Herpes simplex virus uveitis without corneal reactivation is more frequent than previously thought. Although herpes has been implicated as a cause of postoperative and endophthalmitis, it not reported acute endophthalmitis within the early period, specifically one week following cataract extraction. A 55-year-old man with vascularized irregular central disc-shaped stromal opacity complicated ca...

UNLABELLED Improvements in phacoemulsification technology and instrumentation and intraocular lens materials and design have enabled cataract surgery to be performed through incisions smaller than 2.0 mm in external width. This evolution has occurred over time, with new challenges arising at each step of the decrease in incision size. This article reviews the current trend of using increasingly...

PURPOSE To compare the hemostatic effect of sulfur hexafluoride 20% (SF6 20%) with lactated Ringer's solution for prevention of early postoperative vitreous hemorrhage following diabetic vitrectomy. METHODS In a prospective randomized clinical trial, 50 eyes undergoing diabetic vitrectomy were divided into two groups. At the conclusion of surgery, in one group the vitreous cavity was filled w...

Aim: To examine the outcome of a triamcinolone acetonide (TA) assisted pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for refractory uveitis. Methods: Six patients suffering from proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) with refractory uveitis underwent a TA assisted PPV. The patients consisted of one with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, one with acute retinal necrosis, one with Behçet’s disease, and three with sarcoi...

Purpose. The pathogenesis of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) remains incompletely understood, with no clinically effective treatment for potentially severe complications such as photoreceptor cell death and proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Here we investigate the protein profile of the vitreous following experimental retinal detachment using a comparative proteomic based approach. Mater...

PURPOSE To determine the incidence of and risk factors for posterior capsule rupture and vitreous loss during phacoemulsification performed by ophthalmology residents. SETTING Academic ophthalmology resident training center, Tehran, Iran. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS This study included patients who had phacoemulsification by ophthalmology residents from August 2010 to August 201...

Cataract surgery, meaning exchange of the opaque lens in the eye with an artificial lens, is nowadays one of the most successful surgical procedures ever known. It is also the most frequent surgery performed in the Western world. In Sweden alone, more than 100,000 cataract operations are performed annually. Severe complications are rare, occurring only in a few percent of the patients, but owin...

purpose: to compare the visual outcomes and complications of phacoemulsification surgery in patients with and without vitreous loss (vl). methods: a historical cohort study was performed on patients attending labbafinejad hospital who had underwent phacoemulsification surgery and was complicated by vl from april 2006 to march 2007. a control group was selected randomly from patients with uncomp...