a 29 days old pakistani female infant was presented to our outpatient department with two weeks history of a rapidly progressing large size facial hemangioma involving most of the right cheek and right eyelids. the infant was unable to open the right eye. there was also a small hemangioma on the right second toe. additionally, three similar lesions were found on the right side of the palate and...

purpose : to evaluate central corneal thickness (cct) in patients with juvenile glaucoma and compare it with that of normal individuals methods : a prospective, case-control study was performed on 80 eyes with juvenile glaucoma who attended glaucoma clinic in farabi eye hospital, tehran, iran and 107 clinically normal healthy eyes. standard automated perimetry (sap) was performed for all the pa...

seven cases of visual field defects, caused by wartrauma were seen at farabi eye hospital. none were referred by a neurologist. four patients had 20/20 visions with normal fundi. one had 12/20, in both eyes, with normal fundi. two patients presented fundus changes. the visual field defects were seen in all these seven patients. four had homonymous hemianopia, one had bilateral field restriction...

purpose: to evaluate the correlation between retinal nerve fiber layer (nfl) thickness and visual field parameters in patients with optic atrophy. methods: this study was performed on 35 eyes of 28 patients with optic atrophy. nfl thickness was measured by optic coherence tomography (oct) and visual field analysis was performed by humphrey perimetry. the correlation between nfl thickness and vi...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of levodopa-carbidopa on improvement of visual acuity, color vision, and visual field in patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (naion) with onset less than 6 wks. methods: in this double-blind randomized controlled trial, 13 patients were treated with levodopa-carbidopa and 12 patients were treated with placebo for 3 weeks. after 6 months,...