introduction : laser therapy prevents complications of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (pdr), central retinal vein occlusion (crvo) and branch retinal vein occlusion (brvr), but its effect on visual acuity is controversial. this study evaluated the effect of laser on visual acuity in these patients. materials and methods: this interventional study conducted before–after treatment and evaluat...

The aim of this study is to analyse the role of the prophylactic 360 degree laser photocoagulation on vitrectomies for dropped nucleus, and to examine whether it is useful or harmful for the development of retinal detachment by evaluating a retrospective case series. The patients who performed pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) due to the development of dropped nucleus after phacoemulsification betwee...

retinal detachment surgery has been considered an inpatient hospital procedure requiring preoperative and postoperative hospitalization. in this pilot study, outpatient retinal detachment surgery was performed on sixteen patients and the results (100% success rate after an average follow-up of 8.3 months) were comparable or better than reported overall success rates for retinal detachment in th...

BACKGROUND To investigate the effect of intraoperative 360° laser retinopexy anterior to the equator for the prevention of retinal detachment after phacovitrectomy. METHODS The patients were part of two consecutive case series cohorts in macular hole (MH) and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), one which did not receive intraoperative prophylactic 360° laser, and one which received intra...

PURPOSE To compare the effect of conventional and femtosecond laser-assisted (Alcon LenSx Inc) phacoemulsification on the macula using optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS Twenty eyes of 20 patients underwent uneventful cataract surgery in both study groups: femtosecond laser-assisted (laser group) and conventional phacoemulsification (control group). Macular thickness and volume were ...

introduction: laser surgery as an alternative for conventional surgical procedure has gained special attention. using carbon dioxide (co2) laser has some benefits like less post-operative pain, swelling and infection, decrease in risk of metastasis and edema, and less bleeding providing dry sites for surgery. case report: a 12 years old boy with lingual frenum with indication for excision was r...

It has been well established that laser treatment for type 1 prethreshold retinopathy of prematurity is effective in approximately 90 percent of treated eyes, avoiding retinal detachment.1 Transpupillary laser therapy is certainly the standard; however, there are circumstances in which transpupillary treatment may be difficult or impossible to perform thus allowing progression of retinopathy of...

AIM To compare the effect of suction on the macular thickness and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness during laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) used Ziemer FEMTO LDV femtosecond laser (Ziemer group) and Moria M2 automated microkeratome (Moria group) for flap creation. METHODS Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) was used to measure macular thickness, ganglion cell com...