Purpose To investigate the difference in intraocular vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) concentration between pachychoroid neovasculopathy and neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and its associations with responses to three monthly anti-VEGF injections as an initial treatment for the two conditions. Methods This study included nine eyes with treatment-naïve pachychoroid...

PURPOSE To examine the expression of pro-interleukin-1β (pro-IL-1β) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in the vitreous body of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration(nAMD), polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), retinal vein occlusion (RVO) or Eales' disease to further elucidate the role of IL-1β and inflammation in the pathogenesis of neo...

BACKGROUND Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blind registration in Western Europe and the third leading cause of blindness worldwide. METHODS The management of AMD is discussed with a review of current and new treatments. RESULTS Although there is no treatment for advanced dry AMD (geographic atrophy), there have been considerable advances in the management of neo...

Experiences designing and deploying NAMD-G, an infrastructure for executing biomolecular simulations using the parallel molecular dynamics code NAMD within the context of a Computational Grid, are described. The effort is motivated by a general outline of the tasks involved in conducting research of this class as traditionally undertaken, followed by a description of the enhancements offered by...

Purpose We investigated the association of the ATP-binding cassette, subfamily G, member 1 (ABCG1) gene with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) and neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) in independent Chinese and Japanese cohorts. Methods A total of 12 haplotype-tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the SNP rs57137919 in the ABCG1 gene were first analyzed in a ...

Some of the most challenging applications to parallelize scalably are the ones that present a relatively small amount of computation per iteration. Multiple interacting performance challenges must be identified and solved to attain high parallel efficiency in such cases. We present a case study involving NAMD, a parallel molecular dynamics application, and efforts to scale it to run on 3000 pro...

Angiopoietin 2 (ANG2) is a proangiogenic cytokine which may have an implication in neovascular age related macular degeneration (nAMD). In 24 eyes of 24 subjects presenting with treatment naïve nAMD and 26 eyes of 26 control patients, aqueous humor samples were collected at the time of intervention (intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor or cataract extraction). Best ...

Age-related maculopathy susceptibility 2(ARMS2) was suggested to be associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) in multiple genetic studies in Caucasians and Japanese. To date, no biological properties have been attributed to the putative protein in nAMD and PCV. The complete genes of ARMS2 and HTRA1 including all exons and the...

Tingkat kompleksitas dari program simulasi dinamika molekular membutuhkan mesin pemroses dengan kemampuan yang sangat besar. Mesin-mesin paralel terbukti memiliki potensi untuk menjawab tantangan komputasi ini. Untuk memanfaatkan potensi ini secara maksimal, diperlukan suatu program paralel dengan tingkat efisiensi, efektifitas, skalabilitas, dan ekstensibilitas yang maksimal pula. Program NAMD...

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) leads to visual impairment if not treated promptly. Intravitreal anti-VEGF drugs have revolutionized nAMD treatment in the past two decades. We evaluated outcomes of nAMD. A real-life population-based cohort study. The data included parameters for age, sex, age at diagnosis, laterality, chronicity, symptoms, outcomes, lens status, and history ...