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The use of contact lenses for correcting refraction, suppressing myopia progression, and cosmetic purposes is increasing steadily. Contact lenses have various effects on the corneal surface and corneal infection can...
Prescribing rigid gas-permeable (RGP) lenses involves a series of processes that determine the most appropriate final lens through the trial use of test lenses based on the results of slit...
Purpose: We report two cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis diagnosed by Gram staining in patients who had recently worn therapeutic, soft contact lenses and had no history of lens use for...
Purpose: We report two cases of corneal neovascularization (NV) after burn injury successfully treated by subconjunctival bevacizumab injections at 2-week intervals.
Case summary: Three bi-weekly subconjunctival injections of bevacizumab were administered...
Purpose: To report a case of severe intraocular pressure fluctuation following hemodialysis after cataract surgery in a patient with chronic renal failure.
Case summary: A 51-year-old female patient on hemodialysis for...
Purpose: To evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients with dry eye syndrome according to anterior displacement of the Marx line.
Methods: This retrospective study involved 127 eyes in 127 patients with...
Purpose: We report a case of multiple sclerosis with bilateral optic neuritis that was atypical in terms of both the clinical signs and symptoms.
Case summary: A 34-year-old female visited the...
Purpose: We report the case of a child with idiopathic intracranial hypertension who presented with binocular papillary edema and monocular sixth cranial nerve palsy accompanied by empty sella syndrome evident...
Purpose: To compare long-term clinical outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) combined with intraoperative 360° laserpexy and pars plana vitrectomy combined with scleral encircling for the treatment of primary rhegmatogenous...