purpose: to investigate central corneal thickness (cct), endothelial cell characteristics and intraocular pressure (iop) in congenital cataract extracted eyes and to compare the results with eyes of normal age and sex matched controls. methods: cct and iop measurements and specular microscopy were performed in 31 eyes of 17 cases of extracted congenital cataracts and 40 eyes of 20 age and sex m...

A 34-year-old Asian woman presented with painful corneal bee sting. Examinations revealed severe corneal swelling with stinger stuck in deep stroma and endothelial cell loss. She was treated with early surgery including stinger removal and anterior chamber irrigation combined with systemic high-dose steroid therapy. Vision and corneal clarity was recovered in 5 days and no additional corneal en...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether endothelial cell loss 5 years after successful corneal transplantation is related to the age of the donor. DESIGN Multicenter, prospective, double-masked clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred forty-seven subjects participating in the Cornea Donor Study who had not experienced graft failure 5 years after corneal transplantation for a moderate-risk conditio...

introduction: serum anti endothelial cell antibodies (aecas) play a prominent role in idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) in that they induce vascular damage (immune mediated).the of the current study is  to compare aecas in serum and perilymphatic .uid of idiopathic snhl children (<15y) undergoing cochlear implant surgery.methods: this was a cross sectional study performed in the coch...

PURPOSE To establish a method for assessing graft viability, in-vivo, following corneal transplantation. METHODS Optimization of calcein AM fluorescence and toxicity assessment was performed in cultured human corneal endothelial cells and ex-vivo corneal tissue. Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty grafts were incubated with calcein AM and imaged pre and post preparation, and in-situ af...

PURPOSE To determine whether endothelial cell loss of human corneas stored in organ culture before transplantation is due to apoptosis. METHODS The corneal endothelium of human corneas, stored in organ culture at 34 degrees C for varying periods of time, were analyzed for the presence of apoptotic cells using the TdT-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL) technique. Corneal endothelial cell ...

Objectives: To compare corneal endothelial cell changes namely, endothelial cell density (ECD), percentage polymegathism (CV) and pleomorphism (6A) along with central corneal thickness (CCT) in patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus with normal age and sexmatched subjects. To correlate corneal endothelial changes with diabetic retinopathy status, total duration of disease and glycemic control (Hb...

The corneal endothelium maintains corneal transparency by its pump and barrier functions; consequently, its decompensation due to any pathological reason causes severe vision loss due to corneal haziness. Corneal transplantation is the only therapeutic choice for treating corneal endothelial dysfunction, but associated problems, such as a shortages of donor corneas, the difficulty of the surgic...

purpose: to compare clinical and confocal scan outcomes after descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (dsaek) performed for fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy versus pseudophakic bullous keratopathy. methods: in this retrospective comparative study, 47 consecutive eyes of 39 patients with the diagnosis of fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy (n=29, group 1) or pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (...