Mar 05, 2020

There is only limited information available on the effects of physical exercise on the posterior pole. Retinal circulation is autoregulated similarly to the brain vasculature in order to provide const...

Mar 02, 2020

Old age is often associated with functional decline and physical dependence, thus compromising the ability to carry out basic tasks required for daily living. There are very few community-based studie...

Mar 02, 2020

Cataract is the major reason for human blindness worldwide. α-Crystallin, as a key chaperone of eye lenses, keeps the lenticular tissues in its transparent state over time. In this study, cataract-ca...

Mar 02, 2020

To review the role of antigen-presenting cells (APC) in the pathogenesis of ocular surface diseases (OSD).A thorough literature search was performed in PubMed database. An additional search was made i...

Mar 02, 2020

Several blood derivatives have been proposed for the treatment of various ocular diseases that affect either the anterior or the posterior segment of the eye. Blood sources may range from the patient'...

Mar 02, 2020

Certain diabetic and hypertensive patients started on intravitreal vascular endothelial growth factor inhibition for diabetic retinopathy may experience worsening of hypertension and proteinuria. The ...

Mar 02, 2020

To evaluate change in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in patients with diabetes and diabetic retinopathy (DR) after cataract extraction (CE).Retrospective cohort study.Diabetic eyes of patients 18...

Mar 02, 2020

To compare microaneurysm (MA) counts using ultrawide field colour images (UWF-CI) and ultrawide field fluorescein angiography (UWF-FA).Retrospective study including patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes ...

Mar 02, 2020

This research aimed to investigate whether diabetic blood-stasis syndrome had a relationship with ROS-ERK1/2 signaling pathway in rat retina Müller cells and explore the effects of traditional Chines...

Mar 02, 2020

Despite safety concerns, β-sympathomimetics are still widely used as tocolytic agents. β-Blockers in turn are used to treat vasculo-proliferative diseases of the newborn such as retinopathy of prema...

Mar 02, 2020

To investigate the associations between mean ocular perfusion pressure (MOPP) and several variables including body mass index (BMI), comorbid medical conditions and various ocular parameters in a popu...

Mar 02, 2020

Intraocular infections associated with Abiotrophia defectiva are rare. This article reports the case of a 57-year-old woman with endophthalmitis associated with Abiotrophia defectiva 3 months after u...

Mar 02, 2020

Long-term data of intravitreal injections of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors are lacking.This study aims to assess visual and anatomic outcomes of eyes with neovascular age-relate...

Mar 02, 2020

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world and trabeculectomy remains still the most commonly performed filtration surgery. Failure of trabeculectomy is due to the formation ...

Mar 02, 2020

To compare neovascularization identified in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) eyes by widefield swept-source (SS) OCT angiography (OCTA) using vitreoretinal interface (VRI) slab images, compose...

Mar 02, 2020

Almost fifteen years since its initial description, intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) during phacoemulsification surgery remains a challenge for cataract surgeons in all its key aspects that ...

Mar 02, 2020

Optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH), one of the most common causes of pediatric blindness in developed countries, has been difficult to directly quantify. We sought to measure optic nerve size in Alaskan ped...

Feb 28, 2020

State-driven community surgery camps have been organised in India for nearly five decades. Despite their being extremely beneficial to people not having ready access to surgical healthcare (SHC), they...

Feb 28, 2020

Blindness and vision impairment are the most devastating global health problems resulting in a substantial economic and social burden. Delivery of drug to particular parts of the anterior or posterior...

Feb 28, 2020

Omega-3 (n-3) fatty acid supplementation is used to treat systemic inflammatory diseases, but the role of n-3 in the pathophysiology and therapy of dry eye disease (DED) is not definitive. We evaluate...