Ophthalmology General
Feb 04, 2020
People with visual impairment or blindness face a wide range of daily barriers, both at school and at work.This article describes the development process of an online resource, addressing Occupational...
Feb 04, 2020
We aimed to evaluate the severity and prognosis of posterior segment injury between left-behind children (LBC) and guarded children (NLBC).A retrospective, controlled analysis of a case series was per...
Jan 31, 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...
Jan 31, 2020
Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) has been traditionally used in food preparation and as a medicinal plant. It currently has numerous therapeutic properties attributed to it, such as protection against isch...
Jan 31, 2020
The accumulation of excessive reactive oxygen species can exacerbate any injury of retinal tissue because free radicals can trigger lipid peroxidation, protein damage and DNA fragmentation. Increased ...
Jan 31, 2020
This study investigated the relationship strength between hypothyroidism and cardiovascular and renal outcomes in diabetic patients. The electronic databases PubMed, EmBase, and Cochrane library wer...
Jan 31, 2020
Recently, a wide range of biological and pathological roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been discovered. However, the potential role of circulating lncRNAs H19 and GAS5 in type 2 diabetes me...
Jan 31, 2020
Recent movement behaviour guidelines prescribe the optimal time spent in physical activity, screen time, and sleep across a 24-hr period. The proportion of youth with visual impairments meeting 0, 1, ...
Jan 31, 2020
Typically, individuals have an attentional bias toward the left visual field. This is often absent in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADH) disorder (ADHD). We used a motion-induced b...
Jan 31, 2020
Mechanisms behind pigmentary glaucoma, a form of early-onset glaucoma that may potentially lead to severe visual impairment or blindness, are poorly understood.To calculate the single-nucleotide polym...
Jan 31, 2020
Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is an inheritable retinal vascular disease, which often leads to severe vision loss and blindness in children. However, reported mutations can only account...
Jan 31, 2020
Congenital blindness modifies the neural basis of language: "visual" cortices respond to linguistic information, and fronto-temporal language networks are less left-lateralized. We tested the hypothes...
Jan 30, 2020
China is undergoing a massive transition toward an urban and industrial economy. These changes will restructure the demographics and economy which will eventually influence the future patterns of dis...
Jan 30, 2020
Retinoblastoma is an ocular tumor in infants with cancer predisposition. Treatment of the rare tumor needs to be optimized for ocular preserved survival without second primary malignancy (SPM).We stud...
Jan 30, 2020
Dry eye disease (DED) is a complex disease with multiple etiologies and variable symptoms, having ocular surface inflammation as its key pathophysiologic step. Despite advances in our understanding of...
Jan 30, 2020
Consumption of fish oil is associated with reduced morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases and also reduces the severity of many other inflammatory diseases and autoimmune disorders. The be...
Jan 30, 2020
To evaluate ocular involvement in a cohort of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients of a tertiary referral center and to compare the results with the existing literature.Patients underwent a com...
Jan 30, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the expression of death ligands in the lacrimal glands (LGs), identify upstream factors that regulate their expression, and determine the functional roles ...
Jan 30, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine 12-month outcomes of eyes switched from intravitreal ranibizumab or bevacizumab to aflibercept for cystoid macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion (RVO).Retros...
Jan 30, 2020
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a significant cause of blindness in working-age adults worldwide. Lack of effective strategies to prevent or reduce vision loss is a major problem. Since the degeneration ...