Mitomycin-C is a chemotherapeutic drug that acts by inhibiting DNA synthesis. Its use and application in ophthalmology has been increasing in recent years because of its mandatory effects on wound healing. Current applications include pterygium surgery, glaucoma surgery, corneal refractive surgery, cictracial eye disease, conjunctivalneoplasia, dacryocystorhinostomy surgeries and allergic eye d...

An emergency is defined as an event that has to be dealt with immediately, usually within the first hour after presentation. The commonest eye emergencies that fall into this category are chemical burns of the eye and retinal artery occlusion. Neither of these requires surgery as part of the initial management. The majority of cases presenting as emergencies can therefore be defined as urgent c...

Recent advances in the field of refractive surgery have prioritized visual quality as a primary clinical parameter in the treatment of these patients. Dry eye symptoms are one of the most frequent causes of complaints of those patients who undergo refractive or cataract surgery, most often in the immediate post-operative phase. The patients who undergo cataract surgery show relatively higher ch...

AIM To analyse possible predictors of the self assessed functional outcome of a cataract extraction. METHODS The patients' self assessed visual function was studied by use of a questionnaire, the "Catquest", before and 6 months after surgery. All patients (n=1933, mean age 75.5 years, 66.8% women) who were undergoing cataract surgery in March 1995, in 35 different departments of ophthalmology...

purpose: to determine the prevalence and to describe the demographic pattern of congenital cataract surgery performed at a referral hospital in iran during four consecutive years with respect to sex inequality in receiving eye care. methods: all children aged 15 years or less who had undergone congenital cataract surgery between 2006 and 2009 in labbafinejad medical center were enrolled in this...

PURPOSE To determine whether dizziness and falls rates change due to routine cataract surgery and to determine the influence of spectacle type and refractive factors. METHODS Self-reported dizziness and falls were determined in 287 patients (mean age of 76.5 ± 6.3 years, 55% females) before and after routine cataract surgery for the first (81, 28%), second (109, 38%) and both eyes (97, 34%). ...

OBJECTIVE To perform a reference case cost-utility analysis of second-eye cataract surgery by using the current literature on cataract outcomes and complications. DESIGN Computer-based econometric modeling. METHODS Visual acuity data of patients treated and observed over a 4-month postoperative period were obtained from the U.S. National Cataract Patient Outcomes Research Team report. The r...

BACKGROUND Elective cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the NHS. In bilateral cataracts, the eye with greatest vision impairment from cataract is operated on first. First-eye surgery can improve vision and quality of life. However, it is unclear whether or not cataract surgery on the second eye provides enough incremental benefit to be considered clinically eff...