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  1. Fat embolism in the deep retinal capillary plexus is one of the reported mechanisms underlying central/paracentral scotoma in patients with Purtscher’s retinopathy. Here we report the clear delineation of capi...

    Authors: Motoharu Tokimitsu, Masako Murata, Yuichi Toriyama, Takao Hirano, Yasuhiro Iesato and Toshinori Murata
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:113
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  3. There are limited data on the epidemiology and risk factors of ophthalmoplegia among diabetic patients. This study aims to determine the prevalence and important risk factors related to ophthalmoplegia among d...

    Authors: Eman S. Al Kahtani, Rajiv Khandekar, Khalid Al-Rubeaan, Amira M. Youssef, Heba M. Ibrahim and Ahmed H. Al-Sharqawi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:118
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  5. Optical coherence tomography angiography is a novel imaging technique that allows dyeless in vivo visualization of the retinal and choroidal vasculature. The purpose of this study was to describe optical coher...

    Authors: Maged Alnawaiseh, Friederike Schubert, Pieter Nelis, Gabriele Wirths, André Rosentreter and Nicole Eter
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:120
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  6. This study was designed to measure changes in anterior chamber depth (ACD), central cornea thickness (CCT), and axial length (AL) after scleral buckle (SB) surgery or pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for the repair...

    Authors: Chunmei Huang, Tonghe Zhang, Jian Liu, Qiang Ji and Ruili Tan
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:121
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  7. To report a patient with angioid streaks (ASs) and coincident multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) who developed choroidal neovascularization (CNV).

    Authors: Alfredo Pece, Davide Allegrini, Stelios Kontadakis, Giuseppe Querques and Luca Rossetti
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:122
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  8. Evaluating the corneal biomechanical changes using the Ocular Response Analyzer and the Corvis ST in eyes with incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) and laser assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

    Authors: Ihab Mohamed Osman, Hany Ahmed Helaly, Moones Abdalla and Mohsen Abou Shousha
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:123
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  12. Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy is a variant of choroidal neovascularization and neovascular age related macular degeneration presenting with hemorrhagic and exudative changes within the macula and/or peripa...

    Authors: Gregg T. Kokame, James C. Lai, Raymond Wee, Ryan Yanagihara, Jessica G. Shantha, Julia Ayabe and Kelsi Hirai
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:127
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  14. Authors: Devon H. Ghodasra, Adrienne Chen, J. Fernando Arevalo, David G. Birch, Kari Branham, Brian Coley, Gislin Dagnelie, Eugene de Juan, Robert G. Devenyi, Jessy D. Dorn, Andy Fisher, Duane R. Geruschat, Ninel Z. Gregori, Robert J. Greenberg, Paul Hahn, Allen C. Ho…
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:129
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:52

  15. Toxicity is rarely considered in the differential diagnosis of conjunctivitis, but we present here a new form of toxic conjunctivitis with unusual clinical features. Between 2010 and 2013, a new clinical prese...

    Authors: Nicholas Cook, Fizza Mushtaq, Christina Leitner, Andrew Ilchyshyn, George T. Smith and Ian A. Cree
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:130
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  16. Good adherence to ocular hypotensive agents is important to control intraocular pressure and hence to prevent progressive glaucomatous optic nerve head damage. Periodic investigation of adherence is crucial in...

    Authors: Tesfay Mehari, Abeba T. Giorgis and Workineh Shibeshi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:131
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  17. Chronic canaliculitis is often misdiagnosed as conjunctivitis, delaying proper documentation and management. Aggregatibacter aphrophillus has not been implicated in chronic canaliculitis.

    Authors: Marie Boulze-Pankert, Cécile Roux, Vanessa D. Nkamga, Frédérique Gouriet, Marie-Christine Rojat-Habib, Michel Drancourt and Louis Hoffart
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:132
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  18. Patient education materials should be written at a level that is understandable for patients with low health literacy. The aims of this study are (1) to review the literature on readability of ophthalmic patie...

    Authors: Andrew M. Williams, Kelly W. Muir and Jullia A. Rosdahl
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:133
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  20. To report the feasibility of intraoperative spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) using the RESCAN 700 for the visualization and evaluation of precut Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial ker...

    Authors: Akira Kobayashi, Hideaki Yokogawa, Natsuko Mori and Kazuhisa Sugiyama
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:135
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  24. To compare the changes in anterior and posterior corneal elevations after combined transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and accelerated corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) and after PRK.

    Authors: Hun Lee, David Sung Yong Kang, Byoung Jin Ha, Jin Young Choi, Eung Kweon Kim, Kyoung Yul Seo and Tae-im Kim
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:139
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  26. Age-related cataract (ARC) is the leading cause of visual impairment worldwide, and α-crystallin (CRYAA) is the predominant structural protein involved in the maintenance of lens clarity and refractive properties...

    Authors: Xin Liu, Peng Zhou, Fan Fan, Dan Li, Jihong Wu, Yi Lu and Yi Luo
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:141
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  27. To estimate the need for bilateral intravitreal anti-VEGF injections in patients treated for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), diabetic macular edema (DME), retinal vein occlusion, choroidal...

    Authors: Audrey Giocanti-Auregan, Ramin Tadayoni, Typhaine Grenet, Franck Fajnkuchen, Sylvia Nghiem-Buffet, Corinne Delahaye-Mazza, Gabriel Quentel and Salomon Y. Cohen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:142
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  28. The parapapillary gamma zone has recently been defined as the parapapillary region free of Bruch’s membrane. Although it has been reported the presence of defects in peripapillary gamma zone, hitherto undescri...

    Authors: Xinxin Hu, Yi Dai, Jost Jonas and Xinghuai Sun
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:143
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Refraction change of silicone oil (SO) tamponade in phakic and aphakic eye has been studied thoroughly; however, it is rarely studied in pseudophakic eye. In this paper we aimed to deduce a theoretical formula...

    Authors: Wei Fang, Jiuke Li, Xiaohong Jin, Jing Zhai, Yuanmin Dai and Yumin Li
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:144
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  30. To evaluate the short-term reproducibility of diurnal intraocular pressure (IOP) and ocular perfusion pressure (OPP) measurements in normal volunteers, untreated normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) and primary open-...

    Authors: Yanlin Gao, Bing Wan, Peiyu Li, Yan Zhang and Xin Tang
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:145
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  32. Exercise reduces intraocular pressure (IOP) in the short term. However, it is not known whether exercise contributes to slower glaucomatous visual field defect progression.

    Authors: Satoshi Yokota, Yuji Takihara, Kanako Kimura, Yoshihiro Takamura and Masaru Inatani
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:147
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  35. To present a comprehensive approach for the management of patients with neovascular glaucoma (NVG) aiming to preserve visual function and complement pan-retinal photocoagulation (PRP) by anti-vascular endothel...

    Authors: Yaoyao Sun, Yong Liang, Peng Zhou, Huijuan Wu, Xianru Hou, Zeqin Ren, Xiaoxin Li and Mingwei Zhao
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:150
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  36. Myopia has become a significant global public health concern, and is highly prevalent worldwide especially in Asian countries. It is associated with genetic factors as well as socioeconomic status; however, th...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Wu, Guopeng Gao, Juxiang Jin, Wenjuan Hua, Liming Tao, Shaojun Xu and Fangbiao Tao
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:151
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  38. Non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION) is one of the most common types of ischemic optic neuropathy. Several recent studies suggested that abnormalities of choroidal thickness might be asso...

    Authors: Libin Jiang, Lanlan Chen, Xiujuan Qiu, Ran Jiang, Yaxing Wang, Liang Xu and Timothy Y. Y. Lai
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:153
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  40. Iridocorneal endothelial (ICE) syndrome occurs mainly in young and middle-aged women and typically presents as a unilateral disease characterized by abnormalities of the iris and corneal endothelium. While the...

    Authors: Keita Suzuki, Tadashi Mizuguchi, Yui Seno, Atsuhiro Tanikawa and Masayuki Horiguchi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:155
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  41. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), a critical enzyme in folate metabolism is involved in DNA synthesis, DNA repair and DNA methylation. The functional polymorphism of MTHFR gene, C677T has been shown to...

    Authors: Hamoud Al-Shahrani, Najwa Al-Dabbagh, Nourah Al-Dohayan, Misbahul Arfin, Mohammad Al-Asmari, Sadaf Rizvi and Abdulrahman Al-Asmari
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:156
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  42. Literature reports on ophthalmological manifestations related to tularemia, a zoonose caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, largely refer to Parinaud’s oculoglandular syndrome, which consists of the ass...

    Authors: Céline Terrada, Said Azza, Bahram Bodaghi, Phuc Le Hoang and Michel Drancourt
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:157
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  43. Reis-Bücklers corneal dystrophy (RBCD) was consistently reported as a corneal dystrophy only affected Bowman’s layer and superficial corneal stroma, and superficial keratectomy was a recommendation surgery for...

    Authors: Wen-Ya Qiu, Li-Bin Zheng, Fei Pan, Bei-Bei Wang and Yu-Feng Yao
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:158
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  44. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have a highly anti-angiogenic effect in animal models. However, the clinical relevance of omega-3PUFAs in human retinal pathologies remains unclear. The ARED 2 study...

    Authors: Anima D. Bühler, Felicitas Bucher, Michael Augustynik, Jan Wöhrl, Gottfried Martin, Günther Schlunck, Hansjürgen Agostini, Daniel Böhringer, Gerhard Pütz and Andreas Stahl
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:159
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  45. To determine the most effective route of administration of corticosteroids in the treatment of ocular surface disease, by characterizing the difference between oral prednisolone and topical dexamethasone admin...

    Authors: Kaoru Araki-Sasaki, Osamu Katsuta, Hidetoshi Mano, Takashi Nagano and Masatsugu Nakamura
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:160
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  46. To objectively compare the early changes in vault over time following implantation of an Implantable Collamer Lens without (ICL V4) and with (ICL V4c) a central hole and the respective factors affecting vault ...

    Authors: Xun Chen, Huamao Miao, Rajeev Krishnan Naidu, Xiaoying Wang and Xingtao Zhou
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:161
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  47. In randomized, controlled trials of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) or ocular hypertension (OHT), bimatoprost 0.01 % improved tolerability while retaining the intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering efficacy of bimatopr...

    Authors: Ying Ying Chen, Tsing-Hong Wang, Catherine Liu, Kwou-Yeung Wu, Shin-Lin Chiu, Susan Simonyi and Da-Wen Lu
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:162
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  48. To compare corneal epithelial thickness (CET) and limbal epithelial thickness (LET) measured by anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and in vivo confocal microscope (IVCM) in normal subjects,...

    Authors: Qihua Le, Yan Chen, Yujing Yang and Jianjiang Xu
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:163
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  49. Dry eye disease (DED) is multifactorial, affecting 5–34 % of the global adult population and reducing quality of life. The artificial tears or lubricants are the therapy most used for the treatment of DED, due...

    Authors: Ana L. Pérez-Balbuena, Juan C. Ochoa-Tabares, Sandra Belalcazar-Rey, Cristian Urzúa-Salinas, Laura R. Saucedo-Rodríguez, Regina Velasco-Ramos, Raúl G. Suárez-Sánchez, Adolfo D. Rodríguez-Carrizalez and Aldo A. Oregón-Miranda
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:164
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  50. Postoperative adhesion is one of the major complications of strabismus surgery and result in motility dysfunction that brings unpredictable surgical outcomes. However, there was no definitely accepted treatmen...

    Authors: Sang Uk Choi, Kyoung Woo Kim and Nam Ju Moon
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2016 16:166
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