Apr 19, 2021

In recent years, increasing interest has arisen in the application of data from corneal biomechanics in many areas of ophthalmology, particularly to assist in the detection of early corneal ectasia or...

Apr 15, 2021

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of blindness in older individuals worldwide. The disease is characterized by deposition of drusen between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) a...

Apr 15, 2021

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. The pathogenesis of AMD involves dysfunction and loss of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), a monolayer of cells th...

Apr 15, 2021

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) remains a leading cause of blindness worldwide. The assessment and management of patients with this condition has evolved in the last decades. In this chapter, c...

Apr 15, 2021

The present study aimed to estimate how orientation position, recovery time, and contact lens decentration, associated with visual performance, may vary on several designs of the most recent toric sil...

Apr 15, 2021

Implantation of toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) has become standard in the correction of corneal astigmatism. The IOL selection is based on keratometric measurements of the central cornea. However, mi...

Apr 15, 2021

In this cross-sectional study, we investigated choroidal thickness (CT) and scleral thickness (ST) in highly myopic eyes and their associations with ocular factors. Patients underwent widefield swept-...

Apr 15, 2021

Laryngopharyngeal reflux-associated symptoms embrace a wide variety of head and neck manifestations. Its participation in eye disorders has recently been postulated, and there is currently no consensu...

Apr 15, 2021

Dry eye disease is a common condition with many complementary and alternative therapies promoted online. Patients may inquire about these therapies, and clinicians should be aware of the existence, sa...

Apr 15, 2021

The eye care needs of the homeless population in the United States are not well known. This study elucidates those needs for health care for the homeless programs and eye care practitioners. This info...

Apr 15, 2021

To investigate the relationship between serum C1q tumor necrosis factor-related protein 9 (CTRP9) level and the risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).A tot...

Apr 15, 2021

Accumulating evidence has suggested the importance of gut microbiota in the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In the present study, 40 patients with T2DM were treated with liraglutide fo...

Apr 15, 2021

People with type 2 diabetes (T2D) suffer from sleep disorders, with the mechanism not clearly understood. In T2D, the light transducing retinal photoreceptors that regulate sleep behaviours are dysfun...

Apr 15, 2021

To evaluate the safety, reliability and efficacy of telemedicine in delivering tertiary sub-specialty glaucoma care (herein referred to as teleglaucoma) to the Veteran patient population.Prospective c...

Apr 12, 2021

Cataract is a significant cause of preventable blindness in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, cataract surgery was the most commonly performed operation by the National...

Apr 12, 2021

To characterise clinical outcomes following selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) in eyes of Afro-Caribbean patients with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) at high risk for progression.In a prospective interv...

Apr 12, 2021

Transcriptional regulation is associated with complicated mechanisms including multiple molecular interactions and collaborative drive. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have highly structured characteris...

Apr 12, 2021

Cataract causes more than half of all blindness worldwide. The most effective treatment is surgery, where cataract is often replaced by intraocular lens (IOL). Beyond saving vision, toric IOL implanta...

Apr 12, 2021

Hyperopia is a refractive error in which light is focused behind, instead of on, the retina. Clear vision can be obtained by accommodation, but in the long run, this results in eye strain. Hyperopia ...

Apr 12, 2021

Etiologies of tear breakup include evaporation-driven, divergent flow-driven, and a combination of these two. A mathematical model incorporating evaporation and lipid-driven tangential flow is fit to ...