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Predictive factors of posterior corneal shift after small incision lenticule extraction: a 5-year follow-up study.

May 02, 2022

The aim of this study was to determine risk factors affecting changes in posterior corneal elevation (PCE) and predict the 5-year stability after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE).This retro...

Corneal morphology correlates with choriocapillaris perfusion in myopic children.

May 02, 2022

The present study investigated the difference in choriocapillaris (CC) perfusion between different AL/K ratio groups with similar spherical equivalent refraction (SER) and analyzed factors affecting C...

Effects of systemic anti-androgen drugs on the ocular surface.

May 02, 2022

To investigate the effect of systemic anti-androgen drugs on tear function tests and the ocular surface.Sixty-four male subjects were included in this study. Subjects who were on anti-androgen treatme...

Role of neuroticism and perceived stress on quality of life among patients with dry eye disease.

May 02, 2022

This hospital-based, cross-sectional observational study aimed to examine whether neuroticism has an impact on stress that is related to dry eye disease (DED) and quality of life (QOL). One hundred pa...

Inflammatory cytokines and retinal nonperfusion area in quiescent proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

May 02, 2022

We sought to investigate the association between inflammatory cytokine levels and retinal capillary nonperfusion area in eyes with quiescent proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).Samples of aqueous...

[Features of structural and microvascular changes of the choroid in angioretinopathy of various etiologies].

May 02, 2022

To study structural and microvascular changes in the choroid in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetic retinopathy (DR) and arterial hypertension (AH), and their relationship with the le...

Correlation Between Altmetric Attention Scores and Citations for Articles Published in High-Impact Factor Ophthalmology Journals From 2018 to 2019.

May 02, 2022

The Altmetric attention score (AAS) provides new information to gauge the impact of a research article not found through typical metrics, such as impact factor or citation counts.To explore the associ...

Exploring Ocular Adverse Events in Users of PDE5 Inhibitors

Apr 26, 2022

The use of PDE5 inhibitors increases the risk for serous retinal detachment, ischemic optic neuropathy, and retinal vascular occlusion in older men. Phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors a...

Method for Film Thickness Mapping with an Astigmatic Optical Profilometer.

Apr 25, 2022

An astigmatic optical profilometer is a precision instrument with advantages such as high resolution, high bandwidth, a compact size, and low cost. However, current astigmatic optical profilometers me...

Screen time and health issues in Chinese school-aged children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Apr 25, 2022

Many literature reviews summarized relationships between screen time and child health, but they only included a few studies conducted in Chinese children and adolescents. The potential influence of sc...

Viscoelastic properties of the human tear film.

Apr 25, 2022

When considering eye blinking from a tribological perspective, tear viscosity is expected to play a fundamental role. The application of rheological techniques to describe the tear film dates back to ...

The Role of Metalloproteinases and Their Tissue Inhibitors on Ocular Diseases: Focusing on Potential Mechanisms.

Apr 25, 2022

Eye diseases are associated with visual impairment, reduced quality of life, and may even lead to vision loss. The efficacy of available treatment of eye diseases is not satisfactory. The unique envir...

Effects of intensive insulin therapy on the retinal microvasculature in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a prospective observational study.

Apr 25, 2022

We examined the retinal microvascular changes and associated factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) before and after intensive insulin therapy.This prospective observational study recruited patien...

Generation of 3D retinal tissue from human pluripotent stem cells using a directed small molecule-based serum-free microwell platform.

Apr 25, 2022

Retinal degenerative diseases are a leading cause of blindness worldwide with debilitating life-long consequences for the affected individuals. Cell therapy is considered a potential future clinical i...

Novel and investigational therapies for wet and dry age-related macular degeneration.

Apr 25, 2022

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a macular degenerative eye disease, the major cause of irreversible loss of central vision. In this review, we highlight current progress and future perspecti...

Plasma Levels of Bevacizumab and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor After Low-Dose Bevacizumab Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Infants.

Apr 25, 2022

Intravitreal bevacizumab effectively treats severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), but it enters the bloodstream and may reduce serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), potentially causing d...

Atypical Visual Field Asymmetries in Redundancy Masking

Apr 22, 2022

The lowering of the apparent number of components in repeated patterns is known as redundancy masking. It has a lot of traits with crowding, which is defined as the inability to identify a goal in a c...

Equivalent Noise Characterization of Human Lightness Constancy

Apr 20, 2022

Visual perception's purpose is to generate consistent representations of task-relevant scene features (e.g., object reflectance) despite fluctuation in task-irrelevant scene variables (e.g. illuminati...

Open Perimetry Initiative: A Cross-Platform Development For The New Generation of Portable Perimeters

Apr 20, 2022

The Open Perimetry Initiative was established in 2010 with the goal of lowering obstacles to clinical research using visual fields and perimetry. The Open Perimetry Interface (OPI) and the visual fiel...

The Economic Burden of Vision Loss (VL) & Blindness in the US

Apr 20, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to calculate the economic impact of vision loss (VL) in the United States, state by state. Secondary data sources (American Community Survey [ACS], American Time Use Su...

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