Decreased levels of interleukin-6 level in tears and clinical changes in subjects with moderate-to-severe infection corneal ulcers treated with platelet-rich fibrin lysate eye drops.

Purpose: To assess the change of interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels in tears and ocular clinical parameters in corneal ulcer patients with moderate-to-severe infection after adjunctive therapy with platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) lysate-eyedrops compared with autologous serum eyedrops.

Materials And Methods: This study was a randomized double-blind controlled trial, which compared two groups of patients at Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta.

Prevalence of pesticide related occupational diseases among Indonesian vegetable farmers - A collaborative work.

Objective: This study was done to understand the prevalence of various occupational diseases including dry eyes, nail dystrophy, and neuropathy related to pesticide exposure in Indonesian local vegetable farmers.

Methods: The data were collected through questionnaires and physical examination involving dermatology, neurology, and ophthalmology domains at Ngablak District, Magelang, Central Java directed to local vegetable farmers. Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire and the Schirmer test were used.

Lag time, high-risk histopathological features, metastasis, and survival interrelation in retinoblastoma: a perspective from lower-middle income country.

Aim: To investigate the impact of lag time to metastasis and survival rates among patients with retinoblastoma.

Methods: This retrospective study was conducted with 52 patients from the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Pediatrics of Dr. Sardjito General Hospital, between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2020.

Patients' Satisfaction with Ophthalmology Clinic Services in a Public Teaching Hospital.

Purpose: To evaluate patients' satisfaction with ophthalmology health services in a teaching clinic of a tertiary public hospital.

Patients And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in ophthalmology clinic of Dr. Sardjito teaching hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia conducted in 2019.

Autologous platelet-rich plasma eye drop for moderate-to-severe bacterial corneal ulcers: Changes in interleukin-6 tear concentration and clinical outcomes.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate interleukin-6 (IL-6) tear concentration and clinical outcome in patients with moderate-to-severe bacterial corneal ulcers post autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) eye drop therapy.

Materials And Methods: This was a pre-post designed study involving 21 moderate-severe corneal ulcer patients who got autologous PRP eye drop. Subjects were got autologous PRP eye drop as adjuvant therapy.

Automated grating contrast-sensitivity: The easy test for hidden visual loss in recovered optic neuritis patient.

Purpose: Residual visual loss is an important predictor of optic neuritis relapse and progression. This study aimed to investigate the hidden residual visual loss in patients with optic neuritis using automated contrast-sensitivity (CS) function testing.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study investigated 29 recovered optic neuritis patients (age: 27.

Transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy for myopia: effect of age and keratometric values.

Aim: To investigate demographic and preoperative factors increasing the risk of ametropia following transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy (transPRK) in myopia and myopic astigmatism.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included myopic eyes (-0.50 to -8.

Changes of lactate dehydrogenase in corneal edema after cataract surgery treated with trans-corneal oxygenation therapy.

Aim: To investigate the changes in levels of the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) enzyme in corneal edema after cataract surgery with trans-corneal oxygenation therapy.

Methods: This pre-post design study design conducted on 15 patients with corneal edema after cataract surgery and receiving trans-corneal oxygenation therapy. Tear sample (using Schirmer paper, from the inferior fornix of the conjunctiva) was carried out prior to trans-corneal oxygenation therapy, on the day 2 (D2) and day 5 (D5) postoperatively before and after trans-corneal oxygenation therapy.

Neurofibromatosis type 2 gene mutation and progesterone receptor messenger RNA expression in the pathogenesis of sporadic orbitocranial meningioma.

Aim: To investigate neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) gene mutation at mRNA levels in sporadic orbitocranial meningioma and its association with progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA expression.

Methods: This was a case-control study. Thirty-four sporadic meningioma patients with no familial NF2-related meningioma history were recruited.

Relationships Between Neurofibromatosis-2, Progesterone Receptor Expression, the Use of Exogenous Progesterone, and Risk of Orbitocranial Meningioma in Females.

The pathogenesis of meningioma in females and its association with exogenous progesterone is remained unclear. This study was aimed to examine expression of Progesterone receptor (PR) and Neurofibromatosis-2 () and assess their relationships to history of exogenous progesterone use and risk of meningioma. Our study was a case-control study that involves 115 females, 40 cases who diagnosed with orbito-cranial meningioma and 75 controls of healthy, that has been presented in previous study.

Changes in interleukin-6 tear concentration and clinical outcome in moderate-to-severe bacterial corneal ulcers after corneal collagen cross-linking.

We aimed to evaluate interleukin-6 (IL-6) tear concentration and clinical outcome in patients with moderate-to-severe bacterial corneal ulcers post corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) therapy. This pre-post designed study involving 21 moderate-to-severe corneal ulcer patients who underwent CXL therapy. Patients with infectious corneal ulcer were given CXL therapy as adjunctive treatment after 5d of broadspectrum antibiotic treatment.

The prevalence of uncorrected refractive error in urban, suburban, exurban and rural primary school children in Indonesian population.

Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is a major health problem among school children. This study was aimed to determine the frequency and patterns of URE across 4 gradients of residential densities (urban, exurban, suburban and rural). This was a cross-sectional study of school children from 3 districts in Yogyakarta and 1 district near Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The precuneus and visuospatial attention in near and far space: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study.

Background: There is a large body of evidence for the involvement of the parietal cortex in orientation and navigation in space. This has been supplemented by investigation of the contribution of a number of subregions using transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Objective: The role of the precuneus area, located in the medial plane of posterior parietal cortex (PPC), in visuospatial functions is not well understood.

Motor empathy is a consequence of misattribution of sensory information in observers.

Human behavior depends crucially on the ability to interact with others and empathy has a critical role in enabling this to occur effectively. This can be an unconscious process and based on natural instinct and inner imitation (Montag et al., 2008) responding to observed and executed actions (Newman-Norlund et al.

The potential of transcranial magnetic stimulation for population-based application: a region-based illustrated brief overview.

The awareness of the global trends in neuroscience study, especially in the cognitive neuroscience field, should be increased. One notable approach is the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) not only as a research tool but also as a choice for treatment and rehabilitation in neurological disorders, such as post-stroke hemiplegia, visuospatial neglect syndrome, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and psychiatric conditions such as major depression and schizophrenia. All of these occur in significant numbers in highly populated regions.

Far-space neglect in conjunction but not feature search following transcranial magnetic stimulation over right posterior parietal cortex.

Near- and far-space coding in the human brain is a dynamic process. Areas in dorsal, as well as ventral visual association cortex, including right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC), right frontal eye field (rFEF), and right ventral occipital cortex (rVO), have been shown to be important in visuospatial processing, but the involvement of these areas when the information is in near or far space remains unclear. There is a need for investigations of these representations to help explain the pathophysiology of hemispatial neglect, and the role of near and far space is crucial to this.