purpose: to evaluate the complications of scleral perforation during strabismus surgery and the role of cryopexy, laser therapy, and conservative management in an animal model. methods: in this experimental study, 42 pigmented-eye rabbits were included. an s-24 needle attached to a 6-0 polyglactin suture was passed through the sclera and into the vitreous cavity in both eyes of the animals. one...

purpose: to report the outcomes of combined aniridic intraocular lens (iol) implantation via scleral fixation and penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) in three patients.  methods: this study included 3 patients who required pkp and had aniridia and/or aphakia requiring iol implantation. all subjects underwent aniridic iol scleral fixation after vitrectomy and removal of capsular remnants followed by ...

Scleral lenses were the first type of contact lens, developed in late nineteenth century to restore vision and protect ocular surface. With advent rigid corneal middle twentieth soft 1970’s, use scleral diminished; recent times there has been a resurgence their driven by advances manufacturing imaging technology. are often only viable form lens wear across range clinical indications can potenti...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to identify the genes and pathways underlying the growth of the mouse sclera during postnatal development. METHODS Total RNA was isolated from each of 30 single mouse sclera (n=30, 6 sclera each from 1-, 2-, 3-, 6-, and 8-week-old mice) and reverse-transcribed into cDNA using a T7-N(6) primer. The resulting cDNA was fragmented, labeled with biotin, and hybrid...

purpose : to report two patients with spontaneous scleral perforation and bleb formation associated with marfan syndrome (mfs) which one of them also showed bilateral optic nerve dural ectasia. case reports : an 11-year-old girl was referred with progressive myopia. past medical history was negative. slit-lamp examination revealed bilateral scleral thinning and perforation with bleb formation, ...

the purpose of this study was to compare the anatomic and visual outcome of primary vitrectomy with scleral buckling in patients with retinal detachment following cataract surgery. fifty-six consecutive patients with retinal detachment after cataract surgery were randomly assigned to two treatment groups: standard scleral buckling and standard three-port deep vitrectomy. successful treatment wa...