Effects of Customized Progressive Addition Lenses vs. Single Vision Lenses on Myopia Progression in Children with Esophoria: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of customized progressive addition lenses (CPALs) versus single vision lenses (SVLs) on the progression of juvenile-onset myopia in children with near esophoria.

Methods: Ninety-three Chinese children, aged 7-14 years with spherical equivalent refraction (SER) ranging from -0.50 to -4.

Effect of Dual Endothelin Receptor Antagonist on a Retinal Degeneration Animal Model by Regulating Choroidal Microvascular Morphology.

Objective: Clinical studies have found that increasing levels of plasma endothelin-1 (ET-1) might inhibit choroidal blood flow (BF) and promote choroidal vasoconstriction. This study was designed to investigate ET-1 levels and its effect on choroidal microvascular morphology in a retinitis pigmentosa (RP) animal model.

Methods: Mice with retinal degeneration (rd10) were intragastrically administered bosentan, a dual endothelin receptor antagonist.

[Acupuncture and ultrasound therapy for temporomandibular disorders].

This study was designed to compare the therapeutic effect acupuncture in combination with ultrasound therapy with that of ultra short-wave electrotherapy on temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Sixty-eight patients with TMD were randomized equally into 2 groups to receive the two treatments respectively, and the therapeutic effects were found to be significantly different (P<0.05).

[Iontophoresis with traditional Chinese herbal medicine accelerates the healing of bone fracture].

Objective: To observe the effect of iontophoresis with traditional Chinese herbal medicine on the healing of bone fracture.

Methods: Twelve New Zealand rabbits with tibial fracture were treated by iontophoresis with traditional Chinese herbal medicine. A retrospective study of 52 clinical cases of tibial fracture treated with the iontophoresis was also performed in comparison with 50 control cases.

[The study of FK506 eye drops preventing and treating immune rejection on limbal allograft transplantation].

Objective: To evaluate the general cause of limbal allograft transplantation rejection and the effects of the immunosuppressant FK506.

Methods: Limbal deficiency models were established in 48 New Zealand rabbits, which were randomized into three groups of 16 rabbits each. Limbal allograft transplantation was performed one month later.