Xerri, Olivia Bernabei, Federico Philippakis, Elise Burin-Des-Roziers, Cyril Barale, Pierre-Olivier Laplace, Olivier Monin, Claire Bremond-Gignac, Dominique Guerrier, Gilles Valleix, Sophie
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BackgroundTo compare different clinical and Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) features of high myopic eyes with Stickler syndrome (STL) with matched controls.MethodsPatients with genetically confirmed STL with axial length ≥ 26 mm and controls matched for axial length were included. The following data were obtained from SD-OCT s...
Song, Xuefei Tong, Weilin Lei, Chaoyu Huang, Jingxuan Fan, Xianqun Zhai, Guangtao Zhou, Huifang
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BackgroundTo establish a decision model based on two- (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) eye data of patients with ptosis for developing personalized surgery plans.MethodsData of this retrospective, case-control study was collected from March 2019 to June 2019 at the Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, and then the patients ...
Liu, Guodong Wang, Fang
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BackgroundRetinal capillary is vulnerable to diabetes, whether gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) eyes without clinical retinopathy have capillary abnormalities has not been well studied. To observe the microvasculature changes in eyes of GDM women compared with normoglycemic pregnant women and non-pregnant women by optical coherence tomography-an...
Carr, Francis Agarwal, Paras Narula, Harmehak Keragala, Tiran S. Awwad, Samer Elshikh Hassan Roble, Ahmed Gangwani, Vinod
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BackgroundCataract is a significant cause of preventable blindness in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, cataract surgery was the most commonly performed operation by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety of elective cataract surgery performed in the United ...
Al-Khuzaei, Saoud Hudspith, Karl A. Z. Broadgate, Suzanne Shanks, Morag E. Clouston, Penny Németh, Andrea H. Halford, Stephanie Downes, Susan M.
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BackgroundWe present 3 members of a family with macular dystrophy, originally diagnosed as Stargardt disease, with a significantly variable age at onset, caused by a heterozygous mutation in CRX.Case presentationA 43-year-old female with bull’s eye maculopathy, whose sister was diagnosed with Stargardt disease previously at another centre, was foun...
Zou, Huihui Xu, Weiwei Wang, Ying Wang, Zhihong
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BackgroundThyroid eye disease (TED) is the most common autoimmune disease and usually occurs in patients with hyperthyroidism. In this disease, eye-related tissue, such as eye muscles, eyelids, tear glands, etc., become inflated, which causes the eyes and eyelids to become red, swollen, and uncomfortable. The pathophysiology of this disease is stil...
Thakur, Nanamika Pandey, Rajeev Kumar Mannan, Rashim Pruthi, Archna Mehrotra, Sanjana
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PurposeTransforming growth factor beta (TGFB) is an important candidate gene implicated in glaucoma pathogenesis because it affects retinal ganglionic cell survival. The present study assessed the genetic association of -509C > T variant in the TGFB promoter region with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) in...
Ikarashi, Hideto Aketa, Naohiko Shimizu, Eisuke Takano, Yoji Kawakita, Tetsuya Uchino, Yuichi Matsumoto, Yukihiro Ogawa, Junko Tsubota, Kazuo Ogawa, Yoko
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BackgroundChronic ocular graft-versus-host disease (oGVHD) is an ocular comorbidity of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) that usually occurs concurrently with systemic manifestations. Failure to detect and treat oGVHD in its early stages may lead to progression of ocular signs and symptoms leading to oGVHD that is refractory to conventional treatmen...
Loya, Asad Ramachandran, Vignesh Ayaz, Talha Weng, Christina Y.
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BackgroundAlthough studies have investigated the risk of second primary malignancies (SPMs) associated with lymphoma of various sites, limited studies have investigated this risk in patients with lymphoma originating within the ocular adnexa. We conducted a retrospective study to assess incidence of secondary malignancies in patients with a prior d...
Jin, Yuexi Jiang, Aifen Jiang, Wanna Wu, Wenxin Ye, Lisha Kong, Xiaojiang Liu, Le Jin, Zhousheng
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BackgroundHospital anxiety caused by strabismus surgery has an unpleasant and disturbing feeling for both children and their parents. This study aimed to determine the effect of viewing a self-produced audio-visual animation introduction on preoperative anxiety and emergence agitation of pediatric patients undergoing strabismus surgery.MethodsIn th...