May 27, 2021

Eye care professionals generally use fundoscopy to confirm the occurrence of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) in patients. Early DR detection and accurate DR grading are critical for the care and management ...

May 27, 2021

This study aimed to establish the utility values of different health states associated with diabetic retinopathy in a Brazilian sample to provide input to model-based economic evaluations.This cross-s...

May 27, 2021

With the popularization of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) technologies, more and more deep learning methods are developed to facilitate the detection of ophthalmic diseases. In this article, the deep ...

May 27, 2021

Race-adjusted interpretation of data from Cirrus high-definition optical coherence tomography (HD-OCT) devices is not standard practice. The aim of this study is to evaluate differences in peripapilla...

May 24, 2021

Hearing loss (HL) is the most common congenital sensory impairment. Usher syndrome (USH) is the leading genetic etiology of congenital deafness combined with progressive vision loss, and individuals p...

May 24, 2021

This work aimed to study the effect of posterior scleral reinforcement (PSR) on choroidal thickness (CT) and blood flow. This study included 25 eyes of 24 patients with high myopia ( ≤ -6.0 dioptr...

May 24, 2021

Spherical and astigmatic powers for phakic intraocular lenses are frequently calculated using fixed ratios of phakic lens refractive power to refractive spherical equivalent, and of phakic lens astigm...

May 24, 2021

Myopia is a common ocular disorder with significant alterations in the anterior ocular structure, including the cornea. The cell biophysical phenotype has been proposed to reflect the state of various...

May 24, 2021

To evaluate the 5-item dry eye questionnaire (DEQ-5) for measurement precision and unidimensionality, and assess the ability of Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), McMonnies Dry Eye Questionnaire (MQ...

May 24, 2021

The tear film, which includes mucins that adhere to foreign particles, rapidly clears allergens and pathogens from the ocular surface, protecting the underlying tissues. However, the tear film's abili...

May 24, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen of COVID-19, has led to a global pandemic that also affects ophthalmology. Ophthalmologists can be confronted at any time with potentially COVID-1...

May 24, 2021

To investigate the reasons for delays in seeking medical care in patients with diabetic retinopathy and associated risk factors.We retrospectively reviewed data for patients with sight-threatening dia...

May 24, 2021

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in adults of developed countries. Both microvasculopathy and neurodegeneration are implicated in mechanisms of DR development, with neuronal...

May 24, 2021

The glutamate excitotoxicity has been suggested as a factor involved in the loss of retinal neuronal cells, including retinal ganglion cell (RGC), in various retinal degenerative diseases including is...

May 24, 2021

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive degenerative eye disease that is the most common cause of blindness among elderly humans. AMD is characterized by early atrophy of the choriocap...

May 24, 2021

Solid lipid nanoparticles and nanostructured lipid carriers showed promising results for enhancement of ocular bioavailability of drugs with poor corneal permeability. One of these drugs is methazolam...

May 24, 2021

Identification of geographic population-based differences in genotype and phenotype heterogeneity are important for targeted and patient-specific diagnosis and treatment, counseling, and screening str...

May 20, 2021

Uveitis is an ocular inflammation that can affect individuals of all ages and is a major cause of blindness. We have tested the therapeutic efficacy of a cell penetrating peptide from the kinase inhib...

May 20, 2021

To evaluate the effect of scleral crosslinking (SXL) on slowing experimental progressive myopia in tree shrew eyes using sub-Tenon's injections of genipin (GEN) at different concentrations and number ...

May 20, 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of posterior staphyloma (PS) types in pathological myopia (PM) with age, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), spherical equivalent (SE), a...