Publications by authors named "E Pedrotti"
Objectives: keratitis (AK) is a rare sight-threatening infectious disease with no approved pharmacological treatments Topical polihexanide 0.8 mg/ml (PHMB 0.08%) completed a pivotal clinical trial showing a medical cure rate of 84.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To manage ocular surface complications and recover conjunctival and corneal epithelia after unilateral severe chemical burn.
Methods: We performed simple conjunctival epithelial transplantation (SCET) to obtain renewal of fornix and bulbar-tarsal conjunctiva epithelium, followed by simple limbal epithelial transplantation (SLET) to recover limbal function and epithelial corneal surface. Slit-lamp examination, fluorescein staining, in vivo confocal microscopy, Kheirkhah grading system for symblepharon severity, Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale, and best-corrected visual acuity were assessed before surgery, at 1 to 3 months after SCET and SLET, and thereafter at 6 to 12 to 36 months.
Article Synopsis
- The review aimed to assess how effective amniotic membrane extract eye drops (AMEDs) are in treating ocular surface diseases by analyzing existing literature.
- After searching major databases, 12 out of 1,121 initial studies were deemed suitable for analysis, covering various clinical outcomes and methods of preparation for AMEDs.
- The findings suggest that while evidence quality is not perfect, AMEDs provide improvements for patients with conditions like dry eye disease and corneal wounds, reporting a low incidence of side effects.
Purpose: To investigate the role of preoperative posterior stromal ripples (pre-PSR) on visual acuity recovery after Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK).
Methods: This is a comparative case series retrospectively analyzing patients who underwent DMEK. Electronic records and imaging of DMEK patients were reviewed.
Background: The prevalence of obesity, a chronic disease, is increasing, and obesity is now considered a global epidemic. Eye diseases are also increasing worldwide and have serious repercussions on quality of life as well as increasingly high costs for the community. The relationships between obesity and ocular pathologies are not yet well clarified and are not pathologically homogeneous: they seem to be somehow linked to excess body fat, especially to the distribution of adipose tissue and its ectopic deposits.
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