ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the profile of childhood ocular trauma and eyelid injuries in children under 10 years old in an ophthalmologic emergency unit. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study reviewing medical records of patients under 10 years old at a referral hospital in the ophthalmologic emergency, from 2018 to 2023. The following Information was collected from the patient: the history and the type of trauma, and details involved. Lesion description and surgical management were also verified. Results: A total of […]

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical effects of lips salivary gland secretion as ocular lubricant for dry eye relief in mild cases, severe and refractory to medical treatment, through the transposition technique of salivary glands autograft to the conjunctival fornix. METHODS: Seventeen dogs exhibiting autoimmune dry eye with no satisfactory response to clinical treatment were selected. Lacrimal Schirmer Test and Tear Film break-up time (BUT) preoperative tests were performed to estimate the quantity and the quality of produced tear. Animals were […]