Highlights • The age-standardized rate of legal-blindness in Israel per 100,000 residents decreased from 15.76 in 2009 to 11.83 in 2020, a 24.9% drop. • Since 2014, the decline attenuated…
Purpose To evaluate hypotheses about the role of acquired vitelliform lesion (AVL) in age-related macular degeneration pathophysiology. Design Laboratory histology study; retrospective, observational case series. Methods Two donor eyes in…
Abstract Purpose To investigate factors associated with good visual acuity (VA) following repair of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RD) with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) undergoing retinectomy. Design Interventional, retrospective, case-control study. Methods…
Highlights • First and last female authorships are unevenly distributed by country, journal, and topic. • Review and acceptance times are significantly higher for female-authored manuscripts. • Delays >1 month…
PURPOSE We sought to evaluate the association between 5 eye diseases (including glaucoma, cataract, congenital optic nerve disease, congenital retinal disease, and blindness/low vision) and mental illness in a pediatric…
Purpose To determine the relationship between tear film interferometric patterns and properties of lipid, including rheological properties. Design Prospective, cross-sectional laboratory investigation. Method This study included 105 subjects (94 dry…
PURPOSE To study orthograde axonal transport with amyloid precursor protein (APP-A4) immunohistochemistry (IHC) in the retina and lamina cribrosa (LC) portion of the optic nerve in abusive head trauma (AHT)…
Purpose To evaluate the rates of ghost and honorary authorship in ophthalmology and to determine risk factors associated with ghost and honorary authorship. Design Cross-sectional survey. Methods Corresponding authors of…
Purpose To report the 1-year results of human amniotic membrane patch implantation for optic disc pit maculopathy. Design A prospective, consecutive, interventional study. Methods Eleven eyes of 11 patients affected…
PURPOSE To investigate the effects of mitomycin-C (MMC) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) on the viability, proliferation, and migratory capacity of cultured ocular adnexal sebaceous carcinoma (SC) cells. DESIGN Laboratory investigation. METHODS…
