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Beril Altaş Yavuz1, Emel Okulu2, Saadet Arsan2, İlke Mungan Akın3, Begüm Atasay2, Ömer Erdeve2 1Department of Pediatrics, Farabi Hospital, Konya, 2Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara,3Department of Neonatology, Medeniyet University, Göztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: [email protected] Received: 28th Dec...

purpose : to evaluate outcome of surgically slanting extraocular muscle insertions in a and v-pattern strabismus methods : in this prospective non-randomized interventional case series, we created a slanting surgical reinsertion line with a 3- 4 mm difference between upper and lower corners of the muscles in 16 patients with a or v strabismus (v-exotropia in 10 patients, a-exotropia in 1 patien...

Purpose: To compare thickness of central cornea measured using Pentacam, Orbscan II, and ultrasound pachymeter Methods: Patients with no history of corneal diseases or systemic diseases affecting eyes, who did not wear contact lens or use eye medications, and who with no previous history of corneal surgery were selected for this study. Central corneal thickness (CCT) was measured by three metho...

purpose : to report a case of adult ocular leech infestation case report : a 67-year-old male presented to the emergency department of farabi eye hospital with the complaint of bloody tear. slitlamp biomicroscopy of left eye revealed bloody lashes, bloody tear and a large black green foreign body attached to the inferotemporal bulbar conjunctiva. one cc of lidocaine 2% was injected directly to ...

Archives of Iranian Medicine, Volume 10, Number 3, July 2007 426 Household Ocular Injuries: A Case Series To determine the natures and types of household eye injuries, we prospectively analyzed data from 100 consecutive patients with household eye injuries (104 eyes) referred to emergency room of Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran in October 2003. Standardized international classification of ...

PURPOSE To describe a case of chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) leading to severe dry eye and recurrent corneal perforation in both eyes, its stepwise management and histopathological reports. CASE REPORT A 22-year-old woman with a history of thalassemia and subsequent high-dose chemotherapy followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT) was referred to Farabi Eye Hospital. Despit...

PURPOSE To report normal interpupillary distance (IPD) values in different age groups of an Iranian population. METHODS This study was performed on 1,500 randomly selected subjects from 3,260 consecutive out-patients with refractive errors referred to Farabi Eye Hospital, Isfahan, Iran over a period of two years (2008 to 2010). Measurement of refractive errors and IPD for far distance were pe...

OBJECTIVE To show how an extending capsulorrhexis can be rescued by a midway tangential capsular flap in order to achieve an uneventful phacoemulsification. DESIGN Consecutive case series. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-two eyes of 22 patients with extending capsulorrhexis treated at the Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran. METHODS First, a tangential capsular opening was created on the border of the presum...