purpose: to evaluate the effect of aamniotic mmembrane ttransplantation (amt) in the management of acute severe ocular chemical burns. methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed in eligible patients with grade iii & iv acute chemical burn who randomly received conventional medical therapy (15 eyes) versus combined medical & amniotic membrane transplantation (15 eyes). main outcome me...

objective(s): we aimed to characterize the phenotype and genotype of bacillus spp isolated from diabetic patients’ eyes, by studying the drug sensitivity patterns with a disc-diffusion method. materials and methods: fifty eyes of 25 patients with type ii diabetes mellitus, with at least 10 years of diabetes history, were included in the study. we analyzed the eyes for the presence of bacillus s...

we evaluated the ability of spectral-domain optic coherence tomography (sd-oct) to differentiate large physiological optic disc cupping (lpc) from glaucomatous cupping in eyes with intraocular pressure (iop) within the normal range.â  we prospectively enrolled patients with glaucoma or presumed lpc. participants â had optic discs with confirmed or suspected glaucomatous damage (defined as a ver...

objectives: researchers have focused their attention on balance in the elderly because there is a significant correlation between balance and fall. therefore, it is very important to identify the factors that can affect elderly balance. the aim of this study was to investigate relation between sustained attention and balance in elderly. methods: this cross sectional study was conducted in 2013 ...

When observing someone else acting on an object, people implement goal-specific eye movement programs that are driven by their own motor representation of the observed action. Usually, however, we observe people acting in contexts where more objects, different in shape and size, are present. Is our brain able to select the intended target even when there are different objects in the visual scen...

This is a text-book for students and practitioners who, although doing a certain amount of eye-work, cannot be considered experts. It is a book full of knowledge, and also, which does not always follow, full of wisdom. The subject is covered in a very comprehensive manner. It makes interesting reading, and unlike many text-books, it is not like a dictionary, so that it can be read with pleasure...

Eyes are the preeminent source of sensory information for the brain in most species, and many features of eyes reflect evolutionary solutions to particular selective pressures, both from the nonbiological environment and from other animals. As a result, the evolution of eyes, among all the sense organs, has attracted considerable attention from scientists. Paired eyes in the three major phyla, ...

THE importance of ocular lesions in sarcoidosis was not recognized until recently, although they have been known for much longer (Bloch, 1914; Mylius and Schiirmann, 1929; Schaumann, 1934). Most of the early literature was preoccupied with Heerfordt's syndrome and Bruins Slot (1936) eventually identified this as a form of sarcoidosis. Osterberg (1939) made the first attempt to study how sarcoid...

one of the dangerous complications of cataract extractions is vitreous loss. the purpose of this stuy is to evaluate the incidence of vitreous loss and its sepuale while teaching residents at rasoul akram hospital in iran. this study has been conducted on existing records of 730 eyes which were subjectd to extracapsular cataract extractions by 3rd and 4th year, right handed resident of rasoul a...

purpose: to compare the clinical outcomes following deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) for keratoconic patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (vkc) and without vkc. methods: in this retrospective comparative study, the records for 262 eyes with keratoconus only (group 1) and 28 keratoconic eyes with vkc (group 2) that underwent dalk were complied. the parameters reviewed included the...