Background: More than 125 million (2%) people worldwide wear contact lenses (CL). Rates of CL-associated infections increase with an increase in frequency of wear of CL. Purpose: To compare the bacterial and fungal ...

The All-Ukrainian research/practice conference "Topical Issues of Ophthalmology" was on September 23- 24, 2020. Organizers of this event were SI «The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of NAMS of Ukraine», ...

Background: Stroke remains one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. Most patients with stroke exhibit neuro-ophthalmological abnormalities. Purpose: To assess the frequency of neuro-ophthalmological ...

Purpose of the present paper was to study the characteristics of eye movements in individuals residing in the anti-terrorist operation area and to compare those with eye movements in healthy individuals. Material and ...

Background: It is an important challenge to develop objective methods for assessing intraocular inflammation. Purpose: To assess the relationship of the ocular surface temperature in the projection of the ciliary body ...

Introduction. According to World Health Organization, nowadays, the amount of diabetic patients has exceeded 1,000 million people, equaling 3% of the Earth population. Unsuspected diabetes mellitus is a disease in a ...

Background: Studies on local body temperatures improve the potential for analysis of biological processes in organs and tissues of the body. A study on changes in ocular surface temperature in an animal model of ...

Introduction. Continuous soft contact lens (SCL) wearing can result in development of neurotrophic keratopathy. Treatment of this pathology is long-term and, in general, symptomatic: tear-substitute, epithelizing, ...

Introduction. Dry eye syndrome (DES) is associated with a complicated multifactorial mechanism, the peculiarities of which are being studied at the moment. Data on tear production disorders in hypothyroidism and on ...

Herpes simplex keratitis (HSK) is a severe ophthalmic pathology which comprises 20-50% of inflammatory diseases in the cornea. Since keratitis is characterized by a long-term duration, severity, and a tendency to recurrence, ...