Purpose To identify risk factors for corneal graft rejection and rejection irreversibility. Design Retrospective cohort study. Methods setting : Institutional. patients : A total of 1438 consecutive eyes of 1438…
Although by the early 1940s there were several American ophthalmologists performing occasional corneal transplants, there was a constant struggle to find a donor tissue. R. Townley Paton (1901-1984) emerged as…
Purpose To screen primary congenital glaucoma patients in the United States for sequence variants within the CYP1B1 , LTBP2 , and MYOC genes using Sanger and whole exome sequencing. Design…
Purpose To describe characteristics of patients with severe limbal stem cell deficiency associated with contact lens (CL) wear. Design Retrospective case series. Methods Database search of patients with severe limbal…
Purpose To assess correlations between associated factors and treatment outcome of isoametropic amblyopia attributable to high hyperopia in children and to evaluate changes in retinal thickness during amblyopic treatment. Design…
Purpose To assess the effect of Ahmed glaucoma valve implants on corneal endothelial cell density (ECD) in children with uveitic glaucoma. Design Cross-sectional study. Methods setting : Institutional. patient population…
Purpose To evaluate visual and optical quality of the implantable collamer lens for different powers and sizes of incision surgery. Design Prospective study in humans. Methods An adaptive optics visual…
Purpose To assess the symmetry of optic nerve head parameters measured by the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph 3 (HRT 3) between fellow eyes in a normal elderly population. Design Cross-sectional population-based…
Purpose To evaluate the in vivo capsular apposition to the intraocular lens (IOL) in subjects with high myopia by ultralong-scan-depth optical coherence tomography (OCT). Design Prospective observational case series. Methods Forty…
Purpose To evaluate the morphologic features and viability of human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells captured from the pigment epithelium detachment (PED) region outside the choroidal neovascular membrane lesion in…
