Anxiety in visual field testing.

Background: To determine if Humphrey visual field (HVF) testing induces anxiety and how anxiety relates to visual field parameters of reliability and severity.

Design: A prospective cohort study at a university affiliated private ophthalmic practice.

Participants: 137 consecutive age-matched and gender-matched patients with glaucoma undergoing either HVF testing only (n=102) or Heidelberg retinal tomography (HRT) only (n=35) were enrolled.

Regulation of connexin43 gap junction protein triggers vascular recovery and healing in human ocular persistent epithelial defect wounds.

Transiently blocking the expression of the gap junction protein connexin43 using antisense oligodeoxynucleotides or blocking hemichannels with connexin mimetic peptides has been shown to significantly improve outcomes in a range of acute wound models. Less is known about their likely effects in nonhealing wounds. In the eye, prolonged inflammation and lack of epithelial recovery in nonhealing corneal epithelial wounds may lead to corneal opacity, blindness or enucleation.

Comparison of intraocular pressure measurement using 4 different instruments following penetrating keratoplasty.

Purpose: To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements after penetrating keratoplasty (PK) using Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT; Haag-Streit USA), TonoPen XL (Reichert Inc), Pascal Dynamic Contour tonometer (PDCT; Swiss Microtechnology AG), and Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA; Reichert Inc) and to analyze effects and correlation of corneal thickness and curvature on these measurements.

Design: Prospective, cross-sectional study.

Settings: Departments of Ophthalmology, University of Auckland and Auckland District Health Board, New Zealand.

Publication and citation analysis of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology and Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology over a 10-year period: the evolution of an ophthalmology journal.

Purpose: To analyse the pattern of change in publication content and citations generated by a mid-ranking ophthalmology journal as it evolved from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology (ANZJO) to its successor, Clinical 0mp; Experimental Ophthalmology (CEO).

Methods: The Science Citation Index was used to analyse the publications of ANZJO and CEO over two 10-year periods (1990-1999 and 2000-2009, respectively). Publication and citation patterns were analysed in terms of source authors, institutions and countries.