Purpose To compare tear film thickness between normal subjects and aqueous tear deficiency dry eye patients by tear interferometry. Design Prospective case-control study. Methods Central precorneal tear film thickness was…
Purpose To prove the hypothesis that during cataract surgery, repeated irrigation of the operative field with povidone–iodine of 0.25% reduces the anterior chamber bacterial contamination rate at completion of operation….
The human immune system protects us against many diseases, but when activated inappropriately and excessively, a detrimental hypersensitivity reaction can occur. Gell and Coombs described 4 types of immunologically mediated…
Among epidemiologic study designs, uncontrolled case series and case reports are the least methodologically robust. The articles of this Series on Epidemiology spend considerable time drawing attention to the methodologic…
Kelly and Wendel’s landmark article describing pars plana vitrectomy, air–fluid exchange, and head-down positioning for full-thickness macular holes began a new era in the surgical treatment of macular diseases. Not…
