PURPOSE To report the outcomes of allograft limbal stem cell transplantation for recurrent gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy (GDLD). METHODS In this non-comparative interventional case series, 4 eyes of 3 consecutive patients with recurrent GDLD underwent allograft limbal stem cell transplantation. Two eyes underwent concomitant penetrating keratoplasty while the other two underwent simu...

SUMMARY Continuous pen pressure can be used to operate multi-state widgets such as menus in pen based user interfaces. The number of levels into which the pen pressure space is divided determines the number of states in the multi-state widgets. To increase the optimal number of divisions of the pen pressure space and achieve greater pen pressure usabil-ity, we propose a new discretization metho...

purpose: to investigate the outcomes of keratolimbal allograft (klal) for treatment of total limbal stem cell deficiency (lscd). method: patients with total lscd and adequate tear production were included. a total of 27 klal procedures were performed in 21 eyes of 20 patients with lscd. immunosuppression was achived using mycophenolate and cyclosporine. main outcome measure was improvement in v...

background:   objective: this study was designed to examine the effects of hp on in-vitro maturation of oocytes and cell death in cumulus cells derived from vitrified-warmed mouse ovaries.   materials and methods: preovulatory follicles were harvested from non-vitrified and vitrified-warmed 6-8 week-old female nmri mouse ovaries and randomly assigned to following groups: non-vitrified (control)...

Retinal ganglion cell (RGC) transplantation is a promising strategy to restore visual function resulting from irreversible RGC degeneration occurring in glaucoma or inherited optic neuropathies. We previously demonstrated FGF2 induced differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESC) to RGC lineage, capable of retinal ganglion cell layer (GCL) integration upon transplantation. Here, we evalua...

introduction: the term glaucoma refers to a group of diseases that have a characteristic optic neuropathy with associated visual field loss in common. intraocular pressure has been considered to be the only causal factor for glaucoma and the only factor that can be manipulated to alter the course of the disease. but considering high intraocular pressure as the only factor responsible for glauco...

PURPOSE To investigate the correlation between the clinical pictures and the specular microscopic findings in patients with iridocorneal endothelial (ICE) syndrome. METHODS The records of 15 patients with ICE syndrome who presented at the National Taiwan University Hospital between 1993 and 1996 were examined. The medical history, clinical pictures of the cornea, iris and anterior chamber ang...

Carbon dioxide flooding is considered to be one of the most effective enhanced oil recovery methods for the light oil reservoirs. Depending on the operating pressure, the process might be miscible or immiscible. Minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is the most important parameter for assessing the applicability of any miscible gas flood for an oil reservoir. The miscibility condition is determine...