Feb 10, 2020

Scleral contact lenses (SCLs) are devices that allow a fluid reservoir between the contact lens and the cornea, providing both improved lubrication and refraction. Consequently, SCLs have been used fo...

Feb 10, 2020

Little is known about the ocular surface changes over the menstrual cycle in young women and the interactions with lifestyle factors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the associatio...

Feb 10, 2020

Alpha-1-antitrypsin is a protein involved in avoidance of different processes that are seen in diabetic retinopathy pathogenesis. These processes include apoptosis, extracellular matrix remodeling and...

Feb 10, 2020

To assess a smartphone-based, gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-based colorimetric lateral flow immunoassay paper sensor for quantifying urine 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) as a biomarker for diabetic r...

Feb 10, 2020

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of renal and glycemic parameters on choroidal thickness (CT) in patients with diabetes with and without diabetic retinopathy (DR).This cross-sec...

Feb 10, 2020

Voretigene neparvovec (VN) is a gene therapy and the first approved pharmacological treatment for biallelic RPE65-mediated inherited retinal dystrophies (IRD), a rare condition that starts in early li...

Feb 10, 2020

Theoretically, benzodiazepines (BZDs) can narrow the iridocorneal angle and induce acute angle-closure glaucoma (AACG). However, little evidence exists regarding this association.The objective of this...

Feb 10, 2020

Visual diseases are the fifth more frequent cause of labour permanent disability, what represents 4% of the total of them. In order to assess these cases we must take into account on one hand the visu...

Feb 10, 2020

This study consists of an elastosonography evaluation of both eyes of 40 glaucomatous patients and 40 healthy subjects. We used shear wave elastography with a one-dimensional-array probe to capture tw...

Feb 10, 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-...

Feb 04, 2020

There are no currently approved treatments for choroideremia, an X-linked progressive inherited retinal degeneration that leads to blindness by middle age. Several treatment options are being explored...

Feb 04, 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of acute exercise on environmentally induced symptoms of dry eye. Twelve participants without dry eye disease volunteered to complete three exp...

Feb 04, 2020

This study aims to investigate symptoms of dry eye and signs of ocular surface disease in children with myopia during OK lens wear.A total of 68 subjects were prospectively managed with OK lens correc...

Feb 04, 2020

The core mechanism of dry eye is the tear film instability. Tear film-oriented diagnosis (TFOD) is a concept to clarify the cause of tear film instability by tear film, and tear film-oriented treatmen...

Feb 04, 2020

Determine the ocular complications in school-age children and adolescents surviving at least one year following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.Retrospective cohort study METHODS: In our instit...

Feb 04, 2020

To assess long-term cumulative treatment effects of intense pulsed light (IPL) therapy in meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD).Eighty-seven symptomatic participants (58 female, mean±SD age, 53±16 years...

Feb 04, 2020

Historically, fewer than half of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) with diabetes received the annual diabetic retinopathy (DR) examination that is considered the minimum standard of care; t...

Feb 04, 2020

Younger patients who underwent vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) display more aggressive nature distinguished from the older patients. Preoperative anti-VEGF therapy has been wid...

Feb 04, 2020

Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) control non-visual light responses (e.g. pupillary light reflex and circadian entrainment). Patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) show re...

Feb 04, 2020

Wide field swept source OCT angiography (WF SS-OCTA) imaging was compared with ultrawide-field (UWF) fluorescein angiography (FA) imaging to better understand changes in retinal non-perfusion before a...