Purpose: To study the outcome of eyes that underwent surgery for keratoprosthesis with a biological haptic, osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) or tibia keratoprosthesis, by a single surgeon over a time span of more than 25 years.
Methods: One hundred thirty eyes that had received a keratoprosthesis with a biological haptic between 1994 and 2022 by a single surgeon were included in this retrospective analysis. Main outcome parameters were postoperative best corrected visual acuity, postoperative refractive error, postoperative complications, anatomical and functional survival of the prosthesis as well as comparison of subgroups of the 2 different types (OOKP n = 78; tibia keratoprosthesis n = 52) of keratoprostheses, and subgroup analysis of different indications for surgery.
Background: Locally, the introduction of measures during times of a pandemic emergency is embodied in a pandemic containment plan created by the Robert Koch Institute in 2017. In addition to central indicators such as incidence rates and number of deaths, various indicators are used at the local level to assess the pandemic situation. So far, there hasn't been analyses of the availability and perceived relevance of the surveillance indicators used to manage the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic by the local German pandemic task forces.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo fulfil its orchestration of immune cell trafficking, a network of chemokines and receptors developed that capitalizes on specificity, redundancy, and functional selectivity. The discovery of heteromeric interactions in the chemokine interactome has expanded the complexity within this network. Moreover, some inflammatory mediators, not structurally linked to classical chemokines, bind to chemokine receptors and behave as atypical chemokines (ACKs).
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