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...

Feb 10, 2020

Theoretically, benzodiazepines (BZDs) can narrow the iridocorneal angle and induce acute angle-closure glaucoma (AACG). However, little evidence exists regarding this association.The objective of this...

Feb 10, 2020

Visual diseases are the fifth more frequent cause of labour permanent disability, what represents 4% of the total of them. In order to assess these cases we must take into account on one hand the visu...

Feb 10, 2020

This study consists of an elastosonography evaluation of both eyes of 40 glaucomatous patients and 40 healthy subjects. We used shear wave elastography with a one-dimensional-array probe to capture tw...

Feb 10, 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 04, 2020

There are no currently approved treatments for choroideremia, an X-linked progressive inherited retinal degeneration that leads to blindness by middle age. Several treatment options are being explored...

Feb 04, 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of acute exercise on environmentally induced symptoms of dry eye. Twelve participants without dry eye disease volunteered to complete three exp...

Feb 04, 2020

This study aims to investigate symptoms of dry eye and signs of ocular surface disease in children with myopia during OK lens wear.A total of 68 subjects were prospectively managed with OK lens correc...