Background and Objective. The Philippines does not have a national congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) surveillance or registry. Regular monitoring of CRS cases in hospitals, including Philippine tertiary hospital, helped the past to provide clinico-epidemiologic data on CRS. This study aimed continue providing seen hospital from 2009-2012 2019-2022 compare said timelines.Methods. A cross-section...

background: to determine the prevalence of outpatient and hospitalization for cataract surgery in iran. methods: a random cluster sampling was done in a cross-sectional study on cataract surgeries performed in treatment centers of ophthalmology in iran between 2000 and 2005. one week of each season was selected randomly and all cataract surgery files of the center were studied. this study repor...

purpose: to evaluate the diagnostic signs, intraoperative complications and postoperative outcomes in children with congenital cataract and pre-existing posterior capsule defect (ppcd). methods: this interventional case series was conducted on 14 eyes of 7 patients who underwent lensectomy-anterior vitrectomy for congenital cataract with ppcd. all children had bilateral cataract. preoperative d...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of the use of intraocular lenses in the treatment of pediatric aphakia, according to postoperative visual acuity and refraction change. METHODS A total of 33 eyes in 27 children were studied. Children with either unilateral or bilateral cataracts were submitted to lensectomy surgery via pars plana, with intraocular lens implant, associated with primary posteri...

BACKGROUND We present a case of post-traumatic endophthalmitis with relatively good prognosis caused by Gordonia sputi, which, to our knowledge is the first case in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 24 year old man, who underwent an intraocular foreign body extraction half a month before presentation in the left eye, was referred to us complaining of blurred vision and slight pain for 5 day...

purpose: to evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of surgical management of retinal detachments associated with choroidal colobomas methods: in this retrospective study, 31 eyes of 31 patients with coloboma-related retinal detachments enrolled. all the eyes underwent standard three-port pars plana vitrectomy with internal tamponade with nonheavy silicon oil in 24 (77.4%) or 20% sulfur...

purpose: to evaluate the etiology of cataracts in children less than 3 years of age particularly the association of rubella virus infection and galactosuria with congenital cataracts at khalili hospital, shiraz-iran from 2003 to 2006. methods: this prospective study included 46 patients less than 3 years undergoing lensectomy for the management of significant cataracts. lens aspirate specimens ...

PURPOSES To describe ocular features, management of cataract and functional outcomes in patients with persistent fetal vasculature. METHODS Retrospective, descriptive case series of patients with persistent fetal vasculature. Data were recorded from the Congenital Cataract Section of Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil from 2001 to 2012. All patients were evaluated for sex, age at diagnos...

OBJECTIVE To report visual outcomes, complication rate, and safety of retropupillary iris-claw intraocular lens (ICIOL) in ectopia lentis in Marfan syndrome (MFS). DESIGN Retrospective study. METHODS Six eyes of three MFS patients with ectopia lentis underwent surgery for subluxation lens and retropupillary ICIOL implantation from October 2014 to October 2015 at the Department of Ophthalmol...