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Purpose: To assess the role of remote teleconsultation (TC) follow?up care following a successful and uneventful laser vision correction. Methods: The study is a retrospective, comparative analysis of patients undergoing laser vision correction at tertiary care eye hospital in Southern India. The patients were divided into two groups. The first group included patients operated on before the coronavirus disease (COVID?19) pandemic and were followed up with physical consultations during their follow?up visit (Group 1). The second group comprised patients operated on during the pandemic and had at least one remote TC during their post?operative follow?up (Group 2). Results: A total of 1088 eyes of 564 patients and 717 eyes of 372 patients were included in Group 1 and 2, respectively. The mean number of visits for the patients from Group 2 during the COVID period (2.56 +/? 0.74 days) was significantly lesser (P < 0.0001) than that of Group 1 in the pre?COVID period (3.53 +/? 1.07 days). Close to 90% of the eyes achieved an uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) of 20/20 in both groups (P = 0.925). 96.50% of the eyes in Group 1 and 98.18% of the eyes in Group 2 achieved UCVA 20/25 or better (P = 0.049). Eight eyes (0.73%) in Group 1 and one eye (0.14%) in Group 2 reported a loss of 2 or more lines. However, the results were not statistically significant (P = 0.156). None of the groups had any patients who had a sight?threatening complication. Conclusion: Remote TC following refractive surgery is safe and can be effectively integrated into routine refractive practice to reduce travel to the hospital for a physical consult
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A 60‑year‑old female presented with gradual, painless, progressive diminution of vision, and progressive proptosis of left eye since 7 years. Ophthalmological examination revealed mild proptosis and total optic atrophy in the left eye. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) brain with orbit showed bilateral optic nerve sheath meningioma (ONSM) involving the intracranial, intracanalicular, intraorbital part of the optic nerve extending up to optic chiasma and left cavernous sinus.
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A 48-year-old female came to ophthalmology outpatient department with sudden onset painless diminution of vision in left eye since last 4 days, which was not associated with trauma, floaters, flashes of light, blurring of vision or any other ocular complaints. On general examination patient's pulse was 76/min that was regularly regular, and blood pressure was found to be 200/120. On ophthalmic examination, the distant vision in left eye was finger counting close to face that was not improved with refraction and in right eye was 6/6. In left eye, anterior segment examination was normal except for relative afferent pupillary defect and early cortical cataract, while fundus examination revealed findings shown in Figures 1 and 2