A 65-year-old male presented to us with symptoms of severe pain in right eye with loss of vision for 1 week. He had undergone a manual small incision cataract surgery elsewhere 2 weeks back. 48–72 hours post-surgery, his vision started decreasing and he presented to us in a state shown in the figure 1. On examination, a provisional diagnosis of post-operative endophthalmitis was made. The anter...

Glaucoma Drainage Implant (GDI) surgery is increasingly being utilized in cases of refractory glaucoma [1]. In GDI surgery, a peritomy is created in the beginning of the surgery and one of the last steps is to return the conjunctiva to its original position and secure it in place. Traditionally conjunctival closure has been accomplished by suturing the conjunctiva to the sclera with absorbable ...

Accepted for publication 24 November 1993 Case report A 55-year-old white man presented with an 8 month history of poor vision in the left eye. He had a history of mild asthma and 2 years previously had suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by a left middle cerebral artery aneurysm which was subsequently clipped. There was no visual disturbance associated with the subarachnoid haemorrhage....

A 20-year old male patient sustained trauma to the right eye by stone 7 years prior to presentation. The patient's right eye had corneal scar, sectoral traumatic cataract and chronic retinal detachment in which retinal detachment repair was done. Seven years later, the patient presented with intracorneal epithelial ingrowth, which was confirmed by histopathology. Conjuctival peritomy was done s...

PURPOSE To report the finding of Thelazia callipaeda within the human subconjunctival space. METHODS An 81-year-old man with a history of traumatic conjunctival laceration that occurred 2 years previously had white worms in the subconjunctival space of his right eye. RESULTS Five worms were removed from the subconjunctival space via a local peritomy, since there was no conjunctival lacerati...

This paper describes an improvement in the technique of limbal incision of the conjunctiva in squint operations. The limbal incision was first described by Zugsmith (I959) as a peritomy incision, but Massin and Hudelo (I962) were the first to show its full advantage in squint surgery, and von Noorden (i 968, i 969) improved the technique. The limbal incision has the merits of providing a scarle...

june 2013 CataraCt & refraCtive Surgery today 19 AlAn S. CrAndAll, Md I would plan on using iris hooks to keep the iris from interfering with phacoemulsification, so I would create two extra paracenteses. If the astigmatism were regular, I would implant a toric IOL. If the astigmatism were irregular, I would not address it initially. Given the amount of trauma to the eye, my primary concern wou...

PURPOSE To determine definitively the epithelial origin of corneal resurfacing and to elucidate the immunologic mechanisms of epithelial rejection in a murine keratoepithelioplasty (KEP) model. METHODS After corneal epithelial removal and peritomy, donor corneal lenticules were grafted around the limbus (KEP procedure). The process of corneal reepithelialization was observed with 0.25% methyl...

Myopic individuals, especially those with severe myopia, are at higher-than-normal risk of cataract, glaucoma, retinal detachment and chorioretinal abnormalities. In addition, pathological myopia is a common irreversible cause of visual impairment and blindness. Our study demonstrates the effect of scleral crosslinking using riboflavin and ultraviolet-A radiation on the development of axial myo...