Feb 25, 2020

Blindness from glaucoma is prevalent in parts of Africa. Lack of awareness, late diagnosis, poor acceptance and compliance to treatment as well as unorthodox care practices are among many contributing...

Feb 25, 2020

: Microbial keratitis (MK) frequently leads to sight-loss, especially when the infection is severe and/or appropriate treatment is delayed. The primary health system as an entry point plays a central ...

Feb 25, 2020

The works of Argentinian scholar Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) have captivated physicians. An assiduous reader, he was given, with magnificent irony, "books and the night". Borges suffered from chroni...

Feb 25, 2020

To investigate the tear meniscus (TM) in medically controlled glaucoma patients (MCGP) using Anterior Segment-Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT).Fifty-six MCGP, twenty-four patients with evaporativ...

Feb 25, 2020

To characterize anterior eye health and tear film characteristics in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) undergoing anti-retroviral therapy.This cross-sectional study involved 35 adult...

Feb 25, 2020

Neuropathic dry eye is one of the most frequently seen complications after corneal refractive surgery, however, its incidence decreases in a significant manner along the first six months postoperative...

Feb 25, 2020

Dogs with sinonasal tumor can develop keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) after radiation therapy (RT). In humans, the incidence of xerophtalmia is associated with the mean radiation dose received by the...

Feb 25, 2020

The aim of this study was to find the correlation between severity of dry eye and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity. Forty- two RA patients with dry eye were recruited from Rheumatology Outpa...

Feb 25, 2020

To investigate the association between a set of six candidate genes and the risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in an urban community cohort of Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).A po...

Feb 25, 2020

To prospectively evaluate the outcomes of different subtypes of neovascular age-related macular degeneration during intravitreal aflibercept monotherapy.Forty-four eyes of 44 patients with treatment-n...

Feb 25, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DRP) is the formation of edema and small vessels in the retina due to high blood glucose levels. Asprosin is a hormone that stimulates the release of glucose from the liver into ...

Feb 25, 2020

To report on the indications, outcomes, and complications of endoscopic vitrectomy in a large cohort of pediatric vitreoretinal patients.This is a retrospective interventional case series consisting o...

Feb 25, 2020

Between 1-5:100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1:4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies that progressively lead to bli...

Feb 25, 2020

To investigate the magnitude of reduction in the axial length (AL) and corneal diameter following glaucoma drainage device (GDD) placement and intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction in glaucoma patients...

Feb 25, 2020

Diabetic retinopathy (DR), which is generally diagnosed by the presence of hemorrhages and hard exudates, is one of the most prevalent causes of visual impairment and blindness. Early detection of har...

Feb 25, 2020

To identify temporal and geographic trends in private equity (PE)-backed acquisitions of ophthalmology and optometry practices in the United States.A cross-sectional study using private equity acquisi...

Feb 25, 2020

In this retrospective, single-center, observational study, we compared the clinical characteristics, analyzed the glaucoma development, and the glaucoma surgery requirement mediators in patients with ...

Feb 18, 2020

To determine the characteristics of hospitalized eye injuries in Northern Thailand, a tertiary referral center.The medical records of patients who sustained an eye injury and were admitted to the Depa...

Feb 18, 2020

Corneal problems is one of the major causes of blindness in developing countries like Nepal. This study intended to analyze donor and tissue profile of Nepal Eye Bank (NEB).This was a cross-sectional ...

Feb 18, 2020

To assess residents' performance of phacoemulsification surgery and determine which steps of the procedure are most difficult to learn, and to measure rate of intraoperative complications.This was a p...