PURPOSE To determine the amount and time course of binocular visual acuity improvement during treatment of bilateral refractive amblyopia in children three to less than 10 years of age. DESIGN Prospective, multicenter, noncomparative intervention. METHODS One hundred and thirteen children (mean age, 5.1 years) with previously untreated bilateral refractive amblyopia were enrolled at 27 comm...

purpose: to determine the long-term visual outcomes and complications of penetrating keratoplasty (pk) performed for keratoconus. methods: hospital records of patients with keratoconus who underwent pk at the ophthalmology center of shaheed sadoughi, yazd, iran, during 1992-2003 were reviewed. we studied records of 84 pk procedures in 72 keratoconus patients. data including best corrected visua...

PURPOSE To report the visual outcomes and complications of congenital cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens implantation in microphthalmic eyes of children younger than 4 years of age. METHODS This retrospective interventional case series included 14 microphthalmic eyes from 10 children who underwent congenital cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens implantation younger than ...

INTRODUCTION It is generally believed that people affected by papilledema will not have progressive damage to their eyesight if they receive adequate medical care to treat the underlying cause of the papilledema. We present a case that appears to contradict this widely accepted belief. CASE PRESENTATION A 53-year-old Japanese man with tinnitus visited our hospital. His initial best-corrected ...

PURPOSE To report the postoperative binocular function of patients with Boston type I keratoprostheses implantation for unilateral visual impairment. METHODS Seventeen patients who underwent implantation of a Boston type I keratoprosthesis and had a best-corrected visual acuity better than 20/50 in the contralateral eye before surgery were evaluated. All subjects prospectively underwent senso...

Methods | TheNational Eye Institute–funded Steroids for Corneal Ulcers Trial3,4 (SCUT) and the pilot study for the National Eye Institute–funded Mycotic Ulcer Treatment Trial2 (MUTT pilot) were concurrent, randomized controlled trials comparingoutcomes inpatientswithbacterial (SCUT)and fungal (MUTTpilot) keratitis. Detailedmethods have beenpreviously reported.2,3Outcomes for both trials include...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this report is to describe the initial outcomes of femtosecond laser-assisted penetrating keratoplasty. METHODS This retrospective surgical case series consisted of 10 eyes from 10 patients undergoing penetrating keratoplasty at a tertiary center. Femtosecond laser was used to perform a zig-square incision on the donor cornea with matched dimensions on the recipient ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the anatomical and visual outcomes of primary idiopathic macular hole surgery using indocyanine green-assisted internal limiting membrane peeling versus no internal limiting membrane peeling. DESIGN Prospective randomised controlled clinical trial. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Fifty-one eyes of 49 Chinese patients with primary idiopathic m...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to assess the functional outcomes registered in patients from the Western part of Romania, who have been treated for retinopathy of prematurity, using a laser diode (810mn). MATERIALS AND METHODS In the current study 52 premature infants with gestational age<34 weeks and a birth weight <2000 grams, 96 eyes in total were included. The functional outcomes wer...