Feb 17, 2020

For spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) studies of neurodegeneration, it is important to understand how segmentation algorithms differ in retinal layer thickness measurements, segmen...

Feb 17, 2020

The aim of this paper is to observe the change of aqueous humor levels of placenta growth factor (PlGF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) patien...

Feb 17, 2020

The molecular mechanisms whereby placental growth factor (PlGF) mediates its effects in nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (DR) are unknown. To better understand the role of PlGF in DR, we used tan...

Feb 17, 2020

To assess the quality and accuracy of glaucoma referrals from ophthalmologist.Retrospective review of patients chart with referral letter to a tertiary glaucoma center between January and December 201...

Feb 17, 2020

Ischemic optic neuropathies are among the leading causes of severe visual acuity loss in people over 50 years of age. They constitute a set of various entities that are clinically, etiologically and t...

Feb 17, 2020

Environmental contamination by Toxocara spp eggs can be verified by parasitological techniques, which are mostly laborious, have low sensitivity, and may require repeated tests to establish the contam...

Feb 17, 2020

Fungal keratitis is a corneal disease with a high blindness rate caused by pathogenic fungal infections. The pathogenesis of fungal keratitis and the immune response after fungal infection are still u...

Feb 17, 2020

To investigate the center-periphery distribution of ON and OFF retinal responses in complete congenital stationary night blindness (cCSNB).Photopic full-field flash ERGs (photopic ffERGs) and OPs (pho...

Feb 13, 2020

Stickler syndrome is the most common genetic cause of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in children, and has a high risk of blindness. Type I (STL1) is the most common subtype, caused by COL2A1 ...

Feb 13, 2020

The World Report on Vision suggests that universal eye health coverage (UEHC) can be achieved through an integrated people-centered eye care (IPCEC) delivery. This study provides an estimation of capa...

Feb 13, 2020

The review article focuses on free radicals and oxidative stress involved in ophthalmological diseases such as retinopathy, cataract, glaucoma, etc. Oxidative stress is considered as a key factor invo...

Feb 13, 2020

In the absence of vision, spatial representation may be altered. When asked to compare the relative distances between three sounds (i.e., auditory spatial bisection task), blind individuals demonstrat...

Feb 13, 2020

We sought to compare the efficacy as well as the safety of two maximum medical therapy combinations applied to lower the intraocular pressure (IOP) in different primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) age ...

Feb 13, 2020

To evaluate risk factors associated with keratoconus in a case-control setting.This single center, prospective, case-control study was carried out from May 2014 to November 2017 at the Rothschild Foun...

Feb 13, 2020

With dry eye, the ratio of cholesteryl ester (CE) to wax ester (WE) decreases substantially in meibum, but the functional and structural consequences of this change are speculative. The aim of this st...

Feb 13, 2020

Sleep loss is a key factor associated with dry eye. Use of a "stick over water" mouse model revealed that sleep deprivation induces accumulation of lipids, hypertrophy, and dysfunction of the lacrimal...

Feb 13, 2020

In this study, we present our observations on changes in the surface temperature of the cornea, eye, and orbital cavity after cataract surgery.A total of 39 patients who underwent cataract surgery bas...

Feb 13, 2020

Immigrants to Canada belonging to ethnocultural minority groups are at increased risk of developing diabetes and complications, including diabetic retinopathy, and they are also less likely to be scre...

Feb 13, 2020

The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the offline smart phone-based Medios artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm in the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy (DR) using non-mydriatic (N...

Feb 13, 2020

To evaluate the associations among optical coherence tomography angiography-measured vascular density (VD), intraocular and interocular VD differences, and clinical factors in diabetic patients withou...