purpose: to evaluate the adverse effects of intravitreal injection of sterile chloramphenicol eye drops on corneal endothelial cells of donated corneas. methods: 100 donor corneas were enrolled in the study. one eye of each donor underwent intravitreal injection of sterile chloramphenicol eye drops following vitreous tap and the fellow eyes were served as controls. after corneo-scleral excision...

corneal transplantation is the most common and successful form of solid organ transplantation with a 2-year survival rate of over 90% in low risk cases. this high success rate may be due to the immune privileged status of the cornea, acaid (anterior chamber associated immune deviation) induction phenomena and secretion of inhibitory molecules by corneal cells such as il1-ra, il-1a and fas ligan...

the objectives of this study were to define the clinical risk factors, microbiological spectrum, and visual outcome of bacterial keratitis at shahid sadoughi hospital (yazd, iran). a crosssectional prospective study, identified 80 cases of microbial keratitis from march 1999 to march 2001. inclusion criteria were presence of corneal stromal infiltrate in slit lamp examination, and microbiologic...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate posterior corneal surface variation after femtosecond laser-assisted keratomileusis in patients with myopia and myopic astigmatism. Patients were evaluated by corneal tomography preoperatively and at 1, 6, and 12 months. We analyzed changes in the posterior corneal curvature, posterior corneal elevation, and anterior chamber depth. Moreover, we explored...

Prof. Leonardo Mastropasqua is Director at the National High-Tech Eye Center, Ophthalmology Clinic, Department of Medicine and Aging Science, University G. D’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy. In following editorial, talk about prospects for corneal lenticule implantation. Mario Nubile Associate Professor same faculty. Both are specialized in corneal, cataract refractive surgery focus on i...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that self-sampling for hrHPV testing (HPV self-sampling) is highly acceptable to women, increases screening participation rate, and may therefore further reduce cervical cancer incidence. However, it is important to clinically validate HPV self-sampling procedures for screening purposes. OBJECTIVES Clinical validation of combined brush-based self-sampling with GP...

A nested multiplex PCR (NMPCR) assay that combines degenerate E6/E7 consensus primers and type-specific primers was evaluated for the detection and typing of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes 6/11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, and 68 using HPV DNA-containing plasmids and cervical scrapes (n = 1,525). The performance of the NMPCR assay relative to that of co...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of the intrastromal corneal ring, a device developed to reduce myopia, on corneal asphericity in a large set of eye bank eyes. METHODS Forty-one deturgesced eye bank eyes were implanted with intrastromal corneal rings of five different thicknesses, ranging from 0.25 mm to 0.45 mm. Corneal asphericity, before and after implantation, was examined using two diff...

purpose: to evaluate changes in indications of corneal transplantation at labbafinejad medical center during 2001-2003. methods: records of 563 from 684 patients who had undergone corneal transplantation from oct. 2001 to oct. 2003 were evaluated. all the procedures were performed by corneal surgeons and fellows. findings: there were 292 male (51.9%) and 217 female (48.1%) subjects ranging in a...