green argon laser photocoagulation in farabi eye hospital between the years 1992-1995, the follow-up period ...

central retinal vein occlusion (crvo) is the third most common blinding vascular retinal disorder. as there is no proven treatment for crvo, we performed this study to evaluate the effectiveness of radial optic neurotomy (ron) on visual acuity in eyes with crvo. this study was designed as an interventional case series. pars plana vitrectomy with ron was performed in 18 eyes of 16 patients with ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical outcomes of cataract surgery using novel diffractive trifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) in Koreans. METHODS This was a retrospective, consecutive, interventional study of cataract surgery using POD FineVision IOL implantation. Complete ophthalmologic examinations were performed preoperatively and postoperatively. Defocus curves were assessed over a range of +1...