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Age‐related maculopathy and the impact of blue light hazardAbstract. The pathogenesis of age‐related maculopathy (ARM), the most common cause of visual loss after the age of 60 years, is indeed a complicated scenario that involves a variety of hereditary and environmental factors. The pathological cellular and molecular events underlying retinal photochemical light damage, including photoreceptor apoptosis, have... ...
Tập 84 Số 1 - Trang 4-15 - 2006
Visual improvement with corticosteroid therapy in giant cell arteritis. Report of a large study and review of literatureABSTRACT. Objectives: (1) To report the incidence and extent of visual improvement achieved by high‐dose systemic corticosteroid treatment in eyes with visual loss due to giant‐cell arteritis (GCA). (2) To understand the cause of the discrepancies between visual improvement revealed by routine visual acuity (VA) and by the central visual fiel...
Tập 80 Số 4 - Trang 355-367 - 2002
Exfoliation (pseudoexfoliation) syndrome: toward a new understandingABSTRACT. Exfoliation (pseudoexfoliation; PEX) syndrome is the single most common identifiable cause of open‐angle glaucoma, however, very few investigators are engaged in basic research on this disease. To stimulate the field, the First International Think Tank on Exfoliation Syndrome was held in New York in July 1999, comprising clinicians and scientists. This rep... ...
Tập 79 Số 2 - Trang 213-217 - 2001
An intervention trial on efficacy of atropine and multi‐focal glasses in controlling myopic progressionABSTRACT. Purpose: This randomized clinical trial assessed the treatment effects of atropine and/or multi‐focal lenses in decreasing the progression rate of myopia in children.Methods: Two hundred and twenty‐seven schoolchildren with myopia, aged from 6 to 13 years, who were stratified based on gender, ag...
Tập 79 Số 3 - Trang 233-236 - 2001
Incidence and prevalence of keratoconus in DenmarkAbstract. Purpose: To estimate the prevalence and incidence of hospitalized keratoconus (KC) in Denmark.Methods: Data extracts from the National Patient Registry under the National Board of Health (which covers the entire Danish population) were analysed.Results: ...
Tập 85 Số 8 - Trang 890-892 - 2007
The prevalence of retinopathy in an unselected population of type 2 diabetes patients from Århus County, DenmarkAbstract. Purpose: To determine the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy and the causes of visual impairment in an unselected population of type 2 diabetes patients, and to describe the risk factors for developing diabetic retinopathy in this population. Methods: A tot...
Tập 82 Số 4 - Trang 443-448 - 2004
Negative social bias against children with strabismusAbstract. Purpose: To determine whether the presence of noticeable strabismus creates a negative social bias against children.Methods: Photographs of two boys and two girls were digitally altered to create photographs of the same child in orthotropic, esotropic and exotropic states. Elementary school t...
Tập 81 Số 2 - Trang 138-142 - 2003
Exfoliation syndrome: Frequency, gender distribution and association with climatically induced alterations of the cornea and conjunctivaABSTRACT. Purpose: To investigate exfoliation syndrome (ES) in order to elucidate gender distribution and the roles of genetic and climatic factors in its manifestation.Material and Methods: We studied the gender distribution of ES and the association between ES and the appearance of certain climatically...
Tập 80 Số 5 - Trang 478-484 - 2002
Comparison between GDx VCC scanning laser polarimetry and Stratus OCT optical coherence tomography in the diagnosis of chronic glaucomaAbstract. Purpose: To compare the abilities of scanning laser polarimetry with the variable corneal compensator (GDx VCC) with those of optical coherence tomography (Stratus OCT) in discriminating between healthy and early‐to‐moderate perimetric glaucomatous eyes.Methods: A total of 95 glaucomatous pat...
Tập 84 Số 5 - Trang 650-655 - 2006