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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...