Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
February 2025
The objective of this study was to report the initial experiences of seven surgeons using a titanium macular buckle (TMB) for the treatment of myopic maculopathy. The records of 11 cases that underwent TMB placement, with or without concomitant vitrectomy, were reviewed. Collected data included demographics, type of maculopathy, pre-operative and postoperative ophthalmic findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in 777 million confirmed cases and over 7 million deaths worldwide, with insufficient treatment options. Innumerable efforts are being made around the world for faster identification of therapeutic agents to treat the deadly disease. Post Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection or COVID-19 (PASC), also called Long COVID, is still being understood and lacks treatment options as well.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNaphthalenediimide (NDI)-based donor-acceptor co-polymers with tunable electronic, optical, mechanical, and transport properties have shown immense potential as n-type conducting polymers in organic (opto)electronics. During the operation, the polymers undergo reduction at different charged states, which alters their (opto)electronic properties mainly due to the formation of the quasiparticles, polaron/bipolaron. The theoretical study based on quantum mechanical calculations can provide us with a detailed understanding of their (opto)electronic properties, which is missing to a great extent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
May 2024
Cancer's global impact necessitates innovative and less toxic treatments. Thiosemicarbazones (TSCs), adaptable metal chelators, offer such potential. In this study, we have synthesized N (4)-substituted heterocyclic TSCs from syringaldehyde (TSL1, TSL2), and also report the unexpected copper-mediated cyclization of the TSCs to form thiadiazoles (TSL3, TSL4), expanding research avenues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Novel nature of the viral pathogen SARS-CoV-2 and the absence of standard drugs for treatment, have been a major challenge to combat this deadly infection. Natural products offer safe and effective remedy, for which traditional ethnic medicine can provide leads. An indigenous poly-herbal formulation, Kabasura Kudineer from Siddha system of medicine was evaluated here using a combination of computational approaches, to identify potential inhibitors against two anti-SARS-CoV-2 targets - post-fusion Spike protein (structural protein) and main protease (Mpro, non-structural protein).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg
November 2023
Introduction: A scientometric analysis was conducted to characterize the global research publications in extrahepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO), and state-of-the-art visualization graphics were generated to provide insight into specific bibliometric variables.
Materials And Methods: The Web of Science database was accessed for research productivity and bibliometric variables of countries, institutions, authors, journals, and content analysis of top-20 cited documents were performed. Collaborative networks and co-occurrence of keywords map were generated using VOSviewer software.
J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg
November 2022
Background: The number of times a research work gets cited by another article is one of the article-level metrics for assessing the quality of a research publication. Citation analysis by bibliometric review has been performed in several disciplines. The current study was aimed to systematically review the literature available on pediatric inguinal hernia since 1960 in terms of the 25 most cited articles in this field and analyze the bibliometric variables author and organizational collaborative patterns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Appl Bio Mater
December 2021
One of the most promising applications of nanocellulose is for membranes for energy storage devices including supercapacitors, batteries, and fuel cells. Several recent studies reported the fabrication of cellulose-based membranes where ionic conductivity was confined to channels. So far, theoretical understanding of the effect of the nanoconfinement and surface charged groups on the diffusion coefficient of ions in cellulose nanochannels is missing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 was declared as a global pandemic by the WHO in 2020. Although it is a respiratory virus, ocular complications and manifestations of the infection have been reported in different forms. We report a case of transient myopia and narrow angles due to choroidal effusion following infection by the SARS-COV-2 virus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess the causes of visual impairment and blindness in children in all the schools for the blind in eight northeastern states and to determine its temporal trend, and to analyze the result with reference to various regional epidemiological data on childhood blindness in India.
Methods: Children aged ≤16 years, with a visual acuity of ≤6/18 in the better eye, attending 17 schools for the blind were examined between November 2018 and March 2020. WHO protocol and reporting format was used for the evaluation, diagnosis, and classification of the causes.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the pathology of retinoblastoma (RB) seeds with supportive evidence by field emission scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy.
Methods: This study was a laboratory-based observational study. Enucleated eyeballs received in the ocular pathology department of a tertiary eye care center in northeast India were included in the cohort after obtaining written informed consent during the surgery.
Background Global variation in susceptibility to diabetes, insulin sensitivity, and regimen intensity poses a challenge for clinicians regarding the optimal choice of insulin therapy. The current study was carried out to see the relative safety and efficacy of currently available long-acting insulins among the type 2 diabetic Asian population. Methods A systematic literature search was done using various search engines (PubMed, Cochrane, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Embase) and included published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in English before December 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [1]:Throughout the paper's text and in the table, "HCoV-299E" is referred to a few times [...
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe unwavering spread of COVID-19 has taken the world by storm. Preventive measures like social distancing and mask usage have been taken all around the globe but still, as of September 2020, the number of cases continues to rise in many countries. Evidently, these measures are insufficient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe hierarchical self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) is an important phenomenon occurring naturally in plant cell walls. Utilization of this assembly for advanced applications requires a fundamental theoretical understanding of interactions between the CNCs, which is still incomplete. Hence, in this work, we used molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect of surface modification on the interactions between the CNCs and the resulting bundling process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSelf-assembly is ubiquitous in nature and underlies the formation of many complex systems from the molecular to the macroscopic scale. Kern-Frenkel-like patchy particles are powerful models to investigate this phenomenon by computational methods such as Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics simulations. However, in these models the interactions are mediated by circular patches at the particle surface, which can be hardly mapped to realistic systems, containing for instance faceted particles with rectangular surfaces.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatic Tuberculosis (TB) is extremely rare without miliary involvement in immunocompetent patients. Even in countries like India where TB is a major public health problem only few cases have been diagnosed and treated. We report a case of an immunocompetent patient who presented with undiagnosed pyrexia of 11 days, was initially diagnosed as pyogenic liver abscess, he did not responded to treatment and on liver biopsy was diagnosed as hepatic tuberculoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMolecular dynamics simulations are used to demonstrate the effects of introducing anisotropicallyshaped silica (SiO₂) and titanium dioxide (TiO₂) nanoparticles on the morphology of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM) bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. The morphological compatibility and structure formation upon introduction of nanorods to the mixture of P3HT and PCBM are systematically studied by calculating several parameters that are known to influence the performance of BHJ. The anisotropically-shaped nanorods self-assemble into a variety of macroscopic structures, depending on the aspect ratio, and alter the phase morphology of PCBM.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Objectives: : In the United States (US), Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is usually seen in the patients affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The racial differences in the incidence rates and survival of patients with KS have been reported in the US. We undertook this study to analyse the disparities in the race-specific incidence rate and survival of KS patients of two different races in the US based on SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) database.
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