PURPOSE The aim was to evaluate outcomes and predictors for anatomical success in macular hole (MH) surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a prospective cohort study of patients operated for idiopathic MH with stages II, III or IV. Patients underwent pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling, internal gas tamponade, and postoperative face down positioning. The prima...

Individual-level models (ILMs) have previously been used to model the spatiotemporal spread of infectious diseases. These models can incorporate individual-level covariate information, to account for population heterogeneity. However, incomplete or unreliable data are a common problem in infectious disease modeling, and models that are explicitly dependent on such information may not be robust ...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the efficacy of microplasmin in inducing posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) and to evaluate the human and the feline retina after treatment. METHODS Thirteen human donor eyes were injected with 62.5, 125, or 188 micro g microplasmin. The 13 fellow eyes received balanced salt solution. Four of the microplasmin-treated eyes received an additional intravitreal gas injecti...

This paper investigated the types of Arabic linguistics (or Ulûm al-Lughah al-Arabiya) contained in Minangkabau manuscripts and analyzed them according to context which manuscript was found. In addition, this also presented text transliteration as a form Philology work. Furthermore, research method used philology by conducting an inventory manuscripts, description, transliteration, translation ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the potential of heavier-than-water brilliant blue G (BBG-D(2) 0) to stain the internal limiting membrane (ILM) during chromovitrectomy. METHODS In a nonrandomized, prospective, clinical multicentre study, 71 consecutive chromovitrectomy interventions in 71 patients were analysed. During routine 23-gauge vitrectomy, conventional 0.25 mg/ml BBG was employed in 21 and 0.25 m...

AIM To localise the recently discovered glycoprotein opticin in the adult human eye. METHODS Polyclonal rabbit antisera were raised against two different opticin peptides. Isolated human vitreous collagen fibrils were extracted with 8 M urea and the extract analysed by SDS-PAGE and western blotting. Paraffin embedded sections from two normal eyes were subjected to immunohistochemical analysis...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the anatomical success of stage 3 and 4 macular hole surgery after removal of internal limiting membrane (ILM) with the help of Indocyanine green (ICG). STUDY DESIGN An experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY LRBTTertiary Care Eye Hospital, Karachi, October 2015 to August 2016. METHODOLOGY Twenty patients with stage 3 and 4 macular hole (confirmed by spectral...

A lattice ordered monoid is a structure 〈L;⊕, 0L;≤〉 where 〈L;⊕, 0L〉 is a monoid, 〈L;≤〉 is a lattice and the binary operation ⊕ distributes over finite meets. If M ∈ R-Mod then the set ILM of all hereditary pretorsion classes of σ[M ] is a lattice ordered monoid with binary operation given by α :M β := {N ∈ σ[M ] | there exists A ≤ N such that A ∈ α and N/A ∈ β}, whenever α, β ∈ ILM (the subscri...

ILM is based on the idea that in an enterprise different information have different values. Valuable information is stored on systems with a high quality of service (QoS). The value changes over time and therefore migration of information is required to cheaper storage systems with a lower QoS. Automated migration makes ILM dynamic. Such automation requires storage systems to understand what fi...

PURPOSE The internal limiting membrane (ILM) removal has been combined with macular hole surgery in recent years, which facilitates shortening of the prone-positioning period after surgery. In this study, surgical outcome of macular hole surgery with ILM removal, air tamponade, and 1-day prone positioning was evaluated. METHODS In a prospective study, 23 patients (23 eyes) underwent vitrectom...