Tears have antimicrobial, nourishing, mechanical, and optical properties. They contain components such as growth factors, fibronectin, and vitamins to support proliferation, migration, and ...

Drusen are focal deposits of extracellular material located between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and Bruch's membrane and represent the major phenotypic characteristic of age-related macular ...

Purpose To evaluate clinical features and visual outcomes in macular pseudohole (MPH) and to investigate associations between visual acuity and optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters in ...

Background In the developed countries, uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults. Little is known about the epidemiological and geographical distribution of uveal ...

Background Syphilitic uveitis is re-emerging alongside the systemic infection. In July 2017, an international group of uveitis-specialised ophthalmologists formed the International Ocular Syphilis ...

Background/aims To estimate 2015 global ophthalmologist data and analyse their relationship to income groups, prevalence rates of blindness and visual impairment and gross domestic product (GDP) per ...

The vascular supply of the optic nerve head is complex and remains incompletely delineated. Over the past 50 years, various investigators have attempted to clarify the relative contributions of the ...

AIMS To simulate the central binocular visual field using results from merged left and right monocular Humphrey fields. To assess the agreement between the simulation and the binocular Humphrey ...

Background/aims To evaluate the long-term effects of treat-and-extend dosing of ranibizumab with and without navigated focal laser for diabetic macular oedema (DME). Methods This is a multicentre, ...

AIMS To determine whether unilateral cataract causes a pathological Pulfrich’s phenomenon. METHODS 29 subjects with unilateral cataract and contralateral pseudophakia were assessed on their ability to ...

AIM To evaluate the optical coherence tomographic characteristics of choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) in age related macular degeneration (AMD) and in idiopathic and inflammatory CNV. The use of ...

Background/aims To evaluate the efficacy and safety of posterior scleral reinforcement (PSR) using genipin cross-linked sclera as the material to treat macular detachment and retinoschisis, both ...