Publications by authors named "Michael A Simmons"

Following Afghanistan's fall in August 2021, many refugees were settled in the United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome. They were flown from Kabul to the Middle East and Europe before continuing to the U.S.

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Purpose: To describe the syndromic, clinical, and retinal findings of a patient with an extremely-rare genetic condition known as Hardikar Syndrome (HS) with presentation of optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus autofluorescence (FAF), fluorescein angiographic (FA), and indocyanine green angiographic (ICG) findings.

Methods: Clinical course was detailed and followed over time with examinations and multimodal imaging.

Patient And Results: A 17-year-old patient with HS was referred for possible retinitis pigmentosa.

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Purpose: To describe an alternative treatment for a patient with serpiginous choroiditis (SC) who was not tolerant to systemic therapies.

Methods: Case report of a patient with serpiginous choroiditis with their clinical course followed with ophthalmic examinations and multimodal imaging overtime. .

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Background/purpose: To describe the clinical, optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus autofluorescence and ultrasound findings of a patient with a choroidal nevus actively exuding vitelliform material in the setting of autosomal dominant Best dystrophy (BD).

Methods: The patient's clinical course was followed over time with ophthalmic examinations and multimodal imaging.

Results: A 71-year-old male patient with BD was referred for evaluation of a choroidal nevus in the right eye.

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to create an algorithm to automate, accelerate, and standardize the process of avascular area segmentation in images from a rat oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) model.

Methods: Within 6 h of birth, full-term pups born to Sprague Dawley rat dams that had undergone partial bilateral uterine artery ligation at embryonic day 19.5 were placed into a controlled oxygen environment (Oxycycler, BioSpherix, Parish, NY) at 50% oxygen for 48 h, followed by cycling between 10% and 50% oxygen every 24 h until day 15.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is promoting the development and application of sampling methods for the semicontinuous determination of fine particulate matter (PM2.

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Purpose Of Review: The ductus arteriosus is a vessel that connects the pulmonary artery to the aorta and provides a pulmonary-to-systemic diversion during fetal life. In the vast majority of infants, the ductus arteriosus closes by 3 days of life. In some infants, especially preterm infants with lung disease, there is delayed closure of the ductus arteriosus.

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