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Publications by authors named "Mouafk Asaad"

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  • - Studies have shown that individuals recovering from COVID-19 experience lower retinal vascular density and larger foveal avascular zones, with more severe cases exhibiting greater reductions in these measures.
  • - An observational study of 104 post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) participants found that those with severe COVID-19 had significantly worse retinal measurements and cognitive impairments compared to those with mild cases.
  • - The results indicate that retinal microvascular changes linked to severe COVID-19 are associated with cognitive deficits, suggesting that more severe infections can result in prolonged damage to both retinal and cognitive health.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare inflammatory events and graft characteristics 1 month and 6 months after conjunctival limbal autograft (CLAU) with and without intraoperative mitomycin C (MMC).

Methods: This study included 69 eyes of 69 patient's eyes with pterygium. Clinical data concerning patient demography, preoperative examination including pterygium morphology, recurrence clinical assessment, and complications after CLAU with (MMC+) and without (MMC-) intraoperative MMC were all registered at 1 month and 6 months after surgery.

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Purpose: To establish the sequence of tomographic changes in the tissue recovery process after pterygium excision and to propose healing indicators.

Methods: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) images were taken at 1 week, 1, 3 and 6 months after lesion excision in 73 eyes of 73 patients (33 male, 40 female; mean age 50, S.D.

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Objective: To report a good clinical outcome in a patient with bilateral choroidal neovascularization (CNV) associated with optic nerve head drusen (ONHD) treated with intravitreal ranibizumab injection.

Methods: A 12-year-old girl was referred for loss of right eye vision detected in a routine check-up. Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was hand movements in the right eye and 0.

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