• The main outcome measures were change in maximal keratometry (Kmax), best-corrected distance visual acuity (BCVA), thinnest corneal thickness (TCT) and central corneal thickness (CCT), and complications. (bvsalud.org)
  • HbA1c level, best corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal thickness (CCT), tear break-up time (BUT), Schirmer test, dilated fundus examination findings, central retinal thickness (CRT), and total macular volume (TMV) measurements were noted. (ijo.in)
  • Prevention of bacterial contamination is even more important in the case of gingival graft surgery because a significant amount of tissue is lost at a palatal donor site. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • PURPOSE: Keratoconus relapse after penetrating keratoplasty is a rare condition that may result in severe visual deterioration and corneal graft thinning. (bvsalud.org)
  • Multivariate analysis identified pre-existing graft failure ( p = 0.019), interval longer than 72 hours between donor death and PKP ( p = 0.010), and fungal infection ( p = 0.026) as significant risk factors for treatment failure. (ekjo.org)
  • Pre-existing graft failure, extended interval between donor death and PKP, and fungal infection were important risk factors for treatment failure of graft infection following PKP. (ekjo.org)
  • Claesson M, Armitage WJ, Stenevi U. Corneal oedema after cataract surgery: predisposing factors and corneal graft outcome. (medscape.com)
  • It is used for the prophylaxis of graft rejection in organ and tissue transplantation. (lookformedical.com)
  • I also see many segmentation algorithms for corneal layers, which will aid in planning operations as well as postop surveillance-how's the graft doing? (reviewofophthalmology.com)
  • The cornea has a mechanism of protecting itself against bacterial, viral, or fungal infections, but this mechanism often weakens after penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) procedures. (ekjo.org)
  • Many of the more than 30 bacterial, viral and parasitic pathogens that are transmissible sexually, including HIV, are transmitted predominantly through sexual intercourse. (who.int)
  • The earliest sign of active viral replication in the corneal epithelium is the development of small, raised, clear vesicles. (medscape.com)
  • While viral and bacterial infection studies in isolation using animal models are important for furthering our understanding of pathogen biology and for the development of improved therapeutics, it is also critical to extend our knowledge to pathogen coinfections in vivo, to more closely examine interkingdom dynamics that may contribute to overall disease outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • With few exceptions, generally comparable measures of viral diversity and mutational frequency were detected following homologous virus infection of both respiratory-origin and ocular-origin tissue constructs. (cdc.gov)
  • The algorithms are widespread and performing well," says Bernardo T. Lopes, MD, MPhil, PhD, MRCS, FICO, of the University of Liverpool School of Engineering in the United Kingdom, the department of ophthalmology at Federal University of São Paulo and member of the Rio de Janeiro Corneal Tomography & Biomechanics Study Group. (reviewofophthalmology.com)
  • Based on horizon scanning of the market size for ophthalmology, corneal diseases make up less than retinal diseases, so most R&D funding is going toward the posterior segment. (reviewofophthalmology.com)
  • OBJECTIVES: To report on the topographic and visual outcomes 10 years after corneal cross-linking in patients with progressive keratoconus and corneal ectasia after refractive surgery. (bvsalud.org)
  • Patients treated in a single center cornea and refractive surgery practice as part of the U.S. pivotal trials, which led to the Food and Drug Administration approval of corneal cross-linking, were recruited for a 10-year follow-up examination. (bvsalud.org)
  • This complication was also described after corneal surgery such as refractive procedures. (biomedcentral.com)
  • What Is the Cornea and What Is Corneal Disease? (yeseyespecialists.com)
  • The conjunctiva is the tissue that covers the front part of the eyeball (but not the cornea) and lines the back of the eyelids. (yeseyespecialists.com)
  • TEM revealed full thickness corneal perforation with an epithelial plug extending to the lower third of the cornea, but without evidence of epithelial cell migration into the anterior chamber. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Трансплантація рогівки Corneal transplantations are done for several reasons: To reconstruct the cornea (eg, replacing a perforated cornea) To relieve intractable pain (eg, severe foreign body sensation due to recurrent. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A 49-year-old female patient was referred because of new corneal scars of unclear origin in both eyes, after presenting with reduction in visual acuity (left worse than right), first noticed 6 months earlier. (biomedcentral.com)
  • PURPOSE: To present the 7-year experience of a tertiary eye hospital while exploring possible risk factors and incidence of infectious keratitis in patients undergoing standard corneal cross-linking (CXL). (bvsalud.org)
  • Seventeen patients developed bacterial keratitis, and 11 patients developed fungal keratitis. (ekjo.org)
  • Herpes simplex virus (HSV) keratitis is the most frequent cause of blindness due to corneal disease in the United States and the most common source of infectious blindness in the Western world. (medscape.com)
  • HSV keratitis remains primarily a clinical diagnosis based on characteristic features of the corneal lesion. (medscape.com)
  • In addition, the Belin ABCD progression display was used to determine progression (95% confidence interval) of the anterior curvature, posterior curvature, and corneal thickness of each individual eye included. (bvsalud.org)
  • A new technique has been presented that results in an acceleration of delayed primary healing with full thickness skin and subcutaneous tissue coverage. (who.int)
  • In practice, the term "cell culture" now refers to the culturing of cells derived from multicellular eukaryotes , especially animal cells, in contrast with other types of culture that also grow cells, such as plant tissue culture , fungal culture, and microbiological culture (of microbes ). (wikipedia.org)
  • Now, if we study the prevalence of fungal infections, both in terms of the smear positivity, as well as the culture positivity, from this publication, from Aravind Eye Hospital, in Madurai, you can note these curves in the fungal positivity in the smears to be progressively higher, and significantly higher than the bacterial smears. (cybersight.org)
  • Shura, as he were better removed by those significantly composite to him, exhibits stored a salary in the limit of fungal ureasesynthesis. (plywoodskyscraper.com)
  • In such high myopia, one or the other abnormality of ocular refraction of the axial length, the corneal curvature or the lens, the most likely, must be present. (hcusupport.com)
  • Predictors of Receiving Keratoplasty for Fuchs' Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy among Medicare Beneficiaries. (medscape.com)
  • however, in Fuchs dystrophy, this loss of cells is accelerated so that by age 50 or 60 (earlier or later in some patients), affected patients may start to experience symptoms from corneal swelling. (yeseyespecialists.com)
  • This ophthalmic macrolide antibiotic is indicated for bacterial conjunctivitis caused by susceptible strains of microorganisms and for prevention of corneal and conjunctival infections. (medscape.com)
  • METHODS The experimental samples were obtained from the culture media of conjunctival and corneal epithelial cells, from fractionated blood plasma and leucocytes of healthy subjects and patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and from the tears of healthy subjects and patients with a variety of anterior segment diseases. (bmj.com)
  • Having said that, compared with retinal conditions, there aren't as many corneal conditions that require repeated screening, especially at a population level. (reviewofophthalmology.com)
  • This may be effected by autoimmune diseases that involve ocular tissue or by ocular diseases that induce an inflammatory response. (bmj.com)
  • Most cases of corneal disease are due to hereditary causes, infection, trauma, autoimmune disorders, allergy, or secondary causes such as eye diseases. (yeseyespecialists.com)
  • There are a variety of corneal diseases, albeit all under the same umbrella term. (yeseyespecialists.com)
  • Below is a list of common corneal diseases, including pterygium, corneal edema, keratoconus and how treatment for them can look. (yeseyespecialists.com)
  • Therapeutic contact lenses for the treatment of corneal and ocular surface diseases: advances in extended and targeted drug delivery. (stanford.edu)
  • Many corneal diseases can lead to vision loss affecting the lives of people around the world. (stanford.edu)
  • The low endogenous regenerative capacity of the heart,added tothe prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, triggered the advent ofcardiac tissue engineering in the last decades. (ibecbarcelona.eu)
  • Several studies have illustrated the therapeutic efficacy of photoactivated riboflavin against nosocomial infections and multidrug resistant bacterial infections as well as microbial associated biofilm infections, revealing the potential role of riboflavin as a promising antimicrobial candidate, which could serve as one of the alternatives in fighting the global crisis of the emergence of antimicrobial resistance seen in different pathogenic microbes. (bioseek.eu)
  • 9 This enzyme, together with the collagenase produced by neutrophils and classified as MMP-8, are the only mammalian enzymes known to be capable of initiating hydrolysis of fibrillar type I collagen, 2 10 the major component of the corneal stroma. (bmj.com)
  • The examination using confocal microscopy confirmed a corneal perforation at the left eye and revealed corneal epithelial ingrowth capped with scarred stroma in both eyes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The earliest signs of neurotrophic keratopathy include an irregular corneal surface and punctate epithelial erosions. (medscape.com)
  • A person could have corneal or lenticular astigmatism or both. (scottwtunismd.com)
  • Both kinds of astigmatism can occur in one or both eyes, but corneal astigmatism is most common, says Friedman. (scottwtunismd.com)
  • Autogenous gingival grafts are often accompanied by discomfort, pain and retarded tissue repair depending on a patient's condition. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • The 50-year epidemic of pseudophakic corneal edema. (medscape.com)
  • Individually, 68.5% of the entire cohort, 81.8% of keratoconus eyes, and 50% of eyes with corneal ectasia remained topographically stable 10 years after standard cross-linking. (bvsalud.org)
  • Over the long-term, eyes with keratoconus seem to be more stable than those with corneal ectasia. (bvsalud.org)
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Corneal Cross-Linking (CXL) in eyes with relapse of keratoconus after penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus. (bvsalud.org)
  • In fact, AI algorithms for early keratoconus detection have been around since the development of computerized corneal topography in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (reviewofophthalmology.com)
  • Evidence suggests that the virus may also subsist latently within corneal tissue, serving as another potential source of recurrent disease and causing donor-derived HSV disease in transplanted corneas. (medscape.com)
  • Трансплантати шкіри Many different types of tissues can be transplanted, including skin, bone, cartilage, adrenal tissue, fetal thymus, corneas, and composite transplantation of tissues to restore the face or extremities. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Ferrets are also employed for the study of bacterial pathogens that naturally infect humans at different anatomical sites, including the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts. (cdc.gov)
  • The removal of foreign material and devitalized or contaminated tissue from or adjacent to a traumatic or infected lesion until surrounding healthy tissue is exposed. (lookformedical.com)
  • Exogenous Tβ 4 was also reported to accelerate the tissue repair of damaged cardiac, corneal and dermal tissues ( 4 , 6 , 13 ), which demonstrates potential for clinical applications in wound healing. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • The myocardial nicheplays a critical role in directing the function and fate of cardiomyocytes;therefore, engineering a biomimetic scaffold holds excellent promise.We produced an electroconductive cardiac patch of bacterial nanocellulose(BC) with polypyrrole nanoparticles (Ppy NPs) to mimic the naturalmyocardial microenvironment. (ibecbarcelona.eu)
  • Our results highlight the remarkablepotential use of BC-Ppy scaffolds as a cardiac patch in tissue regenerativetherapies. (ibecbarcelona.eu)
  • RESULTS:One thousand six hundred eighty-four (32.1%) donors had a diagnosis of DM. (nyu.edu)
  • The diagnosis is limited by lack of availability of microbiology laboratory services and corneal subspeciality care. (cybersight.org)
  • Most of the projects in corneal diagnosis are focused on the classification domain," he says. (reviewofophthalmology.com)
  • In addition to WD diagnosis by PAS staining, T. whipplei-specific IHC and PCR of duodenal or extra intestinal tissues, whole EDTA blood, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and PBMC fractions enriched with or depleted of cluster of differentiation (CD)-14?cells were examined using T. whipplei rpoB gene PCR. (123dok.net)
  • [6] In 1885 Wilhelm Roux removed a section of the medullary plate of an embryonic chicken and maintained it in a warm saline solution for several days, establishing the basic principle of tissue culture. (wikipedia.org)
  • MSCs have also been derived from embryonic tissues, such as Wharton's jelly and umbilical cord blood [ 13 , 14 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Stem cell therapy is a revolutionary branch of regenerative medicine aiming to repair or replace damaged tissues and organs. (biologyeye.com)
  • This kind of therapy aims to restore the normal function of organs or tissues that have been damaged by disease, trauma, or aging. (biologyeye.com)
  • The surgical modalities of treatment include intrastromal and intracameral injections, superficial keratectomy, tissue adhesives and penetrating keratoplasty. (cybersight.org)
  • We found bacterial contamination within 24 hours in this system in patients on ventilatory support in intensive care. (afpm.org.my)
  • Recurrent ocular HSV infection has traditionally been thought of as reactivation of the virus in the trigeminal ganglion, which migrates down the nerve axon to produce a lytic infection in ocular tissue. (medscape.com)
  • It involves replacing the patient's diseased bone marrow (where the abnormal white blood cells are produced) with healthy stem cells from a donor. (biologyeye.com)
  • A potential cure is a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), which replaces the patient's bone marrow with healthy marrow from a donor. (biologyeye.com)
  • Generally, wound healing in the oral cavity is known to occur more quickly and scar less than dermal tissue, which may be due to the elements in saliva and unique phenotype of oral fibroblasts ( 14 - 16 ). (spandidos-publications.com)
  • A 49-year-old patient presented with a positive Seidel test of unclear origin at her left eye, as well as a sharply defined anterior-stromal corneal scar at both eyes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Examinations at the slit lamp revealed a dry eye syndrome as well as a sharply defined anterior-stromal corneal scar at both eyes, located paracentrally at the right (Fig. 1 a) and left eye (Fig. 1 b). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Signs of this chronic progressive corneal disease include peripheral thinning and the formation of a perforation prone gutter. (bmj.com)
  • We also make use of innovative tissue sealants to prevent suture related discomfort and scarring. (yeseyespecialists.com)
  • Despite the relatively rapid wound healing, however, tissues damaged during periodontal and implant surgery are continuously challenged by bacterial infection in the oral cavity, necessitating meticulous maintenance of oral hygiene and additional plaque control. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Suppurative inflammation of the tissues of the internal structures of the eye frequently associated with an infection. (lookformedical.com)
  • In this review, we discuss how ferrets have been employed to study a diverse range of both influenza viruses and bacterial species and summarize key studies that have utilized the ferret model for primary influenza virus challenge followed by secondary bacterial infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Here, we employed human primary tissue constructs emulative of the human airway or corneal surface, and we infected both with a panel of human- and avian-origin IAV, inclusive of H1 and H3 subtype human viruses and highly pathogenic H5 and H7 subtype viruses, which are associated with both respiratory disease and conjunctivitis following human infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Stem cell therapy, often referred to as regenerative medicine, is a treatment strategy that introduces new cells into damaged tissue in order to treat disease or injury. (biologyeye.com)
  • However, corneal HSV latency as a cause of recurrent disease remains controversial. (medscape.com)
  • Bacterial species belonging to the phyla Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes dominate the microbiota. (nature.com)
  • Moreover, riboflavin and flavins could produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) when exposed to light, inducing oxidative damage in cells and tissues, and thus are excellent natural photosensitizers. (bioseek.eu)
  • Six hundred fifty-eight donors were in the NIDDMnc group, 225 in the NIDDMc group, 404 in the insulin-dependent DM without complication group, and 397 in the insulin-dependent DM with complication group. (nyu.edu)
  • In addition, pretreatment with DFE significantly reversed each nerve diameter reduction in diabetic rats. (erksignal.com)
  • These results show a decrease in corneal nerve density and branch density, as well as an increase in dendritic cell density in patients with long COVID in comparison to the control group. (discovermednews.com)
  • Outcome variables included ECD and tissue transplant suitability. (nyu.edu)
  • In phakic eyes, NIDDMc was associated with a statistically significantly lower odds of transplant suitability (odds ratio 0.62, P = 0.006). (nyu.edu)
  • An immune response with both cellular and humoral components, directed against an allogeneic transplant, whose tissue antigens are not compatible with those of the recipient. (lookformedical.com)
  • Identification of the major histocompatibility antigens of transplant DONORS and potential recipients, usually by serological tests. (lookformedical.com)
  • MSCs were initially isolated from bone marrow but are now known to exist in a wide range of tissues in the human adult, including brain, thymus, lung, liver, spleen, kidney, and dental pulp [ 11 , 12 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Tβ 4 is distributed ubiquitously in most tissues and cells, and is also known to concentrate highly at blood platelets ( 12 ). (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Cell culture or tissue culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • After the cells of interest have been isolated from living tissue , they can subsequently be maintained under carefully controlled conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tissue culture commonly refers to the culture of animal cells and tissues, with the more specific term plant tissue culture being used for plants. (wikipedia.org)
  • The laboratory technique of maintaining live cell lines (a population of cells descended from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup) separated from their original tissue source became more robust in the middle 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • [12] He suggested that the potentialities of individual cells via tissue culture as well as that the reciprocal influences of tissues on one another could be determined by this method. (wikipedia.org)
  • Host cells in tissue culture readily tolerated amantadine up to a concentration of 100 mcg/mL. (nih.gov)
  • 2) corneal perforation during laser-assisted blepharoplasty, which may be supported by the presence of pigmented cells on the posterior surface of Descemet´s membrane, pointing to a possible iris injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These are found in small quantities in most adult tissues, such as bone marrow or fat. (biologyeye.com)
  • She was awarded with a postdoc fellow from the Ministry of Science at the Technical University of Catalonia in Biomaterials for bone tissue regeneration and since 2010 has been professor at this university. (ibecbarcelona.eu)
  • METHODS:Raw data were obtained from Saving Sight Eye Bank (Kansas City, MO) including 10,454 donated eyes from 5346 eligible donors from July 2014 through May 2017. (nyu.edu)
  • The historical development and methods of cell culture are closely interrelated to those of tissue culture and organ culture . (wikipedia.org)
  • Since Haberlandt's original assertions, methods for tissue and cell culture have been realized, leading to significant discoveries in biology and medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since traditional methods are less efficient ( 5%) at delivering drugs to ocular tissues, contact lenses have generated growing interest in ocular drug delivery due to their potential to enhance drug bioavailability in ocular tissues. (stanford.edu)
  • Donors were grouped into 5 categories by their insulin use and the presence of microvascular end-organ complications. (nyu.edu)
  • 8 nm).Ppy NPs effectively augment the conductivity, surface roughness, andthickness of BC composites despite reducing scaffolds' transparency.BC-Ppy composites were flexible (up to 10 mM Ppy), maintained theirintricate 3D extracellular matrix-like mesh structure in all Ppy concentrationstested, and displayed electrical conductivities in the range of nativecardiac tissue. (ibecbarcelona.eu)
  • The present invention meets the unique nutrient needs of the acute or chronic patient that are generated due to tissue repair and healing requirements of wounds. (everypatent.com)
  • The reported incidence ranges from 11,030 to 7,990, which translates to 840,000 new cases of corneal ulcers every year in India alone. (cybersight.org)
  • If necessary, the ptosis could also be remedied by soft tissue augmentation within the eyebrow Table 5 impotence webmd [url=http://www.nzcis.org/order/Cialis-Extra-Dosage/]200 mg cialis extra dosage discount overnight delivery[/url]. (ehd.org)
  • A benign, soft tissue tumor occurring mainly in young adults, usually in the limbs and sometimes in the abdomen or throat, which does not metastasize. (mylocalclinics.com)
  • Tongues of skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle, cut away from the underlying parts but often still attached at one end. (lookformedical.com)
  • The rate of treatment failure is estimated to be around 10% [ 8 , 9 ], but it is significantly higher in eyes that underwent PKP, ranging from 26% to 57%, [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. (ekjo.org)
  • book measured with the daughter of treatment of lungs been with bacterial heart Summary. (siriuspixels.com)
  • Besides the effect on cell migration, exogenous Tβ 4 was found to have multifunctional activities such as angiogenesis, anti-apoptosis, anti-oxidative stress and anti-inflammation ( 8 - 11 ), which emphasize its therapeutic potential in the repair of damaged tissues or wound healing. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Mixed effects models were used to adjust for the random effect of repeated measures and fixed effects of donor age, race, lens status, and death to refrigeration and death to preservation times. (nyu.edu)
  • Interaction effects of DM severity group and donor age and DM severity group and lens status were included in the models. (nyu.edu)
  • PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE:To determine whether donor diabetes mellitus (DM) severity is associated with differences in endothelial cell density (ECD) and surgically unsuitable tissue. (nyu.edu)
  • Sensitivity test results, expressed as the concentration of amantadine required to inhibit by 50% the growth of virus (ED 50 ) in tissue culture vary greatly (from 0.1 mcg/mL to 25 mcg/mL) depending upon the assay protocol used, size of virus inoculum, isolates of influenza A virus strains tested, and the cell type used. (nih.gov)
  • Donor and recipient pairs should be of identical ABO blood group, and in addition should be matched as closely as possible for HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS in order to minimize the likelihood of allograft rejection. (lookformedical.com)
  • Some are also transmitted through contaminated blood products, tissue transfer and from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. (who.int)
  • Living donors are often used for kidney and hematopoietic stem cell transplants, less frequently for segmental liver transplants, and rarely for pancreas and lung transplants. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The mutants show significantly larger chromophore pockets and protein volume, which results in diminished quantum yield. (wikipedia.org)
  • A study by Albu et al indicated that in patients with CSF rhinorrhea caused by closed head trauma, leakage time can be significantly shortened by early placement of a lumbar drain. (medscape.com)