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Purpose: To characterise the relationship between a deep-layer microvasculature dropout (MvD) and central visual field (VF) damage in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients with and without high axial myopia.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: Seventy-one eyes (49 patients) with high axial myopia and POAG and 125 non-highly myopic POAG eyes (97 patients) were enrolled.

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Dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens is a rare anthropozoonotic disease, with dogs and cats being the definite hosts for this parasite. This worm is transmitted by various species of mosquitoes and usually presents as a subcutaneous nodule. Human cases have been reported from all around the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, and Central and Southern Asia.

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