Aim: In this study we investigated the changes in anterior segment morphology in pseudophakia patients that underwent ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) operation without use of tamponade...Aim: In this study we investigated the changes in anterior segment morphology in pseudophakia patients that underwent ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) operation without use of tamponade. Method: Pseudophakic patients who undergo PPV were enrolled in this prospective study between October 2012 and April 2015. Study included patients in whom intraocular tamponade was not used during PPV operation. UBM measurements were performed both before and 10 days after the operation. Anterior chamber depth (ACD) was measured using axial images of anterior segment. Trabecular meshwork-iris angle (TIA), ciliary body thickness (CBT), sclera thickness (ST), trabecular meshwork-ciliary process distance (T-CPD), iris-ciliary processes distance (I-CPD), and iris thickness (IT) were measured at temporal quadrant based on radial section images of the angle. Values measured before and after the operation were statistically compared with each other. Results: This study included 30 patients (18 females, 12 males) that underwent an operation ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) operation without use of tamponade. Mean age was 69.6 ± 9.1 (55 - 85) years. Eighteen operations occurred on the left eye whereas twelve operations occurred on the right eye. CBT1, CBT2, CBT Max, T-CPD, and I-CPD were significantly decreased after operation when compared with the values of baseline (before) (p = 0.018, p = 0.012, p = 0.001, p = 0.033, p = 0.015, respectively). Other evaluated parameters did not show statistically significant changes after the operation (p > 0.05). Discussion: PPV results in significant changes in ciliary body morphology together with changes in anterior segment parameters in pseudophakic cases.展开更多
The eye is a highly protected organ, and designing an effective therapy is often considered a challenging task. The anatomical and physiological barriers result in low ocular bioavailability of drugs. Due to these con...The eye is a highly protected organ, and designing an effective therapy is often considered a challenging task. The anatomical and physiological barriers result in low ocular bioavailability of drugs. Due to these constraints, less than 5% of the administered dose is absorbed from the conventional ophthalmic dosage forms. Further, physicochemical properties such as lipophilicity, molecular weight and charge modulate the permeability of drug molecules. Vision-threatening diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic macular edema, cataract, wet and dry age-related macular degeneration, proliferative vitreoretinopathy, uveitis, and cytomegalovirus retinitis alter the pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms may result in the development of novel treatment modalities. Recently, transporter/receptor targeted prodrug approach has generated significant interest in ocular drug delivery. These transporters and receptors are involved in the transport of essential nutrients, vitamins, and xenobiotics across biological membranes. Several influx transporters(peptides, amino acids, glucose, lac-tate and nucleosides/nucleobases) and receptors(folate and biotin) have been identified on conjunctiva, cornea, and retina. Structural and functional delineation of these transporters will enable more drugs targeting the posterior segment to be successfully delivered topically. Prodrug derivatization targeting transporters and receptors expressed on ocular tissues has been the subject of intense research. Several prodrugs have been designed to target these transporters and enhance the absorption of poorly permeating parent drug. Moreover, this approach might be used in gene delivery to modify cellular function and membrane receptors. This review provides comprehensive information on ocular drug delivery, with special emphasis on the use of transporters and receptors to improve drug bioavailability.展开更多
Background:We aimed to evaluate dry eye diseases(DED)in patients with newly diagnosed depression and anxiety patients.Methods:Forty newly diagnosed depression,35 anxiety patients,and 37 controls without any history of...Background:We aimed to evaluate dry eye diseases(DED)in patients with newly diagnosed depression and anxiety patients.Methods:Forty newly diagnosed depression,35 anxiety patients,and 37 controls without any history of taking psychiatric drugs(or before the beginning of psychiatric medication)and topical ophthalmic drop use,were included in the study.All depression and anxiety diagnoses were performed by an experienced psychiatrist.Beck depression and anxiety tests were used to measure disease severity.Tear film break up time(TBUT),Schirmer’s test,Oxford scores and ocular surface disease index(OSDI)were admiinistered to participants.Anterior segment optical coherence tomography was used to measure tear meniscus heights(TMH),tear meniscus depths(TMD)and tear meniscus areas(TMA).Results:In anxiety and depression groups,Schirmer’s test(mm)(7.24±6.02,6.58±4.9 and 18.79±4.9 respectively,p<0.05)and TBUT(s)(5.62±3.1,5.6±3.5 and 13.37±1.7 respectively,p<0.05)were significantly lower than control group.In addition,OSDI and Oxford scores were significantly higher than controls.OSDI scores were 28.01±19,30.43±18.49,14.38±8.14 respectively(p=0.002)and Oxford scores were 1.9±0.7,2.1±0.6 and 0.7±0.4 respectively(p=0.001).TMD,TMH and TMA values were significantly lower in anxiety and depression groups compared with control groups.Correlations between disease inventory scores and dry eye tests were detected.Conclusions:This study showed a relation between DED and newly diagnosed anxiety and depression patients with no history of psychiatric drug use.The presence of correlation between dry eye tests and disease inventory scores strengthens this association.This is an important knowledge that need to be evaluated in these patients before starting psychiatric medication.展开更多
Anterior segment eye diseases account for a significant proportion of presentations to eye clinics worldwide,including diseases associated with corneal pathologies,anterior chamber abnormalities(e.g.blood or inflammat...Anterior segment eye diseases account for a significant proportion of presentations to eye clinics worldwide,including diseases associated with corneal pathologies,anterior chamber abnormalities(e.g.blood or inflammation),and lens diseases.The construction of an automatic tool for segmentation of anterior segment eye lesions would greatly improve the efficiency of clinical care.With research on artificial intelligence progressing in recent years,deep learning models have shown their superiority in image classification and segmentation.The training and evaluation of deep learning models should be based on a large amount of data annotated with expertise;however,such data are relatively scarce in the domain of medicine.Herein,the authors developed a new medical image annotation system,called EyeHealer.It is a large-scale anterior eye segment dataset with both eye structures and lesions annotated at the pixel level.Comprehensive experiments were conducted to verify its performance in disease classification and eye lesion segmentation.The results showed that semantic segmentation models outperformed medical segmentation models.This paper describes the establishment of the system for automated classification and segmentation tasks.The dataset will be made publicly available to encourage future research in this area.展开更多
AIM: To quantify the changes in the lens profile with accommodation in different age groups. METHODS: The Pentacam HR system was used to obtain the images of the anterior eye segment from 23 young and 15 presbyopic em...AIM: To quantify the changes in the lens profile with accommodation in different age groups. METHODS: The Pentacam HR system was used to obtain the images of the anterior eye segment from 23 young and 15 presbyopic emmetropic subjects in unaccommodated (with an accommodation stimulus of 0.0D) and accommodated (with an accommodation stimulus of 5.0D for the young group and 1.0D for the presbyopic group) states. The phakic crystalline lens shape, including curvature of crystalline lens and central lens thickness (CLT), and the measurements of anterior segment length (ASL), central anterior chamber depth (CACD) were investigated. The anterior chamber volume (ACV) was also measured. RESULTS: The reduction of CACD and ACV were significant in both groups after accommodation stimulus. From the profile of anterior eye segment, a significant decrease in anterior crystalline lens radii of curvature (-2.52mm) and a mean increase in CLT (0.222mm) and ASL (0.1138mm) were found in the. young group with an accommodation stimulus of 5.0D. However, no statistically significant changes of CLT, ASL, or crystalline lens radii of curvature were found in the presbyopic group. CONCLUSION: Our data showed that the shallowing of anterior chamber during accommodation was caused by the forward bulging of the anterior lens surface, rather than by anterior shifting of lens position in either young or presbyopic subjects.展开更多
This is a case presentation of a very bizarre open globe trauma with anterior segment foreign body-fishing hook stuck in the cornea and iris. Complications due to this kind of eye trauma might be very hazardous and wi...This is a case presentation of a very bizarre open globe trauma with anterior segment foreign body-fishing hook stuck in the cornea and iris. Complications due to this kind of eye trauma might be very hazardous and with serious impact on visual function. We are representing our approach and experience of three step management of this kind of eye injury: first-extract the foreign body, close and reconstruct the eyeball, second-fight inflammation, and third-restore the visual function by cataract surgery.展开更多
文摘Aim: In this study we investigated the changes in anterior segment morphology in pseudophakia patients that underwent ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) operation without use of tamponade. Method: Pseudophakic patients who undergo PPV were enrolled in this prospective study between October 2012 and April 2015. Study included patients in whom intraocular tamponade was not used during PPV operation. UBM measurements were performed both before and 10 days after the operation. Anterior chamber depth (ACD) was measured using axial images of anterior segment. Trabecular meshwork-iris angle (TIA), ciliary body thickness (CBT), sclera thickness (ST), trabecular meshwork-ciliary process distance (T-CPD), iris-ciliary processes distance (I-CPD), and iris thickness (IT) were measured at temporal quadrant based on radial section images of the angle. Values measured before and after the operation were statistically compared with each other. Results: This study included 30 patients (18 females, 12 males) that underwent an operation ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) operation without use of tamponade. Mean age was 69.6 ± 9.1 (55 - 85) years. Eighteen operations occurred on the left eye whereas twelve operations occurred on the right eye. CBT1, CBT2, CBT Max, T-CPD, and I-CPD were significantly decreased after operation when compared with the values of baseline (before) (p = 0.018, p = 0.012, p = 0.001, p = 0.033, p = 0.015, respectively). Other evaluated parameters did not show statistically significant changes after the operation (p > 0.05). Discussion: PPV results in significant changes in ciliary body morphology together with changes in anterior segment parameters in pseudophakic cases.
基金Supported by The Research Start-Up Funds from the University of Toledo
文摘The eye is a highly protected organ, and designing an effective therapy is often considered a challenging task. The anatomical and physiological barriers result in low ocular bioavailability of drugs. Due to these constraints, less than 5% of the administered dose is absorbed from the conventional ophthalmic dosage forms. Further, physicochemical properties such as lipophilicity, molecular weight and charge modulate the permeability of drug molecules. Vision-threatening diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic macular edema, cataract, wet and dry age-related macular degeneration, proliferative vitreoretinopathy, uveitis, and cytomegalovirus retinitis alter the pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms may result in the development of novel treatment modalities. Recently, transporter/receptor targeted prodrug approach has generated significant interest in ocular drug delivery. These transporters and receptors are involved in the transport of essential nutrients, vitamins, and xenobiotics across biological membranes. Several influx transporters(peptides, amino acids, glucose, lac-tate and nucleosides/nucleobases) and receptors(folate and biotin) have been identified on conjunctiva, cornea, and retina. Structural and functional delineation of these transporters will enable more drugs targeting the posterior segment to be successfully delivered topically. Prodrug derivatization targeting transporters and receptors expressed on ocular tissues has been the subject of intense research. Several prodrugs have been designed to target these transporters and enhance the absorption of poorly permeating parent drug. Moreover, this approach might be used in gene delivery to modify cellular function and membrane receptors. This review provides comprehensive information on ocular drug delivery, with special emphasis on the use of transporters and receptors to improve drug bioavailability.
文摘Background:We aimed to evaluate dry eye diseases(DED)in patients with newly diagnosed depression and anxiety patients.Methods:Forty newly diagnosed depression,35 anxiety patients,and 37 controls without any history of taking psychiatric drugs(or before the beginning of psychiatric medication)and topical ophthalmic drop use,were included in the study.All depression and anxiety diagnoses were performed by an experienced psychiatrist.Beck depression and anxiety tests were used to measure disease severity.Tear film break up time(TBUT),Schirmer’s test,Oxford scores and ocular surface disease index(OSDI)were admiinistered to participants.Anterior segment optical coherence tomography was used to measure tear meniscus heights(TMH),tear meniscus depths(TMD)and tear meniscus areas(TMA).Results:In anxiety and depression groups,Schirmer’s test(mm)(7.24±6.02,6.58±4.9 and 18.79±4.9 respectively,p<0.05)and TBUT(s)(5.62±3.1,5.6±3.5 and 13.37±1.7 respectively,p<0.05)were significantly lower than control group.In addition,OSDI and Oxford scores were significantly higher than controls.OSDI scores were 28.01±19,30.43±18.49,14.38±8.14 respectively(p=0.002)and Oxford scores were 1.9±0.7,2.1±0.6 and 0.7±0.4 respectively(p=0.001).TMD,TMH and TMA values were significantly lower in anxiety and depression groups compared with control groups.Correlations between disease inventory scores and dry eye tests were detected.Conclusions:This study showed a relation between DED and newly diagnosed anxiety and depression patients with no history of psychiatric drug use.The presence of correlation between dry eye tests and disease inventory scores strengthens this association.This is an important knowledge that need to be evaluated in these patients before starting psychiatric medication.
基金This study was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2017YFC1104600)Recruitment Program of Leading Talents of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2016LJ06Y375).
文摘Anterior segment eye diseases account for a significant proportion of presentations to eye clinics worldwide,including diseases associated with corneal pathologies,anterior chamber abnormalities(e.g.blood or inflammation),and lens diseases.The construction of an automatic tool for segmentation of anterior segment eye lesions would greatly improve the efficiency of clinical care.With research on artificial intelligence progressing in recent years,deep learning models have shown their superiority in image classification and segmentation.The training and evaluation of deep learning models should be based on a large amount of data annotated with expertise;however,such data are relatively scarce in the domain of medicine.Herein,the authors developed a new medical image annotation system,called EyeHealer.It is a large-scale anterior eye segment dataset with both eye structures and lesions annotated at the pixel level.Comprehensive experiments were conducted to verify its performance in disease classification and eye lesion segmentation.The results showed that semantic segmentation models outperformed medical segmentation models.This paper describes the establishment of the system for automated classification and segmentation tasks.The dataset will be made publicly available to encourage future research in this area.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81070747)Research Award for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No. NCET08-0586)in ChinaScience and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, China (No.2010B090400416)
文摘AIM: To quantify the changes in the lens profile with accommodation in different age groups. METHODS: The Pentacam HR system was used to obtain the images of the anterior eye segment from 23 young and 15 presbyopic emmetropic subjects in unaccommodated (with an accommodation stimulus of 0.0D) and accommodated (with an accommodation stimulus of 5.0D for the young group and 1.0D for the presbyopic group) states. The phakic crystalline lens shape, including curvature of crystalline lens and central lens thickness (CLT), and the measurements of anterior segment length (ASL), central anterior chamber depth (CACD) were investigated. The anterior chamber volume (ACV) was also measured. RESULTS: The reduction of CACD and ACV were significant in both groups after accommodation stimulus. From the profile of anterior eye segment, a significant decrease in anterior crystalline lens radii of curvature (-2.52mm) and a mean increase in CLT (0.222mm) and ASL (0.1138mm) were found in the. young group with an accommodation stimulus of 5.0D. However, no statistically significant changes of CLT, ASL, or crystalline lens radii of curvature were found in the presbyopic group. CONCLUSION: Our data showed that the shallowing of anterior chamber during accommodation was caused by the forward bulging of the anterior lens surface, rather than by anterior shifting of lens position in either young or presbyopic subjects.
文摘This is a case presentation of a very bizarre open globe trauma with anterior segment foreign body-fishing hook stuck in the cornea and iris. Complications due to this kind of eye trauma might be very hazardous and with serious impact on visual function. We are representing our approach and experience of three step management of this kind of eye injury: first-extract the foreign body, close and reconstruct the eyeball, second-fight inflammation, and third-restore the visual function by cataract surgery.
