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  1. The primary aim was to estimate the incidence of primary and secondary childhood glaucoma in Scotland over a 2-year period. The secondary aim was to gauge the confidence and experience of ophthalmologists in S...

    Authors: Daniel Beck, Martin Galea, Cheng Yi Loo, Conrad Schmoll, Frederick R. Burgess, Donald Montgomery and Andrew J. Tatham
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:76
  2. Presence of corneal cystine crystals is the main ocular manifestation of cystinosis, although controversial findings concerning the corneal layer with the highest density have been reported. The aim of this st...

    Authors: Anita Csorba, Erika Maka, Otto Alexander Maneschg, Attila Szabó, Nóra Szentmáry, Mária Csidey, Miklós Resch, László Imre, Krisztina Knézy and Zoltán Zsolt Nagy
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:73
  3. Primary objective of this review was to measure compliance with spectacle use in children with refractive errors. Secondary objective was to understand the reasons for non-compliance.

    Authors: Nonita Dhirar, Sankalp Dudeja, Mona Duggal, Parul Chawla Gupta, Nishant Jaiswal, Meenu Singh and Jagat Ram
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:71
  4. Usher syndrome (USH) is the most prevalent cause of the human genetic deafness and blindness. USH type II (USH2) is the most common form of USH, and USH2A is the major pathogenic gene for USH2. For expanding the ...

    Authors: Chenhao He, Xinyu Liu, Zilin Zhong and Jianjun Chen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:70
  5. To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a treat-and-extend protocol of aflibercept for cystoid macular oedema (CMO) secondary to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).

    Authors: Roderick O’Day, Noha Ali, Lyndell L. Lim, Sukhpal Sandhu, Thuy Chau and Sanjeewa Wickremasinghe
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:69
  6. Congenital mydriasis and retinal arteriolar tortuosity are associated with the life-threatening multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) due to mutations in the gene, ACTA2, which encodes alpha-sm...

    Authors: Aisling B. Mc Glacken-Byrne, David Prentice, Danial Roshandel, Michael R. Brown, Philip Tuch, Kyle S.-Y. Yau, Padma Sivadorai, Mark R. Davis, Nigel G. Laing and Fred K. Chen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:68
  7. It is well known that the biomechanical properties change after LASIK refractive surgery. One reason is the impact of flap creation on the residual stroma. The results have revealed that the change is closely ...

    Authors: Lihua Fang, Yan Wang, Ruizhi Yang, Sijing Deng, Jiahao Deng and Linsun Wan
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:67
  8. Glaucoma drainage device (GDD) implantation in the anterior chamber are associated with corneal complications. We describe a novel technique to implant GDD tubes in the posterior chamber of pseudophakic eyes.

    Authors: Javier Moreno-Montañés, Concepción Guirao-Navarro and Francisco Argüeso
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:66
  9. Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a clinically and morphologically distinct malignant soft tissue tumour. It occurs mostly in the lower extremities in adults. The purpose of our study was to describe the re...

    Authors: Yujiao Wang, Baixue Du, Mei Yang and Weimin He
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:60
  10. To report an unusual case of light-chain (AL) amyloidosis with progressive bilateral chorioretinal abnormalities documented with short-wavelength autofluorescence, SD-OCT, fluorescein and indocyanine green ang...

    Authors: Edouard Augstburger, José-Alain Sahel and Isabelle Audo
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:59
  11. Previously, we showed that serum malondialdehyde (MDA) was significantly higher in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) than in those without AMD. The Diacron reactive oxygen metab...

    Authors: Toshiyuki Matsuura, Hiroki Kaneko, Kei Takayama, Rei Shibata, Keiko Kataoka, Seina Ito, Taichi Tsunekawa, Hideyuki Shimizu, Ayana Suzumura, Rina Namba, Yasuki Ito, Toyoaki Murohara and Hiroko Terasaki
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:56
  12. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a kind of inherited retinal degenerative diseases characterized by the progressive loss of photoreceptors. RP has been a conundrum without satisfactory countermeasures in clinic un...

    Authors: Weiming Yan, Pan Long, Dongyu Wei, Weihua Yan, Xiangrong Zheng, Guocang Chen, Jiancong Wang, Zuoming Zhang, Tao Chen and Meizhu Chen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:55
  13. To evaluate the optical coherence tomography (OCT) features of retinal lesions in Chinese patients with endogenous Candida endophthalmitis (ECE).

    Authors: Hong Zhuang, Xinyi Ding, Fengjuan Gao, Ting Zhang, Yingqin Ni, Qing Chang and Gezhi Xu
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:52

    The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:283

  14. Knowing the pattern and presentation of the diseases is critical for management strategies. To inform eye-care policy we quantified the pattern of vitreo-retinal (VR) diseases presenting at the national referr...

    Authors: Bhim B. Rai, Michael G. Morley, Paul S. Bernstein and Ted Maddess
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:51
  15. Corneal densitometry, which is also known as corneal backscattering, is a surrogate measure of corneal clarity. The purpose of the study was to investigate the changes in corneal densitometry (CD) after implan...

    Authors: Xun Chen, Yang Shen, Haipeng Xu, Xiaoying Wang and Xingtao Zhou
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:50
  16. Diagnosis and follow-up of retinal diseases may be improved if the thickness of the various retinal layers, in addition to the total retinal thickness, is taken into account. Here we measured the thickness of ...

    Authors: Qian Wang, Wen Bin Wei, Ya Xing Wang, Yan Ni Yan, Jing Yan Yang, Wen Jia Zhou, Szy Yann Chan, Liang Xu and Jost B. Jonas
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:49
  17. Older drivers have a crash rate nearly equal to that of young drivers whose crash rate is the highest among all age groups. Contrast sensitivity impairment is common in older adults. The purpose of this study ...

    Authors: Cynthia Owsley, Thomas Swain, Rong Liu, Gerald McGwin Jr and Mi Young Kwon
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:47
  18. To investigate the prevalence of pterygium and associated factors in Han and Mongolian adults at four survey sites in Inner Mongolia, China.

    Authors: Yuhan Wang, Guangliang Shan, Linyang Gan, Yonggang Qian, Ting Chen, Hailing Wang, Xiaodan Pan, Wenrui Wang, Li Pan, Xia Zhang, Meng Wang, Jin Ma and Yong Zhong
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:45
  19. Rapamycin (RAPA) is a potent angiogenic inhibitor and the aim of this study is to identify the inhibitory effect of RAPA on retinal neovascularization (RNV) in experimental oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR).

    Authors: Feng Jiang, Ying Wang, Shufang Du, Heng Jin and Jindong Han
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:44
  20. To investigate the effect of intravitreal conbercept (IVC) injections on the incidence of postoperative vitreous hemorrhage (VH) in eyes undergoing surgery for severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

    Authors: Tingting Jiang, Junxiang Gu, Peijun Zhang, Wenwen Chen and Qing Chang
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:43
  21. Optical quality and macular thickness changing optical quality is rarely reported after femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS). In current research, we evaluated optical quality recovery and disti...

    Authors: Yong Wang, Jinling Zhang, Miaomiao Qin, Jianguo Miao, Wei Chen, Yemeng Huang, Jian Wu, Yu Guan and Huaijin Guan
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:42
  22. Previous studies of internal graft-host malappositions have not dealt with the precise ways in which each malapposition affected post-penetrating keratoplasty (post-PK) visual outcomes. In this study, we revie...

    Authors: Yujin Zhao, Hong Zhuang, Jiaxu Hong, Lijia Tian and Jianjiang Xu
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:41
  23. To describe factors which influence the age at detection and age at presentation of patients with childhood cataract at a tertiary eye care facility in Southwest Nigeria.

    Authors: Bolutife Ayokunnu Olusanya, Mary Ogbenyi Ugalahi, Adegbola Oluwagbemiga Adeyemo and Aderonke Mojisola Baiyeroju
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:38
  24. The purpose of this report is to describe the occurrence of a retinal tear, pre-retinal and vitreous hemorrhages after completing a session of whole-body vibration training. Though our patient is the third doc...

    Authors: John Maggiano, Mei-Chuan Margret Yu, Sanford Chen, Timothy You and Rajiv Rathod
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:37
  25. Bruch membrane opening–minimum rim width (BMO–MRW) assessment offers a new diagnostic use in glaucoma patients of the Glaucoma Module Premium Edition (GMPE) available for the Spectralis optical coherence tomog...

    Authors: Maria P. Bambo, Enrique Fuentemilla, Beatriz Cameo, Isabel Fuertes, Blanca Ferrandez, Noemi Güerri, Vicente Polo, Jose M. Larrosa, Luis E. Pablo and Elena Garcia-Martin
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:35
  26. Tractional retinal detachment with or without secondary tear is a rare complication reported in less than 0.5% of in eyes treated for retinoblastoma. Pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in eyes with history of retinob...

    Authors: Christina Stathopoulos, Jessica Sergenti, Marie-Claire Gaillard, Francis L. Munier and Alejandra Daruich
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:34
  27. Postoperative intraretinal fluid (IRF) is reportedly associated with visual outcomes after epiretinal membrane (ERM) surgery. However, preoperative IRF is common, and persistent IRF would have different impact...

    Authors: Jae Jung Lee, Yeon Ji Jo, Han Jo Kwon, Seung Min Lee, Sung Who Park, Ik Soo Byon and Ji Eun Lee
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:33
  28. Superior oblique weakening is a common method to treat A-pattern strabismus. This study aims to evaluate the surgical results of the bilateral superior oblique posterior tenectomy procedure to treat A-pattern ...

    Authors: Yan Wei, Ling-Yan Dong, Pei-quan Zhao and Xiao-li Kang
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:32
  29. To evaluate the prevalence and risk factors associated with myopia and high myopia in children in South Korea.

    Authors: Hyuna Kim, Jin Seok Seo, Woong-Sun Yoo, Gyu-Nam Kim, Rock Bum Kim, Jae Eun Chae, Inyoung Chung, Seong-Wook Seo and Seong Jae Kim
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:31
  30. Dr. Gnanasekaran et al. reported the bactericidal activity of various concentrations of povidone iodine (PI) solution in an agar plate experiment of respiratory flora. The study design and the pharmacokinetic ...

    Authors: Jagger Koerner and Andrzej Grzybowski
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:29

    The original article was published in BMC Ophthalmology 2019 19:62

    The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:328

  31. Corneal infections with antibiotic-resistant microorganisms are an increasingly difficult management challenge and chemically or photochemically cross-linking the cornea for therapy presents a unique approach ...

    Authors: Daeryl E. Amponin, Joanna Przybek-Skrzypecka, Mariya Zyablitskaya, Anna Takaoka, Leejee H. Suh, Takayuki Nagasaki, Stephen L. Trokel and David C. Paik
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:28
  32. Due to high prevalence myopia has gained importance in epidemiological studies. Children with early onset are at particular risk of complications associated with myopia, as progression over time might result i...

    Authors: Andrzej Grzybowski, Piotr Kanclerz, Kazuo Tsubota, Carla Lanca and Seang-Mei Saw
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:27
  33. Dry Eye Disease (DED) is a multifactorial disease of the interpalpebral ocular surface and tear film that leads to discomfort, fatigue and disturbance in vision. DED affects patients’ quality of life and leads...

    Authors: Yousef Shanti, Reham Shehada, May M. Bakkar and Jamal Qaddumi
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:26
  34. Radiation therapy (RT) is the treatment of choice in patients with low-grade ocular adenexal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma (OAML) and many of them experience post-RT dry eye with varying severity....

    Authors: Sung Eun Kim, Hee Jung Yang and Suk-Woo Yang
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:24
  35. Accurate measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) after corneal refractive surgery is of great significance to clinic, and comparisons among various IOP measuring instruments are not rare, but there is a lack...

    Authors: Hui Zhang, Zhengtao Sun, Lin Li, Ran Sun and Haixia Zhang
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:23
  36. We report a case of uveitis–glaucoma–hyphema (UGH) syndrome in a highly myopic pseudophakic eye with seemingly normal positioning of a two-haptic intraocular lens (IOL).

    Authors: Yu Du, Xiangjia Zhu, Jin Yang, Yinglei Zhang, Lei Cai and Yi Lu
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:22
  37. Following the principles of value-based health care, outcomes and processes of daily-practice eye care need to be systematically evaluated. We illustrate an approach that can be used to support data-driven qua...

    Authors: Margriet I. van der Reis, M. Elshout, Tos T. J. M. Berendschot, Yvonne de Jong-Hesse, Carroll A. B. Webers and Jan S. A. G. Schouten
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:21
  38. We sought to describe corneal epithelial changes after using epidermal (EGFR) or fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors as chemotherapy and to clarify incidence and prognosis.

    Authors: Eunhae Shin, Dong Hui Lim, Jisang Han, Do-Hyun Nam, Keunchil Park, Myung-Ju Ahn, Won Ki Kang, Jeeyun Lee, Jin Seok Ahn, Se-Hoon Lee, Jong-Mu Sun, Hyun Ae Jung and Tae-Young Chung
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:19
  39. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of two individualized ranibizumab retreatment schemes in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

    Authors: Giovanni Staurenghi, Justus G. Garweg, Bianca S. Gerendas, Wayne Macfadden, Boris Gekkiev, Philippe Margaron, Cornelia Dunger-Baldauf and Petr Kolar
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:18
  40. The concentrations of cytokines in the aqueous humor from neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) may vary. The study was conducted to compare various cy...

    Authors: Huiying Zhou, Xinyu Zhao, Mingzhen Yuan and Youxin Chen
    Citation: BMC Ophthalmology 2020 20:15

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