Behavior of SD-OCT Detectable Hyperreflective Foci in Diabetic Macular Edema Patients after Therapy with Anti-VEGF Agents and Dexamethasone Implants by Anne Rübsam, Laura Wernecke, Saskia Rau, Dominika Pohlmann, Bert Müller, Oliver Zeitz, Antonia M. Joussen

“…A subgroup of 15% of eyes, all treated with anti-VEGF, showed accumulation of larger HF in outer retinal layers to visible HE during DME resolution, whereas smaller HF, found in all retinal layers, remained unchanged. …”
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Transient Peripapillary Retinoschisis in Glaucomatous Eyes by Josine van der Schoot, Koenraad A. Vermeer, Hans G. Lemij

“…Seven out of 117 glaucoma patients showed a transient, localised, peripapillary, heterogeneous microcystic schisis of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and sometimes other retinal layers as well in SD-OCT. …”
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Blinding Bilateral Hyperviscosity Retinopathy in a 43-Year-Old Nigerian Male with Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma: A Case Report and Management Challenges by Abdulkabir A. Ayanniyi, Uchenna Godswill Ejikeme, Yohanna Tanko, Rilwan C. Muhammad, Obiageli E. Nnodu

“…He had bilateral hyperpigmented infraorbital skin lesions, visual acuities (VA) of hand motion in both eyes (blindness), round and sluggish pupils, and bilateral diffuse and extensive retinal haemorrhages obliterating the retinal details with central visual field defects. …”
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Socioeconomic Barriers to Rhegmatogenous Detachment Surgery in Brazil by Pedro Carlos Carricondo, Tatiana Tanaka, Suellen Tiemi Shibata, Leandro Cabral Zacharias, Thiago Aragão Leite, Maria Fernanda Abalem, Walter Y. Takahashi

“…To verify access barriers patients with retinal detachment face to arrive at a reference center and to evaluate patients’ knowledge about the disease. …”
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Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy Sharing Characteristic OCT Findings of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease by Yuta Kitamura, Toshiyuki Oshitari, Masayasu Kitahashi, Takayuki Baba, Shuichi Yamamoto

“…Funduscopic examination showed bilateral macular serous retinal detachment and yellow-white placoid lesions at the level of retinal pigment epithelium. …”
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Predictive Factors in OCT Analysis for Visual Outcome in Exudative AMD by Maria-Andreea Gamulescu, Georgios Panagakis, Carmen Theek, Horst Helbig

“…No statistically significant predictive value could be demonstrated for grade of continuity of outer retinal layers concerning visual acuity development. …”
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Diabetic Retinopathy and BDNF: A Review on Its Molecular Basis and Clinical Applications by Mehrdad Afarid, Ehsan Namvar, Fatemeh Sanie-Jahromi

“…It seems that controlling the optimal levels of neuroprotective molecules in the retinal tissue is the main step to halter diabetic retinopathy.…”
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Anti-VEGF in a Marathon Runner’s Retinopathy Case by Alexander Kahjun Soon, Paulo Ricardo Chaves de Oliveira, David Robert Chow

“…Central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) is one of the most common retinal vascular disorders. …”
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Quantitative swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) analysis of macular microvascular alterations in Bietti crystalline dystrophy by Shiyi Yin, Jinyuan Wang, Haihan Zhang, Xuan Yang, Jingting Luo, Wenbin Wei

“…Purpose: Bietti crystalline dystrophy (BCD) is a rare retinal dystrophy characterized by progressive visual impairment. …”
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CryoEM structure and small-angle X-ray scattering analyses of porcine retinol-binding protein 3 by Vineeta Kaushik, Luca Gessa, Nelam Kumar, Matyáš Pinkas, Mariusz Czarnocki-Cieciura, Krzysztof Palczewski, Jiří Nováček, Humberto Fernandes

“…The vertebrate visual cycle hinges on enzymatically converting all-trans-retinol (at-ROL) into 11-cis-retinal (11c-RAL), the chromophore that binds to opsins in photoreceptors, forming light-responsive pigments. …”
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Long-Term Safety of Transplanting Human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells into the Extravascular Spaces of the Choroid of Rabbits by Adi Tzameret, Sapir E. Kalish, Ifat Sher, Lea Twito, Amilia Meir, Itay Levy, Shlomo Margel, Iris Moroz, Mordechai Rosner, Avraham J. Treves, Arnon Nagler, Michael Belkin, Ygal Rotenstreich

“…No reduction in retinal function was recorded by electroretinogram up to 10 weeks following transplantation. …”
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Dual-stream disentangled model for microvascular extraction in five datasets from multiple OCTA instruments by Xiaoyang Hu, Xiaoyang Hu, Jinkui Hao, Quanyong Yi, Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang

“…Accurate segmentation of retinal vasculature is essential for eye related diseases measurement and diagnosis. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography (Angiography) Biomarkers in the Assessment and Monitoring of Diabetic Macular Edema by Corina-Iuliana Suciu, Vlad-Ioan Suciu, Simona-Delia Nicoara

“…In this review, we gathered the results of studies that investigated various specific OCT (angiography) parameters in diabetic macular edema, such as central subfoveal thickness (CST), cube average thickness (CAT), cube volume (CV), choroidal thickness (CT), retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), retinal thickness at the fovea (RTF), subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT), central macular thickness (CMT), choroidal vascularity index (CVI), total macular volume (TMV), central choroid thickness (CCT), photoreceptor outer segment (PROS), perfused capillary density (PCD), foveal avascular zone (FAZ), subfoveal neuroretinal detachment (SND), hyperreflective foci (HF), disorganization of the inner retinal layers (DRIL), ellipsoid zone (EZ), inner segment/outer segment (IS/OS) junctions, vascular density (VD), deep capillary plexus (DCP), and superficial capillary plexus (SCP), in order to provide a synthesis of biomarkers that are currently used for the early diagnosis, assessment, monitoring, and outlining of prognosis.…”
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Correlation between Hyperalgesia and Upregulation of TNF-α and IL-1β in Aqueous Humor and Blood in Second Eye Phacoemulsification: Clinical and Experimental Investigation by Ruibo Yang, Chang Liu, Di Yu, Lechong Ma, Yan Zhang, Shaozhen Zhao

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Research on Fundus Image Mosaic Method Based on Genetic Algorithm by Shuang Wang

“…To solve the problem of noise in retinal fundus images, an image mosaic algorithm based on the genetic algorithm was proposed. …”
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Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from three different male XLRS patients carrying RS1 gene mutation by Sang-Yun Kim, Yong-Min Choi, Yunho Park, Seung-Hyun Kim, Hyun Beom Song, Jeong Hun Kim, Ok-Seon Kwon, Kyung-Sook Chung

“…X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) is an inherited retinal disease caused by mutation in RS1 gene. Due to limited cell sources available for studying retinal disease, patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offer an essential resource for developing XLRS disease models. …”
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Bilateral Multifocal Central Serous-Like Chorioretinopathy due to MEK Inhibition for Metastatic Cutaneous Melanoma by Scott D. Schoenberger, Stephen J. Kim

“…The presumed mechanism involves toxicity to the retinal pigment epithelium, with breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier. …”
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Barriers in Healthcare to the Use of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Multiple Sclerosis by Lukas G. Reeß, Hadi Salih, Murat Delikaya, Friedemann Paul, Frederike Cosima Oertel

“…Abstract Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) is a state-of-the-art imaging technique for the retinal vasculature to accurately segment the capillary network and assign it to retinal layers. …”
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Anti-Interleukin-6 Receptor Antibody Therapy-Induced Retinopathy in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Asumi Tada, Noriyasu Hashida, Toshio Tanaka, Kohji Nishida

“…We describe a case of skin ulceration and bilateral retinopathy with multifocal cotton-wool spots and retinal hemorrhages in a patient with RA treated with tocilizumab. …”
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Paramacular Acute Middle Maculopathy Associated with Glyceryl Trinitrate by Tryfon Rotsos, Ioannis Giachos, Konstantinos Tyrlis, Chrysanthos Symeonidis, Ekaterini Mani, Ilias Georgalas

“…A dose-dependent correlation between GTN application and retinal vascular abnormalities remains to be confirmed.…”
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