purpose: to investigate the association between acute corneal hydrops in patients with keratoconus (kcn) and mitral valve prolapse (mvp). methods: this case-control study included kcn patients with corneal hydrops who were referred to labbafinejad medical center or a collaborating private clinic from march 2006 to march 2008 as the case group. the control group included age- and sex-matched ind...

Abstract Clinical keratoconus (KCN) detection is a challenging and time-consuming task. In the diagnosis process, ophthalmologists must revise demographic clinical ophthalmic examinations. The latter include slit-lamb, corneal topographic maps, Pentacam indices (PI). We propose an Ensemble of Deep Transfer Learning (EDTL) based on maps. consider four pretrained networks, SqueezeNet (SqN), AlexN...

purpose: to assess the efficacy of intrastromal rings for management of keratoconus (kcn). methods: this prospective non comparative case series includes 14 eyes of 11 contact lens intolerant patients with kcn. corneal thickness of at least 450 m at the site of segment insertion was required for enrollment. uncorrected visual acuity (ucva), best corrected visual acuity (bcva), refraction, pachy...

PURPOSE The objective of this study is to describe the authors' results with intrastromal corneal ring segments (Intacs) and a new variation of lamellar keratoplasty, termed intralamellar keratoplasty (ILK), for the treatment of keratoconus (KCN) and post-laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) ectasia. METHODS A retrospective review of contact lens-intolerant KCN and post-LASIK ectasia...

PURPOSE To evaluate corneal changes after collagen crosslinking (CXL) therapy for keratoconus (KCN) using the Galilei dual Scheimpflug analyzer. METHODS This prospective, nonrandomized clinical study included 35 eyes of 32 keratoconus patients who had undergone CXL. The eyes were saturated with riboflavin solution and were subjected for 30 minutes to ultraviolet-A (UV-A) light with irradiance...

purpose: to evaluate changes in indications of corneal transplantation at labbafinejad medical center during 2001-2003. methods: records of 563 from 684 patients who had undergone corneal transplantation from oct. 2001 to oct. 2003 were evaluated. all the procedures were performed by corneal surgeons and fellows. findings: there were 292 male (51.9%) and 217 female (48.1%) subjects ranging in a...