Background: Penetrating keratoplasty is commonly performed surgery in patients suffering from corneal blindness and visual impairment, where full thickness diseased cornea replaced with healthy cornea. This study aims to outline indications of outcomes following the procedure.
 Materials Methods: retrospective, hospital-based included 48 eyes subjects fulfilling inclusion criteria underwen...

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors affecting the visual outcome in patients with open globe injuries of eye. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a prospective interventional study of consecutive patients with open globe injuries, the age, gender, place of injury, object causing injury and safety precautions taken were recorded. A detailed examination of the eye was done with a slit-lamp. X-rays of the o...

BACKGROUND Many patients who suffer unilateral non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) will eventually develop the same condition in their other eye, worrying them about losing vision in both eyes. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to determine whether it is possible to predict the visual outcome of the consecutive NAION event based on initial presentation and to compare mea...

OBJECTIVE To examine the characteristics and visual outcome in 207 patients with retinal vasculitis. METHODS Demographic and visual outcome data were collected retrospectively from the ophthalmologic records of 207 cases (321 affected eyes). Descriptive analysis was performed on all cases and visual outcome analysis was performed for the 114 cases with visual acuity recorded at 2 or more visi...

PURPOSE To establish which factors influence visual outcome after penetrating keratoplasty combined with intraocular lens implantation. METHODS This retrospective noncomparative clinical interventional case series study included 135 consecutive patients (mean age 70.2 +/- 13.6 years) who underwent central penetrating allogenic keratoplasty combined with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation, al...

PURPOSE To study the long-term visual outcome of primary microtropia. METHODS A retrospective review was made on 31 patients with primary microtropia with the follow-up period of 5 years or more (5-15 years, mean=9.2 years) seen during 16 years from 1985 to 2000 at Okayama University Hospital. The patients were 16 boys and 15 girls, with the age at the initial visit ranging from 5 to 16 years...

I read with interest a recent article by Chae et al., which was published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. In their study, the use of clopidogrel was associated with poor visual outcome at 2 years. The authors postulated that this association may be related to the association between neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cardiovascular disease. I agree with the ...

 Background: Recurrence rate of rotator cuff tears is still high despite the improvements of surgical techniques, materials used and a better knowledge of the healing process of the rotator cuff tendons. Large to massive rotator cuff tears are particularly associated with a high failure rate, especially in elderly. Augmentation of rotator cuff repairs with extracellular matrix or synthetic patc...