PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of intravitreal bevacizumab on area of fluorescein leakage from active new vessels (NVs) and on best-corrected visual acuity in patients with actively leaking NV associated with diabetic retinopathy unresponsive to panretinal photocoagulation. METHODS A prospective open-label study of diabetic patients with actively leaking NV refractory to panretinal photocoagu...

PURPOSE To compare intravitreal bevacizumab monotherapy with intravitreal dexamethasone delayed delivery system monotherapy for persistent diabetic macular edema. METHODS Single-center, randomized, subject-masked study of eyes with persistent diabetic macular edema, defined as central subfield thickness (CST) >340 μm despite ≥3 anti-vascular endothelial growth factors injections within 5 mont...

although the majority of the cornea was nonedematous, there was marked corneal edema in the area of the GV markings with bulla noted (Figure 1). Over several weeks, the edema gradually resolved with interface haze in the area of prior edema. The visual acuity resolved to 20/40 without correction. Case 2. A 67-year-old woman with a history of Fuchs endothelial dystrophy presented with gradual on...

PURPOSE To evaluate the decibel loss on the Macular threshold protocol of the Humphrey visual field as a reliable functional outcome of the intravitreal bevacizumab treatment. METHODS Thirteen patients were evaluated at baseline and on the week 6 for best corrected visual acuity, optical coherence tomography central macular thickness and decibel loss on Macular threshold protocol of the Humph...

purpose: to determine factors that affect and predict final visual acuity, retinal attachment, and ocular survival after open-globe injuries. methods: one-hundred sixteen eyes with open globe injuries were evaluated longitudinally from september 2001to february 2004. age, sex, involved eye, best corrected visual acuity (bcva), afferent pupillary defect (apd), size and location of laceration, ca...

PURPOSE We intended to assess consequences of reduced visual acuity for performance in a natural simple motor task (tracing) using objective kinematic performance measures. Specifically, we intended to elucidate the kind of relationship between the task performance and best corrected binocular visual acuity and to determine the threshold of visual acuity when task performance starts to deterior...

BACKGROUND To determine the correlation between the optic nerve head (ONH) circulation determined by laser speckle flowgraphy and the best-corrected visual acuity or retinal sensitivity before and after intravitreal bevacizumab or ranibizumab for central retinal vein occlusion. METHODS Thirty-one eyes of 31 patients were treated with intravitreal bevacizumab or ranibizumab for macular edema d...

purpose: to determine the effect of occluding a normal eye on visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and stereopsis in amblyopic school children. methods: amblyopic children from primary schools of region 2 in mashhad were identified and referred to optometry clinics of mashhad medical university through a screening program. informed consent was obtained from the parents. all subjects underwent an...

purpose: to report a case of hypotonous maculopathy after blunt trauma and its treatment. patient and findings: a 34-year-old woman presented with decreased visual acuity in her left eye following blunt trauma. right eye examination was unremarkable, but visual acuity of left eye was counting fingers. slit lamp biomicroscopy of the left eye was within normal limits, but on funduscopy, papilloma...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic choroidal neovascularization (ICNV) is a unilateral ocular disease which occurs in patients younger than 50 years and accounts for approximately 17% of patients with CNV. We evaluated microstructural effects of intravitreal bevacizumab in eyes with treatment-naïve idiopathic choroidal neovascularisation. METHODS In this case series study we reviewed the treatment and fol...