BACKGROUND The management of refractory glaucoma is a challenging task for any glaucoma surgeon. This study is aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Ahmed Glaucoma Valve implantation in refractory glaucomas in South-West Ethiopia. METHODS A retrospective review was conducted on the charts of consecutive patients treated with Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation at Jimma University Specialized Hospit...

AIM To describe postoperative surgical success of either Ahmed or Baerveldt tube shunt implantation for eyes with medically uncontrolled traumatic glaucoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS A review was carried out to identify patients with traumatic glaucoma that required tube shunt implantation between 2009 and 2015 at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Seventeen eyes from 17 patients met ...

Konya ve çevresi tarih öncesi çağlardan günümüze kadar yerleşime sahne olmuş Anadolu’nun kadim şehirlerinden birisidir. Türklerin 1071 yılında Malazgirt Zaferiyle Türk Yurdu haline getirdiği bu topraklar başta Sultan ailesi olmak üzere devlet adamları, varlıklı insanlar tarafından sayısız ata yadigarı eserler ile donatılmıştır. Bunlar içerisinde camiler, medreseler, kervansaraylar, hamamlar, çe...

Undoubtedly, Dr. Ahmed Zewail, who passed away on August 2, 2016, had a strong, positive impact on science in the Middle East and in the West. I knew Zewail as one of his mentors and close friends. Zewail wanted to come from Egypt (Alexandria University) to get his PhD in my group at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Unfortunately, I was away on sabbatical and thus did not see h...

Ahmed Zewail passed away on 2 August 2016. This was a tremendous loss to the community of scientists working on ultrafast phenomena. He pioneered the study of the dynamics of chemical bonds using ultrashort laser pulses, which he had named Femtochemistry. This achievement would change our way of looking at how chemical bonds break, form, and transform. It would encompass several fields of resea...