PURPOSE To look at the correlation between many factors (time of hospitalization, floppy eyelid syndrome, trichiasis, open lacrimal puncta, symblepharon, and aqueous tear deficiency) and corneal complications in Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS). DESIGN Observational cases series. PATIENTS Clinical data were retrospectively reviewed from 38 patients (32.7+/-20.1 years old) with SJS (n = 11) an...

PURPOSE Trachoma is a major cause of blindness in Ethiopia, and targeted for elimination as a public health problem by the year 2020. Prevalence data are needed to plan interventions. We set out to estimate the prevalence of trachoma in each evaluation unit of grouped districts ("woredas") in Benishangul Gumuz region, Ethiopia. METHODS We conducted seven cross-sectional community-based survey...

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 100 | 2017 W hen the fi rst issue of the Community Eye Health Journal was being sent to readers around the world in 1988, trachoma was at a turning point. One of the two foundational clinical trials establishing the eff ectiveness of the bilamellar tarsal rotation procedure for trachomatous trichiasis had just been completed; the other was about...

suffer from low vision or blindness from avoidable causes.1–3 This is, in large part, because women are not using eye care services as frequently as men, especially in rural areas.4–5 A 2002 community-based survey of 4,500 people in Al Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt showed that the prevalence of cataract in women was double that in men and that trachomatous trichiasis was four times as prevalen...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic hyperendemic disease in Isfahan. Its lesions can be solitary or multiple depending on the number of insect bites and is usually seen exposed areas. The possibility of insect bite on palpebral area is rare due to the protection by eyelashes and palpebral motion. In this area, lesions are usually presented as chalazion, dacryocystitis and rarely ulcera...

Enteopium of the upper lids is very frequently met with amongst our dispensary patients, and in several instances I have found both the upper and lower lids affected. The native Jarrahs have apparently only one mode of operating in such cases, which consists in removing a large piece of integument, extending from the eyebrow down some distance ou the upper lid, the extensive wound thus made is ...

Dr. K. N. Pradhan, writing from Nagpur, draws attention to the number of different operations advocated for trichiasis, and the unsatisfactory results obtained. He strongly advocates electrolysis. Two or three sittings may be required, but the results are good and the effect is permanent. With regard to technique, he notes the following points:? (1) The patient should be instructed to let the e...

BACKGROUND Trachoma remains a significant cause of blindness in many parts of the world. The major route to blindness involves upper lid entropion leading to trachomatous trichiasis (TT), which promotes progressive corneal opacification. The provision of surgery to correct TT in the populations most severely affected is a major challenge for the global effort to eliminate trachoma blindness by ...

A series of 112 eyelids with symptomatic aberrant eyelashes were treated by cryotherapy using a specially designed large-surfaced high-flow nitrous oxide probe. Either thermocouple control to -20 degrees C or timing of the application to 20 seconds (lower lid) or 25 seconds (upper lid) was used to monitor the freeze. Both techniques obtained a high cure rate and a low incidence of complications.