Purpose: The Objective of the study is to know and record effect lockdown in outpatient emergency services pediatric ophthalmology department Kedia Eye Hospital.Method: Comparison children attending Pediatric Department Hospital during before lockdown. Data February 16 2021 April 15 was compared with June 2021. Collection data done from Outpatients Emergency Register.Results: Children below yea...

Background: Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) severely affects the quality of life affected patients. The development a shield ulcer is considered one most severe late-stage complications, which when untreated leads to irreversible vision loss. In this systematic review, we outlined results surgical treatments corneal ulcers in VKC. Methods: We searched 12 literature databases on 3 April 2023 f...

Purpose: To report our experience of managing a steroid resistant limbal vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) by topical interferon alpha-2b (IFN- 2b) eye drops. Methods: Case Results: A 20-year-old man was referred to cornea clinic with the chief complaints itching and photophobia in eyes foreign body sensation, redness, ptosis both eyes. He had 10-year history gradually enlarging gelatinous mass...

PURPOSE Thymosin-beta4 (Tbeta4) is a small actin-sequestrating peptide that modulates inflammation and healing in different tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate the molecular and biochemical expression of Tbeta4 in the healthy conjunctiva and in the conjunctiva of patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC), a severe allergic eye disease characterized by chronic inflammation an...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Chemokines are a family of low molecular weight cytokines that attract and activate leucocytes. The CC chemokines act on eosinophils, basophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes, suggesting that they play an important part in allergic diseases. The aims of this study were to investigate the expression of the CC chemokines, RANTES, eotaxin, monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP) 1, MCP-2, ...

Purpose. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of using expression levels of CCL24 (eotaxin-2) mRNA on the ocular surface as a biomarker in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) and atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC). Methods. Eighteen patients with VKC or AKC (VKC/AKC group) and 12 control subjects (control group) were enrolled in this study. The VKC/AKC clinical score wa...