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 ...

Dec 07, 2020

To determine the operative time and complication rates of resident phacoemulsification surgeries at different time points in training.Retrospective cross-sectional study at the Department of Ophthalmo...

Dec 03, 2020

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) is an inflammatory and heterogeneous astrocyte disorder of the central nervous system with the characteristic of higher incidence in women and Asian peo...

Dec 03, 2020

X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) accounts for a significant proportion of certifiable blindness in working-age adults. The objectives of this study were to: (1) synthesize the best available evide...

Dec 03, 2020

Since 2018 we routinely use sterile donor tomography in the eye bank to avoid refractive surprises after keratoplasty. The purpose of this study was to compare donor tomography parameters measured wit...

Dec 03, 2020

This report shares the long-term outcomes of an uncommon use of prosthetic replacement of the ocular surface ecosystem (PROSE) treatment and scleral lenses in the treatment for patients with ptosis wh...

Dec 03, 2020

To evaluate the intraexaminer repeatability and the interobserver reproducibility of manifest refraction.Tertiary referral center.Retrospective study.Patients attending at least 2 preoperative refract...

Dec 03, 2020

Dry eye disease is a significant public health problem globally. The magnitude of the dry eye disease problem in Africa is, however, unknown. This study provides important and lacking information on d...

Dec 03, 2020

A 47-year-old woman was referred for refractive surgery evaluation. She has no ocular or medical history. Spectacle dependence is her chief concern. She cannot tolerate contact lens. The corrected nea...

Dec 03, 2020

To investigate the clinical effects of IRT5 probiotics in the environmental dry eye model.Eight week old male C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into two groups; control group (n = 16) received oral g...

Dec 03, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a serious microvascular complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of this retrospective study was to reveal the risk factors for the severity of DR in indiv...

Dec 03, 2020

: The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) parameters in diabetic retinopathy (DR) using an updated software with 3D projection artif...