This case report a rare case of 67-year-old man, presented with Marfan’s syndrome, cataract and crystalline lens dislocation of the left eye. The best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of the left eye was 0.2. Cataract surgery was asissted by femtosecond laser LenSx. One month after surgery uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) of the left eye was 0.9, BCVA with sph. +1.5 was 1.0. Intraocular lens have...

Presbyopia is age-related loss of accommodation that gradually impairs near vision. Few studies have examined the burden of presbyopia in the United States of America (USA)1,2 and none have examined it in economically disadvantaged or minority populations, in which there are increased rates of visual impairment and decreased use of eye care services.3,4 In our study, individuals ≥35 years of ag...

PURPOSE Assess visual impairment in school children of upper-middle socioeconomic status in Kathmandu for comparison with rural Jhapa District. METHODS Random selection of classes from secondary private schools in Kathmandu was used to identify the study sample. Children in 130 classes at 43 schools were enumerated using school records and examined between January-May 2006. Examinations inclu...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review of the efficacy/effectiveness, safety and cost of Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) technique in patients with corneal endothelial failure. METHODS Comprehensive literature search conducted in the main biomedical databases from January-May 2012. RESULTS Following a critical perusal of the total of 485 abstracts retrieved...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy, predictability, stability, and safety of a two-step LASIK procedure using topography-guided ablation to correct astigmatism after penetrating keratoplasty. METHODS Fifteen eyes of 15 patients underwent a two-step LASIK procedure at the Maggiore Hospital of Bologna, Italy. In the first step, a flap was created using the Hansatome microkeratome. In the second ste...

On examination, her uncorrected near visual acuity was J1+ and her best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 at distance and J1+ at near. Her glasses measured −4.50 +0.50 × 98 in the right eye and −4.75 D in the left eye. Ocular motility was full, and the pupils were equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation. Her pupils measured 5 mm to 3 mm with direct pupillary light reflex and 5 mm ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the comparative efficacy of topical and local anesthesia in phacoemulsification. MATERIAL AND METHODS The medical records of 186 men and women between the ages of 45-85 years, who underwent elective cataract surgery by phacoemulsification technique, under the care of one surgeon, over a period of one year, from March 1999-March 2000 were reviewed. RESULTS Of 186 patients...

PURPOSE To evaluate clinical outcomes of limbal relaxing incision (LRI) combined with bimanual phacoemulsification and insertion of an intraocular lens (IOL) developed for bimanual microincision cataract surgery (MICS). METHODS In a prospective, single-center study, eyes with > or = 0.75 diopters (D) of keratometric astigmatism were randomly assigned to two surgical techniques: 1) bimanual MI...

background : visual impairment is a very important public health problem. in iran, reports of visual impairment and blindness have been published from the urban population while the prevalence of visual impairment in the rural popu-lation has not been reported. the purpose of this study to determine the prevalence and causes of visual impairment, in a rural population in district of based on ag...