Donor Characteristics in Graft Detachment after Posterior Lamellar Keratoplasty for Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy and Bullous Keratopathy.

Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) has been widely adopted to treat Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED) and Bullous keratopathy (BK). Graft detachment (GD) is one of the common earliest post-operatory complications, and it is usually recovered by Air Rebubbling (ARB). Retrospectively, we investigated predictive factors related to GD between January 2016 and March 2020, a pre-COVID era, in 72 patients, 72 eyes, and their donors' lamellar characteristics, focusing on donor's cause of death.

Acute acquired concomitant esotropia: May COVID-19 lockdowns have changed its presentation?

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of COVID-19 lockdown in Italy on the features of Acute Acquired Concomitant Esotropia (AACE).

Subjects: Patients of the Polyclinic Hospital of Bari diagnosed with AACE between January 2018 and December 2021, subdivided in pre-lockdown group - diagnosed before March 2020 - and post-lockdown group.

Methods: Medical records were reviewed, and statistical analysis performed.

Correlation between retinal vessel rarefaction and psychometric measures in an older Southern Italian population.

Objective: To explore the linear association between inner retinal layers thickness and macular capillary density compared to variations of global cognition evaluated by psychometric measures in a cohort of Mediterranean subjects aged 65+ years.

Materials And Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 574 participants aged 65 years+ drawn from a population-based Southern Italian study. All subjects underwent neurological evaluations, including global cognitive screening, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and frontal assessment battery (FAB), together with an ophthalmic examination including optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT-Angiography.

Mixed-dust pneumoconiosis in a dental technician: a multidisciplinary diagnosis case report.

Background: In dental laboratories, exposure to crystalline silica can occur during procedures that generate suspended mineral dusts, e.g. dispersion of mixing powders, removal of castings from molds grinding, polishing of castings and porcelain, and use of silica sand for blasting.

Association of Neuroretinal Thinning and Microvascular Changes with Hypertension in an Older Population in Southern Italy.

Background: Retinal microvasculature assessment at capillary level may potentially aid the evaluation of early microvascular changes due to hypertension. We aimed to investigate associations between the measures obtained using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT-angiography (OCT-A) and hypertension, in a southern Italian older population.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis from a population-based study on 731 participants aged 65 years+ subdivided into two groups according to the presence or absence of blood hypertension without hypertensive retinopathy.