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Systemic and ocular determinants of mean ocular perfusion pressure in a population-based sample.

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...

[Endophthalmitis after perforation of the conjunctiva by a glaucoma gel-stent implant].

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...

Ten-year outcomes of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment for neovascular age-related macular disease: a single center French study.

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...

Zinc oxide nanoparticles induce human tenon fibroblast apoptosis through reactive oxygen species and caspase signaling pathway.

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 ...

Vitreoretinal Interface Slab in OCT Angiography for Detecting Diabetic Retinal Neovascularization.

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...

Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome: Updated Perspectives.

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 ...

Direct OPTOS Nerve Size Determination of Prevalent Optic Nerve Hypoplasia in Alaska.

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...

Resetting outcome targets of community surgery camps: The case of the Chhattisgarh tragedy.

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...

Research progress of in-situ gelling ophthalmic drug delivery system.

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...

Associations Between Systemic Omega-3 Fatty Acid Levels With Moderate-to-Severe Dry Eye Disease Signs and Symptoms at Baseline in the Dry Eye Assessment and Management Study.

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...

Treating Uncomfortable Contact Lens Wear With Orthokeratology.

Feb 28, 2020

Many contact lens (CL) users permanently discontinue wear because of ocular dryness and discomfort. This study aimed to determine whether refitting symptomatic soft CL wearers in to orthokeratology co...

Development of a Questionnaire for Detecting Changes in Dry Eye Disease-Related Symptoms.

Feb 28, 2020

Determining the changes in symptomatology suffered by dry eye disease (DED) patients after an intervention is difficult because there is only one validated questionnaire specifically designed to measu...

Ocular Surface Changes in Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Without Thyroid Ophthalmopathy.

Feb 28, 2020

We sought to evaluate ocular surface changes in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis without thyroid ophthalmopathy and elucidate the relationship between dry eye syndrome and meibomian gland dysfunc...

Tear Break-Up Time and Seasonal Variation in Intraocular Pressure in a Japanese Population.

Feb 28, 2020

To evaluate seasonal variation in intraocular pressure (IOP) with and without short tear break-up time (SBUT, BUT ≤5 s) since dry eye and IOP are known to have seasonal variation.This study enrolled...

Diclofenac sodium loaded PLGA nanoparticles for inflammatory diseases with high anti-inflammatory properties at low dose: Formulation, characterization and in vivo HET-CAM analysis.

Feb 28, 2020

The development of a new drug active substance is not only time-consuming and expensive, but also a chain of operations that often fails. However, increasing the bioavailability, effectiveness, safety...

Upregulation of heme oxygenase-1 by Brahma-related gene 1 through Nrf2 signaling confers protective effect against high glucose-induced oxidative damage of retinal ganglion cells.

Feb 28, 2020

High glucose (HG)-induced oxidative damage of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) contributes to the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy, a severe complication of diabetes mellitus. Brahma-related gene 1 (...

THE EFFECT OF ELECTIVE CATARACT EXTRACTION BY PHACOEMULSIFICATION IN EYES WITH VITREOMACULAR TRACTION SYNDROME.

Feb 28, 2020

To evaluate the effect of cataract extraction (CE) by phacoemulsification on the vitreomacular interface (VMI) of eyes with preexisting vitreomacular traction (VMT).Retrospective, observational case s...

Association of a Variant in VWA3A with Response to Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Treatment in Neovascular AMD.

Feb 28, 2020

Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy for neovascular AMD (nvAMD) obtains a variable outcome. We performed a genome-wide association study for anti-VEGF treatment response in nvAMD to...

Normative Values of Retinal Nerve Fibre Layer Thickness and Optic Nerve Head Parameters and Their Association with Visual Function in an African Population.

Feb 28, 2020

To determine normative values of retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (RNFL) and optic nerve head (ONH) parameters and their association with routine clinical tests such as refractive error (RE), stere...

Understanding the uptake of a national retinopathy screening programme: An audit of patients with diabetes in two large primary care centres.

Feb 28, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) affects 8.2% of the Irish population with type 2 diabetes over 50 years and is one of the leading causes of blindness among working-age adults. Regular diabetic retinopathy ...

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