IN 1963 our out-patients department was visited by a 27-year-old man with a corneal foreign body. On slit-lamp examination, both corneae appeared to be studded with numerous tiny, grey-white points, which were situated in the epithelium. In retrolight they appeared as fine, round, or somewhat irregular vesicles or droplets spread over the entire corneal surface, apart from the limbal area. Towa...

PURPOSE To assess subjective visual function after corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL). SETTING Cornea and refractive surgery subspecialty practice. DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled clinical trial. METHODS Patients completed a subjective questionnaire regarding visual symptoms administered preoperatively and 1 year after CXL. Patients ranked self-reported symptoms of photophobia, ...

The aim of this study was to report a case of acute retinal necrosis (ARN) after intraocular foreign body removal. A 32-year-old male presented with visual loss in the left eye. He was hit by an iron fragment while he was hammering. An intraocular foreign body was found with corneal laceration and traumatic cataract. On the day he was injured, primary closure of the laceration, lensectomy, and ...

PURPOSE To report surgical therapies for corneal perforations in a tertiary referral hospital. METHODS Thirty-one eyes of 31 patients (aged 62.4±18.3 years) with surgically treated corneal perforations from January 2002 to July 2013 were included in this study. Demographic data such as cause of corneal perforation, surgical procedures, and visual outcomes were retrospectively analyzed. RESU...

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors affecting the visual outcome in patients with open globe injuries of eye. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a prospective interventional study of consecutive patients with open globe injuries, the age, gender, place of injury, object causing injury and safety precautions taken were recorded. A detailed examination of the eye was done with a slit-lamp. X-rays of the o...

INJURY to the cornea with an iron-containing foreign body usually leaves a rust ring. Most surgeons advise complete removal of any rust, but this often causes considerable trauma to the already injured cornea. Desferrioxamine ("Desferal", Ciba Laboratories) is an iron-free compound isolated from a strain of Streptomycespilosus, which binds ferric ions to form an octahedral complex ferrioxamine....

PURPOSE To report the observation of a triple corneal dystrophy association consisting of keratoconus (KC), epithelial basement membrane corneal dystrophy (EBMCD) and Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD). METHODS A 55-year-old male patient was referred to our cornea service for blurred vision and recurrent foreign body sensation. He reported bilateral recurrent corneal erosions with di...

PURPOSE Our aim was to correlate the overall patient volume and the incidence of several ophthalmological diseases in our emergency department with weather data. PATIENTS AND METHODS For data analysis, we used our clinical data warehouse and weather data. We investigated the weekly overall patient volume and the average weekly incidence of all encoded diagnoses of "conjunctivitis", "foreign b...