Deep Transfer Learning for Ethnically Distinct Populations: Prediction of Refractive Error Using Optical Coherence Tomography by Rishabh Jain, Tae Keun Yoo, Ik Hee Ryu, Joanna Song, Nitin Kolte, Ashiyana Nariani

“…Results Both adaptation models for SE and K were significantly better than those without adaptation (P < 0.001). In myopia/hyperopia classification, the model trained on circular optic disc OCT images yielded the best performance (accuracy = 74.7%). …”
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Vision for the Future Project: Screening impact on the prevention and treatment of visual impairments in public school children in São Paulo City, Brazil by Douglas Rodrigues da Costa, Iara Debert, Fernanda Nicolela Susanna, Janaina Guerra Falabreti, Mariza Polati, Remo Susanna Júnior

“…Children with normal ophthalmological exam, 591 (54.7%; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 51.7%-57.7%) were dismissed and considered false-positives. Myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism components were found in 164 (15.2%; CI: 13.1%-17.4%), 190 (17.6%; CI: 15.3%-20.0%), and 330 (30.5%; CI: 27.8%-33.4%) children, respectively. …”
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Construction of a knowledge graph for diabetes complications from expert-reviewed clinical evidences by Lei Wang, Huimin Xie, Wentao Han, Xiao Yang, Lili Shi, Jiancheng Dong, Kui Jiang, Huiqun Wu

“…In this study, relevant life-style evidence that are factors for the risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR), diabetic nephropathy (DN), diabetic foot (DF), and diabetic depression (DD), and the results of several of the relevant clinical test, including bariatric surgery, myopia, lipid-lowering drugs, lipid-lowering drug duration, blood glucose control, disease course, glycosylated hemoglobin, fasting blood glucose, hypertension, sex, smoking and other common lifestyle characteristics were finally extracted. …”
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Corneal higher order aberrations by Sirius topography and their relation to different refractive errors by Abdelrahman Salman, Obeda Kailani, Marwan Ghabra, Rana Omran, Taym R. Darwish, Rafea Shaaban, Hussein Ibrahim, Hala Alhaji, Hussam Khalil

“…Study eyes were divided into four groups based on refractive error: mild-to-moderate myopia, hypermetropia, myopic astigmatism, and emmetropic eyes as controls. …”
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Corneal biomechanical properties after SMILE versus FLEX, LASIK, LASEK, or PRK: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Hui Guo, Seyed M. Hosseini-Moghaddam, William Hodge

“…Studies that compared SMILE with other corneal refractive surgeries on adult myopia patients and evaluated corneal biomechanics were included. …”
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Comparative evaluation of pre-infusion at caesar section performed under spinal anesthesia. Results of multicenter trial by Kim Yong Din, K Mikirtichev, O Matkurbanov, E Allamov, V Kim, B Sartabaev, K Mukhtarov, L Agababyan, M Sakhhibbaev, R Khusainov

“…Indications for surgery were: disease of the operated uterus, insolvency of the scar on the uterus, clinically narrow pelvis, high-grade myopia, secondary labor weakness. The duration of surgery is ranged from 40 to 52 minutes. …”
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A randomized trial evaluating efficacy of overminus lenses combined with prism in the children with intermittent exotropia by Yuelan Feng, Jingjing Jiang, Xueqing Bai, Hui Li, Ningdong Li

“…This treatment does not appear to cause myopia, at least in the manner used this series. A further randomized trial is warranted to assess the effect of overminus spectacles with prism after the treatment has been discontinued. …”
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New Insights in 9q21.13 Microdeletion Syndrome: Genotype–Phenotype Correlation of 28 Patients by Alessandro De Falco, Achille Iolascon, Flora Ascione, Carmelo Piscopo

“…Moreover, he has severe myopia, which was previously reported in only another patient with 9q21.13 deletion, and brain anomalies which were never described before in 9q21.13 microdeletion syndrome. …”
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Effects of the excessive use of electronic screens on vision and emotional state by Viviane Fernanda da Silva Barros, Raissa Adriana da Silva Gomes de Oliveira, Robson Borges Maia, Nilma Fernandes, Edna Motta Almodin

“…Most participants had myopia (164; 84%) and/or astigmatism (151; 75.5%), whereas keratoconus was less prevalent (34; 17%). …”
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Four-step treatment of keratoconus associated with high refractive ametropia by P. Maharramov

“…In patients aged 18 to 40 years with progression of keratoconus, with high myopia, due to the inexpediency of excimer laser operations and where the depth of the anterior chamber isn’t less than 3 mm, the combined four-stage method of treating keratoconus can be performed as a more effective method. …”
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Effects of different cutting centers on LASIK surgery in myopic patients by Yan-Wei Liu, Wei Song, Xing-Yan Xu

“…<p>METHODS: A total of 80 patients(160 eyes)with myopia treated by elective LASIK were divided into two groups. …”
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Rates of Fellow Eye Macular Hole Development During Long Term Follow-Up by Staropoli PC, Moolani HV, Elhusseiny AM, Flynn HW Jr, Smiddy WE

“…Cases with secondary causes (ie, trauma), high myopia, bilateral FTMH on presentation, previous retinal surgery, retinal breaks, or intraocular inflammation were excluded. …”
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Changes in the posterior corneal surface after femtosecond laser-assisted lenticule intrastromal keratoplasty (LIKE) performed into a pocket (SMI-LIKE) or under a flap (FS-LIKE) by Shengtao Liu, Lanhui Yu, Yu Zhao, Xingtao Zhou

“…Eyes were categorized into two groups—SMI-LIKE group (11 eyes) and FS-LIKE group (12 eyes). Lenticules from myopia small incision lenticule extraction were implanted into a pocket (SMI-LIKE group) or at a depth of 100 µm under a flap (FS-LIKE group). …”
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Bed for three by C. Vallecillo Adame, T. Jiménez Aparicio, C. De Andrés Lobo, M. Queipo De Llano De La Viuda, G. Guerra Valera, A. Gonzaga Ramírez, I. Santos Carrasco, J. Gonçalves Cerejeira, C. Capella Meseguer, E. Rodríguez Vázquez

“…Methods 62-year-old woman, undergoing treatment with Sertraline and psychotherapy for three months because of anxious-depressive synthoms. Pathological myopia and retinal detachment in 2012, blind left eye, retaining 33% vision in the right eye. …”
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Foveal hypoplasia and characteristics of optical components in patients with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy and retinopathy of prematurity by Pei-Ying Chen, Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang, Kuan-Jen Chen, Xiao Chun Ling, Yin-Hsi Chang, Nan-Kai Wang, Laura Liu, Yen-Po Chen, Yih-Shiou Hwang, Chi-Chun Lai, Wei-Chi Wu

“…Patients in the FEVR group had the highest degrees of myopia (p < 0.001). The axial length of patients in the FEVR group was significantly longer than that of patients in the treated and untreated ROP, preterm, and full-term groups (p < 0.001, p < 0.001, p = 0.001, and p = 0.003, respectively). …”
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Glaucoma-causing ADAMTS17 mutations are also reproducibly associated with height in two domestic dog breeds: selection for short stature may have contributed to increased prevalenc... by Emily C. Jeanes, James A. C. Oliver, Sally L. Ricketts, David J. Gould, Cathryn S. Mellersh

“…Abstract Background In humans, ADAMTS17 mutations are known to cause Weill-Marchesani-like syndrome, which is characterised by lenticular myopia, ectopia lentis, glaucoma, spherophakia, and short stature. …”
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Laser-induced corneal cross-linking upon photorefractive ablation with riboflavin by Kornilovskiy IM, Kasimov EM, Sultanova AI, Burtsev AA

“…Then, we performed corneal optical coherence tomography on 36 eyes of 18 patients with varying degrees of myopia at different times after the TransPRK was performed with riboflavin saturation of the stroma.Results: Biomechanical testing of corneal samples saturated with riboflavin revealed cross-linking effect accompanied by the increase in tensile strength and maximum strength. …”
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Observation of corneal endothelial cells after femtosecond laser <i>in situ</i> keratomileusis by Xiao-Lei Lu, Fang-Lie Yang, Yu-Zhi Bao

“…<p>METHODS: From May to September in 2013, 88 eyes of 45 patients with myopia who accepted Femto-LASIK were enrolled in this study. …”
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Macular Bruch's Membrane Length and Axial Length. The Beijing Eye Study. by Jost B Jonas, Ya Xing Wang, Qi Zhang, Yi Liu, Liang Xu, Wen Bin Wei

“…To assess whether macular Bruch´s membrane gets lengthened in axial myopia.Using the enhanced depth imaging mode of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and examining a subgroup of participants of the population-based cross-sectional Beijing Eye Study, we measured the length of Bruch´s membrane ("MacBMLength") from the fovea to the temporal edge of parapapillary gamma zone, and the distance between the fovea and the temporal optic disc border. …”
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Corneal morphological changes after small incision lenticule extraction for myopic anisometropia by Lu Zhu, Yan Ji, Xin Yang, Xiaorong Lu, Qiong Wu, Qing Wang, Jiuyi Xia, Meng Li, Ke Hu, Wenjuan Wan

“…For the two eyes of each patient, the one with higher myopia was defined as group A, and the fellow eye was group B. …”
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