Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the presence of ocular symptoms was common in COVID-19 patients, which can cause secondary complications in the treatment of ocular diseases. On the other hand, obesity can cause secondary symptoms in infectious diseases by impairing the function of the immune system, which indicates the relationship between involvement of different tissues and dysfunct...

results this cross-sectional study included 92 patients (47 male and 45 female) with mean age of 32.1 ± 13.16 years (ranging from nine to 61 years of age). mean duration of vitiligo was 10.84 ± 10.17 years. the most common distribution of the lesions was on the upper limbs (60.8%) and the least was on the genital region (10.8%). positive family history was found in 26 (28.3%) patients. diabetes...

purpose : to determine the relationship between refractive errors and ocular components values in carpet weavers methods : refractive errors and ocular components values were investigated on carpet weavers at mashhad city in iran . after selection of samples, the individuals who had ophthalmic and systemic disease effective on the refractive errors were excluded from the study. refractive error...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of childhood corneal opacity on the anteroposterior length of the globe in adulthood. methods: twenty-three patients with significant unilateral corneal opacity which had developed before the age of 6 years and the normal fellow eyes (controls) were evaluated. a comprehensive ocular examination including measurement of anterioposterior length and anterior chamber...

purpose: to determine the distribution of oculomotor, abducens, and trochlear nerve palsies in diabetic patients with ocular nerve palsy. methods: this study was performed on all diabetic patients who referred to ophthalmology and neurology clinics at yazd medical science university because of ocular palsy from march 2004 to october 2005. signs and symptoms of the disorder were evaluated. resul...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Ocular pulse amplitude, the amplitude of the ocular pneumoplethysmographic waveform, is altered in several ophthalmologic diseases that disturb ocular blood flow, implying that ocular pulse amplitude may provide an estimate of ocular blood flow. Because ocular blood flow currently cannot be quantified in humans, two experiments were undertaken to evaluate the association ...

Ocular prosthesis is artificial replacement of the eye, for patients who have lost an eye as result trauma or a carcinoma, accurate with ocular that symmetrical to natural essential. The present article describes simple laboratory method fabricating by using conventional materials fit and esthetic treatment outcome custom made technique.

purpose: to determine any possible correlation between delayed ocular complications with late-onset complications of mustard gas poisoning in other systems including skin, respiratory tract, and immunohematologic system. methods: the study was conducted on 40 chemical war victims in khorasan province, iran. ophthalmologic and dermatologic examinations and spirometry were performed for all patie...

purpose: to assess orbital color doppler ultrasonography (cdu) parameters of patients with manifest hyperopia in comparison to the emmetropes methods: forty eyes of 40 patients presenting with manifest hyperopia were included into the study. forty eyes of 40 emmetropes healthy volunteers also were examined as the control group. we have evaluated ophthalmic artery (oa), central retinal artery (c...

purpose : to present the clinical features, biomechanical properties and management of a patient who developed unilateral corneal ectasia after photorefractive keratectomy (prk) case report : the patient was a 24-year-old man without any obvious preoperative risk factor for ectasia who underwent bilateral prk. four years after keratorefractive surgery, the patient presented with loss of visual ...