Comparison of optical low-coher ...
Background The aim of the study was to determine whether the innovative non-contact optical low-coherence reflectometry method utilized by the Lenst ...
Involvement of advanced glycati ...
Background The purpose of the experiment reported here was to assess the involvement of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), oxidative stress, an ...
Intravitreal triamcinolone acet ...
Background Triamcinolone acetonide (TA) has applications for the treatment of a large range of intraocular vascular diseases. The present study in p ...
Effects of intravitreal triamci ...
Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide on the alterations in retinal gene expression i ...
The change of macular thickness ...
Background To demonstrate the change in macular thickness using optical coherence tomography in diabetic patients and to assess its relationship wit ...
Features of corneal neovascular ...
Purpose To analyze the features of corneal neovascularization and lymphangiogenesis induced by different etiological factors. Methods A total of 15 ...
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 ...