AIMS/BACKGROUND A previous study has shown that in age-related macular degeneration a high degree of concordance of disciform scar size occurs in the two eyes of any one patient. In a study of 35 patients with choroidal neovascular membrane who were treated with low dose ionising radiation to the macula of the affected eye, 11 were found to have bilateral disease. METHODS The visual outcome a...

At night the Namib Desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola performs long-distance homing across its sand dune habitat. By disabling all or pairs of the spiders' eight eyes we found that homing ability was severely reduced when vision was fully abolished. Vision, therefore, seems to play a key role in the nocturnal navigational performances of L. arenicola. After excluding two or three pairs of e...

BACKGROUND To investigate the influence of scan distance on retinal boundary detection errors (RBDEs) and retinal thickness measurements by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS 10 eyes of healthy subjects, 10 eyes with diabetic macular edema (DME) and 10 eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were examined with RTVue SD-OCT. The MM5 protocol was...

PURPOSE To evaluate the indications, postoperative visual efficacy, and complication rate after intraocular implantation of an iris-claw aphakic intraocular lens (IOL). SETTING Oxford Eye Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom. DESIGN Case series. METHODS This chart review comprised eyes with no capsule support that had anterior iris-fixation IOL implantation for aphakia between 2001 and 2009. ...

AIM To determine the mechanical effects of pilocarpine on the trabecular-iris angle opening in eyes with narrow angles, compared with its effects on healthy control subjects with wide angles. METHODS A narrow angle was defined as 25 degrees or less of trabecular-iris angle on ultrasound biomicroscopic examination. The change in anterior chamber depth (ACD), trabecular-iris angle (TIA), angle ...

Purpose. To evaluate visual performance for near, intermediate, and distant vision; complaints of photic phenomena, and patient satisfaction with the new diffractive multifocal IOL used in eyes which underwent phacoemulsification. Methods. Two thousand and five hundred consecutive eyes undergoing Tecnis ZM900 multifocal IOL implantation were included in this retrospective analysis. The minimum ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of treating patients with +3.00 diopters (D) to +6.00 D of hyperopia via laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) with the WaveLight Allegretto 400 and EX500 excimer laser systems. SETTING Private clinical ophthalmology practice. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a retrospective study of patients undergoing LASIK treatments of +3.00 to +6.00 D on two differ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the results of combined aspheric wavefront-guided transepithelial excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) to correct aberrations and refractive errors after radial keratotomy (RK) or keratoplasty. SETTING Sekal Rovigo Microsurgery Centre, Rovigo, Italy. METHODS This retrospective noncomparative consecutive case series compri...

PURPOSE To analyze the position of iris-fixated phakic intraocular lenses (pIOLs) using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and evaluate the effect of anterior chamber morphometrics on endothelial cell changes. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, AS-OCT was used to measure the distances...