Publications by authors named "Tiago Dos Santos Prata"
Objectives: To bring summarized information about what has been published so far regarding Covid-19, facilitating the access to information and a better understanding of this pandemic, and to contribute to the medical community in the decision-making against this virus.
Methods: This review article brings collected information from different articles published since the beginning of the pandemic of the 2019 novel coronavirus.
Key Results: This paper aggregates and consolidates some epidemiological parameters and clinical knowledge about the novel coronavirus and brings what is new in the search for pandemic control.
Purpose: To describe an adjustable suture (AS) experimental model that allows for tightening, loosening and retightening of the suture tension in trabeculectomy.
Methods: Standard trabeculectomy was performed in fifteen pig eyeballs. All pig eyes were tested twice: one test with conventional suture in both flap's corners (conventional suture group) and another test with a conventional suture at one corner and an adjustable suture in the other corner (AS group).
Purpose: To compare total protein concentration in the aqueous humor of primary open-angle glaucoma and non-glaucomatous patients.
Methods: Aqueous humor samples were obtained from 22 patients just before trabeculectomy for clinically uncontrolled primary open angle glaucoma (POAG group). Aqueous humor (0.