PURPOSE To study the feasibility of engineering conjunctival epithelial cell sheets on a temperature-responsive culture dish for ocular surface reconstruction. METHODS Rabbit conjunctival epithelial cells (rCjECs) were cultured in DMEM/F-12 (1:1) medium. The morphology and phenotype of the rCjECs were confirmed with phalloidin staining, periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining, and immunocytochemi...

rous attack, in your July issue, on my article headed " Sixtyone eye operations in one day" and which yoti were kind enough to publish about 2 years ago. The references he quotes to belittle my results, viz., (a) 1903 statistics, a period when conjunctival asepsis was almost in its infancy and operative technique was not so widely possessed, (b) Norris and Olivers, Vol. Ill, a system on ophthal...

OBJECTIVE Quantify and define post-surgical pain after pterygium surgery with conjunctival autografts. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 17 patients. The parameters analysed were, gender, age, pterygium TCL classification, primary characteristics or relapse, usage of isolated tissue adhesive or extra fixation with stitches. A visual analogue pain scale was used immediately after surgery...

BACKGROUND/AIMS During the healing of corneal epithelial wounds with limbal involvement, conjunctival epithelium often migrates across the denuded limbus to cover the corneal surface. It is believed that, over a period of time, conjunctival epithelium covering the cornea assumes characteristics of corneal epithelium by a process referred to as conjunctival transdifferentiation. The purpose of t...

Purpose:To study fundus findings in patients of mild,moderate, and severe degree anaemia presenting to the tertiary health care centre. Methods:This was a prospective observational that involved25 anemiacomplaining blurring vision, conjunctival pallor, pain, subconjunctival hemorrhage eyelid swelling. Results:There were 20females 5 males age group taken 20 50 years.Out 25 nutritional anemia, 12...

purpose : to report clinical and pathologic result of a young patient with isolated cavernous hemangioma of conjunctiva case report : a 26-year-old man who presented with smooth, red, lobular surface mass was seen in the bulbar conjunctiva in temporal side with engorged episcleral and conjunctival vessels around the lesion. excisional biopsy was performed. pathologist confirmed the diagnosis of...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The burden of stroke in sub-Saharan Africa is already high and likely to increase, but few patients with stroke have access to brain imaging. Distinguishing pathologic stroke types is relevant both for clinical management and epidemiologic studies. We assessed the accuracy of two stroke scores in distinguishing stroke types in a population known to have a high prevalence ...

introduction to evaluate the expression patterns of cytokeratin (k) 12, 13, and 19 in normal epithelium of the human ocular surface to determine whether k13 could be used as a marker for conjunctival epithelium. methods: total rna was isolated from the human conjunctiva and central cornea. those transcripts that had threefolds or higher expression levels in the conjunctiva than the cornea were ...