PURPOSE To examine the correlation between health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scores [assessed using the generic Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire] and vision-related quality of life (VRQOL) scores [assessed using the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ25)]. METHODS Cross-sectional analytic study. All surviving participants of the Blue Mountains Eye ...

Considerably diminished quality of life (QoL) is observed in patients with visual field defects after lesions affecting the visual pathway. But little is known to what extent vision-and health-related QoL impairments are associated with psychological distress. In 24 patients with chronic visual field defects (mean age=56.17±12.36) the National Eye Institute-visual functioning questionnaire (NEI...

Martin B. Wax,1,2 Gülgün Tezel,3,4 Junjie Yang,1 Guanghua Peng,5 Rajkumar V. Patil,1 Neeraj Agarwal,6 Rebecca M. Sappington,7 and David J. Calkins7 1Ophthalmology Discovery Research, Alcon Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas 76134, 2Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas 75390-9057, Departments of 3Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and 4Anatomical...

PURPOSE To compare the visual acuity (VA) and quality of vision between bilateral implantation of a trifocal intraocular lens (IOL) and blended bifocal IOLs with an intermediate add in the dominant eye and a near add in the nondominant eye. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with either trifocal or blended bifocal IOLs implanted were recruited after surgery. Subjects returned for a single diagnost...

Patient O., born in 1965, was admitted to the State Institution “О.S. Kolomiychenko Otolaryngology Institute of National Academy Medical Sciences Ukraine” with complaints diplopia eyes, discomfort left eye. According anamnesis, he has been suffered for several years. On objective examination, there limited mobility eyeball inward and downward. The patient's visual acuity not impaired.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationship between foveal morphology and self-perceived visual function in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and whether foveal characteristics are associated with Ranibizumab treatment response on the self-perceived visual function. METHODS This prospective cohort study included patients with newly diagnosed neovascular AMD found...

Bridging the gap: global disparity processing in the human 2 visual cortex 3 4 Benoit R. Cottereau 5 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 6 Suzanne P. McKee 7 Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA 8 Anthony M. Norcia 9 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 10 11 12 Corresponding Author: Benoit R. Cottereau 13 14 Adress: Department of Psychology | Jordan Hall, Buildi...

The National Eye Institute developed a visual functioning questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) designed to assess health-related quality of life of patients with visual impairments. The developers of the NEI-VFQ distributed the original 52 items into 13 different domains. The recommended method for scoring the NEI-VFQ is to linearly transform the sum of the ordinal ratings to each item within each domain to...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between low contrast letter acuity, a new visual function test for multiple sclerosis (MS) trials, and vision targeted health related quality of life (HRQOL). METHODS Patients in this cross sectional study were part of an ongoing investigation of visual function in MS. Patients were tested binocularly using low contrast letter acuity and Early Treatment Diabe...