Influence of technique used to attach the infusion set to peristaltic finger smart-pumps on dispensing time: an experimental study.

Background: Infusion sets designed for peristaltic finger smart pumps (PFSPs) are necessary for the pumps' accurate handling. We previously found that medication dispensing is occasionally incomplete following the calculated infusion time when using certain combinations of PFSPs and infusion sets at a Japanese hospital. Thus, in this study, we investigated the cause of this observed delay by determining the effect of infusion set attachment technique on dispensing time using a combination of three kinds of PFSPs and five kinds of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polybutadiene (PB) infusion sets.

SLC1A1 Gene Variants and Normal Tension Glaucoma: An Association Study.

Background: It has been hypothesized that dysfunction of the solute carrier family 1, member1 gene (SLC1A1), which encodes the glutamate aspartate transporter, may play a role in normal tension glaucoma. In this study we investigate whether SLC1A1 is associated with normal tension glaucoma in Japanese patients.

Methods: A total of 292 Japanese patients with normal tension glaucoma and 500 healthy control subjects were recruited.

Glaucoma-induced optic disc morphometric changes and glaucoma diagnostic ability of Heidelberg Retina Tomograph II in highly myopic eyes.

Purpose: This study was performed to first investigate the morphological differences in the optic nerve head between highly myopic non-glaucomatous controls and highly myopic glaucomatous eyes in comparison with the differences between emmetropic non-glaucomatous controls and emmetropic glaucomatous eyes using confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy. Further, the ability of the apparatus in glaucoma diagnosis in highly myopic eyes was compared with that in emmetropic eyes.

Methods: Healthy subjects and age-matched patients with early-stage open-angle glaucoma were divided into two groups: emmetropic eyes (-1.

Factors related to future peripheral anterior synechiae formation on ultrasound biomicroscopy: 7-year follow-up in eyes with shallow peripheral anterior chambers.

Purpose: To study factors associated with future peripheral anterior synechiae (PAS) formation on ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) in eyes with a shallow peripheral anterior chamber.

Patients And Methods: Fifteen subjects with a shallow peripheral anterior chamber but no PAS in both eyes, in 2001, that had no medical or surgical intervention until 2008 were included in this study. The same examiners performed gonioscopy and UBM at the 3, 6, 9, and 12 o'clock limbal positions under dark and light conditions in 2001 and 2008.

Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in high myopic eyes in a population-based setting.

Purpose: To compare the parameters of confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (Heidelberg Retina Tomograph [HRT] II; Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) in high myopia with those in age-matched emmetropia.

Methods: A population-based study in which HRT II data were analyzed from 135 healthy subjects with high myopia (spherical equivalent [SE] from -6 to -12 D) and 135 age-matched subjects with emmetropia (SE from -1 to +1 D). The HRT parameters, the correlation between disc area and ovality, and asymmetry between the right and left eyes were evaluated.

Performance of frequency-doubling technology perimetry in a population-based prevalence survey of glaucoma: the Tajimi study.

Objective: To evaluate the performance of frequency-doubling technology (FDT) perimetry in a population-based glaucoma prevalence survey.

Design: Population-based cross-sectional study.

Participants: Participants older than 40 years randomly selected from the population of Tajimi City.

Prevalence and causes of low vision and blindness in a Japanese adult population: the Tajimi Study.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and causes of low vision and blindness in a Japanese adult population.

Design: Population-based cross-sectional study.

Participants: Randomly selected residents (n = 3870) of Tajimi City, Japan, who were 40 years of age or older.

The prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma in Japanese: the Tajimi Study.

Purpose: To assess the prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and its association with intraocular pressure (IOP) in Tajimi City in central Japan.

Design: A cross-sectional epidemiologic study in a defined population.

Participants: Subjects randomly selected from the population older than 40 years in Tajimi City.