Agni Malmin, MD, Vilde M. Thomseth, MDPer T. Førland, MD, Ayyad Z. Khan, MD, PhDHanne B. Hetland, MSc, Xiangjun Chen, MD, PhDInga-Britt K. Haugen, PhD, Tor P. Utheim, MD, PhDVegard A. Forsaa, MD, PhD American Academy of Ophthalmology Abstract Purpose To investigate the effects of serial intravitreal injections (IVIs) on the ocular surface and meibomian… Read More »Associations between Serial Intravitreal Injections and Dry Eye
Lyle Armstrong | Joseph Collin | Islam Mostafa | Rachel Queen |Francisco C. Figueiredo | Majlinda Lako Biosciences Institute, Faculty of MedicalSciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.Department of Ophthalmology, Royal VictoriaInfirmary and Newcastle University,Newcastle, UK. AbstractSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) first emerged inDecember 2019 and spread quickly causing the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic. Recent… Read More »In the eye of the storm: SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication at the ocular surface?
Michalina Szczęśniak e-mail: misia.szczesniak@gmail.com, & Joanna Brydak-Godowska Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland ABSTRACT During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, numerous reports of ocular anomalies occurringin patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have emerged. Themost frequently reported pathology is conjunctivitis, which may be the first or only… Read More »SARS-CoV-2 and the Eyes: A Review of the Literature on Transmission, Detection, and Ocular Manifestations
Jean-Marie Lachapelle, Olivier Castel, Alejandro Fueyo Casado ,Bernard Leroy, Giuseppe Micali, Dominique Tennstedt & Julien Lambert Abstract Antiseptics have broader spectrums of antimicrobial activity than antibiotics and a much lower risk of bacterial resistance selection. Antiseptics are therefore appropriate alternatives to antibiotics for the management of localized superficial skin infections. Povidone iodine has the broadest… Read More »Antiseptics in the era of bacterial resistance: a focus on povidone iodine
Hiroyuki Shimada & Takayuki Hattori & Ryusaburo Mori &Hiroyuki Nakashizuka & Kyoko Fujita & Mitsuko Yuzawa Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, SurugadaiHospital of Nihon University, 1-8-13 Surugadai, Kanda,Chiyodaku, Tokyo 101-8309, Japane-mail: sshimada@olive.ocn.ne.jp AbstractBackground To examine the efficacy of complying with aninfection control manual for intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) preparations inreducing… Read More »Minimizing the endophthalmitis rate following intravitreal injections using 0.25 % povidone–iodine irrigation and surgical mask
Claudio Azzolini, MD; Simone Donati, MD; Elias Premi, MD; Andreina Baj, MD; Claudia Siracusa, BMedBiol;Angelo Genoni, BMedSci; Paolo A. Grossi, MD; Lorenzo Azzi, MD; Fausto Sessa, MD; Francesco Dentali, MD;Paolo Severgnini, MD; Giulio Minoja, MD; Luca Cabrini, MD; Maurizio Chiaravalli, MD; Giovanni Veronesi, MD;Giulio Carcano, MD; Lorenzo S. Maffioli, MD; Angelo Tagliabue, MD Key Points… Read More »SARS-CoV-2 on Ocular Surfaces in a Cohort of PatientsWith COVID-19 From the Lombardy Region, Italy
Minas Theodore Coroneo, Peter John Collignonm.coroneo@unsw.edu.auDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of New South Wales at Prince ofWales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia (MTC); Department of InfectiousDiseases and Microbiology, Canberra Hospital, Garran, ACT, Australia (PJC);Department of Infectious Disease, Medical School, Australian NationalUniversity, Acton, ACT, Australia (PJC) Remarkably, a year after the COVID-19 outbreak, weremain ineffectual against widespread… Read More »SARS-CoV-2: eye protection might be the missing key
Amin Zand, Kaveh Abri AghdamEye Research Center, The Five Senses Institute,Rassoul Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, IranCorrespondence to: Dr. Kaveh Abri Aghdam,Department of Ophthalmology, Eye Research Center,The Five Senses Institute, Rassoul Akram Hospital,Sattarkhan-Niayesh St. Tehran 14456-13131, Iran.E-mail: kaveh.abri@gmail.com Dear Editor, The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemichas affected health care services deeply. During… Read More »Challenges of wearing face masks in ophthalmology during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lingli Zhou a,c , Zhenhua Xu a , Gianni M. Castiglione a , Uri S. Soiberman a , Charles G. Eberhart a,b,Elia J. Duh a, Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USAb Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USAc State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center,… Read More »ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are expressed on the human ocular surface, suggesting susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection
Giovanni MilanezFrederick MasangkayVoravuth SomsakManas KotepuiJitbanjong Tangpong (corresponding author)Biomedical Science Program, School of AlliedHealth Sciences,Walailak University,Nakhon Si Thammarat 8016, ThailandE-mail: rjitbanj@wu.ac.th ABSTRACTWater reservoirs are important manmade structures providing water security to deliver clean and safewater for drinking and other purposes to the community. Eighty water samples were collected fromMagat and Ipo water reservoirs using purposive sampling… Read More »Detection of Acanthamoeba spp. in two major water reservoirs in the Philippines