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‘It’s too late’. Is it really? Considerations for amblyopia treatment in older children [PDF]

, 2019
In recent years, media coverage has demonstrated instances in which families of children aged 7 and older, newly diagnosed with strabismic and/or anisometropic amblyopia through community eyecare services, were told it was ‘too late’ for their child to ...
Apt L, Berry C, College of Optometrists, Davis H, Levi DM, Price A, Reddy MA, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Simmers AJ, West S   +9 more
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Genomic and Immune Correlates of EZH2 Expression and Activity in Olfactory Neuroblastoma

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Olfactory neuroblastoma (ONB) is a rare sinonasal malignancy with limited therapeutic options in the recurrent/metastatic setting; little is known regarding its responsiveness to immunotherapy. Inhibition of enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) has been shown to improve T‐cell‐mediated killing and susceptibility to immune checkpoint ...
Elisabetta Xue, Tolulope Adeyelu, Harris Krause, Andrew Elliott, Ranee Mehra, Heloisa Soares, Emil Lou, Ari Vanderwalde, David Spetzler, Dara Bracken‐Clarke, Nyall R. London Jr., James L. Gulley, Charalampos S. Floudas   +12 more
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Optometry students’ views on preparing for private practice via standardised patient simulation

African Vision and Eye Health
Background: Standardised patient (SP) simulation can significantly enrich the learning environment in health professions education. Simulation in optometry has yet to be widely adopted, especially in Africa, prompting this study to investigate whether ...
Elzana Kempen, Mathys J. Labuschagne, Mpho P. Jama   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating eye health into policy: Evidence for health systems strengthening in KwaZulu-Natal

African Vision and Eye Health, 2020
Background: Available evidence is that eye health care receives less attention compared to other allied health professions in public health services across South Africa, yet vision impairment is known to have significant social and economic consequences.
Lungile M. Buthelezi, Diane van Staden
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Repeatability of push-up and push-down methods in the measure of accommodation amplitude [PDF]

, 2017
La mesura de l’amplitud d’acomodació és una pràctica molt habitual en optometria. La majoria de professionals coincideixen en que els mètodes push-up i push-down són els més utilitzats als exàmens visuals degut al fet que són mètodes ràpids, fàcils i ...
Duatis Alcoverro, Cinta
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Suboptimal eye movements for seeing fine details. [PDF]

, 2018
Human eyes are never stable, even during attempts of maintaining gaze on a visual target. Considering transient response characteristics of retinal ganglion cells, a certain amount of motion of the eyes is required to efficiently encode information and ...
Agaoglu, Mehmet N, Chung, Susana TL, Roorda, Austin, Sheehy, Christy K, Tiruveedhula, Pavan   +4 more
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Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy for Periauricular Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The standard‐of‐care for advanced periauricular cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (pCSCC) is surgery and adjuvant radiation therapy. Neoadjuvant immunotherapy recently demonstrated high pathologic response rates in patients with resectable pCSCC.
David Z. Allen, Neil Gross, Marc‐Elie Nader, Renata Ferrarotto, Moran Amit, Priyadharsini Nagarajan, Paul Gidley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oncologic Safety of Facial‐Vessel–Based Buccinator Myomucosal Flaps for Tongue and Oral Floor Reconstruction: A Retrospective Multicenter Case–Control Study

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Buccinator myomucosal flaps (BMFs) have been proposed as a reconstructive solution for defects of the tongue and oral floor; however, their harvest requires preservation of the facial artery and vein. This study aimed to evaluate the oncologic safety of this approach compared with free fasciocutaneous flaps (FFF).
Luigi Angelo Vaira, Olindo Massarelli, Jerry Polesel, Andrea Ferri, Carlos M. Chiesa‐Estomba, Ignacio Navarro Cuéllar, Giuseppe Consorti, Giulio Cirignaco, Marco Cucurullo, Giovanni Salzano, Sourabh Padmanabhan, Abhijith George, Marzia Petrocelli, Javeria Ali, Jose A. González‐Garcia, Alfonso Manfuso, Tareck Ayad, Carlos Navarro Cuéllar, Fabiola Giudici, Jerome R. Lechien, Shawn T. Joseph, Chiara Copelli, Federico Biglioli, Silvano Ferrari, Giacomo De Riu   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Adoption and Utilization of Perfluorohexyloctane for Dry Eye Disease in the United States

Clinical Ophthalmology
Bridgitte Shen Lee,1 Lia Pizzicato,2 Elizabeth Langford,2 Liucheng Shi,2 Victoria Divino,2 Adam Alexander,3 Abhishek A Nair4 1Vision Optique, Houston, TX, USA; 2Real World Solutions, IQVIA, Falls Church, VA, USA; 3Medical Affairs, Bausch + Lomb ...
Shen Lee B, Pizzicato L, Langford E, Shi L, Divino V, Alexander A, Nair AA   +6 more
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Ugandan optometry students’ experiences of their clinical training: a qualitative study

BMC Research Notes
Background There is a gradual increase in the number of optometry education programs in Africa yet there is limited knowledge on optometry students’ experiences of their clinical training. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the optometry
Boaz Mucunguzi, Walker Guti, Moreen Tumwine, Aloysius G. Mubuuke, Ian Munabi, Arild Raaheim, Sarah Kiguli   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source