purpose: to evaluate the effect of successful surgical alignment on improvement of binocular vision in adults with childhood strabismus methods: in a prospective interventional study, consecutive patients with childhood-onset, comitant, horizontal and constant strabismus who had successful postoperative alignment were enrolled. preoperative and postoperative binocular vision testing was perform...

abstract background and aim: regard with the importance of balance in daily activities especially in sport activities and understanding the important factor affecting it, the purpose of this study was to compare the role of vision system on dynamic postural stability of young women with men elite athletes. materials and methods: twenty six young women and men elite swimmer were chosen from the ...

Little is known about the distribution of eye and vision conditions among school children in Qatar. The aim of the study was to examine the effects of excessive internet use and television viewing on low vision and its prevalence with socio-demographic characteristics. This is a cross-sectional study which was carried out in the public and private schools of the Ministry of Education and Higher...

Background:  Diplopia, or double vision, is a common ophthalmologic complaint with many underlying causes, ocular and neurological. Aripiprazole has been reported to have fewer adverse effects and better efficacy than other atypical antipsychotics. Although ocular side effects of aripiprazole are not remarkable, two cases of diplopia associated with aripiprazole have been reported in the litera...

purpose: to evaluate the success rate and complications of single-plate molteno tube implantation in patients with intractable glaucoma. methods: this study was conducted on records of patients who underwent molteno tube implantation from 1995 to 2000 and had at least 18 months of follow-up. results: thirty six eyes of 35 patients including 20 male and 15 female subjects with mean age of 29.7±2...

This study examined the ocular compensation to lens-induced defocus in chick and the effect of interrupting lens wear on a daily basis. Eyes fitted with +10 D lenses at hatching compensated rapidly, with almost complete compensation after 4 days of lens wear; they had decreased vitreous chamber depth compared to normal eyes and were thus hyperopic when the lenses were removed. In contrast, adap...