A 65-year-old man with a history of bilateral trabeculectomy augmented with mitomycin C underwent surgery for a scleral rupture following trauma. The site of the rupture was a posterior extension of the scleral flap. Attempted closure of a ragged scleral wound was not possible without excessive distortion and induced astigmatism. Persistent hypotony due to over drainage was treated by patching ...

Scleral thickness, especially near the region of the optic nerve head (ONH), is a potential factor of interest in the development of glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Our goal was to characterize the scleral thickness distribution and other geometric features of human eyes. Eleven enucleated human globes (7 normal and 4 ostensibly glaucomatous) were imaged using high-field microMRI, providing 80 m...

Comment. Scleral inflammatory disease is a deep and destructive inflammation presumed to be incited by autoimmune system dysregulation and is often classified on the basis of the site of pathologic findings and severity of inflammation. Scleritis is characterized by edema and inflammatory cell infiltration of the sclera and is commonly associated with identifiable systemic disease and often wit...

BACKGROUND/AIM To measure the positions of scleral-fixated intraocular lenses (IOLs) using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) and to evaluate the influence of the position of scleral-fixated IOL on the quality of vision. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-six eyes of 26 patients were included in the study. The average age was 57.5 (11 to 78) years. Anterior segment images were take...

Purpose To investigate the effects of intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction on the eyeball shape in highly myopic eyes with high IOP. Methods This study included patients with an axial length ≥26.5 mm and high IOP ≥22 mmHg after receiving maximum medication, with successful trabeculectomy by a single surgeon, and who underwent swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) examinations on ...

--Dried scleral rings of Opisthocomus, Galliformes, Cuculiformes, and other birds were examined to determine the pattern of ossicle overlap in Opisthocomus and its bearing on the phylogenetic relationships of this taxon. Although Opisthocomus shares a derived number of 12 scleral ossicles with cuculid Cuculiformes, the pattern of ossicle overlap differs. Nevertheless, fewer modifications are re...

Aims—To study the eVects of segmental scleral buckling and encircling procedures on tissue circulation in the human optic nerve head (ONH) and choroid and retina. Methods—Using the laser speckle method, the normalised blur (NB) value, a quantitative index of tissue blood velocity, was measured every 0.125 seconds and averaged over three pulses in the optic nerve head (NBONH) and choroid and ret...

AIMS To describe the outcome of patients with non-metastatic unilateral retinoblastoma with high risk histopathological features after primary enucleation, and to clarify the need and results of adjuvant therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 1980 to 2001 adjuvant therapy was recommended only to patients with scleral involvement, post-laminar optic nerve involvement (PLONI) with either a positive...