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Herpetic Simplex is a common cause of infection of the cornea. Primary open angle Glaucoma (POAG) is the most common cause of irreversible blindness inthe world. Prostaglandin analogues are commo ... Read More
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare recurrence rate in treating primary pterygium by two different techniques: pterygium excisionwith intra-operative application of mit ... Read More
Purpose: To document the types of regression patterns of intraocular retinoblastoma following primary chemotherapy, radiotherapy and local treatments. Material and Methods: The medical reco ... Read More
Purpose: To evaluate the causes of ocular trauma, management and visual outcome in children.Materials and Methods: This prospective observational case series was conducted at the Department ... Read More
Purpose: To determine the frequency and morphologic types of intraorbital tumors. Material and Methods: A retrospective study conducted at the department of pathology Basic Medical Sciences Institute ... Read More
Purpose: To study the manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis in the eye. Material and Methods: A prospective study was conducted at department of Ophthalmology PGMI / LGH Lahore from April 2006 to ... Read More
Purpose: To compare the results of acrylic hydrophilic and acrylic hydrophobic Intraocular lenses in terms of visual acuity (VA), behavior of eye (Uveitis) and posterior capsular opacification (PCO). ... Read More
Purpose: To determine the mode of presentation and aetiology of patients presenting in cornea clinic at a tertiary care teaching hospital in Karachi. Material and Methods: This hospital based retrosp ... Read More
Purpose: To determine the effect of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) on visual acuity in patients with persistent diabetic macular edema. Material and Methods: A prospective, hospital based study c ... Read More
Purpose: Purpose of this study was to observe the incidence of postkeratoplasty glaucoma in secondary scleral fixation of IOL in patients of aphakiaand pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (Group I). ... Read More
Purpose: This study was conducted to evaluate the success of probing in congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children age 13 months and older and to establish factors predictive of the outcome ... Read More
Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan was founded on the 19th December 1957 at the King Edward Medical College. In its meeting on the 16th November 1968 the society resolved that it should have a publi ... Read More
This report is that of a two year old Nigerian child who presented to the eye clinic of Federal Medical Centre, Owo in June, 2010 on account of small left eye noticed since birth. Examination carried ... Read More
Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti- VEGF) therapy has tremendously improved the management of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). With an increase in the usage of such agents ... Read More
Purpose: To compare raised intraocular pressure after pars plana vitrectomy using 1000 cSt and 5000 cSt silicone oil. Materials and Methods: This Interventional quasi experimental study was conducted ... Read More
Purpose: To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) control and post operative complications after trabeculectomy with Mitomycin-C (MMC) in patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and primary angl ... Read More
Purpose: To compare the rate of complications and visual outcome after peadiatric cataract extraction with or without intraocular lens implantation. Material and Methods: A total of 202 consecutive c ... Read More
Purpose: To assess the prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C viral infection in the patients undergoing elective eye surgery. Material and Method: All patients who were selected for cataract surg ... Read More
Purpose: Keratoconus is a progressive non-inflammatory thinning disorder of the cornea which being a disease of young, has a significant psychosocial value. Corneal crosslinking with Riboflavin stops ... Read More
Purpose: The present study was designed to evaluate the outcome of silicone oil removal in eyes, which underwent vitreoretinal surgery using silicone oil as internal tamponade. Material and Method: A ... Read More
Purpose: To evaluate efficacy and complication of 5-Flourouracil (5-FU) as an adjunct in trabeculectomy in young age group. Material and Methods: 86 eyes of 62 patients were included in the s ... Read More
Purpose: To evaluate the industry related ocular injury pattern and visual outcome. Material and Method: The study was conducted in the Kulsoom bai Valika Social Security SITE Hospital from Nov. 2006 ... Read More
Purpose: This study was performed to determine the clinical presentation and histopathological types of basal cell carcinoma of eyelids and correlation with clinical behaviour. Material and Methods: ... Read More
Despite repeated editorials, communications, highlights, tips, pearls, lectures, seminars in the past I regret to say that still a considerable lot of ophthalmologists ignore the valuable recommendati ... Read More
Visual impairment or loss of vision is considered to be the most feared disability. This stems from the fact that since ancient times, the sense of sight is thought to be the most important sense. In ... Read More
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the safety and visual outcome of scleral sutured fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lenses. Material and Methods: This prospective and i ... Read More
Purpose: To evaluate the Frequency and Pattern of Eye Diseases in Retina Clinic of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Karachi Material and Methods: A total number of 27,000 new patients were seen at ... Read More
Purpose: To assess the visual outcome of early cataract extraction with primary IOL implantation for traumatic cataract caused by penetrating injury. Material and Methods: A prospective study was car ... Read More
Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the role of ultrasound (US) and computerized tomography (CT) scan in diagnosis of common ocular traumatic lesion. Material and Methods: A cross sectional ... Read More
Purpose: To determine the pattern of presentation of retinoblastoma. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective case series based on clinical records of patients less than 15 years identi ... Read More
Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of amniotic membrane in the patients with ocular surface diseases. Material and Methods: This case series study of one year duration was conducted in Institute of ... Read More
Purpose: The objective of the study was to evaluate the complications of subtenon anesthesia in patients undergoing anterior segment surgeries Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in the de ... Read More
Purpose: Purpose of the study is to evaluate the success of levator resection in congenital ptosis with poor levator function. Material and Methods: It was a single center, prospective, interventiona ... Read More
Purpose: To study the efficacy and safety of topical 2% cyclosporine in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis. Material and Methods: This is a placebo-controlled, clinical trial to evaluate ... Read More
Eales’ disease is an idiopathic; occlusive periphlebitis affecting the peripheral retina of young healthy males. Retinal changes are characterized by perivasculitis, peripheral ischemia and neovascula ... Read More
The much anticipated results of Comparison of AMD Treatment Trial (CATT) were out a few weeks ago. CATT study is a landmark trial in comparative clinical research. Indeed, the study was not sponsored ... Read More
Sympathetic Ophthalmitis (SO) is a rare, bilateral granulomatous uveitis occurring after perforating eye injury or ocular surgical procedure to one eye. The pathophysiology of this entity is not clear ... Read More
This report is that of a six month old Nigerian girl child with complete heterochromia iridis. There was no associated hypo-pigmentation of her skin or hair. There is no history of similar occurrence ... Read More
BACK GROUND This document was created, debated, amended and approved by the members of the vitreoretinal association of Pakistan. This exercise was carried out on behalf of the Ophthalmic Society of ... Read More
Purpose: To describe the pattern, extent and severity of ocular injuries and to identify the factors leading to ocular trauma in patients presenting at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Materials and Methods: ... Read More
Purpose: To assess the visual outcome after intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) injection in eyes with choroidal neovascularization due to age–related macular degeneration (ARMD). Material and Methods ... Read More
Objective: To evaluate visual outcome after intra-vitreal Bevacizumab in macular edema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion. Materials and Methods: This prospective study was performed at Isra ... Read More
Purpose: To determine the role of initial preoperative medical treatment in controlling severe post operative anterior uveitis after cataract surgery in patients of phacomorphic glaucoma. Material an ... Read More
Purpose: To assess the visual outcome and complications in patients after Ab-externo scleral fixation of intraocular lens. Materials and Methods. This quasi experimental study was conducted at Isra P ... Read More
Purpose: To assess the postoperative complications of silicone oil injection after pars plana vitrectomy in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Materials And Method: The study was carried out at vitre ... Read More
Purpose: To compare surgically induced astigmatism between injector and forceps delivery system for intraocular lens implantation in phacoemulsification. Material and Methods: This Quasi experimental ... Read More
Purpose: To evaluate the additional complications of hyper mature cataract and their low visual outcome after extra capsular cataract extraction. Materials and Method: This study was conducted in the ... Read More
Despite major advances in the development of novel drugs and laser techniques for intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction in eyes with glaucoma, a significant proportion of glaucoma patients ultimately r ... Read More