Aim: To compare the complication and recurrence rates in patients undergoing limbal conjunctival autograft with or without adjuvant cryotherapy for primary recurrent pterygia.Methods: All information about cases operated between January 2014 2019 was scanned from electronic database. Fifty-three eyes combined were classified as Group 1, 47 only 2. Any development of new fibrovascular tissue lim...

Purpose: To compare recurrence rate, complications, and biomicroscopical findings after conjunctival autograft pterygium surgery with the use of a fibrin glue (Tissucol Duo®, Baxter AG, Vienna, Austria) or suture (7-0 silk). Methods: Patients with nasal pterygium were included in two groups of conjunctival autograft surgery. In 9 of them the graft was sutured to the surrounding conjunctiva and ...

Glaucoma drainage implants (GDIs) are used to treat paediatric glaucoma resistant to conventional medical and surgical treatment, achieving good intraocular pressure (IOP) control and long-term success. Late endophthalmitis is a rare complication that may develop following GDI surgery. A 17-year-old male presented with acute endophthalmitis 2 years after Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation with p...

Aim—To evaluate the eYcacy of amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for the management of conjunctival malignant melanoma and primary acquired melanosis (PAM) with atypia. Methods—Four consecutive patients with histologically proved invasive, primary conjunctival malignant melanoma were treated with wide surgical excision and AMT. Amniotic membrane grafts were harvested and processed under st...

PURPOSE We describe our experience with the Permacol graft in anophthalmic socket reconstruction, and compare it to the autologous buccal mucosal graft, emphasizing the postoperative vascularization and contraction of each graft. METHODS This was a retrospective comparative study. We measured the time necessary for the graft surface to be completely vascularized, as well as the fornix depth o...

Objectives To report the clinical outcomes of different surgical treatments used to manage feline corneal sequestra in a large number cases. Materials and Methods Medical records 172 cats affected by surgically managed techniques were retrospectively evaluated. Signalment, technique, visual outcomes, postoperative clarity recurrence Results One hundred seventy-two (175 eyes) breeds, ages sex in...