Aims: To hypothesize the mechanisms of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) related ophthalmoplegia by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Case Presentation: A 61-year-old Chinese man diagnosed with right sided HZO and a positive Hutchinson’s sign, subsequently developed right eye comp...
Human immune deficiency virus (HIV) related ocular manifestations may affect 50-75% of HIV infected people worldwide at some point during the course of their illness. Aim: To estimate the prevalence of Ocular manifestations in HIV patients attending the Anti Retroviral Therapy (A...
Aims: There is evidence that the deprivation of a sensory system at early developmental stage may lead to a functional change of the remaining one(s). Even if this process has been widely studied, results are still controversial. In particular, the auditory system might affect t...
Aims:To show the relationships among subject-reported measures of vision, the view through an ophthalmoscope, the view through a slit lamp, the view through a clinician’s eye, optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, fundus photos, visual field diagrams and Optomap images. Meth...
Dendriform keratitis is a recurrent sequelae of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO). A 76-year-old immunocompetent Indian male with HZO developed left eye keratouveitis, uveitic glaucoma and superior orbital fissure syndrome. After treatment with intravenous acyclovir for two weeks,...
Aims: To investigate, for 13 aldose reductase inhibitors that had been in development for diabetic cataract, whether patent documents could provide earlier dissemination of knowledge to the ophthalmology community than peer review papers. Methodology: Searches for intellectual pr...
Introduction: Unilateral proptosis is usually a diagnostic challenge to an ophthalmologist. Mass lesions constitute a common cause of unilateral proptosis in elderly individuals in which lymphoproliferative lesions account for 11% and metastasis up to 2- 9% of cases. Literatur...
Background: To review the literature reporting SWAP and FDT for the early detection of visual field loss in glaucoma. Methods: A review of literature published on Medline, Scopus and Web of Science between 1966 and present was undertaken with only articles in the English language...
Aim: This study compares and contrasts the integrity of original data once imported to Medisoft from the Humphrey perimeter. We aim to analyse the correlation between reliability indices, mean deviation and pattern standard deviation. Methods: Visual field results from Humphrey a...
Aims: To compare the pressure inside and outside the pig eye in relation to the location of cannulation for the injection of liquid into the anterior or vitreous chamber. Method: Eleven enucleated pig eyes were used. 46 measurements of intraocular pressure IOP were taken with a P...