Jun 22, 2020

     Lens and tear film lipids are as unique as the systems they reside in. The major lipid of the human lens is dihydrosphingomylein, found in quantity only in the lens. The lens contains a chole...

Jun 22, 2020

The tear film lipid layer (TFLL) covers the tear film, stabilizing it and providing a protective barrier against the environment. The TFLL is divided into polar and non-polar sublayers, but the interp...

Jun 22, 2020

Evidence has accumulated suggesting that various inflammatory cytokines are involved in the progress of diabetic retinopathy (DR), but there are few studies concerning the relationship between individ...

Jun 22, 2020

To report the mean change in Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and reading performance (reading acuity and maximum reading speed (MRS) using the MN...

Jun 22, 2020

Retinal screening examinations can prevent vision loss from diabetes, but are costly and highly underutilized. We hypothesized that artificial intelligence-assisted non-mydriatic point-of-care screeni...

Jun 22, 2020

Monovision is a method of correcting presbyopia where one eye is focused for far and the other for near vision. It is a simple, cost effective approach to overcome the loss of accommodation with age a...

Jun 22, 2020

Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP) can co-occur, but the mechanism of their association is not yet established. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differ...

Jun 22, 2020

Surgical treatments for glaucoma have relied for decades on traditional filtering surgery such as trabeculectomy and, in more challenging cases, tubes. Antifibrotics were introduced to improve surgica...

Jun 22, 2020

To investigate the use of a retinal thickness deviation map generated from swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) images for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) retinopathy screening.Retrospective co...

Jun 22, 2020

To develop a fully automated method of retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cells detection, segmentation and analysis based on in vivo cellular resolution images obtained with the transscleral optical ...

Jun 22, 2020

The description of racial and ethnic data in human trials is relatively unregulated, leading to potential confusion with and inconsistent reporting of these data.To determine the frequency and use of ...

Jun 18, 2020

Cord blood platelet rich plasma (CB-PRP) derivatives have been investigated as potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of diverse conditions including ocular surface disease and skin ulcers. We...

Jun 18, 2020

Dry eye (DE) is a highly prevalent ocular surface disease which affects the quality of life and results in low working efficiency. Frequent instillation is required due to low bioavailability of conve...

Jun 18, 2020

With the frequent use of video display units, eye fatigue is becoming more common globally. An alternative nutritional strategy is needed to prevent the aggravation of eye fatigue symptoms.The objecti...

Jun 18, 2020

Cataracts and diabetic retinopathy (DR) are the leading causes of acquired blindness worldwide. Although extraction is the standard treatment option for cataracts, it is also reported to increase the ...

Jun 18, 2020

To compare quantitative changes in macular parameters in diabetic patients detected by two optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) instruments.80 phakic eyes were classified as no diabetes, di...

Jun 18, 2020

The hallmark of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is retinal neovascularization (NV). Tortuous intraretinal vascular segments known as intraretinal microvascular abnormalities (IRMAs) are a kno...

Jun 18, 2020

Diagnostic next generation sequencing (NGS) services for patients with inherited retinal diseases (IRD) traditionally use gene panel based approaches, which have cost and resource implications. Phenot...

Jun 18, 2020

To evaluate the intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering efficacy and safety of 10- and 15-μg bimatoprost implant in subjects with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) and ocular hypertension (OHT) after initial and...

Jun 15, 2020

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO)/NMO spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a chronic, recurrent, antibody-mediated, inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, characterized by optic neuritis a...