PURPOSE To evaluate the local safety of bevacizumab and its effect on recurrence of primary pterygium excision. METHODS This randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted on 44 eyes of 44 patients randomized to Group 1 (bevacizumab) and Group 2 (balanced salt solution). Group 1 underwent pterygium excision with a rotational conjunctival flap and received a total of 7.5 mg subcon...

Introduction To evaluate the expression patterns of cytokeratin (K) 12, 13, and 19 in normal epithelium of the human ocular surface to determine whether K13 could be used as a marker for conjunctival epithelium. Methods: Total RNA was isolated from the human conjunctiva and central cornea. Those transcripts that had threefolds or higher expression levels in the conjunctiva than the cornea wer...

Purpose of the study : a comparison various vaginoplasty techniques and results in patients with transsexualism based on analysis data from world scientific literature. Material methods. The seeking published research placed open databases by keywords. A total 391 articles were initially analyzed which 33 have met our acceptability criteria. 3716 cases where undergone penile inversion, flap sur...

PURPOSE To describe the clinical outcome of amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for fornix reconstruction in a variety of ocular surface disorders. DESIGN Noncomparative interventional case series. PARTICIPANTS Seventeen eyes in 15 patients with symblepharon. Four eyes had ocular-cicatricial pemphigoid, two eyes had symblepharon after pterygium excision, four eyes had chemical or mechan...

Purpose: To investigate the current status and demographics of patients who underwent mitomycin C-augmented trabeculectomy (MMC-trabeculectomy) in Japan using data from the Collaborative Bleb-related Infection Incidence and Treatment Study. Subjects and Methods: Out of 1,249 patients (1,249 eyes), we selected patients who underwent trabeculectomy alone or phacotrabeculectomy using MMC. Age at t...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether amniotic membrane transplantation can be used to treat symptomatic bullous keratopathy displaying poor visual potential. METHODS Amniotic membrane transplantation was performed at 5 centers on 50 consecutive eyes (50 patients) with symptomatic bullous keratopathy and poor visual potential. The underlying causes of bullous keratopathy included aphakia (9 eyes), p...