Abatacept: a potential therapy ...
Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common of all systemic conditions associated with childhood uveitis. Visual impairment ha ...
Effects of sweep VEP parameters ...
Background There are many parameters that may impact the thresholds obtained with sweep visually evoked potentials (sVEP), yet a number of these par ...
Characterization of Bangerter f ...
Purpose To evaluate the outcome achieved by using Bangerter filters in cases of mild and moderate anisometropic amblyopia, and to define the predict ...
Multifocal iris melanoma treate ...
Background A 73-year-old patient presented in our clinic with multiple pigmented iris nodules in the left eye. Though asymptomatic, there was a repo ...
Use of intravitreal triamcinolo ...
Background Intravitreal application of triamcinolone and bevacizumab in Coats' disease with macular edema to improve visual outcome. Methods Testin ...
Bilateral uveal melanoma in an ...
Purpose To report sequential bilateral uveal melanoma in an arc welder. Methods Case report. Results A 57-year-old Caucasian male, with a 15-year ...
Sliding macular fold following ...
Background Retinal folds (RF) following retinal detachment (RD) surgery are infrequent complications and their management is controversial. Spontane ...
Comparison between Pascal dynam ...
Background To evaluate and compare the recorded IOP values of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (PDCT) and the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GA ...
Unilateral recurrent acute idio ...
Background To report a patient with repeated recurrence of unilateral acute idiopathic maculopathy (UAIM) at the same site of the eye. Methods A 27 ...
The change in internal aberrati ...
Background In virgin eyes, the internal aberrations compensate corneal aberrations, and it has been suggested that the compensation may be feedback- ...
Iritis and pupillary distortion ...
Background To describe a case of ocular complications associated with laser-assisted periorbital cosmetic treatment and to recommend consideration o ...
Role of benzalkonium chloride i ...
Purpose To investigate the toxic effects of benzalkonium chloride (BAC), a preservative commonly used in ophthalmic preparations, on DNA single- and ...
Comparative study of 23-gauge v ...
Purpose To compare the safety and efficacy of 20- and 23- gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for the management of primary rhegmatogenous retinal det ...
c-Jun N-terminal kinase is invo ...
Purpose To determine the presence of integrin-linked kinase (ILK) in tissue samples of retinoblastoma patients, and to explore the function of ILK i ...
B and T lymphocyte attenuator r ...
Purpose To investigate the roles that B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) and herpesvirus entry mediator (HVEM) play in the development of antigen- ...
Effects of osmolarity on human ...
Background The purpose of this study is to report the effect of different media osmolarity on a cell line monolayer of normal human conjunctival epi ...
Intrastromal corneal ring segme ...
Background To evaluate the visual and refractive outcomes of intrastromal corneal ring segment (ICRS) in keratoconic eyes at different stages. Meth ...
E-cadherin and â-catenin expres ...
Background Since the E-cadherin–catenin complex is of importance in the cancerogenesis of epithelial tumors, we examined the expression of E-cadheri ...
Comparative study of final visu ...
Objective The objective of this work is to compare final visual outcomes in cases of surgically treated traumatic cataract between open-globe and cl ...
The novel use of decorin in pre ...
Background The cytokine transforming growth factor-s (TGF-s) is a pivotal contributor to tissue fibrosis and a key cytokine in the pathogenesis of c ...
Relationship between retinal ne ...
Background The aim of this work is to study the possible association between retinal nerve fiber layer (NFL) thickness and driving ability. Methods ...
Real-time polymerase chain reac ...
Purpose The aim of this work was to determine the diagnostic performance of real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and to assess intraocular s ...
Three-year canaloplasty outcome ...
Background To report 3-year results investigating the safety and efficacy of canaloplasty, a procedure involving circumferential viscodilation of Sc ...
Characteristics of eyes with se ...
Purpose The aim of this work is to investigate the characteristics of eyes failing to maintain visual acuity (VA) receiving variable dosing ranibizu ...
Confocal laser-scanning microsc ...
Background The aim of this work is to compare the microstructure of cornea verticillata in Fabry disease with amiodarone-induced keratopathy by mean ...