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In a previous article, we found that elevation of asymmetric intraocular pressure (IOP) in the lateral decubitus position was associated with asymmetric visual field (VF) loss in patients with glaucoma. We…

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We thank Drs Minckler, Francis, Loewen, Mosaed, and Weinreb for their thoughtful comments on our manuscript, as well as for the opportunity to clarify some issues surrounding the data, particularly…

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Clinical Results of Ab Interno Trabeculotomy Using the Trabectome for Open-Angle Glaucoma: The Mayo Clinic Series in Rochester, Minnesota

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In their otherwise well-written article, Ahuja and associates’ conclusions are inconsistent with their data. They report outcomes at 3 months or more using 4 definitions of success from 88 cases of…

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In our study we assessed preoperative cataract grades in manual and femtosecond laser–assisted cataract surgery and evaluated its influence on effective phacoemulsification times. For phacoemulsification the Infinity System was used…

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Impact of Crystalline Lens Opacification on Effective Phacoemulsification Time in Femtosecond Laser–Assisted Cataract Surgery

Jan 8, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Impact of Crystalline Lens Opacification on Effective Phacoemulsification Time in Femtosecond Laser–Assisted Cataract Surgery

We would like to thank Mayer and associates for describing reduction of ultrasound energy with femtosecond laser phacofragmentation. However, the authors’ methodology is ambiguous and may ignore the contribution of…

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We thank Drs dell’Omo and Mura for their comments regarding our article. In almost all of our cases, we performed 5 horizontal and 5 vertical raster scans at least 3…

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Prospective Head-to-Head Study Comparing 2 Commercial Interferon Gamma Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Tuberculous Uveitis

Jan 8, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Prospective Head-to-Head Study Comparing 2 Commercial Interferon Gamma Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Tuberculous Uveitis

Purpose To perform a head-to-head comparison of 2 commercially available interferon-gamma release assays, QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (Cellestis, Chadstone, Victoria, Australia) and T-SPOT.TB (Oxford Immunotech, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK), in the diagnosis…

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