Dec 21, 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 12% of the global population, and 4.3 million are blind and over 15 million are visually impaired. There are only 2.5 ophthalmologists per million people in SSA. Training...

Dec 21, 2020

Peripheral laser iridotomy (PLI) is a commonly performed procedure. While effective, repeat procedures (RPs) may be required for a variety of causes. We report the causes and rate of RP PLI and whethe...

Dec 17, 2020

Social cognition skills are typically acquired on the basis of visual information (e.g., the observation of gaze, facial expressions, gestures). In light of this, a critical issue is whether and how t...

Dec 17, 2020

Collagen cross-linking of the sclera is a promising approach to strengthen scleral rigidity and thus to inhibit eye growth in progressive myopia. Additionally, cross-linking might inhibit degrading pr...

Dec 17, 2020

Myopia is the leading cause of refractive errors. As its pathogenesis is poorly understood, we determined if the retinal VIP-VIPR2 signalling pathway axis has a role in controlling signalling output t...

Dec 17, 2020

Homocystinuria due to cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) deficiency, the most frequent inborn error of sulfur amino acid metabolism, is characterized biochemically by severely elevated homocysteine (Hcy)...

Dec 17, 2020

Professor Geoffrey Burnstock proposed the concept of purinergic signaling via P1 and P2 receptors. P2Y receptors are G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) for extracellular adenine and uracil nucleotide...

Dec 17, 2020

Blood vessel sprouting from pre-existing vessels or angiogenesis plays a significant role in tumour progression. Development of novel biomolecules from marine natural sources has a promising role in d...

Dec 17, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy is characterised by retinal neurodegeneration and retinal vascular abnormalities, affecting one third of diabetic patients with disease duration of more than 10 years. Accumulate...

Dec 17, 2020

Vitreous hemorrhage from proliferative diabetic retinopathy can cause loss of vision. The best management approach is unknown.To compare initial treatment with intravitreous aflibercept vs vitrectomy ...

Dec 17, 2020

There is a continuing, urgent need for an ophthalmic (eye) drop for the clinical therapy of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness. Here, we report the first formulation ...

Dec 17, 2020

To describe the efficacy and safety of open versus closed conjunctival implantation of the XEN45 Gel Stent.Retrospective multicenter study.137 patients with glaucoma who underwent XEN45 implantation v...

Dec 17, 2020

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) remains a significant cause of legal blindness, and treatment for the geographic atrophy form of AMD is a significant unmet need. Dysregulation of the complement...

Dec 17, 2020

Intraocular pressure (IOP) elevations may occur in early morning or outside office hours and can be missed during routine in-clinic IOP measurements. Such fluctuations or peaks likely contribute to gl...

Dec 15, 2020

Researchers did this study to investigate the effect of fundus tracking perimetry on structure-function relationship in glaucoma. The researchers included data from 696 eyes from 360 healthy people a...

Dec 14, 2020

The researchers did this study to assess whether a new clinical pathway for glaucoma was acceptable to patients and healthcare professionals and whether it provided useful clinical information on non-...

Dec 14, 2020

The researchers conducted this research to investigate the usefulness of data augmentation in the VF trend analyses in patients with glaucoma. This study included a total of 6380 VFs from 638 eyes of...

Dec 14, 2020

This work aimed to study the effect of long-term IOP fluctuation on the VF progression eight years post-trabeculectomy in Asian eyes. The present study was a retrospective analysis of 8-year post-tra...

Dec 14, 2020

Researchers did this study to characterise posterior corneal surface features in patients with DS and to compare them with healthy and mild keratoconus corneas. This research was retrospective and no...

Dec 14, 2020

To maintain the balance, the postural system needs to integrate the three main sensorial systems: visual, vestibular, and somatosensory to keep postural control within the limits of stabilization. Dam...