PURPOSE To examine the differences in tear film parameters more than 3 months postsurgery in eyes with cataract surgery (surgical eyes) versus eyes without cataract surgery (nonsurgical eyes). METHODS 29 patients were seen at the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) who had cataract surgery by phacoemulsification in one eye more than 3 months prior to the study date and had no history...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of dry eye following cataract surgery was reported as high as 55.7%, this acute and iatrogenic disorder urgently required appropriate clinical management. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of diquafosol sodium ophthalmic solution (DQS) and conventional artificial tears (AT) for the treatment of dry eye following cataract surgery. METHODS The PubMed...

Purpose: This study set out to examine the impact of surgical treatment senile cataract on visual acuity and quality life in patients operated a public teaching hospital. Methods: Prospective including aged over 60 years with clinical indications for surgery treated at medical residency service. The National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire 25 was applied. Corrected distance measured...

Background: This study reports a case of silicone sponge intrusion as late complication scleral buckling surgery. Case presentation: A 57-year-old man underwent surgery 19 years ago due to retinal detachment his left eye. Visual acuity impairment eye was noted. His best-corrected visual (BCVA) 20/80 (logMAR 0.6). Intraocular lens-capsular bag-capsular tension ring luxation with implant extrusio...

children undergoing general anesthesia for strabismus surgery have a higher incidence of postoperative vomiting than those receiving the same anaesthesia for other types of ambulatory surgical procedures. droperidol (0/0 75 mg/kg iv) and promethazine (0.05-1.0 mg/kg) were used in 100 children between 2-15 years old. promethazine which has sedative property, anticholinergic antihistaminic, antie...

intraocular metastatic tumors have been increasingly reported in the recent past. unlike choroidal metastasis, metastasis to retina is very rare and so far has been reported in very few case reports only. case presentation : a 56 year-old male who presented with a history of adenocarcinoma of the cecum and underwent lap colectomy for the primary cecal tumor, received adjuvant chemotherapy for a...

introduction: human eye is a sensitive part of human body with no direct protection and due to its lack of protection against the external heat waves, studying the temperature distribution of heat waves on the human eye is of utmost importance. various lasers are widely used in medical applications such as eye surgeries. the most significant issue in the eye surgeries with laser is estimation o...

purpose: to evaluate the 8-year results of excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy (prk) for myopia in terms of safety, stability and late complications. methods: of 203 myopic patients who underwent prk with single-step method using nidek ec-5000 excimer laser with 5-6 mm ablation zones at basir eye center, tehran-iran from 1996 to 1998, 179 eyes of 98 patients who completed 8 years of follo...