PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of staged ultraviolet A (UVA) cross-linking following intrastromal 0.1% riboflavin administration in eyes with advanced corneal edema. METHODS Ten eye bank corneas divided in two groups (n = 5) were placed on a pressurized artificial anterior chamber following Descemet's membrane stripping. Two consecutive corneal pockets (350- and 150-microm depth)...

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy of the posterior subtenon (SBT) capsule injection of TA as compared to intravitreal (IVT) injection of Triamcinolone Acetonide (TA) for the management of cystoid diabetic macular edema in pseudophakic patients. Methods: This prospective randomized comparative study included 100 pseudophakic eyes with cystoid macular edema. They were divided into two equal gr...

BACKGROUND Using a rat penetrating keratoplasty model, this study aims to explore the inhibitory effect of hachimycin on corneal graft rejection, to provide new basis for its clinical application. MATERIALS AND METHODS Female adult Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats weighing between 220-250 g were used as acceptors and male or female Wistar rats weighing between 220-250 g were used as donors. The rats ...

purpose : to report the complications and acute and chronic managements of a case of corneal bee sting injury and to report the outcome of visual performance case report : a 28-year-old caucasian man who was stung by insect and was complaining of ocular pain and decreased vision in the left eye, presented to the emergency room. a sting was found and completely removed. corneal edema, bullous ke...

Bullous Keratopathy, a severe edema of the corneal stroma and epithelium with a characteristic bulla formation on the corneal surface, is a rare opthalmological emergency in cats. Rapidly progressive and uncontrollable by medical means, this condition will result in corneal perforation hours after initial presentation if left unattended. Its pathophysiology and treatment options are reviewed in...

Introduction: Corneal injuries and disorders are among the commonest clinical scenarios that encountered in ophthalmology practice. Penetrating Keratoplasty (PKP) surgeries count for most frequent efficient surgical management of diseased corneas. The latter usually sent as button specimens histopathology examination further describing pattern corneal disorders. Aims Objectives: aims this study...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) on pseudophakic cystoid macular edema (CME) and determine the efficacy when used preoperatively and after uneventful phacoemulsification surgery. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Kocatepe University, School of Medicine, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. METHODS One hundred seventy-nine eyes of 189 patients havin...

A 69 years old women underwent uneventful cataract surgery of her left eye with phacoemulsification and posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation in topical anesthesia. Patient was postoperatively treated with combination of antibiotic and steroid in decreasing dosages during five weeks: one drop five times a day the first week, three times a day second to forth week and one time a day th...

Dtiring the first year of life, diffuse corneal clouding is usually caused by infantile glaucoma or infections and inflammatory processes. Although several of the mucopolysaccharidases may also cause corneal clouding, other signs and symptoms predominate. Maumenee* described a congenital, hereditary corneal dystrophy characterized by diffuse corneal edema during the first year of life. His repo...