BACKGROUND This paper reports on the aetiology and outcome of childhood open and closed globe eye injuries presenting to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia from January 2000 to December 2008. DESIGN Hospital-based retrospective study. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred three cases of childhood eye injuries identified in a nine-year period, comprising 81 open globe and 122 closed g...

PURPOSE To compare outcomes after Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) and traditional Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSEK) during the surgeon's DMEK learning curve in a prospective, non-randomized, consecutive, interventional case series. METHODS Consecutive patients presenting to the university eye clinics and undergoing endothelial keratoplasty were included. Dat...

AIM To compare visual acuity and intraocular pressure outcomes 3 years after treatment of acute angle closure glaucoma (AACG) by operative peripheral iridectomy (PI) or Nd:YAG laser iridotomy (YAG PI). METHODS A prospective study of consecutive patients presenting to one ophthalmology department with uniocular AACG during a 2 year period. Following informed consent patients were randomised to...

AIM To assess whether povidone-iodine provided any benefit over and above a standard regimen of antibiotic therapy for the treatment of corneal ulcers. METHODS All patients diagnosed with corneal ulcers presenting for care at a primary eye care clinic in rural Nepal were randomised to a standard protocol of antibiotic therapy versus standard therapy plus 2.5% povidone-iodine every 2 hours for...

AIMS To survey the spectrum of eye disease presenting to rural eye clinics in Cambodia. METHODS A total of 1381 patients seen consecutively at 13 eye clinics were examined and the findings recorded. RESULTS 231 (16.7%) were bilaterally blind (visual acuity < 3/60 in both eyes); 263 (19%) were unilaterally blind, and 169 (12%) had low vision (visual acuity < 6/18 in the better eye). Cataract...

Method: Cataract surgery was performed after controlling the intraocular pressure in patients presenting with acute phacomorphic glaucoma. Intraocular lenses were inserted in the bag after conventional extracapsular cataract extraction. Patients with minimum follow up of one year were analyzed for the study. Corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure and any complications of surgery were rec...

purpose: one of the major causes of visual acuity loss in diabetic patients is diabetic macular edema (dme). best-corrected visual acuity and central macular thickness changes are considered as two main outcomes in diabetic macular patients. the goal of this study was to compare the effect of intravitreal bevacizumab injection alone or combined with triamcinolone versus macular photocoagulation...

purpose: to compare visual outcomes after deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) between eyes with and without successful big-bubble formation. methods: in this retrospective comparative study, a total of 290 consecutive eyes from 257 keratoconus-affected patients underwent dalk with the big-bubble technique were enrolled. in cases where the big bubble could not be accomplished, manual stro...