Objective: Remote Ischemic Preconditioning (RIPC) as the transient ischemia and reperfusion of the arm is a promising method for protecting different tissue from future ischemia. These effects might be mediated through vascular and endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway. We investigated the influence of RIPC on diabetic macular edema (DME) as a chronic ischemic condition in patients who were ...

Background. Ocular bartonellosis can present in various ways, with variable visual outcome. There is limited data on ocular bartonellosis in Malaysia. Objective. We aim to describe the clinical presentation and visual outcome of ocular bartonellosis in Malaysia. Materials and Methods. This was a retrospective review of patients treated for ocular bartonellosis in two ophthalmology centers in Ma...

Human vision is heterogeneous around the visual field. At a fixed eccentricity, performance better along horizontal than vertical meridian and lower upper meridian. These asymmetric patterns, termed fields, have been found in numerous tasks, including those mediated by contrast sensitivity spatial resolution. However, it unknown whether resolution asymmetries are confined to cardinal meridians ...

 Abstract Background: Transpupillary thermotherapy is a new treatment for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization which needs further evaluation. This study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of transpupillary thermotherapy on regression of occult subfoveal choroidal neovascularization with or without pigment epithelial detachment in patients with age-related macular degeneration. Methods: In a ...

BACKGROUND Patients with angioid streaks are prone to develop a subretinal hemorrhage after ocular injury, due to fragility of Bruch's membrane. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to report a patient with angioid streaks in whom subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) developed after blunt ocular trauma. CASE REPORT A 60-year-old man was accidentally struck in the left eye with a ...

PURPOSE To assess visual functioning and vision-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in an older, community-dwelling-based population subsample, using the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ-25). METHODS Three-quarters (76%, n = 892) of Extension Blue Mountains Eye Study participants (aged > or = 50 years, mean 60.8 years) completed the self-admini...

To study epidemiology, biometry and visual outcomes (with or without posterior capsulorhexis) in cases of pediatric traumatic cataract. This was a prospective observational conducted on 30 children cataract belonging to an age group less than 16 years. All patients were subjected detailed history ocular examination. Patients underwent surgery with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. Posterior ...

PURPOSE To characterize binocular visual acuity summation and inhibition in participants of a population-based ocular epidemiologic study. METHODS A complete ophthalmic examination of Latinos, aged 40 or more years, measured binocular and monocular distance visual acuities by a standard early-treatment diabetic retinopathy study (ETDRS) protocol. The proportions of participants who demonstrat...