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Controversy: ocular sarcoidosis. The recent publication of diagnostic criteria for ocular sarcoidosis has renewed interest in this enigmatic and often controversial disease. The aim of the present review was to report on the results of a survey of leading ophthalmologists in which we asked them to address some of the m...
The immediate goal of therapy is to reduce the inflammation and to reduce the intraocular pressure. Cataract extraction is the definitive treatment for phacolytic glaucoma.Lens particle glaucoma, in contrast to phacolytic glaucoma, is secondary to a "disruption of the lens capsule", which may occur after cataract surge...
An unusual case of intraorbital foreign body and its management. Intraorbital foreign bodies are usually the result of accidental trauma and can lead to considerable morbidity. We report an unusual case of an industrial injury in a plastic manufacturing unit wherein hot molten plastic splashed and solidified inside the...
Identification of a mutation in the geneLim2in the cataractous mouse mutant To3. Lim2the gene encoding the second most abundant lens specific integral membrane proteinMP19has recently been proposed as an ideal candidate gene for the cataractous mouse mutantTo3. was used to generate overlapping fragments of the entire L...
Recurrent Optic Neuritis as the Initial Symptom in Demyelinating Diseases. Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve that can be recurrentwith unilateral or bilateral presentation. Diagnosing recurrent cases may be challenging. We aimed to compare patients with recurrent as their initial symptom according to...
[Optic neurotomy for central retinal vein occlusion]. To investigate the surgical effect and complication of optic neurotomy for ischemic central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).Eight patients elected to undergo optic neurotomyThe age range was 32 - 67 yearsFive of the 8 were women and three were men. The duration of the...
Given your profession as a proficient ophthalmologist, please provide responses to the question. What are the components of the sensory examination in ophthalmology and how are they performed ? The sensory examination in ophthalmology includes testing for pain, temperature, vibration, joint position, and light touch. E...
Coexistence of craniopharyngioma and meningioma: Two rare cases and literature review. Most of the craniopharyngioma is considered to derive from residual epithelial cells during the craniopharyngeal canal degeneration. Meningioma accounting for the primary intracranial neoplasm is considered to be mainly derived from ...
The diagnostic value and accuracy of conjunctival impression cytologydry eye symptomatologyand routine tear function tests in computer users. Eyes of 344 computer users were compared to 371 eyes of age and sex matched controls. Dry eye questionnaire was administered to both groups and they further underwent measurement...
The study was conducted at the Department of Ophthalmology in the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece, between October 2017 and April 2018. Patients were enrolled on a consecutive-if-eligible basis and divided into three groups. The first group, G1, consisted of patients who underwent bilateral presbyopic co...
Discuss multidisciplinary management strategies for gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina, including psychosocial support and patient advocacy groups, monitoring for corneal opacification or vascularization, and any emerging experimental therapies like stem cell-based therapies (experimental).
This study presents the largest cohort of non-syndromic UCS patients to determine the prevalence of OT and its associated ophthalmic features. In 95% of cases, torticollis in UCS patients is ocular related. Overall, one in three patients with UCS have OT. A significant association was found between the presence of OT a...
Polarization and Distribution of Tumor-Associated Macrophages and Expression in Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Ocular Adnexae. Basal cell carcinoma is a locally invasive skin tumor which can be subdivided into a circumscribed nodular and an invasive fibrosing subtype. There is increasing evidence that macrophages play an ...
Evaluation of retinal blood flow before and after panretinal photocoagulation using pattern scan laser for diabetic retinopathy. Laser speckle flowgraphy can measure blood flow in the ocular fundus. was performed using a pattern scan laser. Using LSFGblood flow was evaluated as the mean blur rate or the relative flow v...
Daunomycin in the treatment of experimental proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Effective doses in vitro and in vivo. In previous studies the authors have shown that daunomycinan anthracycline antibioticwhen injected into the vitreous effectively controls experimental proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Here we show that by ...
The population of the island has lived for centuries almost isolated from the rest of the continental population. In the seventh century BCit was the first Greek colony in the southern Italy and was colonized by the Eubeithen it was the turn of the Roman rule. In the Middle Agesthe island was the victim of many raids o...
Prospective phenotyping of NGLY1-CDDGthe first congenital disorder of deglycosylation. Our prospective phenotyping expands the clinical spectrum of NGLY1-CDDGoffers prognostic informationand provides baseline data for evaluating therapeutic interventions.Genet Med 19 2160-168.The cytosolic enzyme N-glycanase 1encoded b...
The eye-specification proteins So and Eya form a complex and regulate multiple steps in Drosophila eye development. Sine oculis (so) and eyes absent (eya) are required for Drosophila eye development and are founding members of the mammalian Six and Eya gene families. These genes have been proposed to act with eyeless (...
When planning cataract surgery for patients with Fuchs dystrophy, several considerations are important. A combined keratoplasty and phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) insertion is often recommended when corneal edema is present, if pachymetry readings are significantly higher in the morning, or if the pati...
Objective grading of facial paralysis. totally objective method of grading facial palsybased on the linear measurement of anatomic landmarkshas been tested in 34 randomly selected cases. To account for the pathologic characteristics of facial paralysisthe linear measurement index underwent several adjustments from the ...
[The value of inferior trabeculectomy in combined cataract-glaucoma surgery. Apropos of 54 cases]. In 54 consecutive cases of glaucoma triple procedurea trabeculectomy was systematically performed at six o'clock. By separating the order and the locations of the incisions as well as their placement in limbo-corneal site...
[Trauma-associated juvenile rhegmatogenous retinal detachment]. Rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in children and adolescents are uncommon and present about 3-5 % of all retinal detachments. Etiologypathogenesis and therapy differ significantly from adults. They presented 42.4 % of all of that age group. We analyzed t...
Prognostic Factors and Clinical Outcomes. total of 84.6% of eyes developed from age-related macular degeneration. Partial or complete displacement of the was achieved in 91.5% of eyes within 2 months of surgery. Visual acuity improved from 201,449 preoperatively to 20390 after a mean follow-up time of 6.3 monthscorresp...
grouped retina provides high temporal resolution in the weakly electric fish Gnathonemus petersii. Weakly electric fish orienthunt and communicate by emitting electrical pulsesenabling them to discriminate objectsconspecifics and prey. In addition to the electrosensory modality - although dominating in importance in th...
On spike-timing-dependent-plasticitymemristive devicesand building a self-learning visual cortex. Specificallywe are linking one type of memristor nanotechnology devices to the biological synaptic update rule known as spike-time-dependent-plasticity found in real biological synapses. Understanding this link allows neur...
Retinal image registration under the assumption of a spherical eye. We propose a method for registering a pair of retinal images. The proposed approach employs point correspondences and assumes that the human eye has a spherical shape. The image registration problem is formulated as a pose estimation problemsolved by e...
Sevoflurane suppresses proliferation by upregulating microRNA-203 in breast cancer cells. Rapid proliferation is one of the critical characteristics of breast cancer. Howeverthe underlying regulatory mechanism of breast cancer cell proliferation is largely unclear. Notablythe rescue experiment indicated that miR-203 wa...
Relationship between macular microcirculation and progression of diabetic macular edema. The severity of perifoveal capillary abnormalities among diabetic patients without clinically significant macular edema was classified by the size and outline of the foveal avascular zone and extent of foveal capillary loss at the ...
Effects of drugs on the formation of homovanillic acid in the rat retina. Homovanillic acid levels were measured in the eye and the corpus striatum of rats under normal conditions and after different drug treatments. Neuroleptic agents such as clozapinecis-flupenthixol and haloperidol induced comparable increases in le...
Primary cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinoma of the eyelid. Primary cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinomaan uncommon tumor of the skinshould be added to the differential diagnosis of eyelid tumors.To report a case of primary cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinoma involving the eyelid.We examined a 70-year-old woman with an 18-m...
In vivo quantification of cochlin in glaucomatous mice using optical coherence tomography. The expression of cochlin in the trabecular meshwork precedes the clinical glaucoma symptoms in mice. The ability to quantify cochlin in the local tissue offers potential diagnostic and prognostic values. We present two (spectros...
Neonatal seizures and severe hypotonia in a male infant suffering from a defect in peroxisomal beta-oxidation. Additional salient clinical features included the development of glaucomathe absence of significant facial dysmorphism and the absence of liver enlargement or renal cysts. The patient died at the age of 3 mont...
Temporal arteritis: report of a case. Temporal arteritis is a rheumatic disease that affects large and medium-sized arteries. It is a severe arteritis involving both the intima and media of the vessel and is a cause of headache that is frequently diagnosed erroneously as "atypical migraine." The patients have a burning...
Different Effects of Aging on Intraocular Pressures Measured by Three Different Tonometers. The IOPGATIOPNCTIOPRBTmean patient age (65.1 ± 16.2 years)and (521.7 ± 39.2 µm) were collected retrospectively from 1054 eyes. The differences among IOPs were compared by the paired t-test. Possible correlations between devicesa...
Spatial and temporal properties of luminosity horizontal cells in the turtle retina. Luminosity horizontal cells in the turtle retina respond approximately linearly to visual stimuli with contrast levels spanning a large part of the physiological range. We characterized the response properties of these cells under cond...
Identification of a Novel Mutation in a Patient with Fabry Disease. We report a new α-Galactosidase (αGal-A) mutation in a 39-year-old Korean bornmale Fabry disease patient. Fabry disease is a devastatingprogressive inborn error of metabolism caused by X-linked genetic mutations. In this casethe first clinical symptom ...
Subretinal fluid in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. 28-year-old male patient presented to the outpatient department with visual disturbance in both eyes. The patient had a history of stage lupus nephritis that was diagnosed at the age of 14 years and had undergone hemodialysis at the age of 23 years. After...
Dynamic changes in the genomic localization of replication-related element binding factor during the cell cycle. was first characterized for its role in the regulation of transcription of genes encoding proteins involved in replication and found to interact with sequences similar to the recognition motif of the insulat...
[Plastic surgery in patients with facial palsy]. In short-term irreversible paralysis caused by facial nerve problems the aim is to re-innervate the paralysed facial musculature. Whenever a paralysis remains untreated for longer than 12-18 months successful re-innervation is unlikely. In longer-term paralysis the symme...
Optic disc drusenangioid streaksand mottled fundus in various combinations in a Sicilian family. We describe a Sicilian family in which optic disc drusenangioid streaksand mottled funduswithout dermatological signs of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE)are present in various combinations and segregate as an autosomal domina...
Brolucizumab 12- and 16-Week Fixed Dosing Potential in Neovascular post hoc Evaluation of Data from the and Trials. This post hoc analysis applies a fixed dosing stratification approach to patient-level brolucizumab data from the phase and trials to determine the proportion of patients who would have been assigned to f...
The use of combined intraocular and sub-Tenons capsule is not recommended as an adjunct to vitrectomy surgery following OGT.To investigate the clinical effectiveness of adjunctive triamcinolone acetonide given at the time of vitreoretinal surgery following open globe trauma phase 3multicentredouble-masked randomised co...
Analyze the optical performance of an IOL featuring an blue-light filtering chromophore design in mesopic (dim light) conditions (e.g., twilight, dimly lit restaurant) with respect to spectacle independence rates at different distances.
Actions and affordances in syntactic ambiguity resolution. In 2 experimentseye movements were monitored as participants followed instructions containing temporary syntactic ambiguities (e.g."Pour the egg in the bowl over the flour"). The authors varied the affordances of task-relevant objects with respect to the action...
Zika virus exposure in pregnancy and its association with newborn visual anomalies and hearing loss. Exposure to Zika virus in pregnancy leads to a spectrum of congenital effects in the newborn. Recent studies have begun to evaluate the impact of during pregnancy. Among 39 relevant studiesnine were related specifically...
Discuss multidisciplinary management strategies for Stickler syndrome (ocular, skeletal, orofacial anomalies), including psychosocial support and patient advocacy groups, monitoring for corneal opacification or vascularization, and any emerging experimental therapies like AAV-mediated gene replacement therapy.
Platelet-Rich Plasma: The Journey so Far ! Platelet-rich plasma is an autologous blood productobtained after blood centrifugation. is rich in growth factors which promote tissue-healingalter angiogenesisand possess versatile immunomodulatory effectsin the relative absence of any significant demonstrable adverse effects...
Traumatic tears of the tela chorioidea: a hitherto unrecognized cause of post-traumatic hydrocephalus. new and hitherto unrecognized phenomenon of rupture of the tela chorioidea in closed head injury of acceleration-deceleration type is described. It occurs very frequentlyespecially in association with blows in the cen...
Neuroprotective effects of nipradilol on purified cultured retinal ganglion cells. Nipradilol improves the survival rate of cultured postnatal rat retinal ganglion cellsand the nitric oxide generated from nipradilol may contribute to this effect.To investigate effects of nipradilola nonselective beta- andbgr;-and selec...
An enlarged globe (Lid lag) with an enlarged corneal diameter ≥13mm along with characteristic Haabs stria (double contoured opacities concentric to limbus) suggest the diagnosis of congenital glaucoma.\n\nOPTION D IS CORRECT.
Plan corneal inlays for presbyopia for a patient with anisometropia: OD -5.00 D, OS -1.50 D and a central corneal thickness of 510 microns, considering pellucid marginal degeneration pattern.
Given your profession as a proficient ophthalmologist, please provide responses to the question. What is the purpose of performing a conjunctival smear in cases of uncertain or unresponsive bacterial conjunctivitis ? The conjunctival smear is obtained in cases of uncertain or unresponsive bacterial conjunctivitis to pe...
[Long-term experiences with corneal crosslinking in patients with progressive keratoconus at the University Eye Hospital in TübingenGermany]. Long-term outcomes after corneal collagen crosslinking showed a significant reduction of the keratometry values and the was significantly higher compared to the preoperative valu...
Intravitreal ranibizumab treatment for macular edemadue to branch retinal vein occlusion. Intravitreal ranibizumab is a safe and effective treatment option for due to ischemic and nonischemic using from the start.To evaluate the effect of intravitreal pro re nata ranibizumab treatment from the start on the best-correct...
Wireless biosensor system for real-time L-lactic acid monitoring in fish. We have developed a wireless biosensor system to continuously monitor L-lactic acid concentrations in fish. The blood L-lactic acid level of fish is a barometer of stress. The biosensor comprised Pt-Ir wire (φ0.178 mm) as the working electrode an...
An integrative gene network-based approach to uncover the cellular and molecular infrastructures of schizophrenia. High phenotypic and endophenotypic heritability of schizophrenia indicates substantial involvement of genetic elements in the occurrence of this disorder. Multiplicity of hypotheses about the genetic basis...
involves the inability of the eye to focus properly on an object. is the adjustment of the curvature of the to focus on objects near and far.In this conditionamplitude of accommodation of a person is lesser compared to physiological limits for his age. is generally considered separate from but mechanically both conditi...
[Correction of blepharophimosis with a temporal periosteal flap]. To Provide a dependable and effective method for the treatment of blepharophimpsos.In Blaskovics canthoplastya periosteum flap raised from the lateral orbit margin was turned over and fixed to the end of superiou tarsur. The operation was performed on 11...
Posterior scleritis can manifest either independently or alongside anterior scleritis. It is sometimes regarded as an anterior variant of inflammatory pseudotumor. Patients typically present with symptoms such as pain, tenderness, proptosis, vision loss, and occasionally restricted eye movement. The pain may radiate to...
The antibiotic puromycin, ethionine\xa0(α-amino-γ-mercaptobutyric\xa0acid),\xa0 carbon\xa0tetrachloride, chloroform, phosphorus, lead, and arsenic all cause fatty liver and a marked reduction in concentration of VLDL in rat blood.\nOrotic acid also causes fatty liver; it is believed to interfere with glycosylation of t...
Cytoarchitectural relationships between ouabain binding and mRNA for isoforms of the sodium pump catalytic subunit in rat brain. We examined the cell type-specific expression of the alpha 1alpha 2and alpha 3 subunits of the sodium pump in rat brain using in situ hybridization and ouabain autoradiography. These techniqu...
Impaired Function of Peripherally Induced Regulatory Cells in Hosts at High Risk of Graft Rejection. Regulatory cells (Tregs) are crucial for allograft survival. Tregs can be divided into thymus-derived natural Tregs (tTregs) and peripherally-derived induced Tregs (pTregs). Herewe determine whether the suppressive func...
From corneal shape to ocular wavefront in eyes with aspheric IOLs: the feasibility of customisation. The defocusastigmatismvertical comaand spherical aberration terms of the ocular wavefront are strongly associated with the corneal shape in pseudophakic eyes and may thus be predicted from the corneal shape and other ey...
Development of a Donkey Grimace Scale to Recognize Pain in Donkeys (Equus asinus) Post Castration. Nine healthy male adult donkeys were surgically castrated. Fifty-four photos were selected from frontallateraland body views taken pre- and post-castration. Observers ranging from minimal to extensive knowledge and levels...
Ocular development and visual deprivation myopia in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). The normal postnatal ocular development of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) and the effects of visual deprivation on eye growth and refractive state are described. The marmoset normally undergoes a developmental proces...
You're an ophthalmologist, kindly address the medical queries according to the patient's account. Analyze the question and answer. Question: I have been running a fever of 100.6.I passed out yesterday morning and have a major headache since.It was hard to even open my eyes all the way last night. Temperature is back t...
Changes in NADPH-diaphorase expression induced by excitotoxicity in the goldfish retina: relation with some morphological and biochemical aspects. We report alterations in the pattern of NADPH-diaphorase staininga marker of nitric oxidein the goldfish retina after kainic acid administration. The heavily stained ellipso...
Gene Supplementation in Mice Heterozygous for the Variant Implicated in Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa. The use of vectors for gene supplementation has achieved spectacular success as a treatment for individuals with autosomal recessive retinal disease caused by biallelic mutations in the visual cycle gene How...
Ultrastructural Studies on a Model Tintinnid - Schmidingerella meunieri (Kofoid Campbell1929) Agatha Strüder-Kypke2012 (Ciliophora). The Oral Apparatus. The ultrastructure of the oral apparatus is supposed to be significant for elucidating more recent common ancestry and might thus provide support for particular groupi...
[Predictive value of preoperative fasting glucose test of diabetic patients regarding surgical outcome in cataract surgery]. There was no influence of the preoperative serum glucose level on perioperative clinical complications or visual acuity outcome.To determinate the predictive value of preoperative glucose test of...
Evaluation of levofloxacin release characteristics from a human foldable capsular vitreous body in vitro. We have manufactured a novel human foldable capsular vitreous body In this articlewe determine whether the human releases levofloxacin in vitro and evaluate the release characteristics.Levofloxacin at dosages of 10...
[Regional classification-guided wavelet Y-Net network for hard exudate segmentation in fundus images]. The proposed method can effectively avoid the influence of the optic discretain the image detailsand improve the effect of segmentation.We propose an hard exudate(EX)segmentation algorithm based on regional classifica...
Editorial (Thematic Selection: Special Issue on Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors). The selection of articles in this special issue was solicited following the highly successful eighth International Meeting on Metabotropic Glutamate (mGlu) Receptorsheld in Taormina (Italy) in October 2014and organised under the chairman...
incidence was estimated in a same-birth-year population (iea birth cohort) from 2002 to 2009. Among the patients born between 2002 and 2019the incidence of SWS-associated glaucoma was estimated.During the 18-year observational perioda total of 1049 patients were registered as The mean birth-cohort incidence was 3.08 (9...
Managing eye disease in primary care. Part 1. How to screen for occult disease. Proper eye screening is the first step in detection of occult eye disease in asymptomatic patients. Knowing which patients are at high risk and should be referred for a comprehensive eye examination is the key. In part 1 of this three-part ...
Topography of retinal damage in light-exposed albino rats. Previous studies have shown that retinal damage induced by damaging light exposure is more severe in superior retina than inferior retina when measured along the vertical meridian of eyes. Howeverthe extent of retinal damage over all retinal regions is not clea...
Stereotactic radiosurgery of uveal melanomas: preliminary results with Gamma Knife treatment. Twelve cases of uveal melanoma patientsT4N0M0:1 patient) treated with Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery are reported. Our protocol includes preoperative ocular and systemic assessments with complete ocular examinationophth...
Comparison of pterygium recurrence rates after limbal conjunctival autograft transplantation and other techniques: meta-analysis. Meta-analysis to compare pterygium surgery outcomes using limbal conjunctival autograft and other techniques.A comprehensive literature search was conducted through June 2011 using PubMedEmb...
Serotonin conflict in sleep-feeding. Short sleep duration has been suggested to be a risk factor for weight gain and adiposity. Serotonin substantially contributes to the regulation of sleep and feeding behavior. Although predominately promotes waking and satietythe effects of depend on receptor function. The 5-HT1A5-H...
Advances in Nanogels for Topical Drug Delivery in Ocular Diseases. Nanotechnology has accelerated the development of the pharmaceutical and medical technology fieldsand nanogels for ocular applications have proven to be a promising therapeutic strategy. Traditional ocular preparations are restricted by the anatomical a...
Binocular fixation pattern. The binocular fixation pattern is a convenient clinical test that may be used to diagnose strabismic amblyopia in children who are too young to cooperate with conventional testing of visual acuity. retrospective analysis of amblyopic and nonamblyopic patients with esotropia and exotropia dem...
Lodoxamide as adjuvant therapy in patients with dry eye. Dry eyedue to its impaired function of tear film becomes more susceptible to all kinds of airborne allergens. Due to air pollution this is more marked in urban areasand is compounded by the modern way of life. There are various standard topical medications which ...
Ans. is d i.e., Severe dehydrationo A child with severe dehydration will have at least two of the following four signs sensorium is abnormally sleepy or lethargic, sunken eyes, drinking poorly or not at all, and a very slow skin pinch.o A child with some signs of dehydration will have two of the following restlessnes...
Diffusion tensor imaging tractography of the optic radiation for epilepsy surgical planning: a comparison of two methods. The optic radiation is a key white matter structure at risk during epilepsy surgery involving the temporalparietal or occipital lobes. It shows considerable anatomical variabilitycannot be delineate...
Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors: synthesis of water-solubletopically effective intraocular pressure lowering aromaticheterocyclic sulfonamides containing 8-quinoline-sulfonyl moieties: is the tail more important than the ring? Reaction of 20 aromaticheterocyclic sulfonamides containing a free aminoiminohydrazino or hydro...
Quantitative compressive optical coherence elastography using structural imaging and optical palpation to measure soft contact lens mechanical properties. Optical palpation utilizes a compliant transparent material of known mechanical propertieswhich acts as a stress sensorin order to derive the mechanical properties o...
Alpo syndrome Electron Microscopy is diagnostic and shows basket weave appearance of the GBM. Alpo syndrome Hereditary nephritis Abnormal a3 (COL4A3), a4 (COL4A4), or a5 (COL4A5) chain of type IV collagen Hematuria with progression to chronic renal failure Nerve deafness Eye disorders Foamy cells in the interstitium. R...
Anterior Uveal Melanocytoma: Role of Diagnostic offers a minimally invasive and safe diagnostic approach for pathologic confirmation of Howeverlimitations of including false-negative and false-positive biopsies must be considered when excluding underlying malignancy. Continued observation to document tumor stability sh...
Vector analysis of high (≥3 diopters) astigmatism correction using small-incision lenticule extraction and laser in situ keratomileusis. Small-incision lenticule extraction offered astigmatic correction comparable to in eyes with high myopic astigmatism.To compare the astigmatic correction in high myopic astigmatism be...
Cytoskeleton dynamics in axon regeneration. Recent years have seen cytoskeleton dynamics emerging as a key player in axon regeneration. The cytoskeletonin particular microtubules and actinensures the growth of neuronal processes and maintains the singularhighly polarized shape of neurons. Following injuryadult central ...
Impact of an SGLT2-loss of function mutation on renal architecturehistologyand glucose homeostasis. Inhibitors of sodiumglucose co-transporter 2 are currently in clinical use for type 2 diabetes treatment due to their anti-hyperglycemic effect exerted by the inhibition of glucose reabsorption in the kidney. Inhibition ...
How temporal cues can aid colour constancy. Colour constancy assessed by asymmetric simultaneous colour matching usually reveals limited levels of performance in the unadapted eye. Yet observers can readily discriminate illuminant changes on a scene from changes in the spectral reflectances of the surfaces making up th...
Coats Disease: Clinical Features and Outcomes by Age Category in 351 Cases. To investigate features and outcomes of Coats disease by patient age.Patients with Coats disease from 1973 to 2018 were evaluated based on age category at presentation (3 years or younger vs older than 3 to 10 years vs older than 10 years).Ther...
Sleep stage classification based on bioradiolocation signals. leave-one-subject-out cross-validation procedure was used for testing the classification performance. Cohen's kappa of 0.56 ± 0.16 and accuracy of 75.13 ± 9.81 % were achieved when compared to polysomnography results. The results of our work contribute to th...
Troubleshoot three distinct common technical issues or artifacts: 1) poor signal strength in optical biometry, 2) incorrect patient positioning for visual field testing, and 3) bubble interference in A-scan biometry, encountered with the diagnostic and surgical slit lamp biomicroscope during its use for preoperative as...
Assays of serum laminin and type procollagen peptide for monitoring the clinical course of diabetic microangiopathy. Thickening of the capillary basement membrane is a characteristic feature of diabetes and is considered to cause diabetic microangiopathy. Serum levels of both laminina glycoprotein in the basement membr...
Surgical management of congenital eyelid coloboma. Congenital eyelid colobomas are a partial or total absence of eyelid structures. The degree of severity determines the surgical techniques employed for repairing the eyelid. We feel that early surgical treatment reduces the risk of ocular scarring with satisfactory res...
Segmented Macular Layer Volumes from Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in 184 Adult Twins: Associations With Age and Heritability. The following layer volumes were derived for circles of 3 and 6 mm diameter around the foveal centerusing automated segmentation software: retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL)ganglio...
Determining the accommodative response from wavefront aberrations. wavefront analyzer was used to measure the ocular aberrations of 13 emmetropes and 17 myopes at distanceand 4 near target vergences: 234and 5 The accommodative response was calculated using the following techniques: least squares fitting (Zernike defocu...
Visual receptive fields of neurons in primary visual cortex move in space with the eye movements of fixation. We tested the hypothesis that receptive field locations of visual cortex cells maintain a fixed location on the retina and move in space with movements of the eye. Responses to a bar swept across the were recor...