4 results match your criteria: "Ohio. Electronic address: faruk.orge@uhhospitals.org.[Affiliation]"

Lack of racial and ethnic diversity in pediatric ophthalmology clinical trials from 2000 to 2022.

J AAPOS

April 2024

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; Center for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address:

Purpose: To examine the prevalence of and factors associated with racial and ethnic reporting and trends in such reporting and to assess whether categories of race and ethnicity have been under- or over-represented in pediatric ophthalmology randomized control trials (RCTs) in the United States.

Methods: We systematically searched the literature on pediatric ophthalmology RCTs in high-impact factor ophthalmology journals published between 2000 and 2022. Logistic regression was used to assess parameters linked to race/ethnicity reporting; linear regression, to gauge the relationship between publication year and race/ethnicity reporting.

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Treatment compliance in amblyopia: A mini-review and description of a novel online platform for compliance tracking.

Surv Ophthalmol

October 2022

Center for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Eye Institute, Cleveland/Ohio/USA. Electronic address:

Patient compliance with amblyopia therapies, including eye patching and atropine drops, is crucial for optimal visual acuity outcomes. Studies utilizing objective measures of compliance measurement have consistently shown that a majority of patients receive significantly less treatment than prescribed. We review the subjective and objective compliance rates reported in the literature, assess possible explanations for poor compliance, and describe studies of interventions to improve compliance.

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Atypical ophthalmic manifestations of disseminated intravascular coagulation in a newborn.

J AAPOS

June 2020

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; University Hospitals Eye Institute, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address:

Article Synopsis
  • Ophthalmic issues related to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in newborns are rare and typically involve bilateral choroidal and retinal hemorrhages.
  • A case study details a newborn girl with DIC due to sepsis who experienced severe ocular complications, including multiple surgeries and visual challenges.
  • By age 7, her vision improved to 20/50 in the affected right eye and 20/20 in the left eye, although she still faced some issues like amblyopia and strabismus.
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Contractile morning glory disk anomaly: analysis of the cyclic contractions and literature review.

J AAPOS

April 2020

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address:

Purpose: To investigate the contraction mechanism of morning glory disk anomaly using computer-assisted analysis of the cyclic contractions frame by frame and to review the literature on contractile morning glory disk anomaly cases.

Methods: The fundus video of the patient under anesthesia was recorded using RetCam C300 lens. Frames at 1 second intervals were extracted to quality-preserving TIFF images and manually selected areas of cup, disk, and pigmented ring were measured with image analysis software.

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