Jun 29, 2020

The processes involved in ocular fibrosis after disease or ocular tissue injury, including surgery play an important part in the development or failure of treatment of most blinding diseases. Ocular f...

Jun 29, 2020

The Japanese Scoliosis Society Morbidity & Mortality Committee performed a longitudinal nationwide complication survey of spinal deformity surgery from 2012 to 2017. The present study aimed to ana...

Jun 28, 2020

“Although the rates of women in medicine and ophthalmology are increasing, a gender gap still exists in senior positions, such as senior faculty, chairs of academic programs, and deans of medical sc...

Jun 25, 2020

To evaluate the natural history and ophthalmologic morbidity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae induced rash and mucositis (MIRM) and propose a treatment algorithm.Retrospective, interventional case series METH...

Jun 25, 2020

Normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models could aid the understanding of dose-dependence of radiation-induced toxicities after eye-preserving radiotherapy of choroidal melanomas. We perform...

Jun 25, 2020

This study investigated the clinical manifestation and risk factors associated with remission in filamentary keratitis.Retrospective, interventional, comparative case series.We retrospectively reviewe...

Jun 25, 2020

To identify optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) derived vessel metrics of the macula and optic nerve head (ONH) that predict diabetic retinopathy (DR) disease progression.Secondary analysi...

Jun 25, 2020

The location of the optic disc (OD) and the fovea is usually crucial in automatic screening systems for diabetic retinopathy. Previous methods aimed at their location often fail when these structures ...

Jun 25, 2020

Synaptic neurodegeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) is the earliest event in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy. Our previous study proposed that impairment of mitochondrial trafficking ...

Jun 25, 2020

To determine national-level incidence rates of major postoperative complications following EK procedures, and to stratify these rates based on EK indications over an 8-year period using Medicare claim...

Jun 25, 2020

To report long-term changes in intraocular pressure (IOP) in eyes receiving vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors for various retinal conditions over 12- and 24-months in routine clinic...

Jun 25, 2020

Age-related macular degeneration represents the main retinal disorder leading to irreversible blindness in people over the age of 50 in the Western World. Here we describe a case report, which suggest...

Jun 22, 2020

Visual deprivation can lead to abnormal and plastic changes in the brain's visual system and other systems. Although the secondary changes of gray matter in patients have been well studied, the study ...

Jun 22, 2020

In systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients, dry eye syndrome (DES) is the most frequent ocular feature. The aim of this study was to investigate ocular DES-related SSc patients and to establish any correlat...

Jun 22, 2020

     Lens and tear film lipids are as unique as the systems they reside in. The major lipid of the human lens is dihydrosphingomylein, found in quantity only in the lens. The lens contains a chole...

Jun 22, 2020

The tear film lipid layer (TFLL) covers the tear film, stabilizing it and providing a protective barrier against the environment. The TFLL is divided into polar and non-polar sublayers, but the interp...

Jun 22, 2020

Evidence has accumulated suggesting that various inflammatory cytokines are involved in the progress of diabetic retinopathy (DR), but there are few studies concerning the relationship between individ...

Jun 22, 2020

To report the mean change in Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and reading performance (reading acuity and maximum reading speed (MRS) using the MN...

Jun 22, 2020

Retinal screening examinations can prevent vision loss from diabetes, but are costly and highly underutilized. We hypothesized that artificial intelligence-assisted non-mydriatic point-of-care screeni...

Jun 22, 2020

Monovision is a method of correcting presbyopia where one eye is focused for far and the other for near vision. It is a simple, cost effective approach to overcome the loss of accommodation with age a...