Oculodentodigital Dysplasia: A Case Report and Major Review of the Eye and Ocular Adnexa Features of 295 Reported Cases by Virang Kumar, Natario L. Couser, Arti Pandya

“…The most common eye features reported among all mutations were microcornea, microphthalmia, short palpebral fissures, and glaucoma.…”
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A Novel Ensemble Meta-Model for Enhanced Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Deep Learning Architectures by Mohamed Chetoui, Moulay A. Akhloufi

“…<b>Background:</b> Retinal blood vessel segmentation plays an important role in diagnosing retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and hypertensive retinopathy. Accurate segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images presents a challenging task due to noise, low contrast, and the complex morphology of blood vessel structures. …”
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The role of structural viscoelasticity in deformable porous media with incompressibleconstituents: Applications in biomechanics by Maurizio Verri, Giovanna Guidoboni, Lorena Bociu, Riccardo Sacco

“…Interestingly, the loss of viscoelastic tissue properties has been associated with various disease conditions, such as atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and glaucoma. Thus, the findings of this work may be relevant to many applications in biology and medicine.…”
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Postoperative Endophthalmitis after Combined Cataract Extraction and iStent Inject Implantation by Johnson Huang, Minh T. Nguyen, Mai Tsukikawa, Andrew Chen

“…A 70-year-old male with a nuclear sclerotic cataract and primary open-angle glaucoma underwent an uneventful phacoemulsification cataract extraction with implantation of an intraocular lens and an iStent inject trabecular bypass stent. …”
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Exosomes in Ocular Health: Recent Insights into Pathology, Diagnostic Applications and Therapeutic Functions by Noelia Blanco-Agudín, Suhui Ye, Sara González-Fernández, Ignacio Alcalde, Jesús Merayo-Lloves, Luis M. Quirós

“…This review aims to summarize the most recent knowledge on the function of exosomes in the ocular system in healthy individuals and the role they play during pathological processes of a degenerative, infectious, neurodegenerative, vascular and inflammatory nature, such as keratoconus, keratitis, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and uveitis. Furthermore, given their unique characteristics, their potential as diagnostic biomarkers or therapeutic agents and their application in clinical ophthalmology are also explored, along with the main limitations that researchers face today in the field.…”
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A multidimensional study for design of phytochemical profiling, antioxidant potential, and enzyme inhibition effects of ışgın (Rheum telianum) as an edible plant by Ahmet Zafer Tel, Kubra Aslan, Mustafa Abdullah Yılmaz, İlhami Gulcin

“…The inhibition effects of both leaves and the seeds of the R. telianum extracts on acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase, α-glycosidase and human carbonic anhydrases II isoenzyme enzymes, which associated with some global diseases including Alzheimer's disease, type-2 diabetes mellitus and glaucoma were determined. In conclusion, the extracts' contents and functional relationship and the plants' possible usage in the food, medicine, and cosmetic industries was revealed.…”
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Glaucomatocyclitic Crises May Occur in Patients with Narrow or Closed Angles by Pei-Kang Liu, Han-Yi Tseng, Min-Yu Huang, Kwou-Yeung Wu

“…In patients with shallow anterior chambers, a glaucomatocyclitic crisis may be a cause of acute glaucoma episodes.…”
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Patient and Surgeon Satisfaction Levels after Using an Acrylic, Hydrophobic, Monofocal IOL and the Malyugin Ring in Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome Patients by Andreas F. Borkenstein, Eva-Maria Borkenstein

“…Materials and Methods. 42 eyes of twenty-eight patients with progressed cataract formation and pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PXF) or pseudoexfoliation glaucoma and best corrected distance visual acuity (BCDVA) between 0.30–1.00 logMAR were enrolled. …”
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Indications of Optical Coherence Tomography in Keratoplasties: Literature Review by Thiago Trindade Nesi, Daniel Amorim Leite, Fábio Medina Rocha, Marco Antônio Tanure, Pedro Paulo Reis, Eduardo Büchele Rodrigues, Mauro Silveira de Queiroz Campos

“…OCT has also been used to evaluate the keratoplasty postoperative period, for early identification of possible complications, such as secondary glaucoma or donor disc detachments in endothelial keratoplasties. …”
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Outcomes and Complications of Scleral-Fixated Intraocular Lens Combined with Ahmed Tube Surgery by Nikhel Sachdev, Maria Cecilia Aquino, Seng Chee Loon, Yiong Huak Chan, Paul Chew, Victor Koh

“…To evaluate the outcome and complications of transscleral suture-fixated posterior chamber intraocular lens (PCIOL) implantation combined with Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) surgery in Asian eyes. Design. …”
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Microcystic Changes in the Retinal Internal Nuclear Layer Associated with Optic Atrophy: A Prospective Study by Benjamin Wolff, Georges Azar, Vivien Vasseur, José-Alain Sahel, Catherine Vignal, Martine Mauget-Faÿsse

“…Those findings were found in 75% of eyes presenting hereditary OA, 50% of eyes presenting ischemic optic neuritis, 50% of eyes with drusen of the optic nerve (ON), 44.4% of eyes presenting a compressive OA, 32% of eyes presenting inflammatory optic neuropathy from multiple sclerosis, 18.5% of eyes presenting OA from undetermined origin, and 17.6% of eyes having primary open-angle glaucoma. This study demonstrates that microcystic changes in RINL are not specific to a disease but are found in OA of various etiologies. …”
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Corneal Opacity Induced by Antiglaucoma Agents Other Than Brimonidine Tartrate by Yuka Kasuya, Ichiya Sano, Shinji Makino, Hidetoshi Kawashima

“…An 85-year-old woman presented with corneal opacity and neovascularization in both eyes. A diagnosis of glaucoma was made 20 years previously, and antiglaucoma agents were prescribed (latanoprost, tafluprost, timolol maleate, travoprost, bimatoprost, ripasudil hydrochloride hydrate, and brinzolamide/timolol maleate) for both eyes. …”
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Identification of Ocular and Auditory Manifestations of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Mbingo by Imran Jivraj, Chris J. Rudnisky, Emmanuel Tambe, Graham Tipple, Matthew T. S. Tennant

“…Students at two schools, one for children with hearing impairment, were screened for cataract, congenital glaucoma, and pigmentary retinopathy. Methods. Students underwent seven-field digital fundus photography through a dilated pupil using a Topcon NW200 nonmydriatic camera. …”
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A Patient with Corneal Epithelial Disorder That Developed after Administration of a Latanoprost Generic, but Not a Brand-Name Drug, Eye Drop by Yukihisa Takada, Yuka Okada, Norihito Fujita, Shizuya Saika

“…An 88-year-old male with glaucoma had been treated with Timoptol eye drops and Xalatan eye drops for a few years. …”
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Síndrome de Axenfeld-Rieger. Presentación de un caso by Armando Rafael Milanés Armengol, Kattia Molina Castellanos, Yusnavy Lozano Curbelo, Marla Milanés Molina, Ángel Miguel Ojeda Leal

“…Sufre complicaciones propias de la evolución de la entidad como es el glaucoma secundario, por lo que se trató con triple terapia con hipotensores oculares, en espera de la respuesta al tratamiento para, en el caso de una evolución tórpida, proceder al tratamiento quirúrgico: trabeculectomía.…”
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Fuchs’ Heterochromic Iridocyclitis in an Italian Tertiary Referral Centre: Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Prognosis by Massimo Accorinti, Giovanni Spinucci, Maria Pia Pirraglia, Simone Bruschi, Francesca Romana Pesci, Ludovico Iannetti

“…FHI has a good visual prognosis, despite the significant incidence of cataract and glaucoma. A correct and prompt diagnosis might avoid unnecessary therapies and provide excellent visual outcomes.…”
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Relative Contributions of Intracranial Pressure and Intraocular Pressure on Lamina Cribrosa Behavior by Junfei Tong, Deepta Ghate, Sachin Kedar, Linxia Gu

“…The influences of these pressure are dependent on sclera material properties, which might explain the pathogenesis of ocular hypertension and normal-tension glaucoma.…”
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Management and Clinical Outcome of Penetrating Keratoplasty for Long-Term Corneal Changes in Sympathetic Ophthalmia by Saraswathi Ramamurthi, Ebube E. Obi, Gordon N. Dutton, Kanna Ramaesh

“…One patient had undergone trabeculectomy for glaucoma, and she was on antiglaucoma medication. The preoperative visual acuity was 1/60 in the affected eye of each patient. …”
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Iris from Iridectomy Used as Spacer underneath the Scleral Flap: The Iridenflip Trabeculectomy Technique by Veva De Groot, Liselotte Aerts, Stefan Kiekens, Tanja Coeckelbergh, Marie-José Tassignon

“…A retrospective case series of patients with medically uncontrolled open angle glaucoma underwent trabeculectomy. Instead of performing a classical iridectomy, the iris was used as spacer underneath the scleral flap. …”
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Causes and Risk Factors of Repeated Hospitalization among Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy by Yu Xiao, Yingying Liang, Zhanjie Lin, Huiqian Kong, Zijing Du, Yunyan Hu, Shuyi Ouyang

“…Among 2592 hospital discharges of 827 patients who experienced at least two hospitalizations, the major causes of repeated hospitalization were macular edema (30.83%), vitreous hemorrhage (29.09%), cataract (22.76%), proliferative membrane formation (6.91%), silicone oil removal (4.71%), retinal detachment (4.44%), and glaucoma (4.17%). The results of ordinal logistic regression showed that younger patients with medical insurance and local residence have a higher risk of repeated hospitalization (p<0.05). …”
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