Apr 26, 2021

Ischaemic optic neuropathy (ION) is a major cause of blindness. The clinical approach and management is a matter of debate for the treating neurologist and the ophthalmologist. Of the two broad variet...

Apr 26, 2021

Myopic maculopathy (MM) is one of the major causes of visual impairment and irreversible blindness in eyes with pathologic myopia (PM). However, the classification of each type of lesion associated wi...

Apr 26, 2021

Small-incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) is a surgical procedure for the refractive correction of myopia and astigmatism, which has been reported as safe and effective. However, over- and under-cor...

Apr 26, 2021

The aim of this study was to explore the status of quality of life between the ages 40-59 in relation to presbyopia and dry eye.Near add power and preferred contact lens power were examined in 219 par...

Apr 26, 2021

The primary objective was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Er:YAG laser treatment for meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) in a prospective study.A total of 128 eyes from 64 patients with MGD were ...

Apr 26, 2021

Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the most common cause of vision loss in diabetic retinopathy, affecting 1 in 15 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The disruption of the inner blood-retina barrier (...

Apr 26, 2021

: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of micro- and macrovascular disease in Egyptian patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and peripheral arterial disease (PAD). : The study included 16...

Apr 26, 2021

Transthyretin (TTR) has been proved to repress neovascularization in diabetic retinopathy environment by regulating the molecules in and downstream of the STAT-4/miR-223-3p/FBXW7 signal pathway; howev...

Apr 26, 2021

This study characterizes differences in glaucomatous eyes with and without high axial myopia using custom automated analysis of OCT images. 452 eyes of 277 glaucoma patients were stratified into non (...

Apr 26, 2021

To examine how indications, patient characteristics, and outcomes differ between anterior and posterior approaches of endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation (ECP) in the treatment of glaucoma.This is a retr...

Apr 26, 2021

Nearly 6.8 million people in India have vision less than 6/60 in at least one eye due to corneal diseases; of these, about a million had bilateral involvement.To identify the challenges faced; the tre...

Apr 26, 2021

Diverse, representative enrollment in pivotal clinical trials is vital to sufficiently power subgroup analyses and ensure equity and validity of trial results.To evaluate the racial/ethnic representat...

Apr 22, 2021

Many citizen science projects depend on colour vision. Examples include classification of soil or water types and biological monitoring. However, up to 1 in 11 participants are colour blind. We simula...

Apr 22, 2021

The limited availability of proton beam therapy (PBT) requires individual treatment selection strategies, such as the model-based approach. In this study, we assessed the dosimetric benefit of PBT com...

Apr 22, 2021

Drug-induced glaucoma (DIG) is a kind of serious adverse drug reaction that can cause irreversible blindness. Up-to-date, the molecular mechanism of DIG largely remains unclear yet due to the medical ...

Apr 22, 2021

Topical application of levodopa inhibits the development of form-deprivation myopia (FDM) and lens-induced myopia (LIM) in chicks. Here we examine whether coadministration with carbidopa enhances this...

Apr 22, 2021

To evaluate thickness changes in the central and mid-peripheral cornea (CCT and mPCT), corneal epithelium (CET and mPET) and stroma (CST and mPST) of myopic children during and after short-term orthok...

Apr 22, 2021

Extensive clinical evidence suggests that time spent outdoors might reduce the risk of myopia. This study aimed to determine whether increasing sunlight exposure has a protective effect on hyperopic-d...

Apr 22, 2021

Dry eye disease (DED), also called the keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), is one of the most common diseases in the ophthalmology clinics. While DED is not a life-threatening disease, life quality may ...

Apr 22, 2021

The study aimed to test whether symptomatic dry eye in aromatase inhibitor (AI) patients is associated with the clinical features of evaporative dry eye.A cross-sectional, observational study of postm...