Lacrimal Duct Occlusion Is Associated with Infectious Keratitis. [PDF]
Int J Med Sci, 2016 Background: To explore the prevalence of lacrimal duct obstruction in patients with infectious keratitis, and the necessity of lacrimal duct dredge in the treatment of human infectious keratitis. Methodology/Principle Findings: The design is prospective, non-control case series.
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Indocyanine Green Assisted Removal of Orbital Lacrimal Duct Cysts in Children [PDF]
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2015 Aim. To report on the use of indocyanine green (ICG) during surgical removal of pediatric orbital lacrimal duct cysts. Method. We conducted a retrospective review of our cases of surgical excision of orbital lacrimal duct cysts using intraoperative ...
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Positive detection of SARS-CoV-2 combined HSV1 and HHV6B virus nucleic acid in tear and conjunctival secretions of a non-conjunctivitis COVID-19 patient with obstruction of common lacrimal duct. [PDF]
Acta Ophthalmol, 2020 The current outbreak of COVID‐19 has spread rapidly all over the world. Respiratory droplets and contaction with infected patients are the two major transmission routes. However, the value of tear virus nucleic acid is still not clear.
Hu Y +9 more
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Lacrimal Gland Repair after Short-term Obstruction of Excretory Duct in Rabbits
Scientific Reports, 2017 Aqueous tear-deficient dry eye is a multifactorial chronic disorder in which the lacrimal glands fail to produce enough tears to maintain a healthy ocular surface. The existence of lacrimal gland stem/progenitor cells was proposed in several species, yet
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Clinical Ophthalmology, 2016 Mohammad Javed Ali,1 Swati Singh,1 Milind N Naik,1 Swathi Kaliki,2 Tarjani Vivek Dave1 1Govindram Seksaria Institute of Dacryology, 2The Operation Eyesight Universal Institute for Eye Cancer, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India ...
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Intervention using a novel biodegradable hollow stent containing polylactic acid-polyprolactone-polyethylene glycol complexes against lacrimal duct obstruction disease. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Lacrimal duct obstruction disease (LDOD) is a common ophthalmologic disease. Stent implantation surgery is one of the most effective therapies. In this study, we intended to find out the satisfactory biodegradable stents containing poly-L-lactic acid ...
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The role of CT-DCG in hardware - associated secondary acquired lacrimal duct obstruction: SALDO update study - (SUP) - Paper III. [PDF]
Am J Ophthalmol Case RepPurpose: To study cases of hardware-associated secondary acquired lacrimal duct obstructions (SALDO) and the role of computed tomography dacryocystography (CT-DCG) scans in its diagnosis and management.
Agarwal A, Naik M, Ali MJ, Bothra N.
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Detection & analysis of inflammatory cytokines in tears of patients with lacrimal duct obstruction. [PDF]
Indian J Med Res, 2021 Wang D +7 more
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Expression of LIGHT/TNFSF14 and Its Receptors, HVEM and LTβR, Correlates with the Severity of Fibrosis in Lacrimal Sacs from Patients with Lacrimal Duct Obstruction. [PDF]
Ophthalmol Ther, 2021 Bielecki P +7 more
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Anatomic characteristics of the lacrimal sac and adjacent bony structures-a computed tomographic-dacryocystography research. [PDF]
Int J OphthalmolAIM: To describe the anatomic characteristics of the lacrimal sac and its adjacent bone structures and to provide surgical recommendations for endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (EN-DCR).
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