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  1. One of the problems arising from available preparations for dry eye syndrome is the limited residence time of products on the ocular surface. In this paper, we look at an innovative new treatment for dry eye, ...

    Authors: Maurizio Rolando and Cristiana Valente
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2007 7:5
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  2. Pituitary tumours may present with a variety of neurological and endocrinological signs and symptoms. It is very rare however for them to present with sudden onset painful diplopia. The current literature and ...

    Authors: Shveta Bansal, Kaveri Mandal and Ahmed Kamal
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2007 7:4
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  4. To assess the safety of abandoning the next day post-operative review in preference for assessment only 2 hours post-surgery for both phacoemulsification and extracapsular surgery with heavier molecular weight...

    Authors: Balaji Thirumalai, Trudi L Blamires, Lucenne Brooker and Jon Deeks
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2007 7:2
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  5. To characterize Fusarium isolates from recent cases of fungal keratitis in contact lens wearers, and to investigate fungal association with MoistureLoc solution.

    Authors: Madhu Dyavaiah, Rama Ramani, David S Chu, David C Ritterband, Mahendra K Shah, William A Samsonoff, Sudha Chaturvedi and Vishnu Chaturvedi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2007 7:1
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  6. To establish whether a previously validated scoring system (Habib) for the prediction of risk or likelihood of posterior capsule rupture during phacoemulsification surgery could be used to: 1. Predict the diff...

    Authors: Stuart A Osborne, Phillip Severn, Catey V Bunce and Scott G Fraser
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:38
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  8. A prerequisite for safe cataract surgery is an adequately dilated pupil. The authors conducted a trial to assess the efficacy (in terms of pupil diameter) of a depot method of pre-operative pupil dilatation, a...

    Authors: Vincent Dubois, Nadia Wittles, Meon Lamont, Simon Madge and Jon Luck
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:36
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  9. Reading with a central scotoma involves the use of preferred retinal loci (PRLs) that enable both letter resolution and global viewing of word. Spontaneously developed PRLs however often privilege spatial reso...

    Authors: Anouk Déruaz, Mira Goldschmidt, Andrew R Whatham, Christophe Mermoud, Erika N Lorincz, Armin Schnider and Avinoam B Safran
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:35
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  10. The objective of this report is to describe the methods used to develop and validate a computerized system to analyze Humphrey visual fields obtained from patients with non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic ne...

    Authors: Steven E Feldon, Lori Levin, Roberta W Scherer, Anthony Arnold, Sophia M Chung, Lenworth N Johnson, Gregory Kosmorsky, Steven A Newman, Joanne Katz, Patricia Langenberg, P David Wilson, Shalom E Kelman and Kay Dickersin
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:34
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  11. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is becoming an increasingly integral part of ophthalmological clinical practice. The accurate interpretation of OCT images is important both in terms of diagnosis and in dire...

    Authors: Wai H Chan, John S Shilling and Michel Michaelides
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:33
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  12. Nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy affects the anterior portion of the optic nerve and is characterized by sudden, painless visual loss. The affected eye has a relative afferent pupillary defect. The typic...

    Authors: Luis M Sadaba, Alfredo Garcia-Layana, Miguel J Maldonado and Jose M Berian
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:32
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  15. Bilateral simultaneous angle closure glaucoma is a rare entity. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of bilateral acute angle-closure glaucoma secondary to isolated microspherophakia in an adult.

    Authors: Sushmita Kaushik, Nishant Sachdev, Surinder Singh Pandav, Amod Gupta and Jagat Ram
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:29
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  16. Haploinsufficiency at the PAX6 locus causes aniridia, a panocular eye condition characterized by iris hypoplasia and a variety of other anterior and posterior eye defects leading to poor vision. This study was pe...

    Authors: Guruswamy Neethirajan, Jeyabalan Nallathambi, Subbaiah Ramasamy Krishnadas, Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi, Shetty Shashikanth, Jon Martin Collinson and Periasamy Sundaresan
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:28
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  18. Biometric procedures such as keratometry performed shortly after contact procedures like gonioscopy and applanation tonometry could affect the validity of the measurement. This study was conducted to understan...

    Authors: Mathew K George, Thomas Kuriakose, Brian M DeBroff and John W Emerson
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:26
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  20. The use of self-report questionnaires to substitute for visual acuity measurement has been limited. We examined the association between visual impairment and self reported visual function in a population sampl...

    Authors: Christopher G Owen, Alicja R Rudnicka, Liam Smeeth, Jennifer R Evans, Richard PL Wormald and Astrid E Fletcher
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:24
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  21. There is no generally accepted medical or surgical treatment to stop the progressive course of retinitis pigmentosa. Previous studies have suggested lutein as a potential treatment with positive effects on mac...

    Authors: Hossein Bahrami, Michele Melia and Gislin Dagnelie
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:23
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  22. Adenovirus (Ad), associated with significant morbidity, has no topical treatment. A leading CTC compound (CTC-96), a CoIII chelate, was found to have potent in vitro and in vivo antiviral efficacy against herpes ...

    Authors: Seth P Epstein, Yevgenia Y Pashinsky, David Gershon, Irene Winicov, Charlie Srivilasa, Katarina J Kristic and Penny A Asbell
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:22
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  23. Despite the progress in vitreoretinal surgery and the importance of silicone oil as an adjunct for the treatment of complex forms of retinal detachment, controversy still surrounds the issue of selecting the p...

    Authors: Masoud Soheilian, Mohammad Mazareei, Mehrdad Mohammadpour and Bahram Rahmani
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:21
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  24. Dry eye disease is a common debilitating ocular disease. Current diagnostic tests used in dry eye disease are often neither sensitive nor reproducible, making it difficult to accurately diagnose and determine ...

    Authors: Magid M Fahim, Shamim Haji, Chakravarthy V Koonapareddy, Vincent C Fan and Penny A Asbell
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:20
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  25. Diffuse lamellar keratitis (DLK) is a relatively new syndrome that is increasingly being reported after LASIK. We have observed that a hyperopic shift may be associated with the occurrence of this diffuse lame...

    Authors: Tanuj Dada, Mayank S Pangtey, Namrata Sharma, Rasik B Vajpayee, Vishal Jhanji and Harinder Singh Sethi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:19
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  26. "Cataract Surgery by Appointment" is a new method of delivery of cataract surgery that reduces the time a patient spends in hospital by their direct arrival at the operating theatre, having self-prepared for s...

    Authors: Ioannis Mavrikakis, Tassos Georgiou, Bobby Paul and Christopher SC Liu
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:18
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  28. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in the Western world. There is a relationship between aging of the lens of the human eye and cardiovascular disease. ...

    Authors: Line Kessel, Torben Jørgensen, Charlotte Glümer and Michael Larsen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:16
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  30. The use of conventional foldable hydrophobic intraocular lenses (IOLs) in microincision cataract surgery (MICS) currently requires wound enlargement. We describe a combined surgical technique of MICS and trabe...

    Authors: Tanuj Dada, Rajamani Muralidhar and Harinder S Sethi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:14
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  33. Visual outcome following repair of post-traumatic corneal perforation may not be optimal due to presence of irregular keratometric astigmatism. We performed a study to evaluate and compare rigid gas permeable ...

    Authors: Jeewan S Titiyal, Rajesh Sinha, Namrata Sharma, V Sreenivas and Rasik B Vajpayee
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. We describe corneal endothelial cell density and morphology in normal Iranian eyes and compare endothelial cell characteristics in the Iranian population with data available in the literature for American and ...

    Authors: Mohammad Nasser Hashemian, Sasan Moghimi, Masood Aghsaie Fard, Mohammad Reza Fallah and Mohammad Reza Mansouri
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:9
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  36. Research exploring children's and their teachers' perceptions of eye health is lacking. This paper reports for the first time on perceptions of primary schoolchildren and their teachers of healthy and diseased...

    Authors: Khabir Ahmad, Mohammad Aman Khan, Mohammad Daud Khan, Mohammad Babar Qureshi, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry and Clare Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:8
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  37. Transconjunctival Sutureless Vitrectomy (TSV) is a recent advancement in vitreo-retinal surgical techniques involving the use of 25 G instruments through self-sealing sclerotomies. It has been hypothesized tha...

    Authors: Ravi Keshavamurthy, Pradeep Venkatesh and Satpal Garg
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:7
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  42. Cataract surgery remains a commonly performed elective surgical procedure in the aging and the elderly. The purpose of this study was to utilize time series methodology to determine the temporal and seasonal v...

    Authors: Alan M Leong, Eric J Crighton, Rahim Moineddin, Muhammad Mamdani and Ross EG Upshur
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:2
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  43. An observational case series was used to study the virulence characteristics and genotypes of paired Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates cultured from intraocular samples and from periocular environment of patien...

    Authors: Prashanth Kenchappa, Aparna Duggirala, Niyaz Ahmed, Avinash Pathengay, Taraprasad Das, Seyed E Hasnain and Savitri Sharma
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:1
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  45. Self-hypnosis has been taught routinely at the SUNY Upstate Medical University for treatment of pulmonary symptoms thought to be amenable to psychological therapy. While using hypnosis for relaxation, four ind...

    Authors: Ran D Anbar and Aaron D Savedoff
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2005 5:28
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  46. To assess the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (iTA) as an adjunctive treatment to transpupillary therapy (TTT) for new subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes (CNV) in age-related macular dege...

    Authors: Ricardo Agurto-Rivera, Jose Diaz-Rubio, Luis Torres-Bernal, Tamer A Macky, Juner Colina-Luquez, Gabriela Papa-Oliva, Rama D Jager, Susana Martinez-Jardon, Jans Fromow-Guerra and Hugo Quiroz-Mercado
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2005 5:27
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Repeat penetrating keratoplasty is quite often required as there is high chance of failure of the primary graft particularly in the developing world. We planned a study to analyze the indications and outcome o...

    Authors: M Vanathi, Namrata Sharma, Rajesh Sinha, Radhika Tandon, Jeewan S Titiyal and Rasik B Vajpayee
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2005 5:26
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Retinal pigment epithelium cells play an important role in the pathogenesis of age related macular degeneration. Their morphological, molecular and functional phenotype changes in response to various stresses....

    Authors: Rajesh K Sharma, William E Orr, Allyson D Schmitt and Dianna A Johnson
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2005 5:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Acute angle-closure glaucoma is a rare complication in patients receiving anti-depressant treatment. In the following case, we report the development of acute angle closure glaucoma in a patient who overdosed ...

    Authors: Robert Croos, Srinivasa Thirumalai, Sabit Hassan and Jane Da Roza Davis
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2005 5:23
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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