Background: The aim of this study is to report a patient with senile cataract developing severe thermal corneoscleral injury during phacoemulsification, which was treated with a donor scleral graft.Case: Severe thermal kelly green visor corneoscleral injury occurred during phacoemulsification in the right eye of a 74-year-old male.His medical histo
The pluripotency transcription factor Nanog represses glutathione reductase gene expression in mouse embryonic stem cells
Abstract Objective Redox homeostasis maintenance is essential to bring about cellular functions.Particularly, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have high fidelity mechanisms for DNA repair, high activity of different antioxidant enzymes and low levels of oxidative stress.Although the expression and activity of antioxidant enzymes are reduced throughout t
Vision Loss following Small Incision Cataract Surgery: A Case Report
Introduction: Retro-bulbar block is still safe and widely employed anesthetic technique in large volume routine cataract surgery.Nevertheless, the procedure is not free of complication.Case report: A 48 years old man who had small incision cataract surgery of left eye under retro-bulbar block, had vision of hand movement close to face on his first