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Ophthalmology General

Assessing Health Care Burden in Glaucoma Patients with and Without Physical or Mental Comorbidities.

Feb 28, 2020

Glaucoma is a collection of eye diseases that damage the eye's optic nerve resulting in vision loss and blindness. Treatment for glaucoma is primarily pharmacologic; however, studies have shown patien...

Comparative AAPOS Validation of the Birefringent Amblyopia Screener with Isolated Small-Angle Strabismus.

Feb 28, 2020

The Rebion blinq binocular birefringent ocular alignment screener was recently commercially released, but it did not yet have validation by American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabis...

Paediatric glaucoma in Scotland.

Feb 28, 2020

The primary aim was to estimate the incidence of primary and secondary childhood glaucoma in Scotland over a 2-year period. The secondary aim was to gauge the confidence and experience of ophthalmolog...

The efficacy of the fixed combination of latanoprost and timolol versus other fixed combinations for primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Feb 28, 2020

Fixed-combination (FC) therapy is used in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and ocular hypertension (OHT) patients who require more than one medication to reach their target intraocular pressure (IOP...

Photoreceptor Degeneration Accompanies Vascular Changes in a Zebrafish Model of Diabetic Retinopathy.

Feb 28, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision impairment and blindness worldwide in the working-age population, and the incidence is rising. Until now it has been difficult to define initiati...

Glaucoma care and follow-up in sub-Saharan Africa: Is there a need for modification of counselling practices to improve awareness, knowledge and treatment acceptance profiles? A prospective cross-sectional study.

Feb 25, 2020

Blindness from glaucoma is prevalent in parts of Africa. Lack of awareness, late diagnosis, poor acceptance and compliance to treatment as well as unorthodox care practices are among many contributing...

The management of microbial keratitis within Uganda's primary health system: a situational analysis.

Feb 25, 2020

: Microbial keratitis (MK) frequently leads to sight-loss, especially when the infection is severe and/or appropriate treatment is delayed. The primary health system as an entry point plays a central ...

"The books and the night", neurological perspective on Jorge Luis Borges' blindness.

Feb 25, 2020

The works of Argentinian scholar Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) have captivated physicians. An assiduous reader, he was given, with magnificent irony, "books and the night". Borges suffered from chroni...

Tear Meniscus Imaging by Anterior Segment-optical Coherence Tomography in Medically Controlled Glaucoma.

Feb 25, 2020

To investigate the tear meniscus (TM) in medically controlled glaucoma patients (MCGP) using Anterior Segment-Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT).Fifty-six MCGP, twenty-four patients with evaporativ...

Meibomian gland dropout is associated with immunodeficiency at HIV diagnosis: implications for dry eye disease.

Feb 25, 2020

To characterize anterior eye health and tear film characteristics in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) undergoing anti-retroviral therapy.This cross-sectional study involved 35 adult...

Clinical and tear cytokine profiles after advanced surface ablation refractive surgery: A six-month follow-up.

Feb 25, 2020

Neuropathic dry eye is one of the most frequently seen complications after corneal refractive surgery, however, its incidence decreases in a significant manner along the first six months postoperative...

Clinical-dosimetric relationship between lacrimal gland dose and keratoconjunctivitis sicca in dogs with sinonasal tumors treated with radiation therapy.

Feb 25, 2020

Dogs with sinonasal tumor can develop keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) after radiation therapy (RT). In humans, the incidence of xerophtalmia is associated with the mean radiation dose received by the...

Dry eye in rheumatoid arthritis: relation to disease activity.

Feb 25, 2020

The aim of this study was to find the correlation between severity of dry eye and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity. Forty- two RA patients with dry eye were recruited from Rheumatology Outpa...

Association of candidate gene polymorphisms with diabetic retinopathy in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.

Feb 25, 2020

To investigate the association between a set of six candidate genes and the risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in an urban community cohort of Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).A po...

CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF DIFFERENT SUBTYPES OF NEOVASCULAR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION DURING AFLIBERCEPT TREATMENT.

Feb 25, 2020

To prospectively evaluate the outcomes of different subtypes of neovascular age-related macular degeneration during intravitreal aflibercept monotherapy.Forty-four eyes of 44 patients with treatment-n...

ALTERED BLOOD AND AQUEOUS HUMOR LEVELS OF ASPROSIN, 4-HYDROXYNONENAL, AND 8-HYDROXY-DEOXYGUANOSINE IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS AND CATARACT WITH AND WITHOUT DIABETIC RETINOPATHY.

Feb 25, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DRP) is the formation of edema and small vessels in the retina due to high blood glucose levels. Asprosin is a hormone that stimulates the release of glucose from the liver into ...

VISUAL AND ANATOMIC OUTCOMES OF PEDIATRIC ENDOSCOPIC VITRECTOMY IN 326 CASES.

Feb 25, 2020

To report on the indications, outcomes, and complications of endoscopic vitrectomy in a large cohort of pediatric vitreoretinal patients.This is a retrospective interventional case series consisting o...

Neuroplasticity in adult human visual cortex.

Feb 25, 2020

Between 1-5:100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1:4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies that progressively lead to bli...

The shrinking eye: dimensional changes in the young child's eye after glaucoma drainage device implantation for refractory childhood glaucoma.

Feb 25, 2020

To investigate the magnitude of reduction in the axial length (AL) and corneal diameter following glaucoma drainage device (GDD) placement and intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction in glaucoma patients...

Hard exudate detection based on deep model learned information and multi-feature joint representation for diabetic retinopathy screening.

Feb 25, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DR), which is generally diagnosed by the presence of hemorrhages and hard exudates, is one of the most prevalent causes of visual impairment and blindness. Early detection of har...

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