Apr 26, 2021

Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the most common cause of vision loss in diabetic retinopathy, affecting 1 in 15 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The disruption of the inner blood-retina barrier (...

Apr 26, 2021

: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of micro- and macrovascular disease in Egyptian patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and peripheral arterial disease (PAD). : The study included 16...

Apr 26, 2021

Transthyretin (TTR) has been proved to repress neovascularization in diabetic retinopathy environment by regulating the molecules in and downstream of the STAT-4/miR-223-3p/FBXW7 signal pathway; howev...

Apr 26, 2021

This study characterizes differences in glaucomatous eyes with and without high axial myopia using custom automated analysis of OCT images. 452 eyes of 277 glaucoma patients were stratified into non (...

Apr 26, 2021

To examine how indications, patient characteristics, and outcomes differ between anterior and posterior approaches of endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation (ECP) in the treatment of glaucoma.This is a retr...

Apr 26, 2021

Nearly 6.8 million people in India have vision less than 6/60 in at least one eye due to corneal diseases; of these, about a million had bilateral involvement.To identify the challenges faced; the tre...

Apr 26, 2021

Diverse, representative enrollment in pivotal clinical trials is vital to sufficiently power subgroup analyses and ensure equity and validity of trial results.To evaluate the racial/ethnic representat...

Apr 22, 2021

Many citizen science projects depend on colour vision. Examples include classification of soil or water types and biological monitoring. However, up to 1 in 11 participants are colour blind. We simula...

Apr 22, 2021

The limited availability of proton beam therapy (PBT) requires individual treatment selection strategies, such as the model-based approach. In this study, we assessed the dosimetric benefit of PBT com...

Apr 22, 2021

Drug-induced glaucoma (DIG) is a kind of serious adverse drug reaction that can cause irreversible blindness. Up-to-date, the molecular mechanism of DIG largely remains unclear yet due to the medical ...

Apr 22, 2021

Topical application of levodopa inhibits the development of form-deprivation myopia (FDM) and lens-induced myopia (LIM) in chicks. Here we examine whether coadministration with carbidopa enhances this...

Apr 22, 2021

To evaluate thickness changes in the central and mid-peripheral cornea (CCT and mPCT), corneal epithelium (CET and mPET) and stroma (CST and mPST) of myopic children during and after short-term orthok...

Apr 22, 2021

Extensive clinical evidence suggests that time spent outdoors might reduce the risk of myopia. This study aimed to determine whether increasing sunlight exposure has a protective effect on hyperopic-d...

Apr 22, 2021

Dry eye disease (DED), also called the keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), is one of the most common diseases in the ophthalmology clinics. While DED is not a life-threatening disease, life quality may ...

Apr 22, 2021

The study aimed to test whether symptomatic dry eye in aromatase inhibitor (AI) patients is associated with the clinical features of evaporative dry eye.A cross-sectional, observational study of postm...

Apr 22, 2021

To estimate the prevalence of and risk factors for dry eye disease (DED) in young and middle-aged office employee in Xi'an.This cross-sectional study of the prevalence of and risk factors for DED inve...

Apr 22, 2021

To compare the results of visual acuity (VA) measured by Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) chart, 5 m Standard Logarithm Visual Acuity (5SL) chart, and 2.5 m Standard Logarithm Visual...

Apr 22, 2021

To describe a quick, cost-effective alternative to using a scraper to remove the residual posterior vitreous cortex and create an inner limiting membrane (ILM) flap during vitrectomy.The surgical tech...

Apr 22, 2021

We hypothesize that a collapse of the optic nerve subarachnoid space (ONSAS) in the upright posture may protect the eyes from large translamina cribrosa pressure differences (TLCPD) believed to play a...

Apr 22, 2021

The aim of this paper was to study the correlation and agreement between the intraocular pressure (IOP) peak value and fluctuations detected with the modified diurnal tension curve (mDTC) and the wate...