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Purpose To present the long-term results after simultaneous photorefractive keratectomy followed by corneal collagen cross-linking for keratoconus. Design Prospective, interventional, consecutive case series. Methods In this study, 26 patients (31…

The first major surgery done in Antarctica was an enucleation, performed during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-09 commanded by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Aeneas Mackintosh was the second officer of…

Purpose To compare the postoperative conjunctival inflammation around the surgical site after pterygium surgery using either amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) or free conjunctival autograft. Design Prospective, randomized, interventional study. Methods…

Purpose To evaluate the safety and efficacy of using fibrin glue in cases of recurrent pterygium treated with pterygium excision and conjunctival autograft combined with mitomycin C. Design Retrospective, interventional…

Purpose To evaluate the impact of the Diabetes 2000 program, an initiative launched by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 1990 to improve nationwide screening of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and…

Two articles from the same institution in this issue of the Journal address the issue of biopsy of iris tumors. The authors of these articles describe the biopsy instrumentation and…

Intravitreal injections have rapidly become one of the most common medical procedures in the United States, with 1 270 836 intravitreal injections performed for Part B Medicare recipients in 2009…

Glaucoma is treated by lowering intraocular pressure (IOP). However, numerous laboratory studies have shown that experimental glaucoma can be helped by therapies that act by mechanisms other than lowering IOP….