ophthalmologists visit patients with “20/20” vision post-op who are not satisfied and at times encounter cases with significantly lower visual acuity who are totally satisfied quality of life is at the heart of this.   quality of life (qol) approach—in the healthcare context—advocates a focus on the softer psychosocial aspects of health care vis-à-vis the harder biological aspects and the adopt...

1 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, FEDERAL University of São Paulo—UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 New York-Presbyterian Hospital at The Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 3Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 4OHSU Oregon Health & Science University, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, OR...

bebig ruthenium-106 ophthalmic plaques have been used for treatment of uveal melanoma, retinoblastoma, melanoma of the iris and other special applications for many years. the plaques consist of a thin film of 106ru, a beta emitter, encapsulated in pure silver. the present work proposes a new mathematical eye model for ophthalmic brachytherapy dosimetry. this new model includes detailed descript...

FUCHS, ALBERT F., AND DAVID A. ROBINSON. A method for measuring horizontal and vertical eye movement chronically in the monkey. J. Appl. Physiol. 21(s) : 1068-1070. I g66.-Eye movements are measured chronically in the monkey by surgically implanting a coil of fine wire upon the eyeball beneath the bulbar conjunctiva and recti insertions. The ends of the coil are led to a connector mounted on th...

PURPOSE To elucidate the effect of the cotton thread test (CT-T) and Schirmer test (S-T) on the tear reservoir by evaluating the radius of tear meniscus curvature. METHODS The radii (R) of the central lower tear menisci were measured by a newly developed video meniscometer in 11 eyes of 11 normal volunteers (6 men, 5 women; mean age, 27.7 +/- 3.6 years [SD]) and 9 eyes of 9 patients with tear...

PURPOSE Following decapitation, the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea regenerates its head and eyes. The gene ovo is required for eye maintenance and regeneration in response to wounding. In this study, we investigated whether eye regeneration in S. mediterranea could occur absent a wound healing response. METHODS One hundred twenty S. mediterranea were treated with ovo RNA interference (RNAi)...

purpose: to report the characteristics of children referred to the emergency department of feiz medical center with penetrating eye injuries. methods: in a cross-sectional study, children with penetrating eye trauma were evaluated. age, sex, parents educational level, time, location, and cause of trauma recorded and compared. results: overall, 100 patients with mean age of 7±3.8 (range 2 to 16 ...

kindler's syndrome is a rare entity of unknown cause characterized by acral blisters early in life followed by progressive diffuse poikiloderma and cutaneous atrophy. the inheritance pattern of this syndrome is not clear. we report four iranian siblings (three boys and one girl) with this syndrome, who were the result of a consanguineous marriage. in addition to the usual manifestations of the ...