in ordere to determine the prognosis of perforating eye injuries caused hy bb guns in our patients, the visual and anatomic results of 14 patients with gun injuries seen between september 1996 and february 1998 in farafti hospital and private office in tehran were reviewed. five patients liad nonn erf orating eye injuries. all perforated eyes underwent scleral buckling, tenseclomy, vitrectomy a...

BACKGROUND: The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the surgical outcome for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD) associated with Behçet’s disease (BD). METHODS: The current retrospective study included all patients operated for rhegmatogenous RD associated with BD in our institution from June 2007 to June 2012. Surgical repair was done either by scleral buckling (SB) or pars plana vi...

PURPOSE To study the characteristics of late-onset retinal detachments in patients with regressed retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and the condition of their fellow eyes. METHODS We carried out a retrospective review of 29 patients (38 eyes) who had been treated at two institutions, one in the US and the other in Japan, between 1986 and 1997. The age at the time of treatment ranged from 6 to ...

BACKGROUND To study the effect of retinal/ vitreoretinal surgeries on corneal elevations. METHODS Patients who underwent retinal/ vitreoretinal surgeries were divided into 3 groups. Scleral buckling was performed in 11 eyes (Group 1). In 8 (25%) eyes, vitreoretinal surgery was performed along with scleral buckling (Group 2). In 12 eyes, pars plana vitrectomy was performed for vitreous hemorrh...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical features, etiology, prevention, and treatment of the inferior oblique muscle (IO) adherence syndrome. METHODS This series consists of 12 patients treated for a restrictive hypotropia in which the middle portion of the IO was scarred anteriorly, either into or near the inferior rectus muscle (IR) insertion, after prior surgery. RESULTS Among the 12 patients...