Abstract Objectives: Describe ocular findings and its correlation with systemic diseases in Down Syndrome (DS) pediatric patients. Methods: Quantitative and cross-sectional study of prevalence with children aged from 0 to 25 years. Standard ophthalmic examinations performed: visual acuity, slit lamp biomicroscopy, ocular motility, static refraction and indirect ophthalmoscopy. Ocular findings were associated with comorbidities available in pediatric records of patients in FURB Down Syndrome Outpatient clinic, in which they have regular follow-up. Results: A total of 76 patients were evaluated […]

Abstract Objective: Poor sleep quality have affect on neuronal structure in central nervous system. We aimed to investigate the effects of sleep quality on the thickness of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), macula, and ganglion cell complex (GCC) obtained by optical coherence tomography (OCT) in healthy Caucasian adolescents. Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study,100 healthy adolescents were evaluated for determining of sleep quality score by the Pittsburgh sleep quality index(PSQI) and were monitored for detection of sleep efficiency(%) by Sense […]

Abstract Purpose: The study aimed to trace the epidemiological profile of donors of corneas in Piauí through searches in medical records. Methods: This is a descriptive, quantitative, observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study that aims to evaluate data obtained from medical records of 811 donors of corneas from the Getúlio Vargas Hospital in Teresina-PI, in the period of January 1, 2010 to 31 December 2016. Results: The study showed an increase in the number of donors over the period from 2010 […]

Abstract Objective: To determine the factors associated with refractive defects in an urban population of the Peruvian Andes. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study of secondary data analysis was performed, using all the records of the patients who attended the ophthalmological consultation between January and May 2015, the variables of type of ametropia (astigmatism, myopia and hyperopia), Sex, age, occupation and place of residence of the patients. P values, prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals were obtained using generalized linear models. […]

Abstract Objective: To evaluate the choroidal thickness (CT) in healthy Brazilian subjects using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and to compare with choroidal thickness measured in Brazilian patients with diabetic macular edema (DME), neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and high myopia. Methods: A retrospective analysis of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images of 181 Brazilian subjects. A total of 74 eyes were included in the normal control group, 50 eyes in the nvAMD group, 44 eyes in the DME […]

Abstract Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and clinical-epidemiological profile of patients with glaucoma in Santarém-PA, from January 2016 to December 2017. Methods: Study descriptive, retrospective, quantitative and cross-sectional that was analyzed the medical records of 718 patients, both genders, attended by SUS in an ophthalmologic clinic from Santarém-PA. Was used an adapted record from a pre-existing model in the clinic and, after being searched, the data was systematized. Results: The study was found a prevalence of 6% (n=43), distributed in […]

Abstract Objective: to evaluate and to compare the success rate of monocanalicular or bicanalicular intubation in congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNDO) carriers in terms of success rate, difficulty of the procedure, and cost of the tubes. Methods: fifty-four CNDO carriers with 58 obstructed lacrimal vies (LV) who were submitted to lacrimal system intubation using mono or bicanalicular stent had their medical records analyzed. A clinical history, a general ophthalmologic examination, specific tests such as the fluorescein dye disappearance test (FDDT) […]

Abstract Purpose: To compare clinical-epidemiological profile and treatment outcome between culture negative and culture positive keratitis patients. Methods: Patients with suspected infectious keratitis seen at two ophthalmic hospitals in Curitiba, Brazil, between June 2014 and April 2016, were prospectively studied. Ophthalmological exam with corneal scraping and microbiological tests were performed. Data regarding follow up, surgical interventions and treatment outcome were collected after 12 weeks of the first visit trough medical chart review. From the results of the culture, two groups […]