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  2. To report the clinical outcomes in Chinese patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension treated with bimatoprost 0.03% therapy.

    Authors: Kaidi Wang, Li Xu, Zhilan Yuan, Ke Yao, Junmei Zhao, Liang Xu, Aiwu Fang, Mingzhi Zhang, Lingling Wu, Jian Ji, Jiamin Hou, Qing Liu and Xinghuai Sun
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:21
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  3. Dysregulation of the CCR3/CCL11 pathway has been implicated in the pathogenesis of choroidal neovascularisation, a common feature of late age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The aim of this study was to in...

    Authors: Mads Krüger Falk, Amardeep Singh, Carsten Faber, Mogens Holst Nissen, Thomas Hviid and Torben Lykke Sørensen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:22
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  4. Blank cartridge guns are generally regarded as being harmless and relative safe. However recent published articles demonstrated that the gas pressure from the exploding propellant of blank cartridge is powerfu...

    Authors: Sunghyuk Moon and Su-Ho Lim
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:23
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  6. There is a huge need for the availability of transplantable donor corneas worldwide to reduce the burden of corneal blindness due to corneal opacity. Voluntary eye donation depends on the awareness levels of v...

    Authors: Venkata Ramana Ronanki, Sethu Sheeladevi, Brinda P Ramachandran and Isabelle Jalbert
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:25
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  7. To explore the intraocular pressure-lowering effect and complications of diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (DLTSC) followed by phacotrabeculectomy on medically unresponsive acute primary angle clo...

    Authors: Wei Liu, Yanhui Chen, Yingjuan Lv, Linni Wang, Xiaoli Xing, Aihua Liu and Jian Ji
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:26
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  9. The goal of this study was to investigate the visual outcome of acute central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) after current standard therapy with and without paracentesis. In addition, we investigated whether ...

    Authors: Achim Fieß, Ömer Cal, Stephan Kehrein, Sven Halstenberg, Inez Frisch and Ulrich Helmut Steinhorst
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:28
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  11. To evaluate the clinical utility of spectral analysis of intraocular pressure pulse wave in healthy eyes of a control group (CG), patients having glaucomatous optic disc appearance or ocular hypertension, and ...

    Authors: Magdalena Asejczyk-Widlicka, Patrycja Krzyżanowska-Berkowska, Małgorzata Kowalska and D Robert Iskander
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:30
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  12. To present our findings in a case of Werner syndrome with refractory cystoid macular edema (CME) and to determine the expression and the distribution of WRN proteins in human retinas.

    Authors: Toshiyuki Oshitari, Masayasu Kitahashi, Satoshi Mizuno, Takayuki Baba, Mariko Kubota-Taniai, Minoru Takemoto, Koutaro Yokote, Shuichi Yamamoto and Sayon Roy
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:31
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  13. Improving adherence to ocular hypertension (OH)/glaucoma therapy is highly likely to prevent or reduce progression of optic nerve damage. The present study used a behaviour change counselling intervention to d...

    Authors: Heidi Cate, Debi Bhattacharya, Allan Clark, Richard Fordham, Richard Holland and David C Broadway
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:32
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  14. Altered levels of specific matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) in the aqueous humour of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) eyes have been described. In this stu...

    Authors: Angeline DC Nga, Soon-Lek Yap, Amir Samsudin, Puteri S Abdul-Rahman, Onn H Hashim and Zahari Mimiwati
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:33
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  15. A wide range of organisms that enter the eye following ocular trauma can cause endophthalmitis. This study was to investigate the spectrum of pathogens and antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial isolates from ...

    Authors: Chongde Long, Bingqian Liu, Chaochao Xu, Yuan Jing, Zhaohui Yuan and Xiaofeng Lin
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:34
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  16. The aim of this retrospective study is a long-term evaluation of postoperative motor outcomes and the inferential analysis of strabismus surgery in infant eyes with essential infantile esotropia.

    Authors: Adriano Magli, Roberta Carelli, Francesco Matarazzo and Dario Bruzzese
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:35
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  17. The exact pathogenetic mechanisms of Coats’ disease remain unknown. In this report, we show two cases of Coats’ disease that achieved a favorable prognosis with the combined treatment of intravitreal bevacizum...

    Authors: Aya Kodama, Koji Sugioka, Shunji Kusaka, Chota Matsumoto and Yoshikazu Shimomura
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:36
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  19. Though a newly developed spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) is at the center of interests for many ophthalmologic researchers and clinicians, its own characteristics are not fully evaluated yet...

    Authors: Samin Hong, Sang-Myung Kim, Kyoungsoo Park, Jun Mo Lee, Chan Yun Kim and Gong Je Seong
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:38
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  21. Many efforts have been invested in slowing progression of myopia. Among the methods, atropine administration and orthokeratology (OK) are most widely used. This study analyzed the efficacy of atropine and OK l...

    Authors: Hui-Ju Lin, Lei Wan, Fuu-Jen Tsai, Yi-Yu Tsai, Liuh-An Chen, Alicia Lishin Tsai and Yu-Chuen Huang
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:40
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  23. To examine the all-cause mortality and uveal melanoma specific mortality among newly diagnosed uveal melanoma patients after five years. Furthermore, we assess of the effect of iris colour and having children ...

    Authors: Andrea Schmidt-Pokrzywniak, Sven Kalbitz, Oliver Kuss, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Norbert Bornfeld and Andreas Stang
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:42
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  24. The baseline data pertaining to the national epidemiological survey of infectious keratitis remain scarce in China, and currently there is no corneal blindness control strategy developed by the nation.

    Authors: Jin Cao, Yanning Yang, Wanju Yang, Ruoxi Wu, Xuan Xiao, Jing Yuan, Yiqiao Xing and Xiaodong Tan
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:43
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  25. State level information regarding eye care resources can provide policy makers with valuable information about availability of eye care services. The current study surveyed ophthalmologists, optometrists and v...

    Authors: Paul A MacLennan, Gerald McGwin Jr, Karen Searcey and Cynthia Owsley
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:44
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  26. Ocular rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by a newly classified organism that is neither a fungus nor bacterium. It often presents as a benign conjunctival tumour but may mimic other ...

    Authors: Stephen Gichuhi, Timothy Onyuma, Ephantus Macharia, Joy Kabiru, Alain M’bongo Zindamoyen, Mandeep S Sagoo and Matthew J Burton
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:45
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  28. Diabetic macular edema (DME) with neurosensory retinal detachment (NSD) remains an important cause of visual loss in patients with diabetes. The aim of the study was to elucidate the association of systemic an...

    Authors: Aditi Gupta, Rajiv Raman, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan and Tarun Sharma
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:47
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  30. Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a hereditary genetic disease causing bilateral retinal degeneration. RP is a leading cause of blindness resulting in incurable visual impairment and drastic reduction in the Qualit...

    Authors: Anil Vaidya, Elio Borgonovi, Rod S Taylor, José-Alain Sahel, Stanislao Rizzo, Paulo Eduardo Stanga, Amit Kukreja and Peter Walter
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:49
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  33. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the LOXL1 gene are associated with pseudoesfoliation syndrome and pseudoesfoliation glaucoma. The aim of our study is to investigate a potential involvement of LOXL1 ...

    Authors: Emiliano Giardina, Francesco Oddone, Tiziana Lepre, Marco Centofanti, Cristina Peconi, Lucia Tanga, Luciano Quaranta, Paolo Frezzotti, Giuseppe Novelli and Gianluca Manni
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:52
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  34. The aim was to report normative values of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and macular parameters in children using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) and to perform correlations with age, refr...

    Authors: Christiane Al-Haddad, Anita Barikian, Mahmoud Jaroudi, Vicky Massoud, Hani Tamim and Baha’ Noureddin
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:53
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  35. To determine the relationship between type three secretion genotype and fluoroquinolone resistance for P. aeruginosa strains isolated from microbial keratitis during the Steroids for Corneal Ulcers Trial (SCUT) a...

    Authors: Durga S Borkar, Nisha R Acharya, Chelsia Leong, Prajna Lalitha, Muthiah Srinivasan, Catherine E Oldenburg, Vicky Cevallos, Thomas M Lietman, David J Evans and Suzanne M J Fleiszig
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:54
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  36. Several retinal ischemic diseases can cause neovascular glaucoma (NVG). Trabeculectomy with mitomycin C (MMC) is a relatively better treatment modality in the management of eyes with NVG than other glaucoma su...

    Authors: Shunji Nakatake, Shigeo Yoshida, Shintaro Nakao, Ryoichi Arita, Miho Yasuda, Takeshi Kita, Hiroshi Enaida, Yuji Ohshima and Tatsuro Ishibashi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:55
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  37. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the area of isopters obtained using semi-automated kinetic perimetry (SKP) and Vigabatrin dosage in epilepsy patients with pretreatment baseline ex...

    Authors: Katarzyna Nowomiejska, Marian Jedrych, Agnieszka Brzozowska, Konrad Rejdak, Tomasz Zarnowski, Michael J Koss, Katarzyna Ksiazek, Piotr Ksiazek, Ryszard Maciejewski, Anselm G Juenemann, Ulrich Schiefer and Robert Rejdak
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:56
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  38. The incidence of postoperative endophthalmitis has reduced during last several years to <0.01%; however, its associated complications continue to be devastating. Several sources of infection, including contami...

    Authors: Jorge E Valdez-García, Alejandro Climent, Eduardo Chávez-Mondragón and Juan F Lozano-Ramírez
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:57
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  39. To perform a microbiological contamination analysis of the vitreous during office-based micro-incision vitrectomy surgery (MIVS) assessing whether the bacteria detected correlated with patient's ocular conjunc...

    Authors: Flavio A Rezende, Cynthia X Qian and Przemyslaw Sapieha
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:58
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  40. To gain more insight into genetic causes of cerebral visual impairment (CVI) in children and to compare ophthalmological findings between genetic and acquired forms of CVI.

    Authors: Daniëlle GM Bosch, F Nienke Boonstra, Michèl AAP Willemsen, Frans PM Cremers and Bert BA de Vries
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:59
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  41. No longitudinal data from population-based studies of eye disease in sub-Saharan-Africa are available. A population-based survey was undertaken in 2007/08 to estimate the prevalence and determinants of blindne...

    Authors: Andrew Bastawrous, Wanjiku Mathenge, Tunde Peto, Helen A Weiss, Hillary Rono, Allen Foster, Matthew Burton and Hannah Kuper
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:60
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. To date, non arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) is still incurable. We wish to evaluate the effect of intravenous (IV) corticosteroids on the visual outcome of NAION patients.

    Authors: Michael Kinori, Iris Ben-Bassat, Yael Wasserzug, Angela Chetrit and Ruth Huna-Baron
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:62
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  45. The efficacy of topical ophthalmic corticosteroids depends upon small modifications in preparations, such as drug concentration.

    Authors: Nikolay Sergiyenko, Ludmila Sukhina, Pavel Bezdetko, Yuriy Kovalenko, Nikolai Nikitin, Matthias Merzbacher, Dorothea Groß and Ralf Kohnen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:64
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  47. Recently it was shown that retinal vessel diameters could be measured using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). It has also been suggested that retinal vessels manifest different features on sp...

    Authors: Yanling Ouyang, Qing Shao, Dirk Scharf, Antonia M Joussen and Florian M Heussen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:66
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  49. The novel Femtosecond lenticule extraction (FLEx) procedure has been considered safe, predictable, and effective in treating myopia and myopic astigmatism, with few complications. However, an enhancement proce...

    Authors: Jing Zhao, Peijun Yao, Zhi Chen, Meiyan Li, Yang Shen, Huamao Miao and Xingtao Zhou
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:68
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. To compare the long-term efficacy of ranibizumab versus bevacizumab for myopic choroidal neovascularization (CNV).

    Authors: Dong Min Cha, Tae Wan Kim, Jang Won Heo, Se Joon Woo, Kyu Hyung Park, Hyeong Gon Yu and Hum Chung
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2014 14:69
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