Introduction: Because of bilateral involvement in many cases with diabetic macular edema, Intravitreal bevacizumab injection perform in both eyes. There are some reports of therapeutic effects in the fellow eye after monocular injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factors. In this study we describe a case of bilateral improvement of diabetic macular edema following unil...

objective conjunctivitis is a common disease in neonates. several bacterial and viral infectious agents may cause it. tear circulation and blinking has protective effects from bacterial colonization in the conjuntival sac. reduced blinking increases the possibility of bacterial conjunctivitis. we studied the effect of eye patches on bacterial colonization of the conjunctival sac.  methods in 10...

purpose: to introduce the technique and results of vitrectomy surgery with removal of cyclitic membrane by placement of radial cuts over the membrane in traumatized eyes. methods: vitrectomy in 8 eyes of 8 patients after penetrating ocular trauma revealed that fibrovascular tissue was present over the pars plicata. to remove the membrane, radial cuts were placed over the membrane first and then...

background and aims: this research evaluated the effects of humanoid robots on improvement of eye contact in autistic children. methods and materials: this research used a multiple baseline, single-subject design with control to test 5 autistic children (2 girls and 3 boys) in tehran during 2010. the children aged 7 to 9 years and were tested by gilliam autism rating scales (gars) to ensure the...

introduction: the most common mode of rabies virus transmission is through a bite wound or contact of broken skin with saliva of a rabid animal. various other routes of virus transmission include exposure of mucous membranes (i.e. eyes, nose, and mouth) to infected saliva of a rabid animal, aerosol transmission, and corneal transplantation. laboratory workers during work with rabies virus and v...

microbial corneal diseases are a serious ocular infection and the major cause of ocular morbidity and blindness in the world. the outcomes of fungal keratitis are unfavorable due to the protracted course of the condition and the diversity of respective clinical presentations. trauma, contact lens wear, foreign material, and prior corneal surgery, may make the most background for permitting inva...

in spite of rapid advances in keratorefractive surgery in recent decades, the most common method for refractive error correction throughout the world is glasses, the discovery of which is attributed to the persians. other advantages include protection of the eye against trauma and radiations, correction of phorias and tropias and cosmetic reasons. the purpose of this article is to describe and ...

purpose : to quantitatively evaluate cataract surgeries performed between 2000 and 2005 at farabi eye hospital , tehran university of medical sciences methods : this retrospective study aimed at patients who had cataract and underwent surgery at farabi eye hospital , tehran from 2000 to 2005. one week per season per year was randomly selected after excluding the first two weeks of the persian y...

the purpose of this study was to investigate magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of the normal feline eyeand optic nerves using t1-weighted and t2-weighted images. a total of 6 healthy female domestic short haircats age 2-2.5 years and weighing 3.2 ± 0.4 kg were selected. magnetic resonance imaging data werecollected using gemsow (philips) at a magnetic field strength of 1.5 t. dorsal, sagittal, a...