Laroche, Daniel Nkrumah, Gideon Ng, Chester
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Therapeutic Advances in Ophthalmology
Purpose: The purpose was to determine the real-world efficacy of phacoemulsification cataract surgery and Hydrus microstent in Black and Afro-Latinx patients with glaucoma. Methods: A retrospective noncomparative single-center study of 76 Black and Afro-Latinx patients with glaucoma who underwent phacoemulsification cataract surgery and Hydrus micr...
Al-Namaeh, Mashael
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Therapeutic Advances in Ophthalmology
Introduction: Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is the leading cause of dry eye syndrome (DES). Many ocular disorders including DES and blepharitis can be linked to MGD. If we treat MGD, we can treat related diseases easily. Purpose: This systematic review is intended to determine the efficacy of omega-3 supplementation in MGD patients. Methods: Th...
Comune, Chiara Laezza, Maria Paola Giunta, Piera D’Andrea, Luca Cennamo, Gilda
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Therapeutic Advances in Ophthalmology
Sieck, Erin G. Zukin, Leonid Patnaik, Jennifer L. Lynch, Anne M. Kelley, Peggy Singh, Jasleen K.
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Therapeutic Advances in Ophthalmology
Purpose: Congenital dacrocystocele with potential for dacryocystitis are common ophthalmic findings in children. There are multiple surgical approaches to open the mucocele. In this study, we look at the financial impact of these different approaches. Methods: A retrospective chart review of 17 patients with dacrocystocele or dacryocystitis was per...
Zor, Ramazan Kürşad Erşan, Serpil Küçük, Erkut Yıldırım, Gamze Sarı, İsmail
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the serum levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) which is a marker of oxidative stress, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) which has an important role in inflammation, and vitamin C which has antioxidant properties in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD). Methods: Thirty pa...
Méjécase, Cécile Malka, Samantha Guan, Zeyu Slater, Amy Arno, Gavin Moosajee, Mariya
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Genetic eye diseases affect around one in 1000 people worldwide for which the molecular aetiology remains unknown in the majority. The identification of disease-causing gene variant(s) allows a better understanding of the disorder and its inheritance. There is now an approved retinal gene therapy for autosomal recessive RPE65-retinopathy, and numer...
Cagini, Carlo Pellegrino, Adriana Iannone, Alessia Cerquaglia, Alessio Modugno, Antonella Fiore, Tito Messina, Marco
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The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of different dexamethasone eye drops formulations in controlling postoperative inflammation. Cataract surgery was carried out in 72 patients (35 males) divided into two groups: group A (36 patients, mean age = 78.0 ± 5.6) received four times daily for 2 weeks a suspension containing tobramycin 0.3% m...
Ambiya, Vikas Kumar, Ashok
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Therapeutic advances in ophthalmology
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of 532 nm transfoveal subthreshold micropulse laser in non-resolving central serous chorioretinopathy with subfoveal leak. A retrospective chart analysis of 23 eyes of 21 patients with central serous chorioretinopathy was performed. Inclusion criteria include vision loss ⩾3 months and focal subfove...
Toms, Maria Pagarkar, Waheeda Moosajee, Mariya
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Therapeutic advances in ophthalmology
Usher syndrome has three subtypes, each being clinically and genetically heterogeneous characterised by sensorineural hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa (RP), with or without vestibular dysfunction. It is the most common cause of deaf-blindness worldwide with a prevalence of between 4 and 17 in 100 000. To date, 10 causative genes have been iden...
Sacconi, Riccardo Borrelli, Enrico Bandello, Francesco Querques, Giuseppe
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‘Perifoveal Exudative Vascular Anomalous Complex’ (PEVAC) is a perifoveal, unilateral, isolated, perifoveal aneurysm, in otherwise healthy patients. Here, we report a case of PEVAC in a highly myopic eye of a 86-year-old woman affected by a visual decline in the right eye (best-corrected visual acuity of 20/100). She had no other relevant past cond...
