A case of Sjögren syndrome and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Reumatismo, 2023 Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a rare disease with the highest reported prevalence of 0.01-0.09%. Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is another rare auto-immune disease (prevalence of 0.0009-0.01%).
K. Kaynar +3 more
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Assessing the painful, uninflamed eye in primary care [PDF]
, 2015 We acknowledge the important contributions of Professor Amada J Lee, University of Aberdeen, Division of Statistics, for assistance with analysing the data from the patient survey.
Dick, Andrew +2 more
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Assessing full thickness oral mucosal grafting: complications and postoperative outcomes in a broad collective of patients [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Conjunctival defects can be repaired with several mucosal tissues. The simplicity of harvesting oral mucosa and its wide availability makes it the preferred graft tissue for all indications requiring mucosal grafting. Through analysing the
Bertelmann, Eckart +2 more
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Impacto da poluição ambiental na superfície ocular de pacientes com síndrome de Sjögren [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: To evaluate the effect of air pollution on the ocular surface of patients with Sjögren's syndrome. Methods: We investigated the ocular surfaces of thirty patients with Sjögren's syndrome and thirty healthy volunteers (control group) living in ...
Berra, Alejandro +5 more
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Muscle-Sparing Blepharoplasty: A Prospective Left-Right Comparative Study
Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2014 Background Standard upper blepharoplasty involves removal of both the skin and a portion of the underlying orbicularis oculi muscle. The senior author had observed sluggishness of eyelid closure, lagophthalmos as well as varying degrees of eye ...
Lee Kiang +4 more
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C9orf72 repeat expansions cause neurodegeneration in Drosophila through arginine-rich proteins [PDF]
, 2014 An expanded GGGGCC repeat in C9orf72 is the most common genetic cause of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A fundamental question is whether toxicity is driven by the repeat RNA itself and/or by dipeptide repeat proteins ...
Cabecinha, M +19 more
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Biomarkers in ocular chronic graft versus host disease: tear cytokine- and chemokine-based predictive model. [PDF]
, 2016 Producción CientíficaPurpose: To develop a tear molecule level-based predictive model based on a panel of tear cytokines and their correlation with clinical features in ocular chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD).
Caballero, Dolores +10 more
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Editorial: Dry eye disease syndrome
Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 EDITORIAL article Front. Med., 04 January 2023Sec.
Alejandro Navas +4 more
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A Clinical Study of Subtype-based Prevalence of Dry Eye [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013 Introduction: Dry Eye is a multifactorial disease of the tearfilm and the ocular surface which may be due to reduced tear production or excessive tear evaporation resulting in discomfort, visual disturbance, and tear film instability with a potential
Aditya Rege +3 more
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Subconjunctival adalimumab for treatment of dry eye disease in Sjögren’s syndrome [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2022 Objective To describe the use of subconjuctival administration of the anti-tumor necrosis factor agent adalimumab for treatment of dry eye in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome, and to investigate conjunctival healing. Methods Prospective, nonrandomized,
Juliana Ferreira da Costa Vargas +3 more
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