PURPOSE To compare the effectiveness, efficiency and complications of three different surgical techniques employed for the treatment of macular holes between 1998 -2004 in our health care centre. METHODS A retrospective, comparative, and non-randomized study of 131 eyes with macular holes, stage III and IV, treated with three different surgical techniques was performed. Vitrectomy was perform...

Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice), is used for therapeutic purposes since ages. Neuropathic pain a disease with complex pathophysiology, involving dysfunction in multiple ion channel receptors such as sodium, transient receptor potential channels, neurotransmitters, inflammatory mediators and reactive oxygen species. Network pharmacology newly emerging approach dealing understanding mechanism of ac...

In retinas of rats (RCS) with inherited retinal dystrophy, cells interpreted as macrophages infiltrate the outer nuclear layer and subsequently appear in the interphotoreceptor space, where they accummulate during the course of the disease. The morphology and distribution of these cells and their relations to the pigment epithelial cells were investigated. Macrophages, regardless of their locat...

Introduction: Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) is associated with sensorineural retinal detachment in the macular region. The condition that affects male gender more than their female counterpart results from focal leakage disturbance of pigment epithelial cells and choroidal abnormalities. corticosteroid highlighted as one major factors promote occurrence CSCR. Stress pregnancy, especia...

OBJECTIVE To describe peripapillary detachment in pathologic myopia (PDPM), a newly recognized fundus lesion. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. METHODS We evaluated a series of myopic eyes that had a yellow-orange elevation of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium at the inferior border of the myopic conus. RESULTS Twenty eyes of 15 patients were identified during a 17-year ...

The presence of pigment granules in the anterior vitreous, in the absence of previous ocular surgery, is almost pathognomonic of a retinal break (Shafer, I 965). To investigate the accuracy of this observation, a consecutive series of patients with retinal holes were examined. Method All patients presenting to us over an i8-month period at Moorfields Eye Hospital with rhegmatogenous retinal det...

Purpose To assess the evolution of retinal findings in patients with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) by funduscopy, intravenous fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography. Observations Three women and one man were followed for a period of 1.5-37 years. Four patients (8 eyes) had drusen detected at first fundus exam at age 24, 29, 50 and 55. Three patients (6 eyes...

Serous retinal detachment is an unusual cause of visual loss in preeclampsia. We report the case of 24-years-old primipara with severe preeclampsia who developed bilateral serous retinal detachment a few hours after delivery. A few weeks after delivery there was spontaneous resorption of the subretinal fluid and complete resolution bilateral serous retinal detachment, with residual pigmentary c...

Ocular masquerade syndrome was diagnosted in two patients with chronic uveitis. The patients presented non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as the final diagnosis two forms of intraocular retinal pigment epithelium involvement was seen. One case was flecks of the retinal pigment epithelium and another case was a solid retinal pigment epithelium detachment. These unusual presentations of non-Hodgkin's lymphom...