• Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: The Right to Sight: An analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 

      Bourne R.R.A., Steinmetz J.D., Saylan M., Mersha A.M., Weldemariam A.H., Wondmeneh T.G., Sreeramareddy C.T., Pinheiro M., Yaseri M., Yu C., Zastrozhin M.S., Zastrozhina A., Zhang Z.-J., Zimsen S.R.M., Yonemoto N., Tsegaye G.W., Vu G.T., Vongpradith A., Renzaho A.M.N., Sorrie M.B., Shaheen A.A., Shiferaw W.S., Skryabin V.Y., Skryabina A.A., Saya G.K., Rahimi-Movaghar V., Shigematsu M., Sahraian M.A., Naderifar H., Sabour S., Rathi P., Sathian B., Miller T.R., Rezapour A., Rawal L., Pham H.Q., Parekh U., Podder V., Onwujekwe O.E., Pasovic M., Otstavnov N., Negash H., Pawar S., Naimzada M.D., Al Montasir A., Ogbo F.A., Owolabi M.O., Pakshir K., Mohammad Y., Moni M.A., Nunez-Samudio V., Mulaw G.F., Naveed M., Maleki S., Michalek I.M., Misra S., Swamy S.N., Mohammed J.A., Flaxman S., Park E.-C., Briant P.S., Meles G.G., Hayat K., Landires I., Kim G.R., Liu X., LeGrand K.E., Taylor H.R., Kunjathur S.M., Khoja T.A.M., Bicer B.K., Khalilov R., Hashi A., Kayode G.A., Carneiro V.L.A., Kavetskyy T., Kosen S., Kulkarni V., Holla R., Kalhor R., Jayaram S., Islam S.M.S., Gilani S.A., Eskandarieh S., Molla M.D., Itumalla R., Farzadfar F., Congdon N.G., Elhabashy H.R., Elayedath R., Couto R.A.S., Dervenis N., Cromwell E.A., Dahlawi S.M.A., Resnikoff S., Casson R.J., Abdoli A., Choi J.-Y.J., Dos Santos F.L.C., Abrha W.A., Nagaraja S.B., Abualhasan A., Adal T.G., Aregawi B.B., Beheshti M., Abu-Gharbieh E., Afshin A., Ahmadieh H., Alemzadeh S.A., Arrigo A., Atnafu D.D., Ashbaugh C., Ashrafi E., Alemayehu W., Alfaar A.S., Alipour V., Anbesu E.W., Androudi S., Arabloo J., Arditi A., Bagli E., Baig A.A., Bärnighausen T.W., Parodi M.B., Bhagavathula A.S., Bhardwaj N., Bhardwaj P., Bhattacharyya K., Bijani A., Bikbov M., Bottone M., Braithwaite T., Bron A.M., Butt Z.A., Cheng C.-Y., Chu D.-T., Cicinelli M.V., Coelho J.M., Dai X., Dana R., Dandona L., Dandona R., Del Monte M.A., Deva J.P., Diaz D., Djalalinia S., Dreer L.E., Ehrlich J.R., Ellwein L.B., Emamian M.H., Fernandes A.G., Fischer F., Friedman D.S., Furtado J.M., Gaidhane S., Gazzard G., Gebremichael B., George R., Ghashghaee A., Golechha M., Hamidi S., Hammond B.R., Hartnett M.E.R., Hartono R.K., Hay S.I., Heidari G., Ho H.C., Househ M., Ibitoye S.E., Ilic I.M., Huang J.J., Ilic M.D., Ingram A.D., Irvani S.S.N., Jha R.P., Kahloun R., Kandel H., Kasa A.S., Kempen J.H., Khairallah M., Khan E.A., Khanna R.C., Khatib M.N., Kim J.E., Kim Y.J., Kisa A., Kisa S., Koyanagi A., Kurmi O.P., Lansingh V.C., Leasher J.L., Leveziel N., Limburg H., Manafi N., Mansouri K., McAlinden C., Mohammadi S.F., Mokdad A.H., Morse A.R., Naderi M., Naidoo K.S., Nangia V., Nguyen H.L.T., Ogundimu K., Olagunju A.T., Panda-Jonas S., Pesudovs K., Peto T., Ur Rahman M.H., Ramulu P.Y., Rawaf D.L., Rawaf S., Reinig N., Robin A.L., Rossetti L., Safi S., Sahebkar A., Samy A.M., Serle J.B., Shaikh M.A., Shen T.T., Shibuya K., Shin J.I., Silva J.C., Silvester A., Singh J.A., Singhal D., Sitorus R.S., Skiadaresi E., Soheili A., Sousa R.A.R.C., Stambolian D., Tadesse E.G., Tahhan N., Tareque Md.I., Topouzis F., Tran B.X., Tsilimbaris M.K., Varma R., Virgili G., Wang N., Wang Y.X., West S.K., Wong T.Y., Jonas J.B., Vos T., GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators, Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study (2021)
      Background: Many causes of vision impairment can be prevented or treated. With an ageing global population, the demands for eye health services are increasing. We estimated the prevalence and relative contribution of ...
    • Detection of macular photocoagulation scars with confocal infrared reflection imaging 

      Kotoula, M. G.; Chatzoulis, D. Z.; Tahmitzi, S.; Evangelia, T. E. (2009)
      ■ BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To study the diagnostic reliability (specificity and sensitivity) of confocal infrared reflection in detecting threshold argon laser photocoagulation scars in the macula. ■ PATIENTS AND METHODS: ...
    • Quality-adjusted life years in macular oedema due to age-related macular degeneration, diabetes and central retinal vein occlusion: the impact of anti-VEGF agents in a tertiary centre in Greece 

      Voutsas N.T., Papageorgiou E., Tantou A., Dimitriou V.A., Tsironi E.E., Kotoula M. (2022)
      Introduction: Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), diabetic macular oedema (DME), and macular oedema due to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) are leading causes of vision loss, currently managed with ...
    • Repeatability and reproducibility of retinal thickness measurements in diabetic patients with spectral domain optical coherence tomography 

      Fiore, T.; Androudi, S.; Iaccheri, B.; Lupidi, M.; Fabrizio, G.; Fruttini, D.; Biondi, L.; Cagini, C. (2013)
      Background: To determine the repeatability and reproducibility of optical coherence tomography (OCT) Spectralis retinal thickness measurements in diabetic patients with clinically significant macular edema (CSME). Methods: ...
    • RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS EVALUATION AFTER TRYPAN BLUE-ASSISTED MACULAR SURGERY 

      Brazitikos, P. D.; Katsimpris, J. M.; Tsironi, E.; Androudi, S. (2010)
      Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness changes in eyes undergoing trypan blue-assisted macular surgery using optical coherence tomography-3. This is a prospective ...
    • Surgical Therapy for Macular Edema: What We Have Learned through the Decades 

      Bae J.H., Al-khersan H., Yannuzzi N.A., Hasanreisoglu M., Androudi S., Albini T.A., Nguyen Q.D. (2019)
      Macular edema is a leading cause of functional visual loss in retinal vascular or ocular inflammatory diseases. Because persistent macular edema can lead to irreversible retinal damage, multi-approached treatment should ...