Purpose To study the effects of laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy (LASEK) with mitomycin C (MMC) on the keratocyte population. Design Prospective, nonrandomized, interventional, comparative case series. Methods Fifty-six eyes treated at…
Purpose To validate a scale for grading vitreous haze in uveitis using digitized photographs and standardized scoring. Design Evaluation of clinical research methodology. Methods Calibrated Bangerter diffusion filters inducing incremental…
Purpose To compare the accommodative performance of the Morcher BioComFold Type 89A bag-in-the-lens intraocular lens (IOL) with a conventional in-the-bag control IOL in presbyopic eyes. Design Prospective, randomized clinical trial…
Purpose To determine infectious causes in patients with uveitis of unknown origin by intraocular fluids analysis. Design Case-control study. Methods Ocular fluids from 139 patients suspected of infectious uveitis, but…
The AJO encourages authors to report the visual acuity in the manuscript using the same nomenclature that was used in gathering the data provided they were recorded in one of…
Purpose To compare the visual performance of patients with unilateral cataract following implantation of monofocal, accommodating, refractive, and diffractive multifocal intraocular lenses (IOL). Design Prospective nonrandomized clinical trial. Methods Eighty-seven…
Purpose To examine the public health implications of 2 recent outbreaks of atypical contact lens-related infectious keratitis. Design Perspective based on the literature and authors’ experience. Results The contact lens-related…
What causes age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? Numerous literature reviews have addressed this question by providing perfunctory tallies of numerous hypothesized risk factors. In so doing, such reviews often fail to…
As all aging ophthalmologists experience first hand, presbyopia is, at a minimum, a nuisance. Beyond the optical correction that is newly required for formerly effortless near-vision activities, presbyopia is a…
Progress in microbiology has always been driven by technological advances. van Leeuwenhoek, the great seventeenth-century pioneer of microscopy, was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa in the 1670s, but…
