ABSTRACT Objective To investigate if there is knowledge improvement over the Residency years, as well as students’ satisfaction about progress test. Finally, to describe the implementation of the online progress test in some Ophthalmological Residency programs in Brazil. Methods It was an observational cross-section study. The participants were all Ophthalmology residents who accepted to join the study. They did an online test and answered demographic and satisfaction questionnaires. Results Two hundred and fifty-nine residents joined the study. 42,86% of the […]

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate and characterize the quality of ophthalmic care offered in an outpatient service unit of the SUS secondary care according to the perception of users and/or those responsible for these users. Methods A cross-sectional study of analytical prevalence was carried out among users assisted from September 2019 to March 2020, in one of the six ophthalmic care services offered by the SUS, in the municipality of Vitória da Conquista (BA), Brazil. Demographic and socioeconomic conditions, as well […]

ABSTRACT Objective To identify higher order aberrometry changes in different degrees of keratoconus. Methods Cross-sectional, retrospective, observational study. Fifty-four patients (108 eyes) diagnosed with keratoconus by the same corneal specialist using the Belin/Ambrósio Enhanced Ectasia ABCD criteria were analyzed, using the Pentacam® HR 70900 tomograph (Oculus Wetzlar, Germany). In addition, qualitative and quantitative analysis of higher order aberrations in these patients was performed using the OPD-Scan III-NIDEK. Results Through the evaluation of both eyes of the patients according to the […]

ABSTRACT Objective To assess pre-operative conditions that could influence primary anatomical success rate in a cohort of patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRD) treated with primary vitrectomy and no scleral buckling. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed in a group of patients that underwent primary pars plana vitrectomy with gas tamponade and without scleral buckling for RRD between 2014 and 2019, with a minimum follow-up of 4 months. Results 305 eyes of 301 patients were included; 59.01% eyes were phakic, […]

ABSTRACT Objective The objective of this paper is to evaluate the profile of the cases of conjuntivitis treated in the emergency department of the Banco de Olhos Hospital, emphasizing the infectious conjunctivitis, and compare before and after the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic and social isolation, both in public and private health care system. Methods A retrospective and transversal study where electronic files of the patients who visited the emergency department between March and June of 2019 and 2020 were […]

ABSTRACT Objective Vascular findings in preeclampsia are usually attributed to increased vascular tone. Recently, however, important studies have improved the understanding of the main pathophysiological events in this condition, especially vascular brain remodeling, impaired autoregulation, and damage of the blood-brain barrier, which are well recognized features of cerebral overperfusion. Methods In this study, the association between choriocapillaris ischemia with ophthalmic artery blood flow parameters on orbital Doppler ultrasound is reported for the first time using multivariate logistic models. Multivariate logistic […]

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the accuracy of corneal tomography with Scheimpflug images (Pentacam® AXL, OCULUS, Wetzlar, Germany) in scanning patterns with 25 and 50 images, by analyzing their repeatability and reproducibility in normal eyes, eyes with keratoconus and with keratoconus after crosslinking. Methods Prospective, cross-sectional, mixed study including patients who had normal corneas, or who had keratoconus, who had not undergone corneal surgery, with the exception of crosslinking. Patients who had undergone surgery for intracorneal ring implantation or corneal transplantation […]

ABSTRACT Objective To assess the stage of the disease at the time of diagnosis. Methods Cross-sectional and descriptive study, using data obtained by searching the database of glaucoma patients in their first consultation, before the starting any treatment. Results 101 patients (177 eyes) were included. Only 31 (30.69%) patients reported a positive family history of glaucoma. We found 26% of the evaluated eyes with advanced perimetric alterations, ten eyes (5.8%) with vision worse than 20/400, of these, three patients had […]