abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the functional surgical success, complications, and degree of satisfaction after endoscopy-guided transcaruncular Jones tube intubation without dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR). METHODS:A pair of Westcott scissors was passed into the nose from the side of the caruncle, and the lacrimal bone was penetrat...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Choi WC,Yang SW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the expression of beta-defensin in the ocular surface of a mouse experimental allergic conjunctivitis (EAC) model. METHODS:Mouse beta-defensin (mBD)-1 and -2 mRNA expressed in conjunctival tissue of both the EAC and the control group were analyzed by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase ch...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Ikeda A,Nakanishi Y,Sakimoto T,Shoji J,Sawa M,Nemoto N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the effects of antiglaucoma eye drops on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-induced retinal damage. METHODS:Several antiglaucoma eye drops, beta-blockers, alpha/beta-blockers, an alpha1-blocker, an alpha2-agonist, and a prostaglandin derivative, were topically administrated to NMDA-treated rat eyes daily for...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Metoki T,Ohguro H,Ohguro I,Mamiya K,Ito T,Nakazawa M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Full-thickness macular holes usually develop in the elderly population. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no written report of a nontraumatic macular hole in a pediatric patient. CASE:A 10-year-old girl noticed decreased central vision in her left eye without any history of trauma. OBSERVATIONS:...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Nakano T,Uemura A,Kanda S,Sakamoto T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the outcome of early treatment at the initial stage 3 moderate phase of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) with that at prethreshold ROP. METHODS:The outcome of treatment of 117 very-low-birth-weight infants was reviewed. Sixty-eight infants underwent their first treatment at prethreshold ROP (group A...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hatsukawa Y,Ueki N,Yamagishi T,Kitajima H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the recovery of short-wavelength sensitivity in patients who had undergone successful reattachment of a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with macular involvement. METHODS:Postoperative assessment of the visual acuity and the visual fields by standard achromatic automated perimetry (SAP), and sh...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Sakai T,Iida K,Tanaka Y,Kohzaki K,Kitahara K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon (IFN)-associated retinopathy is typically characterized by retinal hemorrhages and cotton wool spots at the posterior fundus, but visual function is usually maintained. With the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT), two patients with IFN-associated retinopathy who had developed macular edema ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Shimura M,Saito T,Yasuda K,Tamai M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Defensins are antimicrobial peptides and are classified into three groups, alpha-, beta- and theta-defensins. We investigated the localization of human neutrophil peptides (HNP) 1-3, which are members of the alpha-defensin subfamily, and the expression of human beta-defensin 1 (hBD-1) and hBD-2 in the ocular su...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Ikeda A,Sakimoto T,Shoji J,Sawa M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the correlation between the van Herick system and the Shaffer system in a large-scale epidemiological survey conducted on healthy Japanese subjects. METHODS:The van Herick technique was performed on 14,779 subjects aged 40 years and over who participated in an ophthalmic epidemiological survey condu...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kashiwagi K,Tokunaga T,Iwase A,Yamamoto T,Tsukahara S

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe baseline measures of refraction, accommodation, and heterophoria in Japanese schoolchildren enrolled in a randomized clinical trial that examines whether progressive addition lenses slow myopic progression compared with single-focus lenses. METHODS:Ninety-five children with myopia between -1.25 and...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hasebe S,Nonaka F,Nakatsuka C,Ohtsuki H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the effect of voxel size on the detection of lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) activation during visual stimulation using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at 1.5 T. METHODS:Ten normal subjects were scanned during visual stimulation with flashing goggles, four times, with four different voxe...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Miki A,Liu CS,Liu GT

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this report of two Okinawan patients with Beals syndrome and accompanying ocular complications, the symptoms of Beals syndrome and Marfan syndrome are compared. The etiology of these two syndromes is considered in relation to fibrillin. CASES:Case 1 was a 5-year-old boy who showed blue sclera and bilater...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Takaesu-Miyagi S,Sakai H,Shiroma T,Hayakawa K,Funakoshi Y,Sawaguchi S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyze mutations of the arrestin/S-antigen (SAG) gene in nine newly identified Oguchi disease patients, and to examine whether the 926delA (formerly called 1147delA) mutation in the SAG gene is inherited from a single founder. METHODS:DNA samples were assayed for mutations around nucleotide 926 of the SAG ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Saga M,Mashima Y,Kudoh J,Oguchi Y,Shimizu N

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the effectiveness of the isolated caruncular approach to orbital decompression of thyroid ophthalmopathy. METHODS:In a retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series, we reviewed the records of 29 patients (48 orbits) who had thyroid ophthalmopathy and had undergone orbital decompression...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Woo KI,Kim YD

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), which activates the small guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-binding protein Rho, was previously shown to promote migration of the rabbit corneal epithelium in culture. The signaling pathway responsible for this effect of LPA was examined in this study with a human corneal epithelial (HCE...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Saito J,Morishige N,Chikama T,Gu J,Sekiguchi K,Nishida T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ophthalmologists should be aware of the signs and symptoms of anthrax, although it is a rare disease in humans. We report our successful treatment of three patients with cutaneous lesions in the periorbital area. CASES:In this study, we report on the treatment of three female patients who were initially dia...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Caça I,Cakmak SS,Unlü K,Sakalar YB,KadiroGlu AK

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether a definite diagnosis of malignant lymphoma can be made from paraffin-embedded archived orbital specimens by gene rearrangement analysis using microdissection and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). METHODS:Specimens from four patients with histopathologically diagnosed orbital malignant lymph...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Miyanaga M,Kiyosawa M,Takase H,Eishi Y,Shen DF,Chan CC,Mochizuki M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Comparison of anterior chamber angle measurements using ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) and gonioscopy. METHODS:Five hundred subjects were evaluated for grading of angle width by the Shaffer method. UBM was done in the same group to document angle width, angle opening distance (AOD 500), and anterior chamber de...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Narayanaswamy A,Vijaya L,Shantha B,Baskaran M,Sathidevi AV,Baluswamy S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To clarify the neuronal mechanism for the square-wave jerks (SWJs). METHODS:A 66-year-old man presented with oscillatory eye movements. He showed horizontal nystagmus in rightward gaze and SWJs during fixation at straight ahead. We recorded his eye movements with search coil methods and quantitatively analyzed...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Suzuki Y,Kase M,Hashimoto M,Ohtsuka K

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease patients with the complication of subretinal pigmented proliferative tissue tend to have a poor visual prognosis. CASE:We herein report a case of VKH with good visual acuity despite a prominent subretinal fold. OBSERVATIONS:A 24-year-old woman, who experienced several rec...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Noda Y,Sonoda KH,Nakamura T,Kawano YI,Ishibashi T,Inomata H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aims of the study were to detect early changes in the optic nerve function of patients with Graves' orbitopathy (GrO) who do not have any signs and symptoms of optic neuropathy, using pattern visual evoked potentials (P-VEP), and investigate any possible relation between the disease activity and P-VEP P100 ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Acaroğlu G,Simşek T,Ozalp S,Mutluay A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We present 6 cases of bacterial infection that developed after porous orbital implant surgery. CASES:Five patients with hydroxyapatite implants showed lid swelling, discharge, and suppurative granuloma 14 days to 3 years after surgery. The hydroxyapatite implants were removed 14 days to 41 months postoperat...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： You JR,Seo JH,Kim YH,Choi WC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the process of repair in the epithelial cells and the reconstruction in lens fibers of a mouse lens that has developed opacity because of a large-scale perforating injury. METHODS:Lenses of 4-week-old mice were perforated with a needle through the cornea to induce the development of traumatic ca...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hirayama S,Wakasugi A,Morita T,Sakai Y,Mukuno K,Uga S,Shimizu K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report a patient with a limited form of Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) who presented with ocular changes and an eyelid ulcer in her left eye. CASE:A 56-year-old woman complained of ocular pain and discharge. Upon examination, we found evidence of ulcerative keratitis, a mass in the orbit, and an eyelid sk...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kubota T,Hirose H

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the effect of cyclosporin (CsA) on steroid-induced cataracts in patients following renal transplantation. METHODS:The subjects comprise 140 patients who had undergone renal transplantation at Kanazawa Medical Hospital. These subjects had received ophthalmologic examinations prior to their surgery and ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Nakamura T,Sasaki H,Nagai K,Fujisawa K,Sasaki K,Suzuki K,Tsugawa R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether the single-flash electroretinogram (ERG) can predict the postoperative outcome in diabetic cases where massive vitreous hemorrhage precludes fundus observation. METHODS:Eighty-five diabetic patients (105 eyes) who underwent vitrectomy due to dense vitreous hemorrhage were studied retrospec...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hiraiwa T,Horio N,Terasaki H,Suzuki T,Yamamoto E,Horiguchi M,Miyake Y

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate cytokine mRNA expression during the inflammatory process induced in the contralateral eyes by uniocular inoculation of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) via the anterior chamber. METHODS:BALB/c mice were inoculated in the anterior chamber with 5 x 10(4) plaque-forming units of HSV-1 (KOS). mRN...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Saitoh-Ishibashi K,Ishibashi K,Azumi A,Negi A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the psychological state and personality traits of patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or glaucoma so that a closer and better relationship can be developed with the patients. METHODS:The Yatabe-Guilford personality test was administered to 75 RP patients and 42 glaucoma patients. The latter gr...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Igarashi Y,Sato E,Ito A,Miyauchi O,Ikejiri M,Hanawa T,Tsuyama Y,Mizota A,Fujimoto N,Adachi-Usami E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We investigated the efficacy of the tear sampling method using a filter paper to evaluate eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) levels in patients with allergic disorders. METHODS:Subjects were an allergic group comprising patients with allergic conjunctivitis, vernal keratoconjunctivitis, or atopic keratoconjunct...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Shoji J,Kitazawa M,Inada N,Sawa M,Ono T,Kawamura M,Kato H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To prospectively compare the scotopic pupil size between emmetropes and myopes using a Colvard pupillometer. METHODS:The pupil diameters of 55 normal subjects and 55 healthy myopic subjects were measured with the Colvard pupillometer in a low-light situation that simulated the level of light encountered while ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Chaidaroon W,Juwattanasomran W

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the effects of anti-alphabeta T cell receptor monoclonal antibody (R73) on the induction of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU) in rats. METHODS:Lewis rats in which EAU was induced were treated with R73. All rats were examined for the clinical course of EAU, pathological findings of the glo...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Inoki T,Yamagami S,Sakai R,Isobe M,Tsuru T,Kawashima H

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In a previous study we demonstrated that the progression of the disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) can be readily monitored by the mean deviation (MD) measured by Humphrey central 10-2 perimetry, which assesses the sensitivity distribution in the macular area in eyes affected by RP. In the present study, we inve...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Abe K,Iijima H,Hirakawa H,Tsukahara Y,Toda Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether retinal glial cells (RGCs), which are believed to play an important role in the development and maintenance of microvessels, stimulate the proliferation of retinal bovine microvascular pericytes, an essential component of the vessels. METHODS:Conditioned medium (CM) was collected from a ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Ikuno Y,Hibino S,Bando H,Kawasaki Y,Nakamura T,Tano Y

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the effectiveness, safety, and stability of laser subepithelial keratomileusis (LASEK), a modified photorefractive keratectomy for low to moderate myopia. METHODS:This study evaluated the results of LASEK in 48 myopic patients (84 eyes) with a consecutive 6-month follow-up period. Preoperative myopi...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Lee JB,Choe CM,Seong GJ,Gong HY,Kim EK

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the pharmacological response when dysiherbaine acts on cultured Müller cells, considering the glutamate receptor functions. Dysiherbaine is a new excitotoxic amino acid, which was recently isolated from the liquid extract of a certain sponge. METHODS:Retinas of adult rabbits were used to culture t...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Minei R

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon alpha-2b (IFN alpha 2b) was recently shown to be effective as an alternative therapy for conjunctival intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Herein, we report our successful management of CIN by the use of IFN alpha 2b. CASE:A 73-year-old woman presented with a complaint of irritation due to a tumorous...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kobayashi A,Yoshita T,Uchiyama K,Shirao Y,Kitagawa K,Fujisawa A,Tseng SC

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the role of mechanical stretch in the regulation of matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) in scleral fibroblasts of chick embryos. METHODS:Scleral fibroblasts derived from chick embryos were seeded onto flexible bottom culture plates, and subjected to a pulsatile stretch when the cells became subco...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Fujikura H,Seko Y,Tokoro T,Mochizuki M,Shimokawa H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To shorten the duration of prone positioning after macular hole surgery from 1 week to 1 day, and to evaluate preoperative factors and the initial hole closure rate. METHODS:The subjects were 33 patients (34 eyes) who underwent macular hole surgery between April 1998 and August 1999, and maintained the prone p...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Isomae T,Sato Y,Shimada H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Remodeling of the extracellular matrix occurs in the lamina cribrosa in progressed glaucomatous optic nerve damage including disc cupping. We examined immunohistochemical changes in the transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) in the optic nerve head in an experimentally i...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Fukuchi T,Ueda J,Hanyu T,Abe H,Sawaguchi S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To measure the volume of the anophthalmic orbit in adults who had undergone enucleation during infancy and to determine its growth. METHODS:The orbital volume in 5 adults who had undergone unilateral enucleation during infancy without an orbital implant was measured on x-ray computed tomography images. Compari...

journal_title：Japanese journal of ophthalmology

authors： Yago K,Furuta M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00