المنشورات و المؤلفات
Purpose: To investigate prognostic factors for retinal sensitivity assessed by microperimetry in patients with Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease.
Methods: In total, 34 patients with initial-onset acute disease and 19 patients with chronic recurrent...
Purpose: Educating patients about their diagnosis and proposed management is integral part of healthcare. Often patient noncompliance is due to a lack of knowledge that could result in irreversible ocular damage. In an era where access to...
Purpose to determine whether patients with Keratoconus and have evidence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions. Twenty seven Saudi Arabian patients with Keratoconus were recruited in this study. We compare their results to our database which...
Background: Interdisciplinary health education is one of the recommended strategies to improve health care systems as they become more complex, costly, and rely on care delivered by teams.Objective: To improve health sciences education programs and...
Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate and compare the visual and refractive outcomes, topographic keratometry (K) and complications of Intacs and Intacs SK for mild to moderate keratoconus.Methods: In this retrospective study, all mild to moderate...
Background: Keratoconus (KC) is the most common primary ectatic disease of the cornea and a major indication for corneal transplant. To date, limited KC-associated-risk loci have been identified. Association has recently been suggested between KC...
Purpose: To investigate the possible association of oxidative stress with keratoconus (KC), we estimated the changes in relative mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content.Methods: The study included 119 patients with KC and 208 controls matched for gender,...
Keratoconus is a progressive thinning and anterior protrusion of the cornea that results in steepening and distortion of the cornea, altered refractive powers, and reduced vision. Keratoconus has a complex multifactorial etiology, with environmental...
PURPOSE. Keratoconic corneas exhibit more mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage than do normal corneas and thus mtDNA may represent a potential candidate for genetic susceptibility studies in keratoconus. To test this hypothesis we determined...
PURPOSE. We investigated whether a group of patients with keratoconus (KTCN) harbor mutations in the mitochondrial genome.METHODS. We sequenced the full mitochondrial genome in a group of Saudi patients with KTCN (n ¼ 26) and 100 ethnically matched...
We investigated Saudi patients with familial and sporadic Keratoconus for mutations in the Superoxide dismutase 1, soluble (SOD1) gene. We sequenced the entire coding region, exon-intron boundaries and intron 2 encompassing a 7-bp deletion in...
Purpose: To assess long-term efficacy and safety of deep sclerectomy (DS) in uveitic glaucoma. Patients and methods: Thirty-three consecutive eyes (21 patients) with uveitic glaucoma underwent DS with mitomycin C and implant. Goniopuncture (GP) was...
Objectives: To determine the potential risk factors for retinal detachment after cataract surgery.Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, medical records of patients operated on between 2000 and 2010 at the Department of Ophthalmology, King...
Purpose: To determine prognostic factors in patients with Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease who were treated with high-dose corticosteroids. Methods: Retrospective analysis of 87 patients (174 eyes).Results: At presentation, there were 53 patients...
Purpose: To study the effectiveness of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) as firstline therapy combined with systemic corticosteroids in acute uveitis associated with Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease. The outcomes in this group were compared with those...
Purpose: To develop and validate an Arabic version of the Visual Functioning Index (VF-14) for patients with cataracts.Materials and Methods: The VF-14 was translated into Arabic by an epidemiologist and an ophthalmologist, both fluent in Arabic and...
This is a report of two brothers who underwent bilateral photorefractive keratectomy and developed bilateral peripheral corneal infiltrate on the third day following surgery. The patients were treated with antibiotics and low concentration steroid...
Purpose: To determine whether patients with sporadic, non-familial keratoconus and no pathogenic mutations in the visual system homeobox 1 (VSX1) gene have evidence of chromosomal copy number alterations.Methods: Twenty Saudi Arabian patients with...
Purpose: To screen the visual system homebox 1 (VSX1) gene in Saudi Arabian keratoconus patients.Methods: We sequenced the entire coding region, exon-intron boundaries in clinically confirmed keratoconus patients (n=55) and 50 ethnically matched...
We report a case of Vogt–Koyanagi– Harada (VKH) disease in a 30-year-old patient who was receiving interferon-alpha and ribavirin therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infection. The intraocular inflammation responded to systemic corticosteroid and...
Purpose: To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of controlled contact transscleral diode laser Cyclophotocoagulation (COCO) procedure in reducing the Intraocular Pressure (IOP) among patients with refractory glaucoma.Methods: Thirty two...
To describe a new surgical technique as a modification of the Gundersen flap procedure. A retrospective evaluation of surgical outcomes of 10 patients with various ocular surface disorders which had two vertical bi-pedicel conjunctival flaps in...
Purpose: To compare central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements taken with Pentacam, noncontact specular microscope (NCSM), and ultrasound pachymetry (US) in normal and post-laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) eyes and to assess the agreement...
Bimanual microincisional cataract surgery has been introduced recently as a technique for cataract surgery and it is gaining interest of many cataract surgeons in the world. Over the last few years many changes were made in the phacoemulsification...
Corneal flap thickness in laser in situ keratomileusis using Moria M2 microkeratome single use head
PurposeTo deÞne the clinical characteristics and optical coherence tomographic (OCT) features, and to assess the outcome of treatment, in patients with presumed tuberculous uveitis (PTU).Methods All patients diagnosed with PTU at King Abdulaziz...
Objective: To report a patient with conjunctival T-cell lymphoma, an extremely rare entity.Design: Single case report.Methods: Based on clinical examination, an excisional biopsy and immunostaining were performed on the conjunctival lesion. For...