Ocular microtremor (OMT) is a physiological high frequency (up to 150Hz) low amplitude (150-2500nm) involuntary tremor of the human eye. It is one of the three fixational ocular motions described by Adler and Fliegelman in 1934 as well as microsaccades and drift. Clinical OMT investigations to date have used eye-contacting piezoelectric probes or piezoelectric strain gauges. Before contact can ...

PURPOSE Bacillus endophthalmitis is a highly explosive infection of the eye that commonly results in rapid inflammation and vision loss, if not loss of the eye itself, within a few days. Quorum-sensing-controlled toxins are essential to virulence during infection. Another unique characteristic of this disease is the ability of Bacillus to replicate rapidly and migrate to all parts of the eye. T...

purpose: to report the characteristics of children referred to the emergency department of feiz medical center with penetrating eye injuries. methods: in a cross-sectional study, children with penetrating eye trauma were evaluated. age, sex, parents educational level, time, location, and cause of trauma recorded and compared. results: overall, 100 patients with mean age of 7±3.8 (range 2 to 16 ...

kindler's syndrome is a rare entity of unknown cause characterized by acral blisters early in life followed by progressive diffuse poikiloderma and cutaneous atrophy. the inheritance pattern of this syndrome is not clear. we report four iranian siblings (three boys and one girl) with this syndrome, who were the result of a consanguineous marriage. in addition to the usual manifestations of the ...

purpose: to evaluate the prevalence of acute ocular chemical injuries in patients referred to labbafinejad medical center (lmc) over a period of one year. methods: all patients with chemical burns referred to lmc emergency ophthalmology service were included in the study. demographic characteristics and information regarding the burn were obtained. visual acuity assessment and slit lamp examina...

conclusions eye trauma was prevalent among males, young people, urban residents, and manual and industrial workers. as the eyes play a vital role in daily life, communication, and work activities, and eye health is so important for individuals to attain high educational status and productivity, the public should be thoroughly educated about eye protection and the use of safety measures, especia...

rapid prototyping (rp) is a technique of manufacturing parts by the additive layer manufacturing technology; where, a three-dimensional (3d) model created in a computer aided design (cad) system is sectioned into 2d profiles, which are further constructed by rp layer by layer. its use is not limited to industrial or engineering fields and has extended to the medical field for the manufacturing ...

a small clinical and serological survey to determine the prevalence and severity of trachoma was conducted in 11 iranian villages located in the dezful and kazerun areas. no evidence of severe active disease or severe squeal was found among the 389 individuals examined. seventy-seven per cent of those examined were more than 12 years of age. the prevalence of active trachoma by clinical examina...

ultrasonography is a relatively easy, safe and non-invasive examination method which can be used in diagnosis of ocular disorders as complementary to routine ophthalmic examinations. as there has been no collated study undertaken on the normal measurements of ocular structures in caspian miniature horse, obtaining these measurements could be a benchmark to diagnose some of the diseases and eye ...