Background and Objective: Plasma is one of the newest therapies recently used. This study aimed to evaluate a quick treatment modality conjunctival concretions using plasma as noninvasive procedure. Methods: Six eyes six patients with were evaluated. The procedure was performed spots generated by white handpiece Plexr device. eyelid everted sublimated from upper lower eyelids. Refractive Errors...

Capsular block syndrome (CBS) has been known to occur as a rare complication of cataract surgery with continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis and a posterior-chamber lens implant. Typically, it presents with reduced vision in the early postoperative period and is characterised by a forward displacement of the posterior-chamber intra-ocular lens and an accumulation of intra-capsular opaque material...

Retrobulbar hemorrhage is a rare complication that may occur after mid-face injuries or following soft and hard tissue surgery around the eyes. The cardinal signs and symptoms of retrobulbar hemorrhage are pain, diplopia, ophthalmoplegia, a progression of increasing proptosis, and decreasing visual acuity leading to blindness. The diagnosis can be confirmed with computed tomography (CT) of the ...

A young patient suffering from schizophrenia had intense headaches and photophobia which were induced by intra-ocular injections of mercury. The clinical diagnosis was established once foreign bodies were visualized on regular X-rays of the patients skull. The mercury intoxication in combination with the secondary irreversible lesions to the eyes necessitated a bilateral enucleation and the use...

Progressive ocular complications of diabetes mellitus (DM) result by the chronic exposure to high blood levels of glucose. Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the most common complication, and the cause of moderate to severe visual loss in diabetic patients. Furthermore, DM is the major etiologic factor for neovascular glaucoma (NVG) [1]. The association of iris and angle neovessels (NVs) with DM b...

This case report describes the findings of a 18 year-old black male from Bahia, a Northeastern state in Brazil, with the sickle cell trait, who developed bilateral hyphema and vitreous hemorrhage with blindness in the course of leptospirosis. The patient started to complain of blurred vision four days after the start of fever and muscular pain and approximately twelve hours after the introducti...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the etiologic factors, complications, follow-up, and treatment outcomes in serious hyphema following blunt ocular trauma in childhood. METHODS The medical records of 136 patients diagnosed as grade 3 or 4 hyphema due to blunt ocular trauma between January 2006 and December 2011 were evaluated. Visual acuity (VA), complications, and medical and surgical treatmen...

UNIOCULAR aphakia is a condition of artificial anisometropia which very often causes great annoyance to the sufferer, who finds the aphakic eye of little use if the other eye is normal, and often complains of lack of binocular function and difficulty in judging distances, especially at close range. If contact lenses have been tried with unsatisfactoryresults, it seems justifiable especially in ...

OBJECTIVE To describe surgical strategies in a series of patients with diplopia following implantation of a glaucoma drainage device. METHODS Retrospective review of 9 consecutive patients who underwent strabismus surgery because of strabismus and diplopia after implantation of a glaucoma drainage device. RESULTS Seven patients with marked limitation to ocular rotations and incomitant strab...

BACKGROUND Snake envenomation is a major public health problem of the Savannah regions of West Africa. Ocular manifestations of snakebites are rare with few reports documenting blindness as a complication. OBJECTIVE To highlight an unusual manifestation of snake bites and its attendant problems. METHODS A report of scalp haematoma and blindness in a 10 year old child presenting 2 weeks afte...