purpose: to report subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab (avastin) for treatment of primary active pterygium. method: patients with primary active pterygia without other ocular disease, pregnancy or diabetes mellitus were enrolled. patients were randomly allocated into two groups to receive injection of avastin or placebo. patients were evaluated for changes in photophobia, conjunctival cong...

Objective to examine the effect of Bevacizumab injection angiogenesis which amount and density blood vessel as indicators after trabeculectomy procedure. Method This was a true experimental study using 16 eyes New Zealand White Rabbit eye treated by procedure with eight control group Balanced Saline Solution (BSS) treatment Bevacizumab. It injected subconjuctiva trabeculectomy. At end all rabbi...

PURPOSE To present a case of ocular sparoganosis presenting as itching sensation. METHODS A 60-year-old woman presented for removal of an itchy subconjunctival mass in her left eye. Her ocular findings were normal, except for a subconjunctival mass (1.5 x 1.5 mm). RESULTS A parasite excised from the subconjunctival mass was identified as a sparganum, by microscopic examination after hematox...

objective: to report a case of periocular dirofilariasis. patient and findings: a 27-year-old female referred with history of edema and redness in left eye for two days. on slit-lamp examination, a moving threadlike worm was seen in subconjunctival area. two days later a live filaria worm measuring 12 cm in length was extracted from lower lid subcutaneous tissue. the worm was diagnosed dirofila...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the effects of injection site on the reflux after intravitreal injection. METHODS One hundred and eighty eyes undergoing intravitreal injection including 0.1 ml of triamcinolone acetonide or bevacizumab or pegaptanib were divided to six groups (30 patients in each group) to compare the vitreal reflux after injection using superotemporal versus infero...

AIM To investigate the effect of retrobulbar and subconjunctival anaesthesia on retrobulbar haemodynamics by colour Doppler imaging. METHOD 39 patients (mean age 71 (SD 9) years; 19 females, 20 males) undergoing planned cataract surgery were included in the prospective study. Colour Doppler imaging (Siemens Sonoline Sienna, Germany) was performed before, directly after either subconjunctival ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effects and underlying mechanisms of early and late subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab on the inhibition of corneal neovascularization (NV). METHODS Corneal NV was induced by closed eye contact lens wear followed by a silk suture tarsorrhaphy in rabbits. Weekly subconjunctival injections of bevacizumab (5.0 mg) for 1 month were started immediately (early treatmen...

Subconjunctival mydricaine injections are used in routine practice in patients with uveitis to prevent the formation of permanent posterior synechiae. Mydricaine No 2 (Moorfields Eye Hospital formulation) contains a combination of 6 mg procaine hydrochloride, 1 mg atropine sulphate and 0.12 ml epinephrine solution (1 in 1000). As it is normally injected subconjunctivally, this may prove difficu...

PURPOSE The authors performed a prospective evaluation of the efficacy of treating ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) with subconjunctival mitomycin C. DESIGN Unmasked, prospective, internally controlled case series. METHODS Patients were eligible for treatment with subconjunctival mitomycin C under three criteria: (1) significant complications of systemic immunosuppressant therapy; (2) ma...