The study was carried out to determine the pattern of radiological findings in 500 consecutive patients who presented with primary and secondary infertility in Port Harcourt, the cosmopolitan capital city of Rivers State of Nigeria. Five Hundred adult female patients, aged between 17-40 years being investigated for infertility had HGS done on them in a private Radiological centre run by a Radio...

Endoscopic techniques for diagnosis and treatment of several diseases have gained importance in medicine, especially over recent years. The advantage lies in direct optical judgment of body cavities and frequently the possibility of surgical treatment during same procedure.Although diagnostic and operative laparoscopy has been established in gynecology for several decades, hysteroscopy is still...

BACKGROUND The objective of the study is to report a case of unilateral anterior uveitis after laser hair removal of the eyebrows with an alexandrite laser. FINDINGS A 36-year-old female presented with painful red eye and photophobia in her left eye 2 days after receiving alexandrite (755 nm) laser epilation of both eyebrows. Visual acuity was 20/20 in both eyes. Right eye examination was nor...

BACKGROUND Iris plays important roles in ocular physiology and disease pathogenesis. Currently it is technically challenging to noninvasively examine the human iris ultrastructure in vivo. The purpose of the current study is to reveal human iris ultrastructure in patients with synechiae by using noninvasive in vivo laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM). METHODS The ultrastructure of iris ...

PURPOSE To describe the utilization of descemetorhexis for reformation of the anterior chamber in eyes with central iridocorneal synechiae before endothelial keratoplasty (EK). METHODS A 71-year-old man with a history of trabeculectomy complicated by hypotony presented with bullous keratopathy in the presence of extensive iridocorneal synechiae and a flat anterior chamber. In order to proceed...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of presumed ocular tuberculosis among diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients in a tertiary government hospital in the Philippines and determine its common presentation in the population. This was a cross-sectional study in which 103 patients who were labeled to have active pulmonary tuberculosis underwent history and ocul...

Aim To determine the risk factors for macular edema (ME) in children with uveitis. Methods A retrospective study was conducted of 150 pediatric patients (264 eyes) uveitis attending 2 tertiary medical centers. Data were collected from files on demographics, type uveitis, etiology, clinical findings, treatment, and time to development ME. Risk ME identified. Results developed 63 eyes (23.9%) ove...