Abstract Objective: To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of amniotic membrane transplantation for ocular surface reconstruction. Methods: Prospective study including 23 eyes of 21 patients who underwent amniotic membrane transplantation at Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná (HC-UFPR) and at Cirurgia e Diagnose em Oftalmologia do Paraná (CDOP) clinic, located in Curitiba, PR, Brazil, from may 2015 to july 2019. The amniotic membrane was collected from elective and term cesarean delivery, and conserved in preservation medium and glycerol 1:1, […]

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of three different techniques for the treatment of conjunctival-corneal intraepithelial neoplasia. Methods: Twenty-six eyes of 26 patients, 11 women and 15 men were included in a nonrandomized, retrospective, observational case series. Mean patient age was 64 years (range, 32-88 years).All patients were treated from 1999 to 2014. Mean postoperative follow-up was 4 years (range, 3 months to 14 years). All patients underwent excision of the lesion with a 4-mm safety margin and a […]