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Lam AKC, Lai HC, Sung YK, Lam WH, Tiu CM. Performance of neuroretinal rim thickness measurement by Cirrus high-definition optical coherence tomography in myopic eyes. Sci Rep 2023; 13:12714. [PMID: 37543611 PMCID: PMC10404224 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39701-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/07/2023] Open
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Neuroretinal rim (NRR) measurement can aid the diagnosis of glaucoma. A few studies reported that Cirrus optical coherence tomography (OCT) had NRR segmentation errors. The current study investigated segmentation success of NRR in myopic eyes using the Cirrus built-in software and to determine the number of acquisitions required to identify NRR thinning. Right eye of 87 healthy adult myopes had an optic disc scanned using Cirrus HD-OCT for five successive acquisitions. A masked examiner evaluated 36 radial line images of each scan to screen for segmentation errors using the built-in software at the Bruch's membrane opening (BMO) and/or internal limiting membrane (ILM). Participants with three accurate NRR acquisitions had their average NRR thickness determined. This result was compared with average of the two acquisitions and the first acquisition. Among 435 OCT scans of the optic disc (87 eyes × 5 acquisitions), 129 (29.7%) scans had segmentation errors that occurred mainly at the ILM. The inferior-temporal and superior meridians had slightly more segmentation errors than other meridians, independent of axial length, amount of myopia, or presence of peripapillary atrophy. Sixty-five eyes (74.7%) had at least three accurate NRR measurements. The three acquisitions had high reliability in NRR thickness in the four quadrants (intraclass correlation coefficient > 0.990, coefficient of variation < 3.9%). NRR difference between the first acquisition and the average of three acquisitions was small (mean difference 2 ± 13 μm, 95% limits of agreement within ± 30 μm) among the four quadrants. Segmentation errors in NRR measurements appeared regardless of axial length, amount of myopia, or presence of peripapillary atrophy. Cirrus segmentation lines should be manually inspected when measuring NRR thickness.
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- Andrew K C Lam
- School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- School of Optometry, Centre for Myopia Research, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR), 17W Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- Research Centre for SHARP Vision (RCSV), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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- School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Soda H, Chabchoub F, Lam WH, Argyropoulos SA, Mclean A. The Horizontal Ohno Continuous Casting Process: Process Variables and Their Effects on Casting Stability. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/09534962.1991.11819049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- H. Soda
- Of the authors, H. Soda, F. Chabchoub, S. A. Argyropoulos and A. McLean are attached to the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Of the authors, H. Soda, F. Chabchoub, S. A. Argyropoulos and A. McLean are attached to the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Hydro, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Of the authors, H. Soda, F. Chabchoub, S. A. Argyropoulos and A. McLean are attached to the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Of the authors, H. Soda, F. Chabchoub, S. A. Argyropoulos and A. McLean are attached to the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Affiliation(s)
- K. C. Ng
- Center of
Advanced Computational
Engineering (CACE), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti
Tenaga Nasional, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- School of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50, Nanyang Avenue,
Singapore 639798
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- Department
of Civil Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
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Crossingham GV, Sice PJA, Roberts MJ, Lam WH, Gale TCE. Development of workplace-based assessments of non-technical skills in anaesthesia*. Anaesthesia 2012; 67:158-64. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06977.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bratanow S, Lam WH. Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (3rd edition). Anaesthesia 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05650.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Allan R, Lam WH. MCQs for the Primary FRCA. Anaesthesia 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05649.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chen D, Milacic V, Chen MS, Wan SB, Lam WH, Huo C, Landis-Piwowar KR, Cui QC, Wali A, Chan TH, Dou QP. Tea polyphenols, their biological effects and potential molecular targets. Histol Histopathol 2008; 23:487-96. [PMID: 18228206 DOI: 10.14670/hh-23.487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Tea is the most popular beverage in the world, second only to water. Tea contains an infusion of the leaves from the Camellia sinensis plant rich in polyphenolic compounds known as catechins, the most abundant of which is (-)-EGCG. Although tea has been consumed for centuries, it has only recently been studied extensively as a health-promoting beverage that may act to prevent a number of chronic diseases and cancers. The results of several investigations indicate that green tea consumption may be of modest benefit in reducing the plasma concentration of cholesterol and preventing atherosclerosis. Additionally, the cancer-preventive effects of green tea are widely supported by results from epidemiological, cell culture, animal and clinical studies. In vitro cell culture studies show that tea polyphenols potently induce apoptotic cell death and cell cycle arrest in tumor cells but not in their normal cell counterparts. Green tea polyphenols were shown to affect several biological pathways, including growth factor-mediated pathway, the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase-dependent pathway, and ubiquitin/proteasome degradation pathways. Various animal studies have revealed that treatment with green tea inhibits tumor incidence and multiplicity in different organ sites such as skin, lung, liver, stomach, mammary gland and colon. Recently, phase I and II clinical trials have been conducted to explore the anticancer effects of green tea in humans. A major challenge of cancer prevention is to integrate new molecular findings into clinical practice. Therefore, identification of more molecular targets and biomarkers for tea polyphenols is essential for improving the design of green tea trials and will greatly assist in a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying its anti-cancer activity.
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- D Chen
- The Prevention Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
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Chow LMC, Tang JCO, Teo ITN, Chui CH, Lau FY, Leung TWT, Cheng G, Wong RSM, Wong ILK, Tsang KMS, Tan WQ, Zhao YZ, Lai KB, Lam WH, Guo DA, Chan ASC. Antiproliferative activity of the extract of Gleditsia sinensis fruit on human solid tumour cell lines. Chemotherapy 2004; 48:303-8. [PMID: 12673105 DOI: 10.1159/000069713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis Lam. (GSE) is a traditional herbal medicine that is saponin-rich. However, its activity on solid tumour cell lines has never been demonstrated. METHODS The activity of GSE was demonstrated in four cancer cell lines (breast cancer MCF-7, MDA-MB231, hepatoblastoma HepG2 and oesophageal squamous carcinoma cell line SLMT-1) using MTT assay, anchorage-independent clonogenicity assay, DNA laddering and in situ cell death detection. RESULTS The mean MTT(50) (the mean concentration of GSE to reduce MTT activity by 50%) ranged from 16 to 20 microg/ml of GSE. An anchorage-independent clonogenicity assay showed that all of the four solid tumour cell lines gradually lost their regeneration potential after treatment with GSE, DNA fragmentation and TUNEL analysis demonstrated that the action of GSE is both dose- and time course-dependent. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that GSE has a cytotoxic activity and can induce apoptosis in human solid tumour cell lines.
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- L M C Chow
- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology and Central Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and Synthesis, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
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Kannan K, Battula S, Loganathan BG, Hong CS, Lam WH, Villeneuve DL, Sajwan K, Giesy JP, Aldous KM. Trace organic contaminants, including toxaphene and trifluralin, in cotton field soils from Georgia and South Carolina, USA. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2003; 45:30-36. [PMID: 12948170 DOI: 10.1007/s00244-002-0267-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Residues of organic contaminants--including toxaphene, DDT, trifluralin, hexachlorocyclohexanes, polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nonylphenol--were measured in 32 cotton field soils collected from South Carolina and Georgia in 1999. Toxaphene, trifluralin, DDT and PAHs were the major contaminants found in these soils. The maximum concentration of toxaphene measured was 2,500 ng/g dry weight. Trifluralin was detected in all the soils at concentrations ranging from 1 to 548 ng/g dry weight. Pesticide residues were not proportional to soil organic carbon content, indicating that their concentrations were a reflection of application history and dissipation rates rather than air-soil equilibrium. Soil extracts were also subjected to in vitro bioassays to assess dioxinlike, estrogenic, and androgenic/glucocorticoid potencies. Relatively more polar fractions of the soils elicited estrogenic and androgenic/glucocorticoid activities, but the magnitude of response was much less than those found in coastal marine sediments from industrialized locations.
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- K Kannan
- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York 12201-0509, USA.
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Cyclin-dependent protein kinase 5 (Cdk5) depends on the association with neuronal Cdk5 activator (Nck5a) for kinase activity. A variety of cellular proteins have been shown to undergo high affinity association with Nck5a, including three novel proteins, C42, C48, and C53 found by a yeast two-hybrid screen (Ching, Y. P., Qi, Z., and Wang, J. H. (2000) Gene 242, 285-294). The three proteins show competitive binding to Nck5a suggesting that they bind at a common site. The binding site has been mapped to a region of 26 amino acid residues (residues 145 to 170) at the N-terminal boundary of the kinase activation domain of Nck5a. This region of Nck5a contains an amphipathic alpha-helix whose hydrophobic face is involved in Cdk5 activation (Chin, K. T., Ohki, S, Tang, D., Cheng, H. C., Wang, J. H. , and Zhang, M. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 7120-7127). Several lines of evidence suggest that Nck5a interacts with the binding proteins at the hydrophilic face of the amphipathic alpha-helix. First, the Nck5a-(145-170) peptide can bind Cdk5 and Nck5a-binding proteins simultaneously. Second, the association of Nck5a-(145-170) to C48 can be markedly reduced by high ionic strength whereas the interaction between Nck5a and Cdk5 is not affected. Third, substitution of Glu(157) by glutamine in Nck5a-(145-170) abolishes the peptide's ability to bind to the three Nck5a-binding proteins without diminishing its Cdk5 binding activity.
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- X Wang
- Department of Biochemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China
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Trauma is the commonest cause of hospital admission in children. Head injuries are present in 75% of children with trauma and 70% of all traumatic deaths are due to the head injury. The mechanism of brain injury is examined, resulting from the effects of the primary insult and secondary ischaemic damage. Therapeutic interventions will be discussed with specific emphasis on outcome studies. However, institution of adequate oxygen delivery and haemodynamic stability in the child at the earliest moment remains the most important aspect of the management plan.
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- W H Lam
- Department of Anaesthesia, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Trust, London, UK
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French GW, Lam WH, Rashid Z, Sear JW, Foëx P, Howell S. Peri-operative silent myocardial ischaemia in patients undergoing lower limb joint replacement surgery: an indicator of postoperative morbidity or mortality? Anaesthesia 1999; 54:235-40. [PMID: 10364858 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.00713.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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One hundred and twenty-seven patients undergoing major lower limb joint replacement surgery were studied to determine the incidence of silent myocardial ischemia and to ascertain any link between pre-operative cardiac risk factors, silent myocardial ischaemia and postoperative morbidity. Patients underwent ambulatory ECG monitoring for 4 days (on the pre-operative night and for 3 days postoperatively). Postoperative cardiorespiratory symptomatology and morbidity was assessed by questionnaire at 3 months. Eighty-seven patients had risk factors for silent myocardial ischaemia; 42 patients (30 with risk factors) had peri-operative silent myocardial ischaemia. The median ischaemic loads (range) were 1.04 (0.32-13.31) min.h-1 pre-operatively and 5.53 (0.26-56.39), 6.69 (0.04-42.71) and 1.23 (0.1-53.74) min.h-1 on postoperative days 1-3, respectively. Risk factors did not predict the occurrence of silent myocardial ischaemia or an increased ischaemic load pre-operatively or overall postoperatively. New symptoms (chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness or fatigue) were associated with both silent myocardial ischaemia and ischaemic load (p < 0.05). Thus cardiac risk factors do not predict the occurrence of silent myocardial ischaemia or adverse outcome. Peri-operative silent myocardial ischaemia was associated with increased postoperative fatigue.
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- G W French
- Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, UK
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Lam WH, Evans JM. Rubber gloves and anaesthetic gas leak. Anaesthesia 1996; 51:1075-6. [PMID: 8943608 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1996.tb15015.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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