Protective Role of Glutathione and Nitric Oxide Production in the Pathogenesis of Pterygium
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 Objective. In the pathogenesis of pterygium, the protective role of glutathione and nitric oxide production is unclear. These are important factors for homeostasis in the redox state of cells.
Fidelina Parra +7 more
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A comparison of two conjunctival rotation autograft techniques in primary pterygium surgery. [PDF]
, 2017 PURPOSE: To compare the effects of 90° and 180° conjunctival rotational autograft (CRA) techniques used in primary pterygium surgery. METHODS: Forty-five patients were included in this retrospective study. Visual acuity (VA), corneal topography, and auto-
Aksoy, Umit +7 more
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Terapia auxiliar com o tranilast pré-operatório na cirurgia do pterígio primário com um ano de seguimento [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose: To determine the efficacy of tranilast as an adjunctive therapy in conjunctival autograft. Methods: Twenty-nine patients were randomly allocated to the Tranilast Group (n=15) or the Control Group (n=14).
Almeida Júnior, Gildásio Castello de +7 more
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Acta Medica Alanya, 2021 Aim: To evaluate the results of conjunctival autograft transplantation (CAT) combined with amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) surgery in recurrent pterygium cases.Methods: This is a retrospective interventional case series involving patients ...
Cafer Tanrıverdi, Özlem Balcı
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Conjunctival Short-term Evolution after Pterygium Excision [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose To analyze conjunctival cytological features 1 month after pterygium excision using limbo-conjunctival autograft (LCA) with and without intraoperative mitomycin C and to assess tissue short-term evolution in both situations.; Methods Fifty-nine ...
Julio Morán, Gemma +4 more
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Healing indicators after pterygium excision by optical coherence tomography [PDF]
, 2015 PurposeTo establish the sequence of tomographic changes in the tissue recovery process after pterygium excision and to propose healing indicators.; MethodsOptical coherence tomography (OCT) images were taken at 1week, 1, 3 and 6months after lesion ...
Asokan +24 more
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Pterygium and Associated Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia [PDF]
, 2009 Objective: To measure the rate of histopathologically identified ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) in pterygium specimens. Methods: All pterygium specimens collected from consecutive patients between April 8, 2003, and February 6, 2008, were ...
Axelsen, Roy A. +2 more
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Influence of pterygium size on corneal higher-order aberration evaluated using anterior-segment optical coherence tomography [PDF]
, 2018 BackgroundThe prospective observation study aimed to evaluate changes in corneal higher-order aberrations induced by advancement of pterygium using an anterior-segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and Zernike aberration analysis.MethodsThe ...
Minami Keiichiro +5 more
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Subconjunctival Bevacizumab Injection in Treatment of Pterygium [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 2011 This study determined the clinical effect of subconjunctival administration of bevacizumab in patients with primary and recurrent pterygium. The study was an off-label, single-dosing, interventional case series involving 22 patients with primary and ...
Mohammad Reza Besharati +2 more
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Genetics update: monogenetics, polygene disorders and the quest for modifying genes [PDF]
, 2018 The genetic channelopathies are a broad collection of diseases. Many ion channel genes demonstrate wide phenotypic pleiotropy, but nonetheless concerted efforts have been made to characterise genotype-phenotype relationships.
Symonds, Joseph D., Zuberi, Sameer M.
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