Only the first eyes of the 120 patients that underwent initial ocular surgery were included in our analysis.
Exclusion criteria were any ophthalmological disease with possible effect on biomechanics of the cornea including history of any ocular surgery, corneal scar, and dystrophies.
Criteria for exclusion were the following: previous ocular surgery especially eyelid surgery or orbital decompression surgery for cosmetic purposes without TAO.
Biotrue professes to mimic nature by using hyaluronan, a substance similar to tears first developed for ocular surgery.
Her father, an ophthalmologist, is a partner in Suffolk Eye Physicians and Surgeons, in Deer Park, and is the director of ocular surgery at the Long Island Surgicenter in Melville.
We excluded patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, glaucoma, previous ocular trauma, history of ocular surgery, and previous use of topical corticosteroid eye drops.
There was no history of trauma or ocular surgery.
Generally, patients did not undergo ocular surgery in the year previous to the RCM exam.
The increasing prevalence of ocular surgery may play a role in the epidemiology of sympathetic ophthalmia.
It may also be associated with infectious causes, previous ocular surgery, drugs, or malignancies [2, 6, 7].
Ocular infection by Nocardia is rare and most cases are acquired exogenously from trauma or following ocular surgery.
