“Seeing but not identifying”: p ...
Background Pure alexia and prosopagnosia are two separate and uncommon disorders of visual recognition in neuro-ophthalmology. We report an extremel ...
Uniocular and binocular fields ...
Purpose To compare the range of ocular rotations measured by Octopus versus Goldmann perimetry. Methods Forty subjects (20 controls and 20 patients ...
Myopic choroidal neovasculariza ...
Background Myopic maculopathy is the leading cause of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in patients under 50 years of age. New antiangiog ...
The association of systemic dis ...
Background The aim of this work is to determine the systemic diseases and malignancy associated with Vogt– Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease compared to ...
Modulation transfer function of ...
Background A modified implantable collamer lens (ICL) with a central hole (diameter 0.36 mm), “Hole-ICL”, was created to improve aqueous humour circ ...
Smoking complicates the course ...
Background Data concerning the association of smoking and uveitis are limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of tobacco smoking o ...
Biomechanical property analysis ...
Purpose To study the biomechanical effect of riboflavinultraviolet A irradiation (UVA)-induced collagen crosslinking (CXL) in porcine corneas using ...
Intraocular pressure fluctuatio ...
Background We investigated the effects on intraocular pressure (IOP) and blood pressure (BP) of playing brass and woodwind instruments by monitoring ...
Ocular surface squamous neoplas ...
Background To study the clinical spectrum and therapeutic outcome of ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) in patients with xeroderma pigmentosa ...
Timolol versus brinzolamide add ...
Background To compare the efficacy and safety of timolol 0.5% versus brinzolamide 1.0% when added to travoprost monotherapy in patients with primary ...
Retinal functional changes meas ...
Background Antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are mainly used in the treatment of rheumatologic diseases, and ...
Superficial keratectomy, PTK, a ...
Purpose To analyze the treatment outcomes (safety and efficacy) of manual superficial keratectomy, phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK), and intraoper ...
Trans-lamina cribrosa pressure ...
Background The aim of this work is to prospectively assess the relationship between trans-laminar cribrosa pressure difference and neuroretinal rim ...
Alterations in the lenticular p ...
Background Accumulating evidence suggests that oxidative stress underlies age-related formation of cataract, and that antioxidants retard cataractog ...
MMP expression in leaking filte ...
Objective Glaucoma filtering surgery may be compromised by cystic blebs which develop more frequently when antimetabolites are used to arrest wound ...
The contrasting effect of estro ...
Objective To investigate the influence of Estradial (E2) at physiological concentration on mRNA expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VE ...
Assessment of limbus and centra ...
Background Keratolimbal allograft (KLAL) transplantation has been proved to be a useful surgical procedure for limbal stem cell deficiency patients. ...
Epidermal growth factor: the dr ...
Background To analyze whether epidermal growth factor (EGF) exerts regulatory effects on proliferation and differentiation in ARPE19 cells after dif ...
Diagnostic ability of retinal g ...
Purpose To evaluate the diagnostic ability of Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) measurements in glaucoma patients, patients with ...
Caspase-3-independent photorece ...
Background Retinal degeneration is followed by significant changes in the structure and function of photoreceptors in humans and several genetic ani ...
Favorable effects of trehalose ...
Background Trehalose, a nonreducing disaccharide of glucose, is synthesized as a stress response factor when cells are exposed to stressful conditio ...
Diurnal rodents as animal model ...
Background Cone photoreceptor-based central vision is of paramount importance in human eyesight, and the increasing numbers of persons affected by m ...
Similarities and differences be ...
Purpose To investigate the mechanism of secondary degeneration of the optic nerve, and to evaluate the neuroprotective effect of minocycline in this ...
Amelioration of selenite toxici ...
Purpose Recent evidence suggests that oxidative stress plays a significant role in the development of cataract. The present study sought to evaluate ...
Thermomechanical stability of s ...
Purpose Recently, glyceraldehyde-induced crosslinking was proposed by us for the treatment of progressive myopia, increasing significantly the biome ...