Predictors for postpenetrating keratoplasty astigmatism: A retrospective cohort study.

Purpose: To identify the possible predicting factors for developing astigmatism following penetrating keratoplasty, namely age, gender, laterality, preoperative indication for surgery, size of donor and recipient graft, and selective versus total sutures removal. Moreover, the duration of postoperative topical steroids use and if that surgery was the first graft or a redo surgery.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study which included data of patients who underwent penetrating keratoplasty at the University of Jordan Hospital.

Effects of Smoking on Outcomes of Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Therapy in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema: A Retrospective Case-Control Study.

Purpose: To determine the effect of smoking on the response to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapy treatment in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME).

Methods: This is a retrospective case - control study that included 60 eyes with DME. Smoking habits were obtained from hospital records and patient recall.

Mucormycosis with extensive cranial nerve involvement as the first presentation of diabetes mellitus: A case report.

Mucormycosis, a rare fungal infection, mainly affects individuals with diabetes mellitus and those who were immunocompromised and has a high mortality rate. Its most common presentation is similar to that of acute bacterial sinusitis with symptoms of nasal congestion, headache, and fever. The involvement of multiple cranial nerves in mucormycosis was rarely reported in the literature and indicates severe disease.

Relationship Between Central Corneal Thickness and Ganglionic-Inner Plexiform Cell Layer and Retinal Nerve Fibre Layer Thickness in Normal Subjects.

Purpose: To determine the relationship between central corneal thickness (CCT), ganglionic cell-inner plexiform layer thickness and macular nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness as measured by optical coherence tomography in a cohort of healthy subjects.

Methods: Sixty healthy eyes from 60 subjects were included in this study. All subjects had a standard slit-lamp examination and optical coherence tomography.