Patient characteristics and tre ...
Background Age-related macular degeneration is the primary cause of blindness in developed countries. Current treatments of this degenerative diseas ...
Simvastatin suppresses expressi ...
Background Angiogenic factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), erythropoietin, and angiopoietin play important roles in the pathop ...
The symmetry of phenotype betwe ...
Background Macular degeneration is known to be a bilateral disease. This study set out to determine the symmetry of phenotype between eyes of patien ...
Pars plana vitrectomy for diabe ...
Background Diabetes mellitus, as well as subsequent ocular complications such as cystoid macular edema (CME), are of fundametal socio-economic relev ...
Safety threshold of intravitrea ...
Purpose Although activated protein C (APC) is effective in preventing the death of retinal neurons in ischemic retinopathy, it is not known at what ...
Intravitreal bevacizumab for tr ...
Purpose To report the long-term effect of intravitreal bevacizumab on serous macular detachment (SMD) in central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). Met ...
Expression of Orai genes and IC ...
Background The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) fulfills a large variety of tasks that are important for visual function. Many of these tasks, such ...
Determination of absolute size ...
Background Creating multiple beam interference fringes on the retina using the "retina fringe projector" (RFP) provides us with a scale which can be ...
A novel mutation (Cys83Tyr) in ...
autosomal recessive retinal disorder characterized by an increased number of S-cones over L/M cones and rods. Mutations in the NR2E3 gene, encoding ...
Acute macular neuroretinopathy: ...
Background Acute macular neuroretinopathy is a rare disease which occurs in young women and causes sudden paracentral scotoma and typical reddish-br ...
In vitro culture of human fetal ...
Purpose To explore and optimize a proper culture system for human fetal corneal endothelial cells (hFCECs), including the methods of primary culture ...
Hemodilution therapy using auto ...
Background Central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) leads to poor visual outcome in most eyes. Abnormal hemorheology was suspected to play a major role ...
Incidence of endophthalmitis af ...
Purpose To compare endophthalmitis rates after 20-gauge versus 23-gauge versus 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in 2007–2008, and compare the ra ...
A disposable system for rapid p ...
Background The generation of an atraumatic posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), a common goal in vitreoretinal surgery, is a challenge particularly ...
Intravitreal bevacizumab vs. sh ...
Background The goal of this work is to compare the visual and anatomical (central macular thickness; CMT) outcomes of intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) ...
Association between asymmetry i ...
Background To examine in an intra-individual comparison whether cataract is associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods The pop ...
1000 cSt silicone oil vs heavy ...
Background Several surgical techniques have been described for the treatment of retinal detachment (RD) associated to myopic macular hole (MMH). In ...
Results of flexible ranibizumab ...
Background The aim of this study was to analyse functional results of flexible ranibizumab treatment in exudative age-related macular degeneration ( ...
Macular pigment density at the ...
Background The purpose of our study was to determine whether abnormalities of increased or decreased fundus autofluorescence (FAF) are associated wi ...
Outcomes of 25-gauge vitrectomy ...
Background To evaluate the efficacy and safety of 25- gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (25-G TSV) in the management of vitreoretinal co ...
Chemical impurities and contami ...
Background Intraocular silicone oil (SiO) impurities as low molecular weight components (LMWC) and residual catalysts are thought to cause ocular to ...
Predictive factors for function ...
Background To identify predictive factors for improvement of visual acuity and central retinal thickness by intravitreal bevacizumab for the treatme ...
Clinical characteristics of pol ...
Purpose To describe the clinical characteristics of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) in a large number of Chinese patients. Methods This stu ...
Individual recurrence intervals ...
Background To assess the time interval to recurrent choroidal neovascular membrane (CNV) activity in eyes with neovascular age-related macular degen ...
Pattern recognition can detect ...
Objectives To use machine learning classifiers (MLCs) to seek differences in visual fields (VFs) between normal eyes and eyes of HIV+ patients; to f ...