Echium amoenum is an Iranian indigenous medicinal plant. In this research the effect of hydroalchoholic extract of this plant on sodium-selenite induced cataract formation was evaluated. Fifty five white rat pups were selected and divided into six groups. In first group (control 1) no elements injected. Second group (control 2) was received normal saline on 11-18 postpartum. Hydroalchoholic ext...

background: complaining of tearing was found in some of our patients after phacoemulsification surgery for senile cataract. secondary acquired lacrimal drainage obstruction has been proposed to happen due to different causes. this study was performed at feiz hospital in isfahan, iran from september to december of 2004 to evaluate the effects of phacoemulsification surgery on tear drainage in ey...

Aim: Comparative immunohistochemical study of expression α A Crystallin in non-cataract lenses and age-related cataract humans. Methodology: This was an observational cross sectional study. There are two groups this Group comprised 121 senile degenerative from diagnosed patients. B included 10 patients who underwent surgeries for enucleation due to trauma retinoblastoma. Lenses were fixed 10% B...

purpose: to determine the effect of trabeculectomy (tx) on cataract formation or progression in glaucoma patients. methods: this controlled clinical trial was performed on 82 eyes of 41 consecutive patients older than 50 years with glaucoma. trabeculectomy was indicated only in one of their eyes and iop in the other eye was controlled with medication. the operated eyes were considered as treatm...

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the world (1). The World Health Organization defines cataract as a clouding of the lens of the eye which impedes the transfer of light. Cataract is a multi-factorial disease associated with diabetes, smoking, ultraviolet radiation (UVR), alcohol, ionizing radiation, steroids and hypertension. There is strong experimental (2-4) and epidemiological ev...

Background: Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy and is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Different factors have been contributed in the pathogenesis of glaucoma including H. pylori infection. Objective: To determine the levels of anti-H. pylori IgG antibody in the aqueous humor of patients with pseudoexfoliation and primary open angle glaucoma, in comparison with age and ...

PURPOSE To determine the incidence and cumulative risk of childhood cataract in Denmark during 1980 to 2000. METHODS A cohort of 2,616,439 Danish children born between 1962 and 2000 was followed from 1980 or from the day of birth, whichever occurred later, until their 18th birthday, death, emigration, or diagnosis of cataract, whichever occurred first. Cases were ascertained from the Danish N...

The problem of rehabilitation patients with cataract, analysis effectiveness surgical treatment, restoration professional activity and obtaining a high quality life after cataract surgery is great medical social importance. basic principles modern medicine are patient orientation, personalized multidisciplinary approach. Attention focused not on an individual disease its symptoms, but the as wh...

purpose: to report the outcomes of graft refractive surgery (grs) together with clear-cornea phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (iol) implantation in post-penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) eyes. methods: fourteen eyes of 13 patients who had received pkp underwent simultaneous grs (relaxing incisions with or without counter-quadrant compression sutures) and clear-cornea phacoemulsification wi...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of strabismus and chronological, etiological, and morphological features in patients with pediatric cataracts. METHODS Medical records of pediatric patients were evaluated at the Congenital Cataract Section, Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo, from 2001 to 2011. Patients with congenital cataract or developmental cata...