Background: Congenital cataract is the leading global cause of preventable childhood blindness, and onset infantile congenital cataracts rare. Managing still challenging due to associated complications. Objective: This study aimed assess outcomes surgery with intraocular lens implantation in southern Jordan. Methods: A retrospective case series included 20 children who underwent lensectomy, age...

PURPOSE To determine whether variation in ocular rigidity (a quantity that describes the elastic properties of the globe) affects the characteristics of horizontal saccadic eye movements. METHODS Thirty-three young, visually healthy subjects participated with informed consent in the study. Axial length was measured using the IOLMaster ocular biometer. Ocular rigidity coefficients were determi...

Acceptance for publication May’ 2011 .................................. Purpose: To compare surgically induced astigmatism between injector and forceps delivery system for intraocular lens implantation in phacoemulsification. Methods: This Quasi experimental study was carried out in Ophthalmology Department, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore. One hundred consecutive cataract patients were operated ...

This study was designed to determine the effects of cigarette smoking on intra ocular pressure and arterial blood pressure of normotensive young male adults. Fifty male students (who met the screening conditions and devoid of obvious ocular pathology and systemic diseases and non-smokers) had their intra ocular pressure (IOP) measured with a Schiotz tonometer and blood pressure(BP) measured wit...

BACKGROUND Congenital microphthalmia (OMIM: 309700) may occur in isolation or in association with a variety of systemic malformations. Isolated microphthalmia may be inherited as an autosomal dominant, an autosomal recessive, or an X linked trait. METHODS Based on a whole genome linkage analysis, in a six generation consanguineous family with autosomal recessive inheritance, the first locus f...

There is a large literature on the subject of the water-drinking test. Many authors have evaluated it and considered it to be a reliable method ofdiagnosing chronic simple glaucoma (Agarwal and Sharma, I953; Bloomfield and Kellerman, I947; Norskov, i967; Scheie, Spencer, and Helmick, 1956; Swanljung and Blodi, 1956). Leydhecker (I95oa, b, 1954) found the test unreliable with Schiotz tonometry. ...

BACKGROUND We have compared the effect of low dose rocuronium on intraocular pressure (IOP) in larygeal mask airway usage during induction of anesthesia using propofol and fentanyl, in a randomized, double-blind study. METHOD We studied 30 patients randomly allocated to one of two groups. Anesthesia was induced with fentanyl 1 mg kg(-1) and propofol 2 mg kg(-1) until loss of eyelash reflex. T...

Healthy Non-glaucomatous Eyes A series of eleven male and thirteen female non-glaucomatous persons aged 35 to 74 years (average 56*5) was considered as controis. In three instances both eyes were tested and for these three the average result from the two eyes was used in order to maintain the statistical value of the series. The average initial tension was 19 mm. Hg (Schiotz) (S.D. 4-12) and th...

Treatment.-Gutt. pilocarpine 1 per cent. four times a day failed to 'control the intraocular pressure, which varied between 45 and 79 mm. Hg Schiotz. On December 10, 1956, a filtration operation was performed, consisting of combined anterior flap sclerotomy, cyclodialysis, and basal iris inclusion (Stallard, 1953). There were apparently no operative complications. On the sixth post-operative da...

A male labourer, aged 74, attended the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, complaining of defective vision. Examination.-In the right eye, the visual acuity was reduced to 6/18, because of lens opacities. The left eye showed advanced lens opacities, and the visual acuity was good perception of light. Operation.-On August 4, 1952, an intracapsular extraction of the opaque left lens was performed w...