purpose : to report a patient with branch retinal vein occlusion (brvo) and serologic evidence of primary cytomegalovirus (cmv) infection case report : we have reported a 27-year-old male with a complaint of sudden decrease in right eye vision starting a few days before. results : immunoglobulin g (igg) seroconversion indicated primary cmv infection. conclusion : involvement and obstruction of ...

AIM To report the patient characteristics, causative organisms, and clinical outcomes in patients with recurrent bleb related ocular infections. METHODS The medical records of all patients diagnosed with bleb related ocular infection at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary over a 10 year period were reviewed. Recurrent bleb infection was defined as at least two episodes of bleb purulence with o...

The human eye is an important target for infection with herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). Damage to cells forming the trabeculum of the eye by HSV-1 infection could contribute to the development of glaucoma, a major blinding disease. Primary cultures of human trabecular meshwork cells were used as an in vitro model to demonstrate the ability of HSV-1 to enter into and establish a productive infec...

BACKGROUND This is a report of 2 cases of fungal wound infection after cataract surgery (phacoemulsification). Both patients were noticed to have the fungal wound infection at the one-month follow-up after the surgery. OBSERVATIONS Although both patients had been advised to taper steroid containing antibiotic eye drops, they failed to do so. Despite intensive treatment with antifungal eye dro...

A previous report demonstrated that male guinea-pigs could be infected in the urethra with guinea-pig inclusion conjunctivitis (GPIC) agent and that the infection was transmitted during mating from infected males to females. In the experiments reported here, inoculation of male guinea-pigs in the urethra with GPIC organisms resulted in infection which subsided spontaneously in about 2 weeks. Ma...

background and aims: herpes simplex virus (hsv) is a common cause of corneal disease and is the leading infectious cause of corneal blindness among developed nations. this study is aimed to provide an estimation of the incidence of herpes simplex virustype-1, 2(hsv1, 2) and varicella zoster virus (vzv) in tears and swab from eye infection by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) in eye disease in a s...

The operative treatment of chalazion by incision and evacuation of the contents with a curette is correctly described. The treatment of lacrimal abscess by incision, scraping and probing is recommended as preferable to an expectant treatment. Some of the prescriptions which Al-Ghafiqi gives contain curious ingredients. For loss of pigment of the eyelashes or canities the receipt is as follows:-...

A 65 years old diabetic female, presented with swelling of left eye and multiple discharging sinuses near the inner canthus eye. She had a history recent COVID-19 infection was treated steroids. The pus from peri-orbital sinuses, in KOH stain showed presence broad, non-septate, right-angle branching fungal filaments. An early microbiological diagnosis Mucormycosis, based on direct smear finding...