Thyroid Eye Disease: Pilot Study Comparison Between Patients in United States-Based and India-Based Practices.

Purpose: Thyroid eye disease (TED) phenotype varies by ethnicity/race and genetic/environmental factors. This study compared demographic and clinical characteristics of TED patients from the US and India.

Design: Observational pilot study .

Disparities in Retinal Vein Occlusion Presentation and Initiation of Anti-VEGF Therapy: An Academy IRIS® Registry Analysis.

Objective: Investigate disparities in retinal vein occlusion (RVO) presentation and initiation of anti-VEGF treatment.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Subjects: Patients in the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS® (Intelligent Research in Sight) Registry database (2015-2021) with branch or central RVO and macular edema (ME).

Evaluating Visual Acuity in the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS® Registry.

Objective: To describe visual acuity data representation in the American Academy of Ophthalmology Intelligent Research in Sight (IRIS) Registry and present a data-cleaning strategy.

Design: Reliability and validity study.

Participants: Patients with visual acuity records from 2018 in the IRIS Registry.

United States Population Disparities in Ophthalmic Care: Blindness and Visual Impairment in the IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight).

Purpose: To evaluate associations of patient characteristics with United States eye care use and likelihood of blindness.

Design: Retrospective observational study.

Participants: Patients (19 546 016) with 2018 visual acuity (VA) records in the American Academy of Ophthalmology's IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight).

Thyroid Eye Disease and its Vision-Threatening Manifestations in the Academy IRIS Registry: 2014-2018.

Purpose: To evaluate prevalence of thyroid eye disease (TED) and associated factors in the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight).

Design: Cross-sectional analysis of the IRIS Registry.

Methods: IRIS Registry patients (18-90 years old) were classified as TED (ICD-9: 242.

International Consensus Statement on Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Background: Evaluation and interpretation of the literature on obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) allows for consolidation and determination of the key factors important for clinical management of the adult OSA patient. Toward this goal, an international collaborative of multidisciplinary experts in sleep apnea evaluation and treatment have produced the International Consensus statement on Obstructive Sleep Apnea (ICS:OSA).

Methods: Using previously defined methodology, focal topics in OSA were assigned as literature review (LR), evidence-based review (EBR), or evidence-based review with recommendations (EBR-R) formats.

Radiological Evaluation Does Not Reflect the Clinical Outcome After Surgery in Unstable Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Type A Fractures Without Neurological Symptoms: A Comparative Study of 2 Cohorts Treated by Open or Percutaneous Surgery.

Study Design: This is a prospective study of 2 cohorts.

Objective: Compare the clinical and radiologic outcome of 2 cohorts of unstable thoracolumbar and lumbar fractures treated by open posterior fixation (OPF) with bone graft or by percutaneous fixation (PCF) without grafting.

Summary Of Background Data: In recent years, PCF is the most common treatment of thoracolumbar fractures.

Rho Inhibitor VX-210 in Acute Traumatic Subaxial Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Design of the SPinal Cord Injury Rho INhibition InvestiGation (SPRING) Clinical Trial.

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is associated with a lifetime of disability stemming from loss of motor, sensory, and autonomic functions; these losses, along with increased comorbid sequelae, negatively impact health outcomes and quality of life. Early decompression surgery post-SCI can enhance patient outcomes, but does not directly facilitate neural repair and regeneration. Currently, there are no U.

The impact of access to immunization information on vaccine acceptance in three countries.

Introduction: Vaccine acceptance is a critical component of sustainable immunization programs, yet rates of vaccine hesitancy are rising. Increased access to misinformation through media and anti-vaccine advocacy is an important contributor to hesitancy in the United States and other high-income nations with robust immunization programs. Little is known about the content and effect of information sources on attitudes toward vaccination in settings with rapidly changing or unstable immunization programs.

ANALYSIS OF PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY INCISIONS USING LIVE BACTERIA.

Purpose: To analyze small gauge pars plana vitrectomy sclerotomies using live bacteria transformed with green fluorescent protein (GFP).

Methods: Twenty-eight human cadaver eyes were specially harvested for this study. Small gauge vitrectomy was performed on each eye and the wounds were closed with various techniques (sutured, sutureless, and cauterization).

The modified Japanese Orthopaedic Association scale: establishing criteria for mild, moderate and severe impairment in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy.

Purpose: We aimed to determine cut-offs between mild, moderate and severe myelopathy on the modified Japanese Orthopedic Association (mJOA) score.

Methods: Between December 2005 and January 2011, 757 patients with clinically diagnosed DCM were enrolled in the prospective AOSpine North America (n = 278) or International (n = 479) study at 26 sites. Functional status and quality of life were evaluated at baseline using a variety of outcome measures.

Reliability assessment of AOSpine thoracolumbar spine injury classification system and Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score (TLICS) for thoracolumbar spine injuries: results of a multicentre study.

Purpose: The aim of this multicentre study was to determine whether the recently introduced AOSpine Classification and Injury Severity System has better interrater and intrarater reliability than the already existing Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score (TLICS) for thoracolumbar spine injuries.

Methods: Clinical and radiological data of 50 consecutive patients admitted at a single centre with a diagnosis of an acute traumatic thoracolumbar spine injury were distributed to eleven attending spine surgeons from six different institutions in the form of PowerPoint presentation, who classified them according to both classifications. After time span of 6 weeks, cases were randomly rearranged and sent again to same surgeons for re-classification.