TEARS/LIDS / CORNEA Seoul – The aim of this study by Suk Jun Lee from the College of Business, Kwangwoon University, and colleagues from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University, both in Seoul, Korea, was to determine the correlation between parameters that indicate the condition of the ocular surface and can predict corneal opacity. […]

TEARS/LIDS Burdur – The effects of two different environments – one familiar and one unfamiliar to the horse – on intraocular pressure (IOP) and tear production have not been studied. Harun Cinar et al. from the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey, included 30 healthy male Arabian […]

TEARS/LIDS Elmont – The case report by Matthew J. Woodman of the Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists in Elmont, New York, USA, and Canadian colleagues describes the rare complication of third eyelid prolapse in a horse following maxillary nerve block and the successful treatment with temporary tarsorrhaphy. A 20-year-old Quarter Horse gelding was presented for a […]

INFECTION Baton Rouge – Andrew C. Lewin from the School of Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and Xiaojuan Zhu from the Research Computing Support at the University of Tennessee, both in the United States, aimed to determine the prevalence of pathogens in shelter cats with active ocular surface disease (OSD). A […]