Gentamicin-resistant pseudomonal infection. Rationale for a redefinition of ophthalmic antimicrobial sensitivities.

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of topical bevacizumab on ocular surface neovascularization among patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome. METHODS:This was a retrospective, interventional case report. Three eyes of 2 patients were examined. Bevacizumab (25 mg/mL) eyedrops were applied 4 times daily for a pe...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Uy HS,Chan PS,Ang RE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To verify the possibility of using a commercially available ophthalmologic white light confocal microscope for imaging optical sections of donated corneas preserved at 4 degrees C, especially for endothelial evaluation. METHODS:Sixteen corneas donated to the Warsaw Eye Bank but excluded from use in surgery for...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Szaflik JP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To report a case of recurrent herpes simplex virus (HSV) epithelial keratitis after intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection for the treatment of diabetic macular edema. METHODS:Case report. RESULTS:We describe a case of a 59-year-old woman with a history of ocular HSV disease and severe proliferative d...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Shtein RM,Stahl RM,Saxe SJ,Mian SI

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the mean corneal diameter and its determinants in the population of Tehran. METHODS:From the Tehran Eye Study participants who were sampled through a stratified cluster approach, those in the first 4 municipality districts of Tehran were selected, and after applying the inclusion and exclusion cri...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Hashemi H,KhabazKhoob M,Yazdani K,Mehravaran S,Mohammad K,Fotouhi A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We have previously reported that mouse kallikrein (KLK) 22 in the lacrimal and salivary glands is an autoantigen that can induce primary Sjogren syndrome (SS) in rats. In this study, we determine whether the production of antibodies against tissue KLK is specific for SS and whether the antibody can be used as a...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： El Annan J,Jiang G,Wang D,Zhou J,Foulks GN,Shao H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To report the histopathologic findings in the host tissue of 2 human keratoconic corneas undergoing maximum-depth anterior lamellar keratoplasty (MDALK) using the manual dissection technique described by Melles. METHODS:Corneal buttons were examined from 2 patients with keratoconus who underwent MDALK using th...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Saw VP,Ng T,Crouch R,Maloof AJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Subepithelial amyloidosis of the cornea, or gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy (GDD), is a severe form of corneal stromal amyloidosis predominantly found in the Japanese population. GDD causes severe visual disturbances with irritating symptoms, and keratoplasty is inevitably complicated by early recurrence...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Shimazaki J,Shimmura S,Tsubota K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the distribution and relative level of expression of the receptor tyrosine kinases, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), ErbB2 and ErbB3, in human ocular surface epithelia. METHODS:Immunofluorescent staining was performed to identify expression of the EGFR, ErbB2 and ErbB3 in the corneal, li...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Liu Z,Carvajal M,Carraway CA,Carraway K,Pflugfelder SC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the efficacy of systemic or topical administration of cyclosporin A (CsA) after limbal transplantation of stem cell allografts in rabbits. METHODS:Thirty-six rabbits underwent corneal epithelial debridement and limbal ablation to induce ocular surface disease and were then treated by limbal allo...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Xu KP,Wu Y,Zhou J,Zhang X

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the effect of a 3- and 5-minute intraoperative application of topical mitomycin C 0.02% on the recurrence of pterygium. METHODS:A comparative, prospective clinical design was used. The study population consisted of 134 consecutive patients with unilateral primary advanced pterygium (growth of 3 mm o...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Avisar R,Gaton DD,Loya N,Appel I,Weinberger D

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the effect of successful repositioning/rebubbling of the graft on endothelial cell counts (ECCs) in eyes after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty. METHODS:This retrospective study reviewed the outcomes of 58 eyes that underwent Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Mashor RS,Kaiserman I,Kumar N,Sansanayudh W,Rootman D

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the epidemiology of ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) and its associated risk factors in a South Florida Veterans Affairs Hospital population. METHODS:Retrospective case-control study. Twenty-eight confirmed cases of OSSN from 24,179 veterans who received care at the Miami Veterans Affairs H...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： McClellan AJ,McClellan AL,Pezon CF,Karp CL,Feuer W,Galor A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyze tear meniscus dimensions with Fourier domain-optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS:Patients with type 2 diabetes without diabetic retinopathy (DR) (n = 54), with nonproliferative DR (n = 45), with proliferative DR (PDR) (n = 25), and controls (n = 4...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Baek J,Doh SH,Chung SK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate an innovative technique for intrastromal air injection to achieve deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) with bare Descemet membrane (DM). Thirty-four eyes with anterior corneal pathology, including 27 with keratoconus, underwent DALK. After 400 μm trephination with a suction trephine, ultrasound pachy...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Ghanem RC,Ghanem MA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The significance of ocular or corneal aberrations may be subject to misinterpretation whenever eyes with different pupil sizes or the application of different Zernike expansion orders are compared. A method is shown that uses simple mathematical interpolation techniques based on normal data to rapidly determine...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Smolek MK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Successful limbal allotransplantation allows regression of limbal stem cell deficiency features. Transplant survival is presumed if clinical improvement occurs. However, positive proof of surviving transplanted stem cells remains difficult. This follow-up study attempted to prove donor cell survival 5 years aft...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Henderson TR,Findlay I,Matthews PL,Noble BA

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the visual function information obtained from multiple reading tests in a dry eye population. METHODS:In this case-control, single-center clinical research center-based study, 15 subjects with dry eye (mean age 65 years) and 10 normal subjects (mean age 40 years) were incl...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Ousler GW 3rd,Rodriguez JD,Smith LM,Lane KJ,Heckley C,Angjeli E,Abelson MB

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the anterior segment parameters in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) compared with healthy control subjects. METHODS:Seventeen patients with OI and 19 age-matched healthy controls were included into this cross-sectional case-control study. Corneal topographic, topometric and Belin-Ambrósio...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Keleş A,Doğuizi S,Şahin NM,Koç M,Aycan Z

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact lens (CL) fitting carries the risk of transmitting infectious agents, including adenovirus and Pseudomonas. Therefore, a number of precautions must be observed to ensure safety in the office. Paramount among these is hand washing, both immediately after contact with a patient's eyes and again between patients....

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Cohen EJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess for ectopic ocular calcification in a series of patients with hypophosphatasia (HPP) treated with asfotase alfa, a recombinant tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase. METHODS:This is a retrospective analysis of subjects enrolled at Duke University Medical Center in ENB-009-10 (ClinicalTrials.gov: NC...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Gospe SM 3rd,Santiago-Turla C,DeArmey SM,Cummings TJ,Kishnani PS,Bhatti MT

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate if amniotic membrane incubated with antibiotics could inhibit bacterial growth in vitro. METHODS:Amniotic membrane fragments were incubated with the antibiotics (netilmicin) solution; the washed and drained fragments were either tested after treatment or further incubated in antibiotic-free medi...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Mencucci R,Menchini U,Dei R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The depth of corneal crosslinking (CXL) does not seem homogeneous within the treatment area but shows a reduction toward the periphery of the cornea. This study was undertaken to investigate this reduction effect and to look for possible solutions. METHODS:Ten corneas were investigated by means of an optical c...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Koller T,Schumacher S,Fankhauser F 2nd,Seiler T

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare anterior segment spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) with eye bank technician slit-lamp examination (SLE) in characterizing lesions in donor corneas. METHODS:Twenty-nine donor corneas identified by eye bank technicians to have opacities or lesions potentially representing pathologic f...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Hsu ST,Perry I,Botsay S,Ko N,Stinnett SS,Kuo AN,Shieh C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the effect of topical cyclosporin A on herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK) in a mouse model. METHODS:The corneas of BALB/c mice were infected with herpes simplex type 1 virus. The mice were divided into 4 groups according to topical treatment methods: vehicle solution, 0.01% cyclosporin A, 0.1% cyclospor...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Yoon KC,Heo H,Kang IS,Lee MC,Kim KK,Park SH,Cho KO

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the prevalence of hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the serum of cornea donors who had been previously screened by social and medical history by the Eye Bank of Canada, Ontario Division. METHOD:A retrospective examination of the donor records of the Ey...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Armstrong SA,Gangam N,Chipman ML,Rootman DS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the histopathology of the cornea in microphthalmia with linear streaks (MLS) syndrome. METHODS:Two patients with MLS syndrome underwent penetrating keratoplasty. This study describes the histopathology and investigates immunophenotype of the corneal extracellular matrix by using keratan sulfate and...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Kapur R,Tu EY,Toyran S,Shah P,Vangveeravong S,Lloyd WC 3rd,Edward DP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the clinical presentation of limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) associated with glaucoma surgeries. METHODS:This is a retrospective cross-sectional study of patients with LSCD and glaucoma who presented to the Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 2009 and 20...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Sun Y,Yung M,Huang L,Tseng C,Deng SX

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test whether verteporfin with a nonthermal laser increases corneal mechanical stiffness and resistance to enzymatic degradation ex vivo. METHODS:Thirty human corneas (n = 5 per group) were treated with verteporfin alone (V), irradiated with nonthermal laser therapy (689 nm) alone (NTL), or received combined...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Alageel SA,Arafat SN,Salvador-Culla B,Kolovou PE,Jahanseir K,Kozak A,Braithwaite GJC,Ciolino JB

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limbal allograft transplantation was performed consecutively in 16 eyes with thermal or chemical burns (n = 5), Terrien's degeneration (n = 2), congenital sclerocornea (n = 1), Stevens-Johnson syndrome (n = 1), and chronic keratoconjunctivitis (n = 7), by transplanting randomly selected cadaver limbocorneal grafts to ...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Tsai RJ,Tseng SC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We report a patient with chronic Sweet syndrome (SS) treated by anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) therapy, who presented with a severe bilateral chemosis. METHODS:Case report. RESULTS:Conjunctival biopsy revealed an ocular localization of SS. CONCLUSIONS:SS is a rare disorder that usually affects middle-age w...

journal_title：Cornea

authors： Michel G,Lhermitte B,Cribier B,Speeg-Schatz C,Bourcier T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00