PURPOSE To report a case of Fuchs' superficial marginal keratitis managed with circumferential marginal corneoscleral lamellar patch graft. METHODS Interventional case report. RESULTS A 34-year-old man presented with several years' history of ill-defined symptoms of binocular ocular irritation associated with vision loss, mostly in the left eye. A superior marginal corneal thinning was foun...

We report on a case of necrotizing keratoscleritis in primary Sjogren's syndrome. A 66-year-old female patient who was complaining of ocular pain, tearing and decreased vision in her right eye for the previous two days was admitted to our hospital. Visual acuity in the right eye was hand movement, and initial examination showed a 3.0 × 1.8 mm uveal mass bulging through a corneoscleral melting s...

BACKGROUND Rhinosporidiosis is a rare chronic infection of the mucous membranes caused by the Rhinosporidium seeberi. Approximately 15% of cases of rhinosporidiosis are ocular, occurring mainly in the tarsal conjunctiva. There are only 11 cases of scleral melt with staphyloma formation associated with bulbar conjuctival oculosporidiosis and none of them was associated with partial regression of...

THIS year’s EURETINA meeting included a joint EURETINA/ESCRS symposium on where anterior segment and posterior segment surgery meet. Commencing the session, co-chairman, Gisbert Richard MD, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, described a combined surgery procedure for cataract patients who require pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for such indications as epiretinal membranes, macular holes a...

We report four cases in which a pericardium (Tutoplast) plug was used to repair a corneoscleral fistula after Ahmed Glaucoma Valve (AGV) explantation. In four cases in which the AGV tube had been exposed, AGV explantation was performed using a pericardium (Tutoplast) plug to seal the defect previously occupied by the tube. After debridement of the fistula, a piece of processed pericardium (Tuto...

PURPOSE Laplace's Law, with its compactness and simplicity, has long been employed in ophthalmology for describing the mechanics of the corneoscleral shell. We questioned the appropriateness of Laplace's Law for computing wall stress in the eye considering the advances in knowledge of ocular biomechanics. METHODS In this manuscript we recapitulate the formulation of Laplace's Law, as well as ...

A novel approach based on tracking the fate of proteins that become 'stapled' to the walls of the Golgi yields insights into the long-sought mechanism of transport through this organelle.

PURPOSE To report the technique and astigmatic results of the blue line cataract incision. SETTING The Buzzard Eye Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. METHODS This prospective study included 411 eyes of 271 patients who had cataract extraction by phacoemulsification with a self-sealing 3.0 mm blue line cataract incision. The blue line incision is performed with a diamond knife transconjuncti...