Mar 11, 2021

Cataracts are a common cause of visual impairment and blindness in mammals. They are usually associated with aging, but approximately one third of cases have a significant genetic component. Cataracts...

Mar 11, 2021

Rapid urbanization has led to reduced greenness in many areas, this has been linked to adverse health outcomes. The aim was to determine the association between residential greenness experienced durin...

Mar 11, 2021

Defocus blur imposed by positive lenses can induce hyperopia, whereas blur imposed by diffusers induces deprivation myopia. It is unclear whether the retina can distinguish between both conditions whe...

Mar 11, 2021

To compare the choroidal neovascularization (CNV) flow patterns and the relationship between perforating vessels (PVs) and CNV in the three different stages of networks in myopic CNV (mCNV) using swep...

Mar 11, 2021

To assess and compare corneal sub-basal nerve plexus morphology with circulating lymphocyte subsets, immunologic status and disease activity in Sjögren syndrome (SjS) patients.Fifty-five SjS patients...

Mar 11, 2021

spp. are free-living protozoan that cause a serious human eye disease called keratitis (AK). Several new and effective medical therapy for AK patients remains highly debated and therefore, CHG is st...

Mar 11, 2021

Contemporary eye care increasingly recommends the use of advanced retinal imaging technology. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this equipment is widely available in primary eye care settings; however,...

Mar 11, 2021

Muller glial cells (MGCs) are responsible for the homeostatic and metabolic support of the retina. Despite the importance of MGCs in retinal disorders, reliable and accessible human cell sources to be...

Mar 11, 2021

The diabetic retinopathy accounts in the deterioration of retinal blood vessels leading to a serious compilation affecting the eyes. The automated DR diagnosis frameworks are critically important for ...

Mar 11, 2021

One of the core challenges in applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to medicine is the limited availability of annotated medical data. Unlike in other applications of machine learning,...

Mar 11, 2021

The role of glaucoma virtual clinics has developed to help meet demand for capacity within busy glaucoma services. There is limited research of patient and clinician experiences and perceptions of the...

Mar 11, 2021

Mitochondrial injury plays a key role in the aetiopathology of multifactorial diseases exhibiting a "vicious circle" characteristic for pathomechanisms of the mitochondrial and multi-organ damage freq...

Mar 08, 2021

Repetition blindness (RB) is the failure to detect and report a repeated item during rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). The RB literature reveals consistent and robust RB for word stimuli, but s...

Mar 08, 2021

The aim of this study is to provide reliable guidelines for the mean percentage efficacy together with the 95% credibility interval in slowing down progression of myopia by a specific intervention ove...

Mar 08, 2021

Currently there is no consensus regarding the aetiology of the excessive ocular volume that characterizes high myopia. Thus, we aimed to test whether the gene pathways identified by gene set enrichmen...

Mar 08, 2021

Ophthalmic disorders are amid the most common pathologies worldwide. In this regard, hyaluronan (HA) has gained widespread use in eye surgeries and treatment of eye diseases. HA-based materials are we...

Mar 08, 2021

To use minor salivary glands' flow rate (MSGFR) measurement in minor salivary glands (MSGs) autotransplantation for the treatment of severe dry eye disease (DED).MSGs autotransplantations were perform...

Mar 08, 2021

Evaluation of tear film break-up pattern (TFBUP) is the main diagnostic method for tear film-oriented therapy (TFOT) of dry eye. This prospective, observational study examined TFBUPs in 154 eyes/sides...

Mar 08, 2021

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of acquired blindness in middle-aged people. The complex pathology of DR is difficult to dissect, given the convoluted cytoarchitecture of the retina. He...

Mar 08, 2021

To compare the outcomes of macular buckling (MB) surgery between myopic foveal detachment (FD) eyes with and without ellipsoid zone (EZ) disruption.A retrospective, case-control study. Forty-four cons...