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The Tutopatch® assisted surgery for complex strabismus study: TASCS‐study

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To investigate the efficacy of tendon elongation using bovine pericardium (Tutopatch®) in complex strabismus surgeries, with a specific focus on longer follow‐up of postoperative outcomes and patient satisfaction. Methods In this pre‐post cohort study, the records of all patients who underwent tendon elongation strabismus surgery with ...
Ires A. W. Verhees, Hinke Marijke Jellema, Anne‐Marie E. L. Langenhorst, B. Jeroen Klevering, Laurentius J. van Rijn, Annabel L. W. Groot   +5 more
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Patients with hypertensive retinopathy and signs of lesions in other target organs

Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, 2016
Background: arterial hypertension is one of the most frequent chronic diseases in the world. Its inadequate management and control can cause damage to different target organs.Objective: to characterize the clinical manifestations in hypertensive patients
Isora Sánchez Lorenzo, Norge Sánchez Albor, Zadys Leyva Feria   +2 more
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Increased rate of any retinopathy risk in patients with masked hypertension

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2020
Purpose Hypertension is a common chronic disorder with end organ damage. Hypertensive retinopathy is a response to elevated blood pressure characterized retinal arteriolar intimal thickening, hyperplasia of the intima-media end with sclerosis. There is a
Timuçin Yıldırım, Selçuk Özkan, Ömer Çağlar Yılmaz, Bunyamin Yavuz   +3 more
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Combined renin inhibition/(Pro)renin receptor blockade in diabetic retinopathy- a study in transgenic (mREN2)27 rats [PDF]

, 2014
Dysfunction of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) contributes to the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy (DR). Prorenin, the precursor of renin is highly elevated in ocular fluid of diabetic patients with proliferative retinopathy.
Batenburg, W.W. (Wendy), Danser, A.H.J. (Jan), Heuvel, M.M. (Mieke) van den, Li, Q. (Qiuhong), Veghel, R. (Richard) van, Verma, A. (Amrisha), Wang, Y. (Yunyang), Zhu, P. (Ping)   +7 more
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Improvement of Health‐Related Quality of Life and Mental Health After Unilateral Adrenalectomy for Primary Aldosteronism

Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Primary aldosteronism (PA) has been linked with reduced health‐related quality of life (QoL) and increased prevalence of anxiety and depression. While most studies compared patients with PA to healthy subjects, this study focused on comparison with hypertensive patients without PA to identify PA‐specific effects.
Sybille Fuld, Christian Adolf, Georgiana Constantinescu, Manuel Schulze, Denise Brüdgam, Carmina T. Fuss, Hanna Remde, Lydia Kürzinger, Sven Gruber, Jun Yang, Amy Kang, Martin Reincke, Felix Beuschlein, Graeme Eisenhofer, Jacques W. M. Lenders, Christina Pamporaki   +15 more
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Dramatic response to intravitreal Bevacizumab in hypertensive retinopathy

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2018
Hypertensive retinopathy is seen frequently in patients with systemic hypertension and is usually asymptomatic. An acute rise in blood pressure may lead to exudative changes in the form of macular edema, hemorrhages, and serous macular detachment that ...
Srikant Padhy, Vinod Kumar
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The burden of diabetic foot ulcers in a multi‐ethnic Asian cohort

Diabetic Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a major source of morbidity among individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM), imposing a substantial burden on healthcare systems. Our institution established a multidisciplinary service aiming to facilitate early specialist intervention for DFU management.
Zongwen Wee, Yong Mong Bee, Sueziani Binte Zainudin   +2 more
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Exploring residual risk for diabetes and microvascular disease in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) [PDF]

, 2017
Aim Approximately half of the participants in the Diabetes Prevention Outcomes Study (DPPOS) had diabetes after 15 years of follow-up, whereas nearly all the others remained with pre-diabetes.
Aroda, V R, Barrett-Connor, E, Dabelea, D, Dagogo-Jack, S, Hamman, R F, Kahn, S E, Knowler, W C, Mather, K J, Pan, Q, Perreault, L, The Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group,   +10 more
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Association of SGLT2 Inhibitor With Stroke in Type 2 Diabetes With Diabetic Retinopathy: A Multicenter Electronic Health Record Data Study

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is linked to elevated risks of cerebrovascular diseases. Whether sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) reduce stroke risk in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and DR remains uncertain. Materials and Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the TriNetX Research Network.
Kuo‐En Chen, Po‐Chun Wang, Hui‐An Lin, Sheng‐Feng Lin   +3 more
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DUNet: A deformable network for retinal vessel segmentation

, 2018
Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose Deformable U-Net (DUNet), which exploits the retinal vessels' local features
Chen, Qi, Jin, Qiangguo, Meng, Zhaopeng, Pham, Tuan D., Su, Ran, Wei, Leyi   +5 more
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