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Dry eye or keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) is recognized as a disturbance of the lacrimal functional unit, resulting in tear film hyperosmolarity and ocular surface inflammation. Due to different definitions of dry eye the prevalence ranges from 5 % to over 35 % at various ages. The ethiopatogeneti ...

Background: Intermediate uveitis (IU) is an intraocular inflammation affectinganterior vitreous, peripheral retina and pars plana of the ciliary body. Etiology is mostly unknown, but IU can be associated with systemic diseases including multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis and occasionally with systemic ...

Background: Evaluate the efficacy and safety of photodynamic therapy (PDT) combined with intravitreal injections of ranibizumab in choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) secondary to agerelated macular degeneration (AMD). Methods: Prospective, noncomparative, interventional case series of 10 patients. P ...

Acanthamoeba is a free-living protozoon. Exposure to acanthamoeba is very common, but infections occur only rarely. Acanthamoeba keratitis should be suspected in every pacient with chronic, progressive ulcerative keratitis of afew weeks' duration, from whom no specific organisms have been isolated, ...