Dong, Ruilan Zhang, Yu Yuan, Yifei Liu, Yan Wang, Yuexin Chen, Yueguo
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BMC Ophthalmology
Background To assess the visual and refractive outcomes of femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (FS-LASIK) concurrent with accelerated cross-linking (LASIK Xtra) compared with conventional FS-LASIK (convLASIK) for high myopia in Chinese individuals. Methods In this prospective, randomized, fellow-eye comparison study, 25 patients with ...
Wu, Yan Feng, Xueliang Li, Junhong Chang, Min Wang, Jingjing Yan, Hua
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Background This study aimed to assess the efficacy of prismatic treatment in a step-by-step manner to reduce prismatic strength in acute acquired concomitant esotropia (AACE) of 25 prism diopters (PD) or less. Methods In this retrospective comparative study, 36 patients with AACE with deviation angle ≤ 25 PD were treated with Fresnel prism in a ste...
White, Jennifer Hambisa, Mitiku Teshome Cavenagh, Dominic Dolja-Gore, Xenia Byles, Julie
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Background Over recent decades an increasing number of adults will retain their driver’s licenses well into their later years. The aim of this study was to understand and explore the experience of driving and driving cessation in very old Australian women with self-reported eye disease. Methods An interpretative qualitative study. Participants were...
Haghpanah, Sezaneh Zekavat, Omid Reza Safaei, Sanaz Ashraf, Mohammad Ali Parand, Shirin Ashraf, Hossein
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Background Structural ophthalmologic findings have been reported in patients with β-thalassemia due to chronic anemia, iron overload, and iron chelation therapy toxicity in few previous studies. We aimed to investigate structural ocular findings and their relationship with hematological parameters in patients with transfusion-dependent β-thalassemi...
Al-Hawasi, Abbas Lagali, Neil
Background The ganglion cell layer (GCL) measurements with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) are important for both ophthalmologists and neurologists because of their association with many ophthalmic and neurological diseases. Different factors can affect these measurements, such as brain pathologies, ocular axial length (AL) as well as age and se...
Cao, Xiaolu Qin, Jiayin Li, Zhiyong Jia, Peipei Gao, Beibei Feng, Lin Wang, Wei
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Background Long anterior lens zonules (LAZs) is a rare disease that was mostly conducted among African Americans. Through the observation of a Chinese patient, we discoverd that the disease may show different characteristics in Asians. Case presentation A patient with vision loss due to a macular hole was found to have several special clinical sign...
Bojic, Lovro Rogosic, Veljko Markovic, Domagoj Rogosic, Lucija Vanjaka Glavas, Duska
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Background The purpose of the study was to assess the ultrasound measurements of the brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) and their relationship in glaucoma patients. Methods Thirty-seven patients with glaucoma and thirty-one healthy controls were included in the study. All glaucoma patients a...
Chen, Yingying Wang, Shaoli Chen, Siying Chen, Xingyue Han, Lizhen Zhong, Qionglei Zhang, Kaiyan
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Objective To compare the recurrence rate of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) after treatment with 0.3 mg vs. 0.25 mg ranibizumab. Subjects All patients with ROP who underwent intravitreal injection of ranibizumab in Hainan General Hospital between January 2014 and May 2020 were included in this retrospective study. Methods Eighty-two cases (146 eye...
He, Qing Wang, Xiu Shi, Qianhui Xie, Caiyuan Xue, Anquan Wei, Ruihua
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BMC Ophthalmology
Background This study aimed to investigate the clinical effectiveness of posterior scleral reinforcement(PSR) for the treatment of myopic traction maculopathy (MTM). Methods This was a prospective study of 32 eyes from 20 patients with MTM treated with PSR using genipin-cross-linked donor sclera. The length of the scleral strip used for the surgery...
Tang, Jiyang Han, Xinyao Tang, Ran Li, Mengyang Wang, Zongyi Zhao, Mingwei Qu, Jinfeng
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Background Pachychoroid pigment epitheliopathy (PPE), a retinal disorder that falls into the pachychoroid spectrum, is characterized by retinal pigment epithelium changes in pachychoroid eyes without existing or previous subretinal fluid or soft drusen. Previous reports have indicated that PPE may share some pathophysiologic component with other pa...
