purpose: to evaluate the effect of levodopa-carbidopa on improvement of visual acuity, color vision, and visual field in patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (naion) with onset less than 6 wks. methods: in this double-blind randomized controlled trial, 13 patients were treated with levodopa-carbidopa and 12 patients were treated with placebo for 3 weeks. after 6 months,...

purpose : to investigate the discriminative ability of contrast sensitivity (cs), color vision and best corrected visual acuity (bcva) in detecting functional losses in diabetic participants with and without retinopathy methods : in this cross sectional study we examined 105 patients in khatam-al-anbia eye hospital of mashhad university of medical sciences including 70 diabetic patients (35 wit...

objective: nowadays, many infertile couples can have child by assistant reproductive technology (art). always the undesirable effects of these methods on newborn are considered and are evaluated. the aim of this study is to describe the impact of art on ocular and visual performances of infants born by these methods. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study, 479 infants age...