Feb 13, 2020

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used to treat diabetic complications including diabetic retinopathy for many years.This review was performed to systematically assess the efficacy and safet...

Feb 13, 2020

To identify preoperative clinical characteristics affecting cataract surgery operative time.Academic center.Large-scale retrospective cohort study.All cases of cataract extraction by phacoemulsificati...

Feb 13, 2020

Structural differences have been reported between primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal tension glaucoma (NTG), and biomechanical differences between POAG and NTG may account for why NTG patie...

Feb 13, 2020

This study aimed to compare various visual function parameters for evaluating the quality of life (QOL) of patients with advanced glaucoma with low vision.In total, 44 eyes of advanced glaucoma patien...

Feb 13, 2020

This study investigated the efficacy and safety of a cross-linked collagen stent (XEN 45) with or without cataract surgery in the treatment of glaucoma.Real-life setting.Prospective, open-label, multi...

Feb 13, 2020

Iris intraocular implants were developed to manage congenital or traumatic iris defects. However, they are also used to change the color of patient eyes. The aim of this retrospective series was to re...

Feb 13, 2020

A 36-year-old highly myopic woman was referred for management of both cataract and glaucoma. Her ocular history included retinal detachment repair in each eye, 9 years earlier in the right eye and 7 y...

Feb 13, 2020

Patients commonly present to the Emergency Department with a corneal foreign body (FB). There is currently a lack of adequate training for junior doctors in the management of this condition. Our self-...

Feb 10, 2020

To test whether the composite outcome of death or neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) at 18-22 months corrected age for infants ≤1000 g at birth is decreased by continuous monitoring of heart rate...

Feb 10, 2020

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness. Genetic variants at the chromosome 1q31.3 encompassing the complement factor H (CFH, FH) and CFH related genes (CFHR1-5) are maj...

Feb 10, 2020

The recognition that a dietary factor is essential to maintain good and sensitive vision as well as overall health goes back over 3,000 years to the ancient Egyptians. With the discovery of the vitam...

Feb 10, 2020

Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface characterized by loss of homeostasis of the tear film and accompanied by ocular signs and symptoms such as corneal and conjuncti...

Feb 10, 2020

To evaluate the effects of topical cyclosporin A (CsA) and artificial tears (ATs) for treating patients with dry-eye disease (DED).On January 25, 2019, five electronic databases and reference lists we...

Feb 10, 2020

Dry eye disease aetiologies can be classified dichotomously into aqueous deficient and evaporative types although many cases involve combinations of both. Differential diagnosis can be confounded by s...

Feb 10, 2020

Scleral contact lenses (SCLs) are devices that allow a fluid reservoir between the contact lens and the cornea, providing both improved lubrication and refraction. Consequently, SCLs have been used fo...

Feb 10, 2020

Little is known about the ocular surface changes over the menstrual cycle in young women and the interactions with lifestyle factors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the associatio...

Feb 10, 2020

Alpha-1-antitrypsin is a protein involved in avoidance of different processes that are seen in diabetic retinopathy pathogenesis. These processes include apoptosis, extracellular matrix remodeling and...

Feb 10, 2020

To assess a smartphone-based, gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-based colorimetric lateral flow immunoassay paper sensor for quantifying urine 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) as a biomarker for diabetic r...

Feb 10, 2020

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of renal and glycemic parameters on choroidal thickness (CT) in patients with diabetes with and without diabetic retinopathy (DR).This cross-sec...

Feb 10, 2020

Voretigene neparvovec (VN) is a gene therapy and the first approved pharmacological treatment for biallelic RPE65-mediated inherited retinal dystrophies (IRD), a rare condition that starts in early li...