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Introduction: Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) is rare, severe, sight threatening autoimmune disease of the conjunctiva, which affects elderly patients, more often women. Aim: To evaluate the success rate of stabilisation of ocular findings in patients with OCP. Methods: Retrospective study of patients from Centre of Conjunctival and Corneal Diseases at Department of Ophthalmology, General Univ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common rheumatic disease in children and uveitis is its most important extra-articular manifestation. Evidence-based recommendations are available only to a limited extent and therefore JIA associated uveitis management is mostly based on physicians’ experience. Consequently, treatment practices differ widely, both nationally and internationally. The...

Objective: Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is an established application of genetic testing in the context of in vitro fertilization. PGD is an alternative method to prenatal diagnosis which aims to prevent the transmission of an inherited disorder to the progeny by implanting only embryos that do not carry genetic predisposition for a particular disease. The aim of this study is to provid...

Introduction: Dry eye syndrome (DES) is a multifactorial disease of the tears and ocular surface. Recently, treatment with autologous serum eye drops (AS-ed) has been frequently used in these patients. Significant improvement correlates well with clinical, laboratory and subjective findings. It is assumed that one of the key factors in the development of the disease is increased tear osmolarity. T...