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A rigid gas permeable (RGP) lens is good for correcting corneal astigmatism without inducing corneal hypoxia. However, despite the optical advantage of the RGP lens for correcting visual acuity, there...
Orthokeratology (OK) is the way to correct the myopia or astigmatism by flattening or the central cornea with specialty lenses.The range of correction is from -2.50 to -4.00 diopters after...
Patients with retinitis pigmentosa have defects in visual function, including the visual field, color vision, contrast sensitivity, and impaired functional vision, such as reading and driving. An assessment of visual...
Purpose: To report a case of a 29-year-old binocular-diplopia patient diagnosed with intracranial hypertension, caused by a subdural hematoma due to intracranial hypotension.
Case summary: A 29-year-old male hypertensive patient, diagnosed...
Purpose: To report a case of malignant glaucoma after glaucoma surgery in a pseudophakic eye with slack lens zonules.
Case summary: An 83-year-old man presented with high intraocular pressure of the...
Purpose: To investigate the functional and structural recovery period of idiopathic epiretinal membranes after phacovitrectomy with posterior capsulectomy.
Methods: From March 2012 to January 2015, 57 patients diagnosed with idiopathic epiretinal...
Purpose: To report a case with peripheral eosinophilia and elevated immunoglobulin (Ig) E levels, subsequently diagnosed as IgG4-related ophthalmic disease involving the extraocular muscles.
Case summary: A 56-year-old male visited the...
Purpose: To report a case of acute stromal keratitis after vitrectomy for the treatment of myopic tractional maculopathy in a lupus patient.
Case summary: A lupus patient who were treated with...
Purpose: To report a follow up of early intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antibody treatment in a patient with maculopathy after accidental exposure to a high-powered cosmetic Nd:YAG laser.
Case...