Publications by authors named "L Choritz"
Digital learning resources are in increasing demand, especially in the light of the planned reform of the medical licensing regulations for 2028. In a pilot project, we digitised and evaluated a logbook for students in their practical year (PJ).The aim of this study is to evaluate the digital and non-digital PJ logbooks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring in glaucoma management is evolving with novel devices. We investigated the reproducibility of 24 hour profiles on two consecutive days and after 30 days of self-measurements via telemetric IOP monitoring.
Methods: Seven primary patients with open-angle glaucoma previously implanted with a telemetric IOP sensor in one eye underwent automatic measurements throughout 24 hours on two consecutive days ('day 1' and 'day 2').
Purpose: To analyze changes in demographic parameters and retreatment patterns over a 10-year period in a clinical routine setting of infants with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) requiring treatment documented in the German Retina.net ROP registry.
Design: Multicenter, noninterventional, observational registry study recruiting patients treated for ROP.
Achromatopsia-Visual Cortex Stability and Plasticity in the Absence of Functional Cones.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
October 2023
Article Synopsis
- Achromatopsia is a rare genetic condition that affects the function of retinal cone photoreceptors, leading to a lack of visual input in the central visual field, raising questions about how the brain adapts to this loss.
- A study involving 17 individuals with achromatopsia used fMRI techniques to investigate whether the brain's visual cortex adjusts to process visual information from surrounding areas instead of the central area.
- The results indicated that significant remapping of the central visual field representation in the brain did not occur in achromatopsia patients, suggesting less brain plasticity than previously thought and highlighting the need for pre-treatment imaging to improve therapeutic outcomes.
Background: Patients with glaucoma on topical glaucoma medication are often affected by dry eye symptoms and thus likely to rub or squeeze their eyelids. Here, we telemetrically measure peak intraocular pressure (IOP) during eyelid manoeuvres and eyelid rubbing.
Methods: Eleven patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) previously implanted with a telemetric IOP sensor (Eyemate-IO) were instructed to look straight ahead for 1 min as a baseline measurement.