Ophthalmology General
May 17, 2021
To assess the outcomes of Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) in patients with ocular hypotony following glaucoma surgery.retrospective case series.SETTING: Multicenter retrospective cas...
May 17, 2021
Age-related eye disorders are chronic diseases that affect millions of people worldwide. They cause visual impairment and, in some cases, irreversible blindness. Drug targeting to the retina is still ...
May 17, 2021
Restoring sight for the blind using electrical stimulation of the visual pathways is feasible but demands an understanding of the spatial mapping of the visual world at the site of targeted stimulatio...
May 17, 2021
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a global health burden. Screening for sight-threatening DR (STDR) is the first cost-effective step to decrease this burden. We analyzed the similarities and variations bet...
May 17, 2021
In the era of patient-centered medical care, using objective clinical measures to assess patient-centered outcomes in all aspects became a necessity, and pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) is a major ophthal...
May 17, 2021
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a degenerative disorder, is a major cause of irreversible severe visual deterioration in the older Western population. Thus, treatments that resolve drusen may ...
May 13, 2021
: Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is one of the earliest inherited retinal dystrophies (IRD) that leads to blindness. To date, there have been 25 LCA-associated genes reported in China as well as oth...
May 13, 2021
This research found that anterior and posterior biometrics differ in many aspects between fellow eyes of anisometropic children. This might shed light on the mechanisms underlying the onset and progre...
May 13, 2021
To compare calculated corneal surgically induced astigmatism (SIA) by means of anterior-based keratometry (K) and total keratometry (TK) measurements made by 2 biometric devices.Ophthalmology Departme...
May 13, 2021
To investigate the effect of compression factor on visual performance in orthokeratology (ortho-k).Myopic adults were fitted with ortho-k lenses with either a 0.75 diopter (D) or 1.75 D compression fa...
May 13, 2021
Elucidating wax ester (WE) and cholesteryl ester (CE) compositional, structural and functional relationships is key to our understanding of how these lipids are involved in natural and pathological pr...
May 13, 2021
To evaluate demographic and lifestyle factors associated with aqueous deficient and evaporative dry eye disease.A total of 1125 general public visitors (707 females, mean ± SD age, 33 ± 21, ...
May 13, 2021
Diabetes can affect the eye in many ways beyond retinopathy. This study sought to evaluate ocular disease and determine any associations with peripheral neuropathy (PN) or cardiac autonomic neuropathy...
May 13, 2021
Diabetic eye screening programmes have been developed worldwide based on evidence that early detection and treatment of diabetic retinopathy are crucial to preventing sight loss. However, little is kn...
May 13, 2021
SIRT1 plays a protective role against diabetic retinopathy as it regulates inflammation, apoptosis and autophagy of cells.This study was designed to investigate the effects of arbutin and to identify ...
May 13, 2021
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is a rare manifestation of CMV invasive disease and potentially threatening to vision in immunocompromised individuals. Clinical suspicion is fundamental since it is an...
May 13, 2021
To generate a model that evaluates the presence and extent of peripheral anterior synechia (PAS) based on anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).The extent of PAS involvement in the ey...
May 13, 2021
In the emotion induced blindness (EIB) paradigm, participants search for a single target picture embedded in a rapidly presented sequence of "background" pictures. When the sequence also contains a ta...
May 13, 2021
COVID-19, a highly contagious respiratory virus, presents unique challenges to ophthalmology practice as a high-volume, office-based specialty. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many operational c...
May 10, 2021
Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a leading cause of blindness in diabetic retinopathy. Prolonged hyperglycemia plus hypoxia contributes to DME pathogenesis. Retinal pigmented epithelial cells comprise ...