AIM To identify the current roles of eye and health care workers in eye care delivery and investigate their potential roles in screening and detection for management of diabetic retinopathy (DR) through task sharing. METHODS Purposive sampling of 24 participants including health administrators, members from non-government organizations and all available eye care workers in Takeo province were...

PURPOSE To present the cataract surgery practice pattern among the ophthalmic surgeons in hospitals managed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Malaysia. DESIGN Secondary data analysis on Malaysian Cataract Surgery Registry (CSR). METHODS The Malaysian CSR collected data on cataract surgeries done at all the ophthalmology departments in MOH from year 2002 to 2004 (paper-based) and 2007 to 20...

PURPOSE To report high resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) findings in a case with bilateral photic maculopathy and resultant central scotoma following pterygium excision. CASE REPORT A 38-year-old man with a history of pterygium excision complained of visual disturbance and annoying central scotoma in both eyes. Although he had subtle funduscopic and angiographic...

Corneal endothelium (CE) is among the most metabolically active tissues in the body. This elevated metabolic rate helps the CE maintain corneal transparency by its ion and fluid transport properties, which when disrupted, leads to visual impairment. Here we demonstrate that glutamine catabolism (glutaminolysis) through TCA cycle generates a large fraction of the ATP needed to maintain CE functi...

Background: Various factors involved in phaco can influence the tissue structures of eyeball Ultrasonic energy should be taken into consideration as a risk factor that may affect structure eyeball. Objective: To evaluate changes on macular thickness before and after phacoemulsification surgery with variable Phaco Times constant ‎power by Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Patients methods: A...

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate two cases of vertical diplopia after cataract surgery and to discuss the mechanism and types of strabismus caused by the local anesthesia with retrobulbar injection. Two cases of vertical diplopia after cataract surgeries were reported. They were operated by the same surgeon and both happened to the left eye and both presented with marked left hypotr...

To assess the interference of patient care due to COVID 19 related restrictions and formulate future guidelines. This cross-sectional online survey-based study was carried out among ophthalmologist Bangladesh in early lock down period (01 April 30 April) 2020. Total 93 ophthalmologists responded study. Most were seeing patients with red eye (40.9%), ocular trauma acute infections inflammations ...

BACKGROUND Frontalis suspension surgery is considered the procedure of choice in cases of blepharoptosis. Among all the materials used in this type of surgery, ophthalmic and plastic surgeons prefer to use autologous Fascia Lata. However, during years, other autogenous and exogenous materials have been introduced. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was therefore that of systematically reviewing...

context a tourniquet is a device that is used frequently in most orthopaedic surgeries but this routine device can lead to serious complications so we decided to review and declare it for safe instruction and use. evidence acquisition we searched the word “tourniquet” in pubmed and google and reviewed all full text english articles and abstracts of non-english articles. in addition, we read all...