Aim: Currently a variety of different colour vision tests exist in clinical practice each with its own merits and limitations. The Ishihara test is commonly used to test for congenital deficiency, causing red-green deficits. However acquired deficiency is also common in any ocula...
Aims: Previous comparisons of Octopus and Humphrey threshold programmes have shown differences, particularly for depth of defects. Recent developments have altered the Octopus background illumination. Thus, we sought to determine the subsequent extent of differences in results fr...
A new metaheuristic scheme based upon Cuckoo Search algorithm for the exudates detection in diabetic retinopathy using multi-level thresholding is presented in this paper. The proposed method is applied for edge detection and the results obtained by this method were compared with...
A 70 year old female presented with right sided orbital proptosis since one and half year with past history of thyroidectomy. On examination thyroid swelling was present with right orbital proptosis. Routine blood investigations were normal except the serum thyroglobulin levels,...
Aims: Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease, which is associated with progressive optic neurodegeneration and concomitant visual field defects. Besides an elevated intraocular pressure, recent studies have suggested that other risk factors such as oxidative stress may play an importa...
Aims: Apart from its key role in bone metabolism vitamin D plays a role in immune function, cancer prevention and autoimmunity induction. Vitamin D insufficiency (25-50 nmol/L) and deficiency (serum level < 25 nmol/L) are very common in the West Sydney and Blue Mountains areas...
Heloisa Helena Russ, Nubia Vanessa Lima de Faria, Palloma Rose, Fabiano Montiani-Ferreira, Paulo Augusto de Arruda Mello & Sebastião Cronemberger·Ophthalmology Research: An International Journal·2013
Objectives: The objective of this investigation was to compare different topical treatment protocols for controlling inflammation in rabbits during the postoperative period following trabeculectomy. Methods: Thirty rabbits had their right eyes treated with a daily eye drop of 0.0...
Aims: Tuberous sclerosis is a multiorgan tumor syndrome that is characterized by retinal astrocytic hamartomas, astrocytic tumors of the CNS, several unusual cutaneous lesions, mental retardation, spasms and a variety of cysts and tumors of other organs. Presentation of Case: Her...
Introduction: Despite being more affected by visual impairment and blindness than any other population age group, the elderly are least likely to seek help when faced with eye problems. Eye care utilization among the aged is influenced by a number of predisposing, enabling and ne...
Introduction: We report a clinicopathological correlation of a 45 year-old female who manifested as melanoma clinically and radiologically but turned out to have acute panopthalmitis on histopathology examination. We feel that there is significant clinical implication in sharing...