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Vitrectomy timing for retained lens fragments after surgery for age-related cataracts: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Vanner EA, Stewart MW Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Care Policy & Management, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8204, USA. evanner@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Published 22 August 2011 in Am J Ophthalmol, 152(3): 345-357.e3. Articles on Cataracts published 8 August 2011: Preoperative visual acuity of people undergoing cataract surgery in rural and urban Nepal. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol, 39(6): 501-5. Articles on Cataracts published 3 August 2011: Use of traditional cooking fuels and the risk of young adult cataract in rural Bangladesh: a hospital-based case-control study. BMC Ophthalmol, 11: 16. Articles on Cataracts published 2 August 2011: The impact of the severity of vision loss on vision-related quality of life in India: an evaluation of the IND-VFQ-33. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 52(9): 6081-8. Articles on Cataracts published 25 July 2011: Bilateral posterior subcapsular cataracts associated with long-term intranasal steroid use. J Cataract Refract Surg, 37(8): 1555-8. The use of systemic steroids has been established as a risk factor for the development of posterior subcapsular cataracts. In recent decades, the use of nasal topical steroids has increased in an effort to decrease systemic side effects. Current evidence of an association between nasal steroid use and cataract formation is contradictory. We present a case of rapid-onset bilateral posterior subcapsular cataracts in a young healthy patient with a history of long-term nasal steroid use. [Abstract] [Full-text] One million cataract surgeries: Swedish National Cataract Register 1992-2009. J Cataract Refract Surg, 37(8): 1539-45. This review summarizes data collected by the Swedish National Cataract Register, which now contains data pertaining to more than a million cataract surgery procedures, representing 95.6% of the surgeries performed in Sweden during 1992-2009. During this period, the rate of cataract surgery rose from 4.47 to 9.00 per 1000 inhabitants. The mean patient age increased until 1999 but has slowly decreased since then. Preoperative visual acuity has risen steadily. The distribution between the sexes ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Approach to cataract with persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous. J Cataract Refract Surg, 37(8): 1382-5. Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPV) is a congenital anomaly in which the hyaloid vasculature persists beyond fetal life. In cases in which cataract is associated with PHPV, intraoperative bleeding is a potential complication during cataract surgery. The pars plana approach along with endocoagulation has been used in such cases. We describe an alternative approach using a Fugo plasma blade via an anterior route. This approach provides better control over the posterior capsulotomy ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Unique and analogous functions of aquaporin 0 for fiber cell architecture and ocular lens transparency. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1812(9): 1089-97. Aquaporin (AQP) 1 and AQP0 water channels are expressed in lens epithelial and fiber cells, respectively, facilitating fluid circulation for nourishing the avascular lens to maintain transparency. Even though AQP0 water permeability is 40-fold less than AQP1, AQP0 is selectively expressed in the fibers. Delimited AQP0 fiber expression is attributed to a unique structural role as an adhesion protein. To validate this notion, we determined if wild type (WT) lens ultrastructure and fiber cell ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Overexpression of human γC-crystallin 5 bp duplication disrupts lens morphology in transgenic mice. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 52(8): 5369-75. © 2005-2011 Cataracts Research Today. All Rights Reserved. |
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