Maskin in 1994 as being effective in the treatment of ocular neoplasia. A limited number of cases in the literature also show the cytostatic effect of ATRA on ocular surface dysplasia. Our early experience with topical ATRA alone was consistent with early reports of effectiveness, with no response occurring in certain patients. Our early experience with topical interferon alfa-2b demonstrated a...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease, which characterized by postsynaptic neuromuscular transmission defect, with antibodies directly targeting the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) or other structural proteins of junction. The majority MG cases are associated thymic pathologies, including thymoma, thyroiditis, diseases malignant hematologic neoplasia. present study reported...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a hyaluronic acid containing eye drop in ameliorating ocular surface pathology and discomfort in canine keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS). Twenty five dogs with KCS treated with a topical carbomer (CA)-based tear replacement gel were moved to treatment with a hyaluronic acid (HA)-containing tear replacement eye drop. Dogs were subject to a fu...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the efficiency of amniotic membrane grafts (AMGs) for reconstructing the conjunctival surface following excision of corneal and conjunctival intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). METHODS This was a retrospective, noncomparative, interventional study. Five eyes in 5 patients were treated between April 1996 and September 2002 with the same procedure to apply amniotic membrane...