PURPOSE To investigate the effect of hinge position on corneal topography after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) for myopia. SETTING Academic center and refractive surgery practice. METHODS Topography data obtained from 89 eyes of 46 patients after LASIK were analyzed. Using a system of Cartesian coordinates, data along the horizontal and vertical axes were analyzed, measuring sagittal ...

Objective: To determine the difference in mean corneal curvatures before and after pterygium excision, by using automated refraction and keratometry. Methodology: This quasi-experimental study was conducted at Eye Unit-I, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, from March 2010 to August 2010. Thirty patients with primary pterygium were analyzed before and after pterygium surgery for corneal curv...

PURPOSE To explore the relationship between lens power and refractive error in older adults following age-related hyperopic shifts. METHODS From the Shahroud Eye Cohort Study, subjects aged 55-64 years without clinically significant cataracts (with nuclear opacity of grade 0 to 1) were included to maximize the proportion of subjects with age-related hyperopic shifts that normally occur betwee...

purpose : the aim of this study was to determine indications of keratoplasty during 7 years (1999–2006) in emam-rreza and vali-asr teaching hospitals of birjand university of medical sciences. methods : medical records of all patients who underwent penetrating keratoplasty (pk) in teaching hospitals of birjand university of medical sciences from 1999 to 2006 were investigated retrospectively. t...

Purpose. To assess the amount and the axis orientation of anterior and posterior corneal astigmatism after refractive lenticule extraction (ReLEx) for myopic astigmatism. Methods. We retrospectively examined 53 eyes of 53 consecutive patients (mean age ± standard deviation, 33.2 ± 6.5 years) undergoing ReLEx to correct myopic astigmatism (manifest cylinder = 0.5 diopters (D)). Power vector anal...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the contribution of axial length, and lenticular and corneal power to the spherical equivalent refractive error in children with hyperopia between 3 and 13 years of age, using noncontact optical biometry. METHODS There were 62 children between 3 and 13 years of age with hyperopia (+2 diopters [D] or more) who underwent automated refraction measurement with cycloplegia, ...

PURPOSE To investigate the characteristics of the corneal topography with three-dimensional (3-D) anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) following Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). METHODS Thirty-four eyes of 33 patients following DSAEK were studied. In addition to conventional topographic maps, the elevation map of the intrastromal interface and...

In modern cataract surgery, spectacle freedom is becoming more and more important. Emmetropia can be achieved for patients with myopic or hyperopic refractive errors by selecting the appropriate spherical lens power. However, approximately 20% of patients who undergo cataract surgery have 1.25 diopters (D) of corneal astigmatism or more. (FerrerBlasco, Montes-Mico et al. 2009; Hoffmann and Hutz...

purpose : to report a case of recurrent corneal intrastromal cyst containing lymph fluid case report : a 13-year-old girl presented with recurrent cyst of the left cornea, which had been drained three years before, but had gradually recurred. the cyst was successfully drained. histologic examination, cytologic analysis, and protein electrophoresis were performed on the cyst fluid. histopatholog...

baradaran rafii ar, md; motevasseli t, md*; yazdizadeh f, md; ansari sh, md; karimian f, md; sadoughi mm, md; kiani h ocular tissue engineering research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran * corresponding author: [email protected] purpose: to compare anterior segment indices measured by two scheimpflug camera; galilei and pentacam. methods: in this observa...