background: to evaluate the agreement in intraocular pressure (iop) measurements by ocular response analyzer (ora) and tono-pen xl (txl) with the goldmann applanation tonometer (gat) and to examine corneal biomechanical properties in aphakic glaucoma patients with a central corneal thickness (cct) >600 µ. methods: thirty-six eyes of aphakic glaucoma patients (group 1) and 40 eyes of normal chil...

purpose: to compare outcomes of two techniques (anwar vs. melles) of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) in patients with keratoconus. methods: this randomized double-blind clinical trial was performed on 57 eyes of 57 patients with keratoconus. patients aged 20-35 years with a clinical diagnosis of keratoconus who were contact lens intolerant and had corrected distance visual acuity (cd...

PURPOSE To evaluate the ability of the Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA; Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments, Buffalo, NY) to distinguish between normal and keratoconic eyes, by comparing pressure and waveform signal-derived parameters. METHODS This retrospective comparative case series study included 112 patients with normal corneas and 41 patients with bilateral keratoconic eyes. One eye from each...

To investigate the relationship between corneal biomechanics and anterior segment parameters in the early stage of overnight orthokeratology.Twenty-three eyes from 23 subjects were involved in the study. Corneal biomechanics, including corneal hysteresis (CH) and corneal resistance factor (CRF), and parameters of the anterior segment, including corneal curvature, central corneal thickness (CCT)...

Corneal biomechanics emerged as a very hot topic for research in Ophthalmology. In this issue, Sharifipour and coworkers present an observational cross-sectional study in healthy individuals that evaluated the correlations of corneal viscoelastic properties measured by the Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA, Reichert, Buffalo, NY) with central corneal thickness (CCT) in different age groups. In this...

PURPOSE To investigate the changes in Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA) measurements with corneal edema induced by contact lenses. METHODS Twenty-five healthy, normal subjects (age, 23 ± 2 years) had central corneal radius (CCR), ORA, GAT, and central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements performed in both eyes before a thick, soft hydrogel contact lens wa...