Heimgartner, Nadine Graf, Nicole Frey, Diana Saleh, Lanja Wüthrich, Rudolf P. Bonani, Marco
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Kidney and Blood Pressure Research
Background: Low bone mineral density (BMD) represents a major risk factor for bone fractures in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) as well as after kidney transplantation. However, modalities to solidly predict patients at fracture risk are yet to be defined. Better understanding of bone turnover biomarkers (BTMs) may close this diagnostic ...
Gabel-Pfisterer, Ameli Böhringer, Daniel Agostini, Hansjuergen
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Background: On festive days worldwide eyes are severely injured by fireworks. The data on the number and severity are to date not registered in Germany. Objective: How frequent are firework-induced injuries in Germany, who are the affected, how serious are the injuries, which forms of treatment are necessary and how frequent are accompanying injuri...
Ye, Min Li, Jianbo Liu, Yanqiu He, Wei Lin, Hong Fan, Rui Li, Cuiling Li, Wei Zhang, Jingwei Huang, Huiling
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Kidney and Blood Pressure Research
Aim: Protein-energy malnutrition and cardiovascular (CV) disease predisposes patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis to a high risk of early death, but the prognostic value of prealbumin (PAB) and echocardiographic indices in ESRD patients treated with maintenance peritoneal dialysis (PD) remains unclear. Methods: A total of 211 PD...
Falcão, Manuel
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Purpose: Evaluation of the impact of the injection frequency of ranibizumab on best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) outcomes in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). Methods: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and real-world studies was performed to quantify the effect of ranibizumab treatment on BCVA and central foveal thi...
Treder, Maximilian
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Purpose: To determine the long-term outcome of patients operated with pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) and to identify potential predictors for poor visual outcome. Methods: Prospective, observational 30-month study of patients operated for primary RRD with PPV. Examinations were performed preoperative...
Pleyer, Uwe
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Nivolumab is an anti-programmed cell death protein 1 monoclonal antibody that is used to treat metastatic cutaneous malignant melanoma. Although bilateral uveitis has been reported as a side effect of nivolumab administration, there are few reports of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease (VKH)-like uveitis. We report such a case. A 63-year-old woman with m...
Strauß, Olaf
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Traditionally, medical discoveries are made by observing associations, making hypotheses from them and then designing and running experiments to test the hypotheses. However, with medical images, observing and quantifying associations can often be difficult because of the wide variety of features, patterns, colours, values and shapes that are prese...
Feltgen, Nicolas
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the 9-year outcome of ranibizumab monotherapy for myopic choroidal neovascularization (mCNV). Methods: This was a retrospective, nonrandomized, multicentric study to evaluate the long-term outcomes of mCNV treated with ranibizumab monotherapy for at least 9 years according to a strict pro re nata regim...
Di Carlo, Emiliano
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Objective: The aim of this paper is to compare intravitreous aflibercept versus dexamethasone implant followed by aflibercept (sequential treatment group) in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). Methods: We conducted an observational retrospective study in naïve DME patients, 15 treated only with aflibercept (a monthly injection for the firs...
Pleyer, Uwe
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Kompass Ophthalmologie
Background: Posterior uveitis is a rare, potentially serious condition. In Central Europe and the USA, the incidence of intraocular inflammation is approximately 115/100,000 and of these cases, 12–15% suffer from posterior uveitis. This disease occurs more frequently in adults than in children. The disease description of “posterior uveitis” include...
