Dec 10, 2020

Microbial keratitis (MK) is the most common non-surgical ophthalmic emergency admission in the UK. However, few prospective health-economic studies of MK have been performed, and no specific healthcar...

Dec 10, 2020

Researchers conducted this study to report the clinical manifestations, ultrastructure, and evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic lamellar keratectomy (TLK) and penetrating keratoplasty (PK) for micros...

Dec 08, 2020

Researchers did this study to investigate the long-term safety and efficacy of accelerated transepithelial corneal cross-linking (ATE-CXL) in children with progressive keratoconus. Fifty-three eyes o...

Dec 08, 2020

Researchers did this study to evaluate Boston type I keratoprosthesis (KPro) surgery’s long-term visual outcomes and identify risk factors for visual failure. The present study was a single surgeon...

Dec 08, 2020

Researchers conducted this study to compare visual and refractive outcomes, changes in IOP, and complications of FLACS to CPS in paired eyes from the same patients. This secondary analysis included 1...

Dec 08, 2020

The researchers did this study to assess the clinical and patient-centered effectiveness of a novel residential ocular care model in Australian individuals residing in residential care. The ROC arm c...

Dec 08, 2020

Researchers conducted this research to investigate normative patterns and factors associated with presbyopia progression in a multiethnic Asian population. Malay, Indian and Chinese participants who ...

Dec 07, 2020

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a form of autosomal recessive severe early-onset retinal degeneration, is an important cause of childhood blindness. This may be associated with systemic features or ...

Dec 07, 2020

A knowledge graph is a structured representation of data that can express entity and relational knowledge. More attention has been paid to the study of a clinical knowledge graph, especially in the fi...

Dec 07, 2020

Decreased expression of the retinal GJD2 gene messenger RNA (mRNA) and connexin 36 (Cx36) protein in the guinea pig negative lens-induced myopia (LIM) model suggests their involvement in local retinal...

Dec 07, 2020

To evaluate the short-term clinical outcomes obtained with a new model of asymmetric intracorneal ring segments (ICRS) with variable thickness and base width in keratoconus.Four Spanish ophthalmologic...

Dec 07, 2020

Consumer-oriented mobile self-diagnosis apps have been developed using undisclosed algorithms, presumably based on machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The US Food and...

Dec 07, 2020

The purpose of this paper is to review the pathophysiologic mechanisms, differential diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of the various manifestations of ocular allergy, with an especial focus on IgE-...

Dec 07, 2020

To measure the rheological behaviour of artificial tears to gain insight into the potential role of rheology in predicting the efficacy of artificial tear solutions for the treatment of dry eye diseas...

Dec 07, 2020

Many causes of vision impairment can be prevented or treated. With an ageing global population, the demands for eye health services are increasing. We estimated the prevalence and relative contributio...

Dec 07, 2020

Achieving glycated hemoglobin (A1C) and blood pressure targets is an important strategy for preventing chronic vascular complications in diabetes. Our aim in this study was to determine the proportion...

Dec 07, 2020

Excitotoxicity is involved in the retinal neuronal cell death in diabetic retinopathy. Although fenofibrate has been shown to ameliorate the progression of diabetic retinopathy, the effect of pemafibr...

Dec 07, 2020

Endoscopy provides unique optical properties to circumvent anterior segment opacities and visualize difficult-to-access anatomical regions, including retroirideal, retrolental, ciliary body and anteri...

Dec 07, 2020

Cataract is one of the major causes of blindness worldwide. Several factors including post-translational modification, thermal and solar radiations promote cataractogenesis. The camel lens proteins su...

Dec 07, 2020

Congenital cataracts caused by genetic disorders are the primary cause of child blindness across the globe. In this work, we investigated the underlying molecular mechanism of two mutations, L45P and ...