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Ophthalmology General

Lactoferrin Concentration in Human Tears and Ocular Diseases: A Meta-Analysis.

Oct 12, 2020

To evaluate the potential of lactoferrin (Lf) as a diagnostic biomarker for ocular diseases using a meta-analytic approach.All original studies reporting an estimate of the average Lf concentration in...

Optical coherence tomography angiography findings in patients undergoing transcorneal electrical stimulation for treating retinitis pigmentosa.

Oct 12, 2020

Transcorneal electrical stimulation (TES) is a novel treatment approach for patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The aim of our study was to observe changes in optical coherence tomography angiogr...

Changes in intraocular pressure control in the first year after secondary intraocular lens implantation in children.

Oct 12, 2020

To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) control before and during the first year after secondary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in children.This was a retrospective chart review of children who rec...

Limbal stem cell deficiency secondary to systemic paclitaxel (Taxol) for breast cancer: a case report.

Oct 12, 2020

Paclitaxel (PTX) is an antineoplastic drug widely used in treatments for ovarian, breast, and small-cell lung cancer. Although ocular effects associated with PTX have been previously described, very f...

Deep learning in glaucoma with optical coherence tomography: a review.

Oct 12, 2020

Deep learning (DL), a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) based on deep neural networks, has made significant breakthroughs in medical imaging, particularly for image classification and pattern rec...

Blood Biomarkers and 6- to 7-Year Childhood Outcomes Following Neonatal Encephalopathy.

Oct 12, 2020

 This study aimed to profile the cytokine/chemokine response from day 0 to 7 in infants (≥36 weeks of gestational age) with neonatal encephalopathy (NE) and to explore the association with long-te...

A Fairy Chemical Suppresses Retinal Angiogenesis as a HIF Inhibitor.

Oct 08, 2020

Neovascular retinal degeneration is a leading cause of blindness in advanced countries. Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drugs have been used for neovascular retinal diseases; however, a...

Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Procedures: Facial Injection Procedures.

Oct 08, 2020

Nonsurgical cosmetic procedures, including injection procedures, are among the fastest growing medical procedures. In 2018, botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid injections were the two most common nons...

Moxifloxacin based axially swept wide-field fluorescence microscopy for high-speed imaging of conjunctival goblet cells.

Oct 08, 2020

Goblet cells (GCs) in the conjunctiva are specialized epithelial cells producing mucins on the ocular surface. GCs play important roles in maintaining homeostasis of the ocular surface, and GC dysfunc...

Profile of tear lipid mediator as a biomarker of inflammation for meibomian gland dysfunction and ocular surface diseases: Standard operating procedures.

Oct 08, 2020

Human tear is a biological fluid rich in lipids that is increasingly collected in clinical and biological research. The repertoire of small lipids or lipid mediators (often termed eicosanoids or oxyli...

An inadvertent issue of human retina exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals: A safety assessment.

Oct 08, 2020

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are a group of chemical compounds that present a considerable public health problem due to their pervasiveness and associations with chronic diseases. EDCs can in...

An inhibitor of endothelial ETS transcription factors promotes physiologic and therapeutic vessel regression.

Oct 08, 2020

During the progression of ocular diseases such as retinopathy of prematurity and diabetic retinopathy, overgrowth of retinal blood vessels results in the formation of pathological neovascular tufts th...

A retrospective cohort study on the pathology and outcomes of type 2 diabetic patients with renal involvement.

Oct 08, 2020

To investigate the association of clinical and histological characteristics and the development of ESRD in T2DM patients with renal involvement.We conducted a retrospective analysis of clinical and pa...

Effectiveness of the Dexamethasone Implant in Lieu of Oral Corticosteroids in Intermediate and Posterior Uveitis Requiring Immunosuppression.

Oct 08, 2020

To evaluate dexamethasone intravitreal implant effectiveness in lieu of high-dose oral prednisone for short-term treatment of noninfectious intermediate and posterior uveitis in patients requiring imm...

Structural Variants Create New Topological-Associated Domains and Ectopic Retinal Enhancer-Gene Contact in Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Oct 08, 2020

The cause of autosomal-dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP), which leads to loss of vision and blindness, was investigated in families lacking a molecular diagnosis. A refined locus for adRP on Chr17q...

Clinical Outcomes and Prognostic Factors of Thai Retinoblastoma Patients.

Oct 08, 2020

Retinoblastoma (RB) outcomes in Thailand are unfavorable compared to those of developed countries. This study aims to determine whether the clinical outcomes of patients with RB significantly improved...

LncRNA H19 inhibits high glucose-induced inflammatory responses of human retinal epithelial cells by targeting miR-19b to increase SIRT1 expression.

Oct 08, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus. Inflammatory responses play crucial roles in the progress of DR. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) are key si...

Bone Marrow-Derived Mononuclear Cell Transplants Decrease Retinal Gliosis in Two Animal Models of Inherited Photoreceptor Degeneration.

Oct 05, 2020

Inherited photoreceptor degenerations are not treatable diseases and a frequent cause of blindness in working ages. In this study we investigate the safety, integration and possible rescue effects of ...

Updated definition and classification of dry eye disease: Renewed proposals using the nominal group and Delphi techniques.

Oct 05, 2020

The aim of our research was to obtain expert consensus for updated definition and classification of dry eye disease using formal methodology. The nominal group technique (NGT) involved a steering comm...

Association of ocular diseases with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder: a retrospective case-control, population-based study.

Oct 05, 2020

Psychiatric disorders and ocular neurovascular diseases may share a similar pathophysiological route of vascular structures or neurological changes. The aim of this study is to investigate the associa...

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