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Assessment of the effect of physical activity on intraocular pressure using a novel implanted telemetric pressure sensor
Background Due to technical limitations of commonly used tonometry devices, the effects of physical exercise on intraocular pressure (IOP) have never been studied during exercise. This study ...
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Biomarkers of risk of switching to dexamethasone implant for the treatment of diabetic macular oedema in real clinical practice: a multicentric study
Objective To establish the influence of different optical coherence tomography (OCT) biomarkers at baseline treatment on the potential response to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) ...
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Genome-wide association study of anterior uveitis
1 Department of Ophthalmology and Medical Research Center, Oulu University Hospital; Research Unit of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, ...
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Epidemiology and aetiological diagnosis of corneal ulceration in Madurai, south India
John P Whitcher, MD, Francis I Proctor Foundation, PO Box 0944 University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0944, USA. AIMS/BACKGROUND To determine the epidemiological ...
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The estimated prevalence and incidence of late stage age related macular degeneration in the UK
Aims To estimate prevalence, number and incidence of AMD by type in the UK population aged ≥50 years. Methods Age-specific prevalence rates of AMD obtained from a Bayesian meta-analysis of AMD ...
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Blindness in Africa: present situation and future needs
Dr Paul Courtright, British Columbia Centre for Epidemiologic and International Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, St Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6, ...
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Steatocystoma simplex of the caruncle
1 The Eyelid, Lacrimal and Orbital Clinic, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane, Qld, 4029 ...
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Corneal ulceration in the developing world—a silent epidemic
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Expression of adhesion molecule CD44 on human corneas
Professor Dr med G Duncker, Klinik für Ophthalmologie der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Hegewischstrasse 2, D-24105 Kiel, Germany. AIMS This study was undertaken to confirm the distribution ...
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Intraepithelial and invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva: analysis of 60 cases
Devron H Char, MD, Tumori Foundation, Suite 309, CPMC-Davies, 45 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. AIM To evaluate the clinical features, treatment results, and recurrence rates in patients ...
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Smoking as an aetiological factor in a pedigree with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy
Donald R Johns, MD, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Room 858, 77 Ave Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA. BACKGROUND/AIMS Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrial DNA mediated ...
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Peripheral retinal ischaemia, as evaluated by ultra-widefield fluorescein angiography, is associated with diabetic macular oedema
Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College. 1305 York Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Dr Szilárd Kiss, Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical ...