purpose: to evaluate the effect of  patch therapy on visual acuity in adults with ametropic amblyopia. methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed on 66 patients with unilateral ametropic amblyopia aged 9 to 35 years reffered to a clinic in shahroud. the patients were randomly assigned to two groups. in the treatment group, based on the visual acuity of the amblyopic eye, 3-6 hours da...

patients and methods fifty nine patients with indication for carpal tunnel release randomly assigned into two groups: open (n=30) or knifelight (n=29). the patients compared regarding scar length, operation duration, time to return to daily activities and amount of pain at three weeks after operation based on visual analog scale. results there was no significant differences regarding age and se...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: to investigate the reasons for p ostvitrectomy diabetic vitreous hemorrhage (pdvh), and to analyze the time of pdvh onset, the treatment of pdvh, the visual outcome of the treatment, and factors that affect visual acuity after treatment. materials and methods: overall, 292 eyes from 236 patients with proliferat...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the efficacy of a single cyclodiode laser photocoagulation treatment for refractory glaucoma and its effect on visual outcome in patients with good visual potential as well as to evaluate possible predictive factors in establishing optimal treatment parameters. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING Tertiary referral centre. PARTICIPANTS The notes of 8...

OBJECTIVES The objectives were to assess (a) the comparative merits of commonly used disease modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and (b) the influence of age, gender, and disease duration on the outcome of treatment. METHODS Collected analysis (meta-analysis) was performed on results obtained during the first year of treatment in 1140 patients with RA treated with go...