We studied ocular surface pH in 161 subjects. The mean pH for 133 normal volunteers was 7 . 11, SD 1 . 5. We found that older women had a more alkaline pH than other subjects, that the pH shifted from ...

Background To investigate prevalence and risk factors of epiretinal membrane (ERM), particularly those associated with ERM ...

Background/aims To estimate 2015 global ophthalmologist data and analyse their relationship to income groups, prevalence rates of blindness and visual impairment and gross domestic product (GDP) per ...

Background/aim To assess the coverage of cataract surgery services and the outcomes of surgeries including the causes of poor ...

1 School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China 2 First Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, ...

Aims To investigate the interaction and combined effects of cardiovascular health (CVH) and socioeconomic status (SES) on ...

Correspondence to Raman Malhotra, Corneoplastic Unit, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, West Sussex. RH19 3DZ, UK; raman.malhotra{at}qvh.nhs.uk Purpose Prospective study evaluating outcomes of ...

Purpose To determine prevalence of refractive (RA), corneal (CA) and internal astigmatism (IA), including variation with gender and spherical equivalent refraction (SE), in a population of 12-year-old ...

Correspondence to Dr Florian Alten, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Muenster Medical Centre, Domagkstrasse 15, 48149 Muenster, Germany; florian.alten{at}ukmuenster.de Drusen are focal ...

Background/aims To characterise longitudinal refractive changes from the early postoperative period through long-term follow-up after congenital cataract surgery performed within the first 6 months of ...

Infectious keratitis remains a leading cause of corneal blindness and visual impairment worldwide, with bacterial, fungal, amoebic and viral pathogens presenting major diagnostic and therapeutic ...

Correspondence to Dr Arun Singh, Department of Ophthalmic Oncology, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; singha{at}ccf.org Background/aims Survival after ...