We present a case of a 40-year-old male without previous medical history and medication who denied tobacco smoking or alcohol abuse. He led a healthy lifestyle, and there were no cardiovascular risk factors in his family history. In October 2012, he experienced acute onset of horizontal diplopia while playing with his child. During the transport to the emergency room, he developed a left-sided ...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of topical phenytoin 1 % on corneal epithelial defects healing in a rabbit model. methods: one eye of 20 albino rabbits in the animal house of al-zahra ophthalmology hospital was studied. a single corneal epithelial defect was created. the rabbits were randomly assigned into two groups (ten animals in each group). after creating a chemical burn in rabbits, one gr...

background: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of autologous serum eye drop in treatment of recurrent corneal epithelial defect. m aterials and methods: fourteen patients with recurrent corneal epithelial defect were studied. autologous serum was prepared from the patients and diluted in 20% normal saline. the patients were instructed to use the autologous serum every six...

BACKGROUND It has been previously reported that oral administration of sodium pyruvate inhibits oxidative stress and cataract formation in diabetic animals. With a view to exploring the clinical usefulness of these findings, this study examined its preventive effect when administered topically as an eye drop. METHODS Diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal injections of streptozotocin. At the...

PURPOSE To determine the therapeutic efficacy of a novel rare sugar, l-psicose, for the treatment of HSV-1 induced herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK) in a mouse eye model. METHODS One rare sugar l-psicose was assayed for HSV-1 inhibition of in vitro virus adsorption. The IC50 and IC90 values of l-psicose were determined using plaque reduction assay (PRA) in CV-1 cell. Female Balb/c mice were co...

AIMS Recently, it was reported by the authors that a single drop fluorophotometric technique for estimating corneal epithelial permeability (Pde) to fluorescein is not sufficiently precise for monitoring permeability changes in individual patients., but may be useful for evaluating mean differences in Pdc in population based research. To determine whether this technique provides a more sensitiv...

PURPOSE To determine whether brimonidine 0.2% minimizes the occurrence of subconjunctival hemorrhages without inducing postoperative flap complications in femtosecond laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). SETTING Centro Oftalmológico Marqués de Sotelo and Hospital NISA Virgen del Consuelo, Valencia, Spain. METHODS This prospective contralateral-eye interventional study evaluated consecutive...