A Clinical study of Ocular Surface Disease and their Management. Aims and Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of various ocular surface diseases in patients presenting with symptoms suggestive of ocular surface disease, attending the government general hospital, Guntur.

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METHODS. Seventeen patients with diagnosed ocular sarcoidosis, 28 with suspected ocular sarcoidosis, 16 with Behçet’s disease, 17 with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, and 18 healthy subjects were studied. Serum levels of CCL2, CCL5, CXCL8, CXCL9, and CXCL10 were simultaneously measured by cytometric bead array using flow cytometer. In addition, serum CXCL9 and CXCL10 levels in the patients with d...

Seven cases of occlusive ocular vascular disease affecting retinal and choroidal vessels were found among 84 consecutive patients with raised levels of anticardiolipin antibodies attending the lupus arthritis clinic at St Thomas's Hospital from 1985 to 1987. Six patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and one with a 'primary antiphospholipid syndrome' had occlusive ocular vascular dise...

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) has been reported as a disorder mainly characterized by tendency to fall, vertical gaze palsy, and constriction of the body axis, akinesia, cognitive impairment. Patients presenting with these typical clinical features are diagnosed having PSP-Richardson syndrome (PSP-RS). Electronystagmography (ENG) is useful for detection ocular motility disorder, which ma...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of symptoms of ocular surface disease and its relationship with associated risk factors in students from the University of Monterrey using Ocular Surface Disease (OSDI) questionnaire. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted between October and December 2014 to assess the prevalence and risk factors for ocular surfac...

AIMS To investigate serum leptin levels in Behçet's patients with or without ocular involvement compared with healthy subjects and the relationship between serum leptin and uveitis activity in patients with ocular involvement. METHODS Fifty-seven patients with Behçet's disease and 20 healthy control subjects were included in this study. While 27 patients had ocular involvement (18 had acute u...

Ocular chronic graft-versus-host disease is one of the most bothersome common complications following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The National Institutes of Health Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Consensus Project provided expert recommendations for diagnosis and organ severity scoring. However, ocular chronic graft-versus-host disease can be diagnosed only after exami...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, immunologic disorder that may affect multiple organ systems. Keratoconjunctivitis sicca is the most common ocular manifestation, but visual morbidity is usually due to retinal and neuro-ophthalmic manifestations of the disease. Ocular manifestations of lupus are a reflection of systemic disease. The presence of ocular manifestations should alert ...

one hundred myasthenic patients were prospectively studied the ratio ojfemale to male was approximatelv 1.12. disease onset was most common in the third decade. the incidence of disease onset after age so was significantly higher ill men. the 11l0,'i! common presenting symptoms were ocular, seen in 76% ojpatients. iii several cases, disease presentations were atypical, with symptoms such as wea...