purpose: to determine the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity (rop) and to evaluate the possible neonatal risk factors for rop among premature infants referred to farabi eye hospital during 2000-2002. methods: newborn infants with gestational age (ga) £ 37 wk or birth weight (bw) £ 2500 g were included. the first eye examination was performed 4-9 weeks after birth. data on possible risk fac...

We therefore focused on the practical use of aviation principals in a specific hospital, the Rotterdam Eye Hospital (REH), the Netherlands. This hospital, founded in 1874, is the only eye hospital in the country and is providing secondary eye care for the region and tertiary eye care for the whole country. It is a major referral centre. On yearly basis 145.000 patients visit the outpatient depa...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy, predictability, safety, contrast sensitivity, higher-order aberrations (HOAs), and patient satisfaction after tissue-saving photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and conventional PRK. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran Medical University, Tehran, Iran. DESIGN Comparative case series. METHODS This prospective study evaluated eyes wi...

Tetracyclines, especially doxycycline, play a role in the regulation of inflammation, immunomodulation, cell proliferation, and angiogenesis. Treatment of corneal angiogenesis or choroidal neovascularization with tetracyclines has been shown to be effective in animal models. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of oral doxycycline in reducing the total number of intraocular inject...