POEMS Syndrome in a 20-year-old Patient Diagnosed Following a Complaint of Reduced Visual Acuity [PDF]
, 2014 We report a case of POEMS syndrome in a 20-year-old patient diagnosed after visiting an eye clinic with a chief complaint of reduced visual acuity. A male university student aged 20 years was referred to our department complaining of blurred vision in ...
Doi, Shinichiro +8 more
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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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Data mining for AMD screening: A classification based approach [PDF]
, 2014 This paper investigates the use of three alternative approaches to classifying retinal images. The novelty of these approaches is that they are not founded on individual lesion segmentation for feature generation, instead use encodings focused on the ...
Coenen, F, Hijazi, MHA, Zheng, Y
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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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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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Múltiplos defeitos localizados da camada de fibras nervosas em um paciente com glioma de nervo óptico no olho contralateral: relato de caso [PDF]
, 2009 This case report describes a young non-glaucomatous patient with neurofibromatosis and previous history of optic nerve glioma, which developed multiple wedge-shaped retinal nerve fiber layer defects close to a chorioretinal scar in the fellow eye.
Lima, Verônica Castro +4 more
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Role of advanced technology in the detection of sight-threatening eye disease in a UK community setting. [PDF]
, 2019 Background/aims: To determine the performance of combinations of structural and functional screening tests in detecting sight-threatening eye disease in a cohort of elderly subjects recruited from primary care.
Ctori, I. +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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Bilateral Optic Disc Drusen Mimicking Papilledema [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Neurology, 2012 Optic disc drusen, which are calcified deposits that form anterior to the lamina cribrosa in the optic nerve, may mimic papilledema.We report herein three cases referred to us with suspicion of disc swelling and papilledema. Following ophthalmologic evaluation with B-scan ultrasound, red-free fundus photography, and computed tomography, the diagnosis ...
Sahin, Alparslan +4 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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