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Jul 09, 2025Open Access
Access to comprehensive eye care remains a persistent challenge in rural and underserved population across the United States due to geographic isolation, provider shortages, and socioeconomic barriers. In this narrative review, we describe how tele-optometry and mobile diagnostic clinics are becoming mainstream models to address these inequalities and to increase access to vision care. Tele-optometry uses synchronous and asynchronous digital platforms for remote eye exams, triage and specialist ...
Apr 01, 2025Open Access
Aim: This study is aimed at describing the socio-demographic characteristics and ocular status of participants at a screening programme during the World Glaucoma Week in Benghazi Teaching Eye Hospital-Libya in 2023. Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted among individuals who voluntarily sought to be screened for glaucoma and ocular conditions during the 2023 World Glaucoma Week in Benghazi-Libya. A pre-validated self/interv...
Dec 17, 2024Open Access
Purpose: To evaluate the visual, refractive, and topographic improvement after deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) in keratoconic patients. Setting: Benghazi Eye Teaching Hospital. Design: A prospective cohort study was done in the period from November 2023 to January 2024 and included 30 keratoconic eyes of 30 patients who underwent DALK. Methods: Thirty keratoconic eyes from 30 patients who underwent DALK. Preoperative ...
Nov 26, 2024Open Access
Purtscher-like retinopathies (PLRs) are occlusive retinal microangiopathies arising from non-traumatic etiologies with characteristic fundus findings. We present a case of PLR secondary to typical hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) that achieved an excellent visual outcome with treatment of the systemic disease alone. This report highlights that PLR should be considered as a differential for retinopathy in the setting of systemic illness. Furthermore, the treatment of the precipitant cause should b...
Apr 14, 2023Open Access
Introduction: Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. It impairs the patient’s quality of life. This study aims to measure the quality of life in Moroccan patients with glaucoma and determine associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in the ophthalmology consultation of the Omar Drissi Hospital of the Hassan II University Hospital of Fez between November 2021 and February 2022, including patients followed for glaucoma. The “15-item Glaucoma Q...
Apr 07, 2023Open Access
Objective: To estimate the direct medical cost of glaucoma in Morocco and identify the factors associated with it. Methods: A cost-of-illness study was carried out to determine the direct medical cost of glaucoma in Morocco between November 2021 and February 2022. Patients with glaucoma who had received treatment for at least 12 months were recruited from Hassan II University Hospital, and were investigated from a societal perspective. The bottom-up costing method was used to estim...
Nov 30, 2022Open Access
Orbital tumors are lesions that appear in the orbital craniofacial limits. To this end, teams of different ophthalmologist and neurosurgeon specialists provide the treatment of these tumors. We present here the experience of the neurosurgery department of the military hospital of Rabat in the management of these tumors. We retrospectively evaluated the records of 08 patients with orbital tumors, hospitalized in our neurosurgery department from January 2020 to December 2021. Results: In 06 patien...
Sep 12, 2019Open Access
Objective: To determine frequency and type of ophthalmologic findings in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and to establish their association with the extent and severity of cutaneous fibrosis. Methods: Descriptive-transversal study of 34 patients, (January-December 2017). It included patients with limited cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis (lcSS) and diffuse cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis (dcSS). The severity of cutaneous fibrosis was measured us ...
Aug 27, 2018Open Access
Purpose:
To describe the ophthalmological characteristics, clinical course and visual
prognosis of HIV-AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis. Methods: Retrospective
study conducted in HIV-AIDS diagnosed outpatients treated at Dos de Mayo Hospital, from 2004 to
2014. Descriptive statistics were obtained for age, gender, associated diseases,
CD4 T cell counts, antiretroviral therapy (ART), cryptococcal meningitis
symptoms, rela ...
Jan 11, 2018Open Access
PURPOSE: To determine the prognostic value of the Ocular Trauma Score
(OTS) in patients with traumatic open globe injuries. METHODS: A retrospective chart review of patients
with traumatic open globe injuries seen in a tertiary eye center in the
Philippines from 2008 to 2013. Patients with traumatic open globe injuries who
were at least 18 years of age upon first consult and with documented visual
acuity at the ...
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