Aims Previous studies have suggested an association between retinal artery occlusion (RAO) and ischaemic stroke (IS), both associated with elevated inflammatory factors. However, the role of ...

Purpose To obtain national-level data on current burden of blindness and visual impairment (VI) due to corneal opacities (CO) and their epidemiological determinants in India. Methods A cross-sectional ...

Background Orbital cavernous venous malformations (OCVMs) are the most common primary orbital mass lesion and presenting symptoms are usually secondary to a mass effect. Surgical excision presents ...

Background/aim To quantify the impact of baseline presenting visual acuity (VA), refractive error and spectacles wear on subsequent academic performance among Chinese ...

3 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Correspondence to: Dr Rupert Bourne, Department of Epidemiology and International Eye Health, ...

AIMS/BACKGROUND Phacoemulsification is rapidly replacing conventional extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) as the method of choice for cataract surgery in the Western world. However, posterior ...

Out of a total of 2272 diurnal curves (DC) of intraocular pressure (IOP) obtained from 1178 patients 690 first curves of the right eye of all patients were analysed. For each DC there were 4-6 IOP ...

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Dr M Kliffen, Department of Ophthalmic-Pathology, Hoboken Ee 993, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands. AIMS/BACKGROUND The late stages of age-related maculopathy (ARM), ...

Aims To evaluate the clinical findings and visual outcomes of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) using an original manual dissection technique. Methods 288 eyes (268 patients) with corneal ...