Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Purpose: To quantify the severity and location of corneal neovascularization (cNV) and its impact on the visual acuity and corneal sensitivity in a cohort of the patients referred to a specialist cornea clinic and also to describe the etiology of cNV in ...
Romina Mayra Lasagni Vitar +6 more
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Glycocalyx Degradation in Retinal and Choroidal Capillary Endothelium in Rats with Diabetes and Hypertension [PDF]
, 2010 Endothelial glycocalyx (GCX) has been reported as a protective factor for vascular endothelial cells (VEC) in diabetes and hypertension. However, the involvement of GCX impairment in ocular vasculopathy remains unclear.
Kumase, Fumiaki +5 more
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The clinicopathological analysis of ocular and orbit tumors in southeast of China
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 PurposeThe purpose of this study is to describe the clinicopathologic characteristics of ocular surface and orbit tumors in the Southeast of China and explore the method to differentiate the benign and malignant masses.Materials and methods3468 patients ...
Yuan Lin +22 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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Microorganisms and Common Ophthalmic Diseases [PDF]
, 2017 The human eye is in constant contact to environmental conditions that increase its likelihood in being exposed to a multitude of pathogens. Studies have revealed that the normal microbial flora found around the ocular area contribute to the well-being of
Su CW, Tighe S
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Tear ferning test and pathological effects on ocular surface before and after topical cyclosporine in vernal keratoconjunctivitis patients [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a rare ocular surface inflammatory disease that affects mainly boys in the first decade of life.
Bianchi, Guia +6 more
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Desiccating stress-induced disruption of ocular surface immune tolerance drives dry eye disease [PDF]
, 2016 Dry eye is an allegedly autoimmune disorder for which the initiatingmechanisms and the targeted antigens in the ocular surface are not known,yet there is extensive evidence that a localized T helper type 1 (Th1)/Th17effector T cell response is ...
Galletti, Jeremías Gastón +5 more
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Sex hormones in allergic conjunctivitis: altered levels of circulating androgens and estrogens in children and adolescents with vernal keratoconjunctivitis [PDF]
, 2015 PURPOSE: Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a chronic allergic disease mainly affecting boys in prepubertal age and usually recovering after puberty.
Bonini, S. +4 more
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Limbal stem cell transplantation: clinical results, limits, and perspectives [PDF]
, 2018 Limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) is a clinical condition characterized by damage of cornea limbal stem cells, which results in an impairment of corneal epithelium turnover and in an invasion of the cornea by the conjunctival epithelium.
Bruscolini, Alice +3 more
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Ophthalmology and Therapy, 2023 Introduction To profile conjunctival T cell populations in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients after instillation of daily topical cyclosporine-A (CsA) 0.1% cationic emulsion (Ikervis), and to evaluate patients’ tolerance to ...
Louis Tong +10 more
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