Objective: To prospectively evaluate the analgesic effect of self-selected music for patients with diabetic retinopathy who underwent laser retinal photocoagulation (LRP). Methodology: This is a controlled, randomized, blinded, two-period crossover clinical trial. Twenty patients (40 eyes) with proliferative diabetic retinopathy who underwent LRP was enrolled. Listening to the patient's favorite music before an...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of life for persons affected by age-related macular degeneration that results in monocular or binocular legal blindness. METHODS: An analytic transversal study using the National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) was performed. Inclusion criteria were persons of both genders, aged more than 50 years old, absence of cataracts, diagnosis of age-related ...