BACKGROUND To investigate the outcome and prognostic factors for corneal graft recovery after severe corneal graft rejection following penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) treated with topical and systemic steroids. METHODS Fifty-eight eyes in 58 patients with severe corneal graft rejection following PKP were treated with topical and systemic steroids. Factors affecting the reversibility and mainte...

We report 2 cases in which an Artisan phakic intraocular lens (IOL) (Ophtec) was used to successfully treat high myopia after penetrating keratoplasty (PKP). The first case was a 43-year-old man who had a manifest refraction of -13.75 +3.00 x 50 with a best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/40(-2) after PKP in the left eye. Approximately 9 months after implantation of the Artisan IOL, the ma...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect leadership and competence on employee motivation performance at Indonesian Employee Cooperative Center (PKP-RI) Jember Regency.. This research is a quantitative with survey approach uses measuring instrument in form questionnaire. population all employees PKP-RI Regency, totaling 130 people, which are used as samples, so they called saturate...

purpose: to report the outcomes of conjunctival-limbal autograft (clau) in patients with unilateral total limbal stem cell deficiency (lscd) emphasizing surgical problems, complications, and their management. methods: in this prospective interventional case series, clau combined with amniotic membrane transplantation as a graft was performed on 26 patients with unilateral total lscd due to chem...

AIMS To determine whether herpes simplex keratitis (HSK) has declined as an indication for penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) over the past 30 years. METHODS Records of the Hogan Eye Pathology Laboratory were reviewed to determine the incidence of PKP performed for HSK from 1972 through 2001. Archived corneal tissue with the diagnosis of HSK wa...

Logistic regression methods were used to analyse the influence of donor and storage factors on the quality of c~meas stored by organ culture in the Bristol eve bank in 1991. Averaae donor a(18 was 57 vears fsd 22. n=2770) -and time from death to en~cleation v& 8 hours (&I 7, n&782): Corneas were placed into organ culture within 27 houra (sd 10, n+2550) of donor death and were stored for 22 days...

Herein we describe a staged surgical technique consisting of penetrating sclerokeratoplasty (PSKP) followed by penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) and present its clinical course and complications over two years of follow-up. A 23-year-old man presented with cosmetically unacceptable protrusion of the globe corresponding to the cornea and sclera. PSKP was performed transplanting a full-thickness bev...

Pandemik COVID-19 yang berlaku di Malaysia telah memberi kesan negatif terhadap sektor perniagaan, terutamanya Industri Kecil Sederhana (IKS), kerana pelaksanaan Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP) dilakukan oleh pihak kerajaan untuk memerangi penyebaran virus dalam kalangan masyarakat. Walaupun PKP dilaksanakan kebaikan kesihatan awam, banyak peniaga mengalami kerugian akibat tidak dapat beroper...

purpose: to report the clinical findings and compare the outcomes of different surgical techniques evolved over time in a large series of patients with delayed-onset mustard gas keratitis (mgk). methods: this interventional retrospective case series includes patients with complications of delayed mgk. medical and surgical interventions to address dry eye, limbal ischemia and limbal stem cell de...