PURPOSE To evaluate the outcomes of primary pterygium excision with adjunctive amniotic membrane transplantation. METHODS In an interventional case series, consecutive patients with primary pterygia underwent surgical excision with transplantation of preserved amniotic membrane onto bare sclera. Patients were followed for at least 12 months and the results were evaluated in terms of recurrent...

purpose: to present an extraocular muscle disinsertion in a pterygium surgery case report: a 61-year-old woman presenting an acute diplophia after a nasal pterygium surgery. the medical rectus muscle was cut during the primary surgery which was immediately reported and the muscle was reinserted to its original site and recovery was more or less obtained. conclusion: anatomical consideration met...

Abstract Background Cataract surgery is traumatic to the corneal epithelium,scarring and opacity commonest cause of blindness. Objective To study epithelial thickness in different conditions using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). Patients Methods A case-control including 80 eyes divided equally into 4 groups; group 1:controls,group 2:corneal scarring ,group 3:cataract pat...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to reflect anterior segment specialists’ current practice pattern regarding the management primary pterygium. Methods: A 24-item survey indications for surgery, different surgical techniques, use adjuvant pharmacological therapy, type intraoperative and postoperative preferred treatment early recurrences was sent members Saudi Ophthalmological Society (SOS)...

Background & Objectives: Pterygium is a fibrovascular degeneration of the conjunctiva. Ocular surface squamous neoplasia encompasses wide spectrum dysplastic changes including corneal and conjunctival intraepithelial cell carcinoma. They both share common risk factors can coexist concomitantly. This study aims to determine association between OSSN pterygium which will help improve management pt...

Background: A pterygium, known as surfer's eye, is a raised, wedge-shaped growth of the conjunctiva that extends onto cornea, outer layer eye. Aim was to compare safety, efficacy and outcome suture less technique with conjunctival autograft in management pterygium. Methods: This study carried out department ophthalmology, Sir Salimullah medical college Mitford hospital, Dhaka. Study period July...

Pterygium is a disease of unknown origin and pathogenesis that can be vision threatening. Several researchers believe that pterygium is UV-related and that abnormal expression of p53 protein and infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) are risk factors for pterygium, but their experiments have been inconclusive. We investigated its relation with p53 protein expression, p53 gene codon 72 polymo...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have demonstrated that pterygium has a close relationship with dry eye disease. This study is to determine abnormalities in meibomian gland and tear function in patients with pterygium and to assess the relationship between the variables. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty eyes from forty patients with primary nasal pterygium and forty eyes from forty volunteers without ocu...

Erythropoietin (Epo) induces physiological activities such as cell proliferation, migration, and angiogenesis in Epo receptor (EpoR)-expressing vascular endothelial and tumor cells. Recently, it has been demonstrated that growth factor-independent proliferation is frequently observed during the cell transformation process. Pterygium is a fibrovascular proliferating tissue that includes transfor...

Background and aim Pterygium is one of the most prevalent pathologies involving the cornea, which can lead to various vision signs and even reduction in eyesight. No accurate estimate has been reported about the prevalence of pterygium in Iran. Hence, this study aimed to determine the pterygium prevalence in Iran by meta-analysis method. Methods Searching for data of the last eleven years (fr...