Cataract research using electronic health records.

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the relationships between Reichert Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA) parameters corneal hysteresis (CH) and corneal response factor (CRF) and ocular dimensions, age and intraocular pressure. METHODS:Two hundred and twelve eyes of 212 participants with no ocular pathology had CH and CRF measured wit...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Kotecha A,Russell RA,Sinapis A,Pourjavan S,Sinapis D,Garway-Heath DF

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study compared optical quality before and after implantation of a posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens with a central hole [V4c implantable collamer lens (ICL)] under bright and dark lighting conditions by means of the Optical Quality Analysis System™ (OQAS; Visiometrics, Terrassa, Spain). ...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： He T,Zhu Y,Zhou J

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study sought to identify factors associated with retinal detachment and retreatment of aggressive posterior retinopathy of prematurity (APROP) initially treated with intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) injection as well as the efficacy of IVR treatment. METHODS:This was a retrospective study. A total of 83 ...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Tong Q,Yin H,Zhao M,Li X,Yu W

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of serous retinal detachment (SRD) on retinal sensitivity in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and macular edema remains unclear. This is despite the frequent co-existence of SRD and cystoid macular edema (CME) in BRVO patients on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and the fact...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Noma H,Funatsu H,Mimura T,Shimada K

更新日期：2011-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper presents and tests a comprehensive computerised system of analysis of digital images of posterior capsule opacification (PCO). It updates and expands significantly on a previous presentation to include facilities for selecting user defined central areas and for registering and subsequent merging o...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Aslam TM,Patton N,Rose CJ

更新日期：2006-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retinal detachment is a disorder of the eye in which sensory retina separates from the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) due to accumulation of fluid in subretinal space. Pharmacological stimulation of fluid reabsorption from subretinal space to choroid across the RPE has been suggested as a treatment strateg...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Iserovich P,Qin Q,Petrukhin K

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a huge need for the availability of transplantable donor corneas worldwide to reduce the burden of corneal blindness due to corneal opacity. Voluntary eye donation depends on the awareness levels of various stakeholders in the community. This study aimed to assess the awareness level regarding eye d...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Ronanki VR,Sheeladevi S,Ramachandran BP,Jalbert I

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the structural changes associated with visual acuity (VA) in patients with idiopathic macular telangiectasia (MT) type 1 using multimodal imaging modalities. METHODS:A retrospective study of 14 patients with MT type 1 and of 10 eyes from 10 healthy individuals as age-matched controls was conduct...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Guo J,Tang W,Ye X,Wu H,Xu G,Liu W,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous analyses of real-life data indicated that injection frequency and health care costs did not differ for anti-VEGF treatment with aflibercept and ranibizumab. The objective of this study was to investigate whether this finding persisted when analysing a longer time period after licensing. METHODS:Ret...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Reich O,Schmid MK,Rapold R,Bachmann LM,Blozik E

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effectiveness of ranibizumab in the treatment of diabetic macular edema has been proven with large clinical trials. For bevacizumab only two clinical trials have been published and a head-to-head comparison is lacking to date. However, if proved non-inferior to ranibizumab, use of the off-label bevacizum...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Schauwvlieghe AM,Dijkman G,Hooymans JM,Verbraak FD,Hoyng CB,Dijkgraaf MG,Van Leeuwen R,Vingerling JR,Moll AC,Schlingemann RO

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the prognosis of Chinese patients with lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinoma treated with eye-sparing surgery and adjuvant multimodal therapy. METHODS:The study included 24 consecutive patients with lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinoma treated at the Ninth People's Hospital of Shanghai from...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Yang J,Zhou C,Wang Y,Fan X,Jia R

更新日期：2019-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate the ability of characterizing neonatal retinal hemorrhage (RH) using RetCam in healthy newborns and the systemic effects during the procedure. METHODS:This prospective study enrolled 68 healthy newborns aged 2 to 4 days old. The RH was imaged and classified according to the location and numbe...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Chen F,Cheng D,Pan J,Huang C,Cai X,Tian Z,Lu F,Shen L

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is the major cause of evaporative dry eye disease (EDED) and dysfunction is widely thought to mechanistically involve ductal hyperkeratinization, plugging and obstruction. This review re-evaluates the role of hyperkeratinization in MGD based on more recent findings from mouse models. ...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Jester JV,Parfitt GJ,Brown DJ

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the retinal function before and soon after an intravitreal injection of an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agents. METHODS:Seventy-nine eyes of 79 patients that were treated by an intravitreal injection of an anti-VEGF agent for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabeti...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Terauchi G,Shinoda K,Sakai H,Kawashima M,Matsumoto CS,Mizota A,Miyake Y

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the association between metabolic syndrome and intraocular pressure is well known, the relationship between the intraocular pressure and different combination of the components of metabolic syndrome has not been actively researched yet. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the int...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Son J,Koh H,Son J

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous studies have suggested that the integrity of the cone interdigitation zone (IZ) could be considered to be a marker of photoreceptor damage and its recovery. However, little is known about the IZ in healthy eyes. Our present study was to measure the cone IZ area by optical coherence tomography (OCT),...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Gu R,Deng G,Jiang Y,Jiang C,Xu G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study compared the postoperative outcomes of 27-gauge (G) and 25-G vitrectomy performed for the treatment of idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM). METHODS:The study design was single center, retrospective, interventional case series. Two hundred consecutive eyes that underwent primary vitrectomy for ER...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Naruse S,Shimada H,Mori R

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) implantation in high myopic patients with inactive Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO) by observing the changes of choroidal thickness (CT). METHODS:Eight patients (16 eyes) with high myopia accompanied with inactive GO were sele...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： He F,Liu Y,Jia R,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immune responses play a key role in the pathogenesis and progression of polypoidal choroidal vasculopath (PCV) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In this study, we determined the Th cell-associated immune responses by measuring the cytokine expression of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in ...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Yu Y,Ren XR,Wen F,Chen H,Su SB

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic elevated episcleral venous pressure (IEEVP) or idiopathic dilated episcleral veins (IDEV) is a rare abnormality, and thus therapeutic treatment for this condition rarely is discussed. We report a case of a patient with bilateral glaucoma secondary to IDEV for whom intraocular pressures (IOPs) were...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Rong X,Li M

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graves' disease is a common autoimmune inflammatory condition of the thyroid. About one in four of affected patients also develop orbital symptoms like exophthalmos, proptosis and diplopia - called Graves' Ophthalmopathy. Not all patients respond well to the standard therapy of systemic glucocorticoid admini...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Rau A,Klopfer M,Rommel N,Rau-Fornefeld M,Kolk A

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, instruments for the measurement of wavefront aberration in the living human eye have been widely available for clinical applications. Despite the extensive background experience on wavefront sensing for research purposes, the information derived from such instrumentation in a clinical setting shoul...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Ginis HS,Plainis S,Pallikaris A

更新日期：2004-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary lacrimal sac melanoma is an extremely rare condition with fewer than 50 cases reported so far. Clinically, its symptoms resemble those of dacryocystitis, leading to frequent misdiagnosis. During diagnosis, imaging examination is often performed to differentiate tumors from inflammation. In this repor...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Shao JW,Yin JH,Xiang ST,He Q,Zhou H,Su W

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glaucoma is a major cause of blindness worldwide and an increasingly significant global health problem. Glaucoma prevention and management efforts have been challenging due to inherent difficulty in developing a simple and cost-effective screening plan, limited access to health care and educational resources...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Thapa SS,Kelley KH,Rens GV,Paudyal I,Chang L

更新日期：2008-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the reliability of the measurements obtained with the PalmScan, when compared with another standardized A-mode ultrasound device, and assess the consistency and correlation between the two methods. METHODS:Transversal, descriptive, and comparative study. We recorded the axial length (AL), anterior...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Velez-Montoya R,Shusterman EM,López-Miranda MJ,Mayorquin-Ruiz M,Salcedo-Villanueva G,Quiroz-Mercado H,Morales-Cantón V

更新日期：2010-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To describe the superiority of ocular ultrasound in the diagnostic management of extrascleral extension in choroidal melanoma. CASE PRESENTATION:We present a case of a 94-year-old male with choroidal melanoma of the right eye imaged with MRI and ocular ultrasound to aid in the detection of extrascleral exte...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Jacobsen BH,Ricks C,Harrie RP

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgeons may be unaware of the ability of plant toxins to cause corneal damage. Therefore, corneal damage following intraocular surgery due to plant toxins may be misdiagnosed as postoperative infection. CASE PRESENTATION:A 74-year-old man presented with hyperemia and reduced visual acuity in both eyes 6 we...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Matsuura K,Hatta S,Terasaka Y,Inoue Y

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This objective of the review and analysis is to demonstrate that acyclovir (ACV) 3% ophthalmic ointment is superior to idoxuridine (IDU) in treating herpetic keratitis (HK) presenting as dendritic and geographic ulcer sub-types. METHODS: DATA SOURCES:Publications in human subjects were identified by search...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Balderson DE,Cai G,Fries MA,Kleinman DM,McLaughlin MM,Trivedi TM,Wurzelmann JI,Young SB

更新日期：2015-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To study the influencing factors for different healing patterns of patients with idiopathic macular holes (IMH) after vitrectomy surgery performed with the internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap technique. METHODS:This study was a retrospective, consecutive, observational case series study. We recruited 52 I...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Liu Y,Wu C,Wang Y,Dong Y,Liang D,Xiao B,Han Q,Chu Y

更新日期：2019-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cataract surgery in diabetics is more technically challenging due to a number of factors including poor intraoperative pupil dilation and a higher risk of vision threatening complications. This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of an intracameral combination of 2 mydriatics and 1 anesthetic (ICMA, Mydr...

journal_title：BMC ophthalmology

authors： Labetoulle M,Behndig A,Tassignon MJ,Nuijts R,Mencucci R,Güell JL,Pleyer U,Szaflik J,Rosen P,Bérard A,Chiambaretta F,Cochener-Lamard B,Intracameral Mydrane (ICMA), Ethics Group.

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00