purpose: to report the outcomes of manual lamellar keratoplasty (lkp) in patients with delayed-onset mustard gas keratitis (mgk) and compare visual outcomes between subgroups with simultaneous or sequential klal and lkp. methods: in this retrospective, interventional study, 52 eyes of 37 male survivors of chemical warfare with mgk who underwent lkp were included. the results were evaluated with...

Objective To compare the performance of Sanders-Retzlaff-Kraft/Theoretical, Hoffer Q, Barrett Universal II, Kane, and Hill-radial basis function formulas to calculate intraocular lens power in eyes with normal axial length, terms predicting target refraction by using partial coherence interferometry technology. Methods Phacoemulsification implantation were performed 135 patients an length betwe...

original article   health, safety and environment management has a vast area in which ergonomics aspects is known as one of the related aspects. in this case study the occupational hygiene by ergonomic intervention was focused. one of the prevalence activities among industrial sectors' worker in the developing countries is manual lifting tasks and other related physical activities which are imp...

PURPOSE To comprehensively assess the reliability of automated Pentacam (Oculus, Inc.) measurements. SETTING Flinders Eye Centre, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia. METHODS Both eyes of 35 normal volunteers were tested twice on the same day by 2 different observers. All automated values were recorded, and manual analysis of topographic maps was performed only...

The aim of this study was to calculate the level of improvement of visual acuity comparing the best corrected visual acuity (VA) achieved with spectacles with the best corrected VA achieved with rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses in patients with high, simple or compound corneal astigmatism (myopic, hypermetropic and mixed). The investigation of patients included auto-kerato-refractometry...