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Ophthalmology General

Algorithmic approach to diagnosis and management of post-refractive surgery dry eye disease.

Nov 26, 2020

Dry eye disease (DED) is a condition that is fast reaching epidemic proportions around the world. Dry eye post-refractive surgery is the leading cause of iatrogenically induced DED. The wide variety o...

Post laser-assisted keratomileusis dry eye disease and temporary punctal plugs.

Nov 26, 2020

The aim of this study was to compare the incidence of post laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) dry eye with and without intraoperative extended duration temporary punctal plug placement.This retrospe...

Vitamin A and Diabetes.

Nov 26, 2020

Recently, research data have shown that vitamin A (VA, retinol) as a micronutrient participates in the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism. Since diabetes is a metabolic disease, it is imperati...

The effects of Bushen Yiqi Huoxue prescription and its disassembled prescriptions on a diabetic retinopathy model in Sprague Dawley rats.

Nov 26, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most serious complications in the late stages of diabetes, with a complex mechanism. As a complication affecting local lesions, few studies have compared differ...

Gene-specific facial dysmorphism in Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome caused by FOXC1 and PITX2 variants.

Nov 26, 2020

Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by ocular and systemic features and is most commonly caused by variants in the FOXC1 or PITX2 genes. Facial dysmorphism is part of the syn...

Identifying gaps in patient access to diabetic screening eye examinations in Ontario: a provincially representative cross-sectional study.

Nov 26, 2020

Diabetes is the leading cause of acquired blindness in Canadians under the age of 50 years, and diabetic retinopathy affects an estimated 500 000 Canadians. Early identification of retinopathy with s...

Objectively measured near work, outdoor exposure, and myopia in children

Nov 26, 2020

This study was done with the purpose to reassess the association between near work, outdoor exposure, and myopia in children through an objective approach. 86 children were asked to wear Clouclip, a ...

Three-year follow-up of choroidal neovascularization in eyes of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy

Nov 26, 2020

This study was done with the purpose to report the 3-year follow-up results of the clinical course and structural changes of CNV by OCT-A in eyes with a history of chronic CSC. This research was basi...

Glaucoma is the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA)

Nov 26, 2020

This study was done to describe the cohort profile of the NICOLA and to report the prevalence, awareness, and associations with glaucoma. Using geographic stratification, a representative sample of n...

Determinants of corneal endothelial cell loss after sulcus placement of Ahmed and Baerveldt drainage device surgery

Nov 24, 2020

The study was done on patients who underwent multiple intraocular surgeries, we evaluated determinants of decreased CECD after sulcus placement following Ahmed and Baerveldt drainage device surgery. ...

Fifteen-year incidence rate and risk factors of pterygium in the Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh

Nov 24, 2020

The study was done to report 15-year incidence rate and associated risk factors of pterygium among people aged 30 years and above at baseline in the rural clusters of longitudinal APEDS III. 2290 par...

Intraocular pressure and circumpapillary retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA)

Nov 24, 2020

This study was done to describe the distributions of and associations with intraocular pressure (IOP) and circumpapillary retinal nerve fibre layer (cRNFL) thickness in a population-based study. 3221...

Knowledge, attitudes and eye health-seeking behaviours in a population-based sample of people with diabetes in rural China

Nov 24, 2020

The study was done to assess knowledge of diabetes and acceptance of eye care among people with diabetes in rural China, to improve service uptake. Population-based study of people in Guangdong, Chin...

Parafoveal atrophy after human amniotic membrane graft for macular hole in patients with high myopia

Nov 24, 2020

The study was done to report the surgical outcome and postoperative hypopigmented change around fovea among patients with high myopia who received human amniotic membrane (hAM) graft transplantation f...

Retinal blood flow reduction in normal-tension glaucoma with single-hemifield damage by Doppler optical coherence tomography

Nov 24, 2020

The study was done to evaluate the associations between RBF and OCT structural measurements in NTG eyes with VF damage by the Doppler OCT. 43 consecutive eyes of 43 patients with NTG with VF defect c...

Long-term follow-up of cystinosis patients treated with 0.55% cysteamine hydrochloride

Nov 23, 2020

Cystinosis is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder causing defective transport of cystine out of lysosomes. Cystadrops (0.55% cysteamine hydrochloride in viscous solution) has been used on a named-pat...

A sialidosis type I cohort and a quantitative approach to multimodal ophthalmic imaging of the macular cherry-red spot

Nov 23, 2020

The study was done to describe the ophthalmologic findings on the largest cohort of patients with sialidosis type I due to deficiency of the lysosomal sialidase, NEU1 and to introduce a quantitative n...

Blindness short after treatment of acute primary angle closure in China

Nov 23, 2020

The study was done to explore the risk factors associated with blindness after treatment of APAC, and to identify the critical time window to decrease the rate of blindness. 1030 consecutive subjects...

Proposal and validation of a new grading system for pterygium (SLIT2)

Nov 23, 2020

The study was done to propose and validate a new pterygium grading system based on slit-lamp evaluation. 217 patients with pterygium were included. All patients underwent slit-lamp examination, and s...

The effect of posterior vitreous detachment on aflibercept response in diabetic macular oedema

Nov 23, 2020

The study was done to investigate the effect of posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) on aflibercept response in treatment-naïve diabetic macular oedema (DME). A retrospective cohort study.150 treatme...