Aim: To audit the YAG Laser Capsulotomy procedures done over a 12 month period from January to December 2017. Objective: To review YAG LASER capsulotomies done over a 12 months period from January 2017 – December 2017. Methods: The audit was retrospective in nature, involving co...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2020/v12i130138
Aim: A number of ophthalmic procedures are essential in the management of ocular disorders and are an integral part of ophthalmic practice all over the world. As different therapeutic methods evolve, some ophthalmic procedures have become outdated and some have been modified or...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2020/v12i130136
Aim: To compare the post-operative inflammation, surgical time and complications in conjunctival autografting with oozed autologous blood versus sutures in primary pterygium surgery. Study Design: Prospective interventional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Ophtha...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2020/v12i130137
Ophthalmology in Nigeria has developed over the decades with contributions from several personalities. Many events and institutions have served to shape the emergence of good care, from the establishment of ECWA Eye hospital in 1943 as one of the premiere indigenous dedicated Eye...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v11i430135
India is deliberated the diabetes hub of the world, and a substantial amount of patients undergoing cataract surgery are diabetic. Developments in surgical techniques and instrumentation of cataract have large enriched the outcomes; but, surgical procedure may not be benign and r...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v11i430134
Background: Orbitocutaneous fistula is a known complication of orbital exenteration. Orbitocutaneous fistula arising from a tonsillectomy are quite uncommon. Risk factors for fistula development are sinus diseases, radiotherapy, inadvertent sinus penetration during mid-face and o...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v11i430133
Background/Aim: Quite often patients who are refracted in our clinics have other ocular or systemic conditions that may affect the result or delay the issuance of spectacle corrections – for instance poorly controlled diabetic patients may have to wait for months to achieve bette...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v11i430132
Purpose: To report more conservative management of ocular cicatricial pemphigus (OCP) lesions by performing an initial corneal partial amniotic membrane graft without disturbance of the inflamed conjunctiva. Methods: A case report of a patient having a stage 3 OCP in his left eye...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v11i430131
Aim: To understand the advancement and development in Intraocular lens. Introduction: Now a day cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the world. Removing the opaque, cataractous lens and replacing it with an artificial lens to achieve near to norma...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v11i330129
In this article, we review the advantages of corneal laser surface surgery to explain the current trend toward this technique. The excimer laser in corneal surface surgery can be used for two reasons. On the one hand, to correct a refractive error by photorefractive keratectomy (...
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Research Article10.9734/or/2019/v11i330130