purpose : to investigate the sensations experienced by chinese patients during refractive surgery including the laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik), epi-lasik, and sub-bowman keratomileusis (sbk) techniques. a prospective, randomized, and self-matched clinical study was conducted. methods : the participants included 44 men and 58 women aged 16 to 47 years old (mean 24.3±0.6 years) who underwen...

OBJECTIVE To review our experience with Norrie disease to determine if early vitrectomy abrogates the natural history of this rare disease; namely, bilateral no light perception visual acuity and phthisis bulbi. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all patients seen in our tertiary care pediatric retinal clinical practice from 1988 through 2008 with a potential diagnosis...

PURPOSE To report a case of Coats' disease in which spontaneous reattachment occurred after total retinal detachment. PATIENT AND METHODS A young boy (patient age: 4 years and 11 months) presented with leukocoria in the left eye. Slit-lamp examination revealed total retinal detachment with abnormal retinal blood vessels and subretinal exudation just behind the lens. Computed tomography imagin...

research on the “super sensory perception” has acquired a share in the ongoing study in the branches of psychology and experiential sciences for the two recent centuries. novel results have been achieved as to the possibility and the course of formation of such perceptions. having assumed an analytical-documentary approach making use of library books, this paper goes to deal with the issue in t...

a 15- year-old boy with history of bb gun injury to his left eye was referred to our center. his visual acuity was no light perception in the left eye. ocular findings were severe proptosis, conjunctival injection, and conjunctival vascular tortuosity. fundus examination revealed an extensive inferior chorioretinal scar compatible with chorioretinitis sclopetaria. a distinct bruit was detected ...

purpose: to present a case of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (hzo) with consequent posterior ischemic optic neuropathy (pion). case report: a 58-year-old woman with a history of hzo in her right eye which was under treatment presented with loss of vision to no light perception. on examination, positive relative afferent pupillary defect was detected; however the optic disc was normal on ophthalmosc...