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Ophthalmology General

Concentration dependent cholesteryl-ester and wax-ester structural relationships and meibomian gland dysfunction.

Feb 13, 2020

With dry eye, the ratio of cholesteryl ester (CE) to wax ester (WE) decreases substantially in meibum, but the functional and structural consequences of this change are speculative. The aim of this st...

-Palmitoylethanolamine Maintains Local Lipid Homeostasis to Relieve Sleep Deprivation-Induced Dry Eye Syndrome.

Feb 13, 2020

Sleep loss is a key factor associated with dry eye. Use of a "stick over water" mouse model revealed that sleep deprivation induces accumulation of lipids, hypertrophy, and dysfunction of the lacrimal...

Infrared thermography for the analysis of ocular surface temperature after phacoemulsification.

Feb 13, 2020

In this study, we present our observations on changes in the surface temperature of the cornea, eye, and orbital cavity after cataract surgery.A total of 39 patients who underwent cataract surgery bas...

Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Attending Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Immigrants to Canada From Ethnocultural Minority Groups: Protocol for a Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Feb 13, 2020

Immigrants to Canada belonging to ethnocultural minority groups are at increased risk of developing diabetes and complications, including diabetic retinopathy, and they are also less likely to be scre...

Simple, Mobile-based Artificial Intelligence Algoithm in the detection of Diabetic Retinopathy (SMART) study.

Feb 13, 2020

The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the offline smart phone-based Medios artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm in the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy (DR) using non-mydriatic (N...

Intraocular and Interocular Differences in Parafoveal Vascular Density in Diabetic Patients Without Diabetic Retinopathy

Feb 13, 2020

To evaluate the associations among optical coherence tomography angiography-measured vascular density (VD), intraocular and interocular VD differences, and clinical factors in diabetic patients withou...

Traditional Chinese Medicine for Diabetic Retinopathy

Feb 13, 2020

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used to treat diabetic complications including diabetic retinopathy for many years.This review was performed to systematically assess the efficacy and safet...

Clinical Factors Affecting Operating Room Utilization in Cataract Surgery

Feb 13, 2020

To identify preoperative clinical characteristics affecting cataract surgery operative time.Academic center.Large-scale retrospective cohort study.All cases of cataract extraction by phacoemulsificati...

Corneal biomechanical responses detected using corvis st in primary open angle glaucoma and normal tension glaucoma.

Feb 13, 2020

Structural differences have been reported between primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal tension glaucoma (NTG), and biomechanical differences between POAG and NTG may account for why NTG patie...

Visual function evaluation for low vision patients with advanced glaucoma.

Feb 13, 2020

This study aimed to compare various visual function parameters for evaluating the quality of life (QOL) of patients with advanced glaucoma with low vision.In total, 44 eyes of advanced glaucoma patien...

A real-life prospective study on the efficacy of the XEN 45 stent: a European study.

Feb 13, 2020

This study investigated the efficacy and safety of a cross-linked collagen stent (XEN 45) with or without cataract surgery in the treatment of glaucoma.Real-life setting.Prospective, open-label, multi...

Complications of cosmetic iris implants: French series of 87 eyes.

Feb 13, 2020

Iris intraocular implants were developed to manage congenital or traumatic iris defects. However, they are also used to change the color of patient eyes. The aim of this retrospective series was to re...

Cataract, glaucoma, possible Marfan syndrome, and conception aspirations.

Feb 13, 2020

A 36-year-old highly myopic woman was referred for management of both cataract and glaucoma. Her ocular history included retinal detachment repair in each eye, 9 years earlier in the right eye and 7 y...

A low cost surrogate eye model for corneal foreign body removal.

Feb 13, 2020

Patients commonly present to the Emergency Department with a corneal foreign body (FB). There is currently a lack of adequate training for junior doctors in the management of this condition. Our self-...

Mortality and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in the Heart Rate Characteristics Monitoring Randomized Controlled Trial.

Feb 10, 2020

To test whether the composite outcome of death or neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) at 18-22 months corrected age for infants ≤1000 g at birth is decreased by continuous monitoring of heart rate...

Increased circulating levels of Factor H-Related Protein 4 are strongly associated with age-related macular degeneration.

Feb 10, 2020

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness. Genetic variants at the chromosome 1q31.3 encompassing the complement factor H (CFH, FH) and CFH related genes (CFHR1-5) are maj...

Vitamin A: its many roles-from vision and synaptic plasticity to infant mortality.

Feb 10, 2020

The recognition that a dietary factor is essential to maintain good and sensitive vision as well as overall health goes back over 3,000 years to the ancient Egyptians. With the discovery of the vitam...

Managing Dry Eye Disease and Facilitating Realistic Patient Expectations

Feb 10, 2020

Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface characterized by loss of homeostasis of the tear film and accompanied by ocular signs and symptoms such as corneal and conjuncti...

An Updated Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis Of Randomized Trials On Topical Cyclosporin A For Dry-Eye Disease.

Feb 10, 2020

To evaluate the effects of topical cyclosporin A (CsA) and artificial tears (ATs) for treating patients with dry-eye disease (DED).On January 25, 2019, five electronic databases and reference lists we...

Aqueous deficiency is a contributor to evaporation-related dry eye disease.

Feb 10, 2020

Dry eye disease aetiologies can be classified dichotomously into aqueous deficient and evaporative types although many cases involve combinations of both. Differential diagnosis can be confounded by s...

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