Medical management is the mainstay in the management of ocular surface disease, with surgical therapy being reserved only for the most severe forms of the condition. Ocular surface disease encompasses a wide range of conditions such as dry eye, limbal stem cell deficiency disorders, ocular cicatricial pemphigoid and Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Surgical management of these disorders has witnessed ...

Purpose. To compare the surgically induced astigmatism from clear corneal and square posterior limbal incisions at the time of cataract surgery. Methods. Surgically induced astigmatism was calculated for a set of eyes after cataract surgery using a temporal 2.2 mm square posterior limbal incision. Results were compared to similar available data from surgeons using clear corneal incisions of sim...

objective: to study the effects of different matrices and co-culture systems on cultured limbal stem cells (lscs). materials and methods: limbal explants were co-cultured with limbal fibroblasts (lf) and/or mouse embryonic fibroblasts (mef) on filter inserts coated with amniotic membrane (am), matrigel (mat) and collagen type i (col). results: this study revealed that am facilitated the cell mi...

To find out the effectiveness of soft tissue release paracervical muscles on cantho-limbal distance among young adults. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was carried at Shalamar School allied health sciences. sample 32 reduced lateral and neck pain taken. purposive sampling technique used. Pre-test Cantho-limbal measured by ABN tape in mm then ischemic compression followed stretching applied ...

purpose: to evaluate the properties of cultured limbal stem cells for corneal surface reconstruction. methods: specimens of limbal explants were prepared from the eye bank of i.r. iran. the explants were cultured and expanded on acellular amniotic membrane for 21 days. the cultured cells were evaluated for expression of connexin 43 and keratinine k3 by immunocytochemistry and expression of k12 ...

The limbal approach is not new to squint surgery* but, despite its considerable advantages in exposure and subsequent healing, the methods described so far are not easy to perform to obtain the best final results. In particular, the incision commonly described needs very accurate suturing of the conjunctival flap with its two radially placed incisions to achieve a good cosmetic result. The meth...

purpose: to evaluate stem cell deficiency using impression cytology (ic) in patients with chronic and delayed-onset mustard gas keratopathy (mgk). methods: a consecutive series of patients with mgk underwent ic. thirty-five eyes of 18 patients (all male) with mustard gas keratopathy were included in this observational case series. presence of goblet cells on the corneal side of specimens was co...