Short-term efficacy and safety of PreserFlo MicroShunt in Japanese patients with medically treated primary open-angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of PreserFlo MicroShunt (PMS) combined with mitomycin C in patients with medically treated primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).

Study Design: A retrospective observational study.

Methods: The study examined 83 eyes from 83 patients with medically treated glaucoma surgery naive POAG.

Effects of trabeculectomy on the postoperative central visual field as revealed by refraction values.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of trabeculectomy on the rate of deterioration of the central visual field (VF) in patients with normal-tension glaucoma (NTG), as revealed by refraction values.

Study Design: Retrospective case series.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 28 eyes, including 12 high myopic (spherical equivalent [SE] < - 6 diopters without pathological myopia) and 16 non-high myopic (SE ≥ - 6 diopters) eyes.

Successful Treatment With Venetoclax Plus Azacytidine Combined With Radiation Therapy and Donor Lymphocyte Infusion in a Patient With Extramedullary Relapse of Acute Myeloid Leukemia After Stem Cell Transplantation.

Extramedullary (EM) relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is rare and causes systemic relapse. Consequently, the prognosis is very poor because limited treatment is feasible in post-transplant patients. The efficacy and safety of venetoclax (VEN), a newly developed oral inhibitor of B-cell leukemia/lymphoma-2, plus azacytidine (AZA) in patients newly diagnosed with AML who are ineligible for intensive chemotherapy have been reported.

Prostaglandin-Associated Periorbitopathy Symptom Alleviation After Switching Prostaglandin F Receptor Agonist to EP2 Receptor Agonist in Patients with Glaucoma.

Prostaglandin-associated periorbitopathy in patients with glaucoma is reportedly not caused by EP2 agonist, but it has been a cosmetic problem with prostaglandin F receptor (FP) agonists. In this study, patients with prostaglandin-associated periorbitopathy on FP agonists were switched to EP2 agonist and changes were investigated. Patients complaining of prostaglandin-associated periorbitopathy were included.

Diagnostic ability and sectoral structure-function relationship of circumpapillary and macular superficial vessel density in early glaucomatous eyes.

This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic ability and sectoral structure function relationship of circumpapillary vessel density (cpVD) and macular vessel density (mVD) with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in early glaucomatous (EG) eyes. 224 EG eyes of 167 patients (mean deviation (MD) > - 6 dB) and 70 normal eyes of 70 subjects were enrolled in this retrospective cross-sectional study. All patients underwent OCT and OCTA scanning.

The Additive Effect of ROCK Inhibitor on Prostaglandin-Treated Japanese Patients with Glaucoma Indicating 15 mmHg and Under: ROCK U-15.

Introduction: We aimed to evaluate the additional effects and safety of a Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, ripasudil hydrochloride hydrate, in Japanese patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) with an intraocular pressure (IOP) of at most 15 mmHg undergoing prostaglandin F (FP) receptor agonist monotherapy (FP monotherapy).

Methods: In this prospective observational study, 30 Japanese patients with POAG and IOP of at most 15 mmHg (mean age 59.4 years; 10 men) who were undergoing FP monotherapy in both eyes were administered an additional dose of ripasudil hydrochloride hydrate (GLANATEC ophthalmic solution 0.

Central visual field change after fornix-based trabeculectomy in Japanese normal-tension glaucoma patients managed under 15 mmHg.

Purpose: To investigate how the central visual field would be changed after fornix-based trabeculectomy with mitomycin C in Japanese normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) patients monitored for more than 10 years including before surgery.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. We identified twenty-eight eyes of 28 NTG cases regularly monitored for more than 5 years and examined static visual field (VF) tests for more than five times before and after fornix-based trabeculectomy (including combined surgery).

Evaluation of fornix-based trabeculectomy outcomes in Japanese glaucoma patients based on concrete long-term preoperative data.

Purpose: To investigate the outcomes of fornix-based trabeculectomy in Japanese patients with glaucoma based on more than five years of preoperative data.

Study Design: Retrospective case series METHODS: This study consisted of 35 eyes of 35 Japanese glaucoma patients (mean age: 60.6, standard deviation (SD) 11.

Twelve-month efficacy and safety of glaucoma filtration device for surgery in patients with normal-tension glaucoma.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of filtration surgery using the EX-PRESS glaucoma filtration device in patients with normal-tension glaucoma (NTG).

Study Design: Prospective, single-arm, multicenter interventional case series.

Methods: Eyes with NTG underwent EX-PRESS implantation with or without cataract surgery.

Genome-wide association study identifies seven novel susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma.

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide for which 15 disease-associated loci had been discovered. Among them, only 5 loci have been associated with POAG in Asians. We carried out a genome-wide association study and a replication study that included a total of 7378 POAG cases and 36 385 controls from a Japanese population.

Biotin augments acetyl CoA carboxylase 2 gene expression in the hypothalamus, leading to the suppression of food intake in mice.

It is known that biotin prevents the development of diabetes by increasing the functions of pancreatic beta-cells and improving insulin sensitivity in the periphery. However, its anti-obesity effects such as anorectic effects remain to be clarified. Acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACC), a biotin-dependent enzyme, has two isoforms (ACC1 and ACC2) and serves to catalyze the reaction of acetyl CoA to malonyl CoA.

Correlation between N2 amplitude of multifocal ERGs and retinal sensitivity and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in glaucomatous eyes.

Purpose: To determine whether there are significant correlations between the N2 amplitude of the multifocal electroretinograms (mfERGs) and the retinal sensitivity and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in glaucomatous and normal eyes.

Methods: Thirty-eight glaucomatous and 11 normal eyes were studied. The mfERGs were elicited by red stimuli presented on a blue background.

Nucleomorph Genome Sequences of Two Chlorarachniophytes, Amorphochlora amoebiformis and Lotharella vacuolata.

Many algal groups acquired complex plastids by the uptake of green and red algae through multiple secondary endosymbioses. As a result of gene loss and transfer during the endosymbiotic processes, algal endosymbiont nuclei disappeared in most cases. However, chlorarachniophytes and cryptophytes still possess a relict nucleus, so-called the nucleomorph, of the green and red algal endosymbiont, respectively.

Optimized arrangement of constant ambient air monitoring stations in the Kanto region of Japan.

Continuous ambient air monitoring systems have been introduced worldwide. However, such monitoring forces autonomous communities to bear a significant financial burden. Thus, it is important to identify pollutant-monitoring stations that are less efficient, while minimizing loss of data quality and mitigating effects on the determination of spatiotemporal trends of pollutants.

Incidence of deepening of the upper eyelid sulcus in prostaglandin-associated periorbitopathy with a latanoprost ophthalmic solution.

Purpose: Among some local side effects of prostaglandin-associated periorbitopathy (PAP), deepening of the upper eyelid sulcus (DUES) is the most prominent clinical feature, and is one of the most significant adverse cosmetic events. Here, we prospectively investigated the incidence of DUES in Japanese open-angle glaucoma patients initially treated with latanoprost (Xalatan 0.005%) ophthalmic solution.

A cluster analysis of constant ambient air monitoring data from the Kanto region of Japan.

This study demonstrates an application of cluster analysis to constant ambient air monitoring data of four pollutants in the Kanto region: NOx, photochemical oxidant (Ox), suspended particulate matter, and non-methane hydrocarbons. Constant ambient air monitoring can provide important information about the surrounding atmospheric pollution. However, at the same time, ambient air monitoring can place a significant financial burden on some autonomous communities.