Aim: To determine the relationship between visual status of commercial motor vehicle drivers and road traffic accidents (RTA) in an urban area of Niger Delta, Nigeria. Methods: Four hundred commercial vehicle drivers in the 10 major motor parks of Port Harcourt LGA were interview...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v10i130099
Aims: To evaluate changes in intraocular pressure (IOP) and anterior chamber depth (ACD) after uneventful phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. Study Design: Prospective interventional comparative study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Ophthalmo...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v10i130098
Objective: To determine the pattern of eye disorders among Nigerian Niger Delta region residents as a basis for preventive ophthalmology. Methodology: This study was a retrospective study involving an eleven-year cumulative review of clinical records from the Ophthalmology Clinic...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v10i130097
Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of the trabeculectomy in controlling intraocular pressure in patients with primary open-angle and pseudo-exfoliation glaucoma. Materials and Methods: The medical data of a sum of 69 eyes of which 36 (52,2%) with primary...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v10i130096
Aim: To determine the pattern of ocular disorders in persons with albinism and how they affect visual function. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted over a five-month period on persons living with albinism in Southern Nigeria. The study participants wer...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v10i130095
Bacteria are the major contributor of ocular infections worldwide. This can damage the structures of the eye with possible blindness and visual impairments, if left untreated. This study was undertaken to determine bacterial agents of conjunctivitis among individuals from oncho...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2018/v9i430094
Aims: To give normative databases of each retinal layers on OCT images in the healthy Caucasian population in Turkey and investigate the relevance of the data with factors such as age, gender, axial length and refraction. Study Design: Prospective, cross sectional, descriptive st...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2018/v9i430092
Aim: To identify the pattern of ocular surgeries performed at UPTH and determine any significant changes in trends of these surgeries over a ten-year period - 2005 to 2016. Methods: It was a hospital-based retrospective study over a ten-year period. Data were extracted from the o...
Aim: The aim is to present three patients with neuro-ophthalmic symptoms and signs who initially presented a diagnostic dilemma. Two later turned out to be retroviral positive. Presentation of Cases: CASE 1 was a 35 yo female nurse assistant who first presented with a-one month h...
Aim of the Work: To evaluate the diagnostic function of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in diabetic maculopathy and the most significant and common OCT findings. Patients and Methods: This study was a prospective, non-comparative, non-interventional, case series, carried out b...