Relationship Between Corneal Biomechanical Properties, Central Corneal Thickness, and Intraocular Pressure Across the Spectrum of Glaucoma

Jan 12, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Relationship Between Corneal Biomechanical Properties, Central Corneal Thickness, and Intraocular Pressure Across the Spectrum of Glaucoma

Purpose To evaluate corneal biomechanical properties across the glaucoma spectrum and study the relationship between these measurements and intraocular pressure measured by Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT-IOP) and central corneal thickness…

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Reporting Visual Acuities

Jan 12, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Reporting Visual Acuities

The AJO encourages authors to report the visual acuity in the manuscript using the same nomenclature that was used in gathering the data provided they were recorded in one of…

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Postoperative Complications in the Tube Versus Trabeculectomy (TVT) Study During Five Years of Follow-up

Jan 12, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Postoperative Complications in the Tube Versus Trabeculectomy (TVT) Study During Five Years of Follow-up

Purpose To describe postoperative complications encountered in the Tube Versus Trabeculectomy (TVT) Study during 5 years of follow-up. Design Multicenter randomized clinical trial. Methods settings: Seventeen clinical centers. study population:…

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Glaucoma Filtration Surgery: Trabeculectomy or Tube Shunt?

Jan 12, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Glaucoma Filtration Surgery: Trabeculectomy or Tube Shunt?

When confronted with the glaucoma patient requiring surgical intervention for filtration, the decision between selecting guarded filtration surgery (trabeculectomy) or an aqueous shunting device (tube shunt) is controversial. Trabeculectomy is…

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Book review

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Media type: Website Synopsis: This website provides a fantastic visual learning tool to better understand and improve every provider’s gonioscopy skills. Beginning with learning the technique of gonioscopy and being…

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Second-generation Trabecular Meshwork Bypass Stent (iStent inject) Increases Outflow Facility in Cultured Human Anterior Segments

Jan 12, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Second-generation Trabecular Meshwork Bypass Stent (iStent inject) Increases Outflow Facility in Cultured Human Anterior Segments

Purpose To determine whether a second-generation trabecular meshwork (TM) bypass stent (iStent inject ) influences outflow facility in cultured human anterior segments. Design Prospective laboratory investigation using normal human donor…

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Book review

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Media Type: Textbook Synopsis: Our understanding of genetic diseases of the eye has grown exponentially in the last 20–30 years. This extremely well-organized book provides detailed clinical and molecular findings…

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