AAS Dunlop, ED Wright, S. A Howlader, I Nazrul et al.
Suppurative keratitis is an important preventable cause of blindness, particularly in the developing world. This study analyses 142 cases of suppurative keratitis referred to Chittagong Eye Infirmary Bangladesh. Some 53.5% of cases were bacterial and 35.9% were fungal. The five most common pathogens...
John Ford, Noemi Lois, Pamela Royle, Christine Clar et al.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this systematic review is to appraise the evidence for the use of anti-VEGF drugs and steroids in diabetic macular oedema (DMO) as assessed by change in best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), central macular thickness and adverse events DATA SOURCE: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Scien...
M. Rezanur Rahman, G J Johnson, Rabiul Husain, S. A Howlader et al.
AIM: The management of suppurative keratitis due to filamentous fungi presents severe problems in tropical countries. The aim was to demonstrate the efficacy of chlorhexidine 0.2% drops as an inexpensive antimicrobial agent, which could be widely distributed for fungal keratitis. METHODS: Successive...
Soumyava Basu, Sirajum Monira, Rohit Modi, Nuzhat Choudhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Ocular tuberculosis (TB) can affect nearly every ocular tissue, leading to a variety of vision-threatening clinical manifestations. The goal of this study is to estimate the degree, duration, and causes of visual impairment in eyes affected by ocular TB. RESULTS: This was a retrospective...
P M Hart, Usha Chakravarthy, Gilbert MacKenzie, D. B. Archer et al.
AIM: A preliminary report indicated stable or improved vision in 12 of 19 patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularisation treated with 12 or 15 Gy of 6 MV photons to the affected macula after an average follow up of 18 months. Here the prolonged follow up findings in this group of treated patie...
Jagat Ram, Amod Gupta, Sunil Kumar, Sushmita Kaushik et al.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the outcomes of phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in eyes with uveitis. SETTING: Tertiary care center, Chandigarh, India. METHODS: Consecutive patients with uveitis and visually significant cataract were retrospectively studied for outcomes after phaco...
Anouk van Hooij, Elisa M. Tjon Kon Fat, Moisés Batista da Silva, Raquel Carvalho Bouth et al.
Leprosy remains persistently endemic in several low- or middle income countries. Transmission is still ongoing as indicated by the unabated rate of leprosy new case detection, illustrating the insufficiency of current prevention methods. Therefore, low-complexity tools suitable for large scale scree...
Catherine Egan, Haogang Zhu, Aaron Lee, Dawn A. Sim et al.
AIMS: To describe baseline characteristics and visual outcome for eyes treated with ranibizumab for diabetic macular oedema (DMO) from a multicentre database. METHODS: Structured clinical data were anonymised and extracted from an electronic medical record from 19 participating UK centres: age at fi...
J. H. Connolly, W. M. Hutchinson, Ingrid V. Allen, J A Lyttle et al.
The clinical, virological and pathological findings in 5 patients with neurological complications associated with rubella virus infection are described. The neurological illnesses began four to ten days after the rubella illnesses. The patients were all males aged between 6 and 17 years and were dia...
Praveen Kumar Balne, Rohit Modi, Nuzhat Choudhury, Neha Mohan et al.
BACKGROUND: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay can be a useful method for definitive diagnosis in paucibacillary infections such as ocular tuberculosis (TB). In this study, we have evaluated factors affecting PCR outcomes in patients with clinically suspected ocular TB. Patients with clinically s...
Md Asiful Islam, Sayeda Sadia Alam, Shoumik Kundu, A. H. M. Safayet Ullah Prodhan et al.
Behçet's disease (BD) is a multifactorial systemic inflammatory disease of unknown aetiology characterised by several clinical manifestations including vascular involvements (i.e., both arterial and venous thrombosis). Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs)-including anticardiolipin (aCL), anti-β2-glyco...
Gareth J. Williams, Kathleen A. McClellan, Frank A. Billson
External eye disease which result in corneal scarring are an important cause of blindness in Bangladesh and at the Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex (EITC) over 200 cases of suppurative keratitis are managed each year. We reviewed the records of 127 cases of microbial keratitis to determ...
R. A. O’Neill, Patrick J. Gallagher, Tricia Douglas, Julie‐Anne Little et al.
BACKGROUND: Administering anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) by intraocular injection has been shown to have a safe systemic profile. Nevertheless, incidents of acute kidney injury following anti-VEGF injection have been reported. We assessed the long-term effect of multiple intravi...
Kelvin Yi Chong Teo, Srinivas R. Sadda, Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung, Usha Chakravarthy et al.
PURPOSE: To develop and validate OCT and color fundus photography (CFP) criteria in differentiating polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) from typical neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) in eyes with suboptimal response to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) monotherapy ...
Zahedur Rahman, Ziaul Ahsan, Niaz Abdur Rahman, Parthopratim Dutta Majumder
PURPOSE: To report the pattern of uveitis in a tertiary eye care center in Bangladesh. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of all uveitis cases visiting uveitis clinic of Bangladesh Eye Hospital between January, 2009 and April, 2015. RESULTS: In total, 652 patients (mean age 32.3 years, female 47.8%) we...