Twenty years of endophthalmitis: Incidence, aetiology and clinical outcome.

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the ability of ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) to detect abnormalities in the zonular apparatus in unaffected eyes of patients with clinically unilateral exfoliation syndrome (XFS) using a standardized grading system. METHODS:The affected and unaffected eyes of 17 patients with clinically unilateral...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Sbeity Z,Dorairaj SK,Reddy S,Tello C,Liebmann JM,Ritch R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine change in visual acuity (VA) in the population of a previous amblyopia treatment study (Loudon 2006) and assess risk factors for VA decrease. METHODS:Subjects treated between 2001 and 2003 were contacted between December 2015 and July 2017. Orthoptic examination was conducted under controlled circ...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Kadhum A,Simonsz-Tóth B,van Rosmalen J,Pijnenburg SJM,Janszen BM,Simonsz HJ,Loudon SE

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ziv-aflibercept (Zaltrap® ), a recombinant fusion protein that binds diffusible vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), is approved for the treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma. Its molecular structure is the same as aflibercept (Eylea® ), thus making it an attractive option for the off-label treatment of c...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Mansour AM,Stewart MW,Farah ME,Mansour HA,Chhablani J

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine alterations in the retina of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) by the newly developed technique of fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy (FLIO) in a pilot study. METHODS:FLIO set-up uses a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (HRA2, Heidelberg Engineering, Germany), which was modified by the ...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Jentsch S,Schweitzer D,Schmidtke KU,Peters S,Dawczynski J,Bär KJ,Hammer M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lacrimal gland tumours constitute a wide spectrum of neoplastic lesions that are histologically similar to tumours of the salivary gland. In the salivary gland, pleomorphic adenoma (PA) is frequently characterized by recurrent chromosomal rearrangements of the PLAG1 and HMGA2 genes, a genetic feature retained i...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Andreasen S,von Holstein SL,Homøe P,Heegaard S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the coexistence of ocular microvascular and systemic macrovascular abnormalities in early stage, newly diagnosed and previously untreated normal tension glaucoma patients (NTG). METHODS:Retinal vascular reactivity to flickering light was assessed in 19 NTG and 28 age-matched controls by means of...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Mroczkowska S,Ekart A,Sung V,Negi A,Qin L,Patel SR,Jacob S,Atkins C,Benavente-Perez A,Gherghel D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We present a genetic and clinical analysis of two sisters, 3 and 4 years of age, with nanophthalmos and macular folds. METHODS:Ophthalmological examination, general paediatric examination and molecular genetic analysis of the MFRP gene were performed in both affected siblings. RESULTS:Clinical analysis showed...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Wasmann RA,Wassink-Ruiter JS,Sundin OH,Morales E,Verheij JB,Pott JW

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our purpose was to evaluate the surgical outcome after intra-ocular lens exchange in patients who presented impairing visual complaints after primary multifocal intra-ocular lens (MIOL) implantation. In particular, the study was undertaken to look at the number of eyes that could be equipped with the bag-in-the...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Tassignon MJ,Bartholomeeusen E,Rozema JJ,Jongenelen S,Mathysen DG

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We report the epidemiology, findings, treatment, long-term outcome and use of resources for eye injuries caused by toy guns in southern Finland. METHODS:All new patients injured by toy guns in one year (2011-2012) and treated at Helsinki University Eye Hospital were included. Follow-ups occurred at 3 months an...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Haavisto AK,Sahraravand A,Puska P,Leivo T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose of this thesis was to examine whether the Danish National Patient Registry (NPR) could be used to monitor and assess the quality of cataract surgery in Denmark by studying the risks of two serious postoperative complications following cataract surgery - retinal detachment (RD) and postoperative endoph...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Bjerrum SS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:  To evaluate the precision of techniques for measuring intraocular pressure (IOP) in corneas with presumably altered biomechanical properties. METHODS:  Intraocular pressure was measured with a Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT), ocular response analyzer (ORA) and dynamic contour tonometer (DCT) in 70 eyes....

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Clemmensen K,Hjortdal J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the main cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their regulators (TIMPs and ILs) have been extensively studied as POAG risk factors. Recent reports have showed several single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for MMPs, TIMPs and ILs...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Markiewicz L,Majsterek I,Przybylowska K,Dziki L,Waszczyk M,Gacek M,Kaminska A,Szaflik J,Szaflik JP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to determine whether intravitreal dexamethasone as an adjuvant to intravitreal antibiotics is beneficial in the treatment of suspected bacterial endophthalmitis after cataract surgery. METHODS:Randomized, placebo-controlled superiority trial in three tertiary referral centres in the Netherlands. Patie...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Manning S,Ugahary LC,Lindstedt EW,Wubbels RJ,van Dissel JT,Jansen JTG,Gan I,van Goor AT,Bennebroek CA,van der Werf DJ,Ossewaarde-van Norel A,Mayland Nielsen CC,Tilanus M,van den Biesen PR,Schellekens PA,La Heij E,Faridpoo

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the feasibility, effectiveness and acceptability of using prosthetic occluding contact lenses (OCLs) to treat moderate amblyopia in adults and of the role of the multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) as a predictor of postamblyopic therapy. METHODS:A comparative, prospective, interventional...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Garcia-Romo E,Perez-Rico C,Roldán-Díaz I,Arévalo-Serrano J,Blanco R

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the association between the macular structure on spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-CT) and visual outcome after vitrectomy for lamellar macular hole (LMH). METHODS:Best-corrected visual acuity (VA) and SD-OCT images of the macula were assessed before and after surgery in 30 eyes of 3...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Lee CS,Koh HJ,Lim HT,Lee KS,Lee SC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the utility of biomechanical property measurements using a Scheimpflug-based tonometer (SBT) and/or anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) for diagnosing forme fruste keratoconus (FFK). METHODS:In this retrospective interventional case series, 23 eyes with FFK of 23 consecutive p...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Shiga S,Kojima T,Nishida T,Nakamura T,Ichikawa K

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Elevated intra-ocular pressure (IOP) has been identified as a major risk factor for glaucoma. Additionally, extensive literature depicts a vascular dysfunction to exist in these patients. However, a large ocular blood flow-oriented trial to integrate these findings in the clinical setting is lacking. This study...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Abegão Pinto L,Willekens K,Van Keer K,Shibesh A,Molenberghs G,Vandewalle E,Stalmans I

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Metrics that capture changes in the retinal microvascular structure are relevant in the context of cardiometabolic disease development. The microvascular topology is typically quantified using monofractals, although it obeys more complex multifractal rules. We study mono- and multifractals of the retinal microv...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Van Craenendonck T,Gerrits N,Buelens B,Petropoulos IN,Shuaib A,Standaert A,Malik RA,De Boever P

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We set out to quantify changes in the anterior chamber volume (ACV), anterior chamber depth (ACD) and anterior chamber angle (ACA) measurements obtained by the Pentacam rotating Scheimpflug camera following uneventful phacoemulsification surgery in normotensive eyes with open iridocorneal angles. METHODS:We en...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Uçakhan OO,Ozkan M,Kanpolat A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore associations of lamina cribrosa thickness with axial length and thickness of the posterior sclera in monkeys. METHODS:Examining histological sections by light microscopy, we measured the thickness of the lamina cribrosa and posterior sclera and axial length. RESULTS:The study included 28 animals (2...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Jonas JB,Kutscher JN,Panda-Jonas S,Hayreh SS

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the effect of early intravitreal bevacizumab injections for the treatment of macular oedema caused by non-ischaemic central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). METHODS:The study included 25 patients (25 eyes) with macular oedema caused by non-ischaemic central retinal vein occlusion, who received three ...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Rensch F,Jonas JB,Spandau UH

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the ability of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) to transdifferentiate to corneal epithelial cells in experimental limbal stem cell deficiency in rabbits. METHODS:Total limbal stem cell deficiency was produced in 21 right eyes of 21 New Zealand rabbits; 6 eyes served as controls (group 1, G1). After ...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Reinshagen H,Auw-Haedrich C,Sorg RV,Boehringer D,Eberwein P,Schwartzkopff J,Sundmacher R,Reinhard T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the distribution of intraocular pressure (IOP) measured by Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and factors correlating with IOP, with special attention to age, in a large sample of ophthalmologically normal Japanese subjects. METHODS:A total of 7313 subjects (2847 male, 4466 female) were select...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Fukuoka S,Aihara M,Iwase A,Araie M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the different clinical presentations of periocular molluscum contagiosum (MC) lesions and their epidemiological, clinical and histopathological features. METHODS:Medical records and histopathological sections of all cases of periocular MC treated at the oculoplastic clinic of the Goldschleger Eye I...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Rosner M,Zloto O

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To report the 12 months efficacy of initial intravitreal bevacizumab or intravitreal recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) combined with expansile gas in patients with subretinal haemorrhage caused by neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS:Forty-five eyes of 45 patients with subr...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Mayer WJ,Hakim I,Haritoglou C,Gandorfer A,Ulbig M,Kampik A,Wolf A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify the causes of failure of the different surgical corneal graft techniques: penetrating keratoplasty (PK), deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK), Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) and Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK). METHODS:This multicentric retrosp...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Gómez-Benlloch A,Montesel A,Pareja-Aricò L,Mingo-Botín D,Michael R,Barraquer RI,Alió J

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the regenerating potential and the mechanisms through which the autologous serum derived from plasma rich in growth factors (s-PRGF) favours corneal wound healing in vitro and in vivo. METHODS:We compared the effect of various concentrations of s-PRGF versus fetal bovine serum (FBS) and control tre...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Etxebarria J,Sanz-Lázaro S,Hernáez-Moya R,Freire V,Durán JA,Morales MC,Andollo N

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the surgical and functional outcome of internal direct cyclopexy as therapy of complicated traumatic cyclodialysis. METHODS:The single-centre interventional case-series study included eyes with traumatic cyclodialysis who had consecutively been treated. Internal cyclopexy was performed using double-a...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Wang C,Peng XY,You QS,Liu Y,Pang XQ,Zheng PF,Jonas JB

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate risk factors for the development of the hypertensive phase after implantation of the Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV). METHODS:A total of 128 patients who had undergone AGV implantation were included in this study. The hypertensive phase was defined as intraocular pressure (IOP) > 21 mmHg during the f...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Jung KI,Park CK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our review aims to provide an update of management protocols for congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNDO). Although early probing performed before the age of 1 year was traditionally recommended, many reports have since confirmed high frequencies of spontaneous resolution during the first year of life. Accordin...

journal_title：Acta ophthalmologica

authors： Takahashi Y,Kakizaki H,Chan WO,Selva D

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00