Imaging Methods in the Diagnosis of Optic Disc Drusen
Türk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, 2016 Optic disc drusen (ODD) are benign congenital anomalies of the optic nerve characterized by calcified hyaline bodies. While superficial drusen can be diagnosed easily during fundus examination, detecting buried drusen requires the use of additional ...
Betül Tuğcu, Hakan Özdemir
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Optic nerve head segmentation [PDF]
, 2004 Reliable and efficient optic disk localization and segmentation are important tasks in automated retinal screening. General-purpose edge detection algorithms often fail to segment the optic disk due to fuzzy boundaries, inconsistent image contrast or ...
Basu, A. +6 more
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Posterior segment abnormalities in posterior microphthalmos
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020 Purpose: We report a case of posterior microphthalmos with characteristic papillomacular retinal folds, pigmentary retinopathy, and optic disc drusen.
Nilesh Raval +3 more
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Association of Retinal Vascular Caliber and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Patients With the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. [PDF]
, 2018 PurposeTo evaluate the relationship between retinal vascular caliber and AMD in patients with AIDS.MethodsParticipants enrolled in the Longitudinal Study of the Ocular Complications of AIDS had retinal photographs taken at enrollment.
Danis, Ronald P +4 more
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Exome sequencing identifies a missense variant in EFEMP1 co-segregating in a family with autosomal dominant primary open-angle glaucoma [PDF]
, 2015 Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a clinically important and genetically heterogeneous cause of progressive vision loss as a result of retinal ganglion cell death.
Bennett, Thomas M +2 more
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Therapeutic potential of co-enzyme Q10 in retinal diseases [PDF]
, 2017 Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) plays a critical role in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by serving as an electron carrier in the respiratory electron transport chain.
Marcheggiani, Fabio +6 more
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Evaluation of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in a patient with bilateral optic disc drusen
Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2015 Optic disc drusen (ODD) is the accumulations of calcified hyaline-like material within the substance of the optic nerve head. Optic disc drusen, especially if it is bilateral, may mimic the clinical presentation of papilledema.
Alime Gunes +3 more
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Can the retina be used to diagnose and plot the progression of Alzheimer's disease? [PDF]
, 2017 Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of senile dementia. It impairs the quality of life of a person and their family, posing a serious economic and social threat in developed countries.
Mahajan, Deepti, Votruba, Marcela
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Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014 Optic disc drusen (ODD) are extracellular proteinaceous excrescences in the optic nerve head. They enlarge over time and can cause damage to nerve fibers with resulting loss of visual field.
Ali Hassan, Pieter Gouws
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Assembly and proving of a wave front sensing confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope [PDF]
, 2007 Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy is used to image the fundus of the living eye. In theory, this technique can be used to observe single cells of the retina. Unfortunately, vision of most eyes is decreased by higher-order aberrations, that cannot be
Schwarz, Christina
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