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Anastasopoulos E, Koronis S, Matsou A, Dermenoudi M, Ziakas N, Tzamalis A. Safety and Efficacy of Prostaglandin Analogues in the Immediate Postoperative Period after Uneventful Phacoemulsification. Vision (Basel) 2023; 7:45. [PMID: 37368818 DOI: 10.3390/vision7020045] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 06/04/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Prostaglandin analogues (PGAs) have been associated with the development of pseudophakic macular edema (PME) in complicated cataract cases, but evidence on their effects in uncomplicated phacoemulsification remains controversial. This two-arm, prospective, randomised study included patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension under PGA monotherapy who were scheduled for cataract surgery. The first group continued PGA use (PGA-on), while the second discontinued PGAs for the first postoperative month and reinitiated use afterwards (PGA-off). Topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were routinely administered to all patients during the first postoperative month. The patients were followed up for three months and the primary outcome was PME development. Secondary outcomes were corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), central and average macular thickness (CMT and AMT), and intraocular pressure (IOP). The analysis included 22 eyes in the PGA-on group and 33 eyes in the PGA-off group. No patient developed PME. CDVA was not significantly different between the two groups (p = 0.83). CMT and AMT showed a small but statistically significant increase until the end of follow-up (p < 0.001). Mean IOP values had no significant differences between the groups at each visit (p > 0.05). At the end of follow-up, the IOP values were significantly lower than baseline in both groups (p < 0.001). In conclusion, PGA administration with concomitant topical NSAIDs appears to be a safe practice in the early postoperative period of uncomplicated phacoemulsification.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Corneoplastic Unit, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead RH19 3DZ, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Koronis S, Matsou A, Tzamalis A, Dermenoudi M, Ziakas N, Anastasopoulos E. Comparison of two protocols of diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation in refractory glaucoma. Eur J Ophthalmol 2023; 33:976-983. [PMID: 38450608 DOI: 10.1177/11206721221127767] [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] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (DLTSCPC) remains the most commonly used cyclodestructive procedure. Nonetheless, there is no common consensus on a standardized technique. METHODS In this prospective randomized pilot study we compare the "pop"-titrated and "slow-burn" DLTSCPC techniques for a follow-up period of 3 months. The major outcomes of this study were intraocular pressure (IOP) before and after the procedure and the incidence of adverse events. Furthermore, postoperative pain, postoperative intraocular inflammation and corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) were evaluated. RESULTS Mean baseline IOP decreased from 37.9 ± 12.7 mmHg in the pop group and 41.2 ± 9.6 mmHg in the slow-burn group to 20.3 ± 13.9 mmHg and 21.3 ± 13.4 mmHg at the final follow-up visit, corresponding to a 45.8 ± 31.7% and 46.3 ± 32.6% reduction respectively. 64.3% and 57.1% of patients had IOP ≥6 and≤ 21 mmHg in the pop and slow-burn groups respectively. The occurrence of adverse events was similar in both groups, with 1 case of hyphema in the pop group and 2 cases in the slow-burn group, and 1 case of hypotony in each group. Mean CDVA remained unchanged until the end of follow-up from 2.05 ± 0.84 to 2.04 ± 0.8 logMAR in the pop group and from 1.93 ± 0.78 to 1.89 ± 0.7 logMAR in the slow-burn group. Nonetheless, 4 eyes in each group encountered CDVA loss. Postoperative pain and inflammation were also similar between groups. DISCUSSION At the 3rd postoperative month, safety and efficacy was similar in the two techniques. The relative ease of the slow-burn technique may make its application more appealing to ophthalmic surgeons beyond glaucoma specialists.
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- Spyridon Koronis
- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Dermenoudi M, Matsou A, Keskini C, Anastasopoulos E. Ocular Surface Disease Signs and Symptoms in Patients with Pseudoexfoliative Glaucoma: A Case—Control Study. Vision (Basel) 2022; 6:vision6010011. [PMID: 35225970 PMCID: PMC8883900 DOI: 10.3390/vision6010011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Purpose: The present study evaluates the differences in the prevalence of the signs and symptoms of ocular surface disease (OSD) in patients with PEX glaucoma (PEXG), compared to other glaucoma types (non-PEXG). Methods: Patients with non-PEXG and PEXG were prospectively examined for the presence and severity of OSD signs and questioned for symptoms using the OSDI (ocular surface disease index) questionnaire. Results: 116 patients were prospectively enrolled (58 non-PEXG and 58 PEXG). PEXG subjects who were older, had lower central corneal thickness (CCT) values, at a more advanced glaucoma stage and required more IOP lowering drops. OSD signs were prevalent in both groups: conjunctival hyperemia (74.5% non-PEXG vs. 94.8% PEXG), eyelid redness (70.7% vs. 96.6%), conjunctival (74.1% vs. 93.1%) and corneal fluorescein staining (81% vs. 93.1%) and abnormal TFBUT (82.8% vs. 87.9%). When adjusted for potential confounders, (older age, thinner CCT, more advanced glaucoma in PEXG) eyelid redness remained the only parameter significantly associated with PEXG, being 11 times more likely to occur in this group (p = 0.037). Conclusion: Subjects with PEXG presented a higher frequency of signs of OSD compared to other glaucoma types. When accounting for confounding factors, the only difference between the groups was the significantly higher presence (11 times more likely) of eyelid redness in PEXG, suggesting, in addition to glaucoma treatment, the impact of PEX on ocular surface integrity.
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- Ophthalmology Department, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead RH19 3DZ, UK;
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54621 Thessaloniki, Greece;
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 56403 Thessaloniki, Greece
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +30-231-3323675; Fax: +30-231-0444105
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Founti P, Coleman AL, Wilson MR, Yu F, Harris A, Pappas T, Anastasopoulos E, Koskosas A, Salonikiou A, Keskini C, Malamas A, Kilintzis V, Raptou A, Tzoanou G, Topouzis F. Twelve-Year Incidence of Open-angle Glaucoma: The Thessaloniki Eye Study. J Glaucoma 2021; 30:851-858. [PMID: 34127627 DOI: 10.1097/ijg.0000000000001899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the 12-year incidence of open-angle glaucoma (OAG), with further classification into primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG), in an elderly White population. DESIGN A longitudinal, population-based study in urban Northern Greece. PARTICIPANT Surviving cohort of the 2554 Thessaloniki Eye Study subjects 60 years and above who had the baseline examination. METHODS The surviving cohort was re-examined 12 years after baseline, using the same methodology and the same standard operating procedures as in the baseline examination. The definitions of glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation were consistent throughout the study. The 12-year incidences of OAG, POAG, and PEXG with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for the whole study population, consisting of clinic-visit and home-visit participants. The population at risk was defined as those who did not meet the study criteria for the diagnosis of glaucoma in either eye at baseline. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Twelve-year incidence of OAG, with further classification into POAG and PEXG. RESULTS Of 1468 eligible subjects in the surviving cohort, 1092 were examined (participation rate 74%). Mean age at baseline was 68.9±4.6 years. Mean follow-up time was 11.6±1.6 years. The 12-year incidence of OAG was 4.4% (95% CI: 3.3-5.8); 0.37% per year. In the overall population the incidence of POAG and PEXG was 2.1% (95% CI: 1.3-3.2) and 2.3% (95% CI: 1.5-3.4), respectively. The corresponding incidence proportions were 2.9 (95% CI: 1.8-4.3) in those without PEX and 8.9 (95% CI: 5.8-12.9) in those with PEX at baseline and/or incidence. The latter was strongly associated with higher odds for incident glaucoma (odds ratio=3.34, 95% CI: 1.83-6.08, P<0.001). Of all incident OAG cases, 11.1% (95% CI: 4.4-24) had baseline intraocular pressure >21 mm Hg. CONCLUSIONS The incidence of OAG was similar or higher compared with other White populations. The incidence of glaucoma in those with PEX was higher compared with the incidence of glaucoma in those without PEX.
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- Panayiota Founti
- Glaucoma Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Departments of Epidemiology
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- Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Matsou A, Dermenoudi M, Tzetzi D, Rotsos T, Makri O, Anastasopoulos E, Symeonidis C. Peripapillary Choroidal Neovascular Membrane Secondary to Sarcoidosis-Related Panuveitis: Treatment with Aflibercept and Ranibizumab with a 50-month Follow-Up. Case Rep Ophthalmol 2021; 12:186-192. [PMID: 33976680 PMCID: PMC8077472 DOI: 10.1159/000512579] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A case of peripapillary choroidal neovascular membrane (PCNM) secondary to sarcoidosis-related panuveitis successfully treated with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agents and systemic immunomodulatory therapy is reported. Diagnosis and follow-up were based on fundoscopic, optical coherence tomography as well as fluorescein angiography findings. A 45-year-old female patient presented with sudden onset bilateral blurring of vision. Fundoscopy revealed bilateral granulomatous panuveitis with solitary peripheral granuloma in the right eye and PCNM in the left eye. Diagnostic work-up including conjunctival biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Topical and systemic corticosteroids controlled the inflammation. Within 4 weeks, PCNM showed rapid enlargement (best-corrected visual acuity [BCVA]: 6/60) with foveal involvement. Monthly intravitreal aflibercept injections and systemic methotrexate were administered. After 5 aflibercept injections, anatomical and functional improvement was noted (BCVA: 6/6). Due to aflibercept unavailability, further treatment included ranibizumab injections. During a 50-month follow-up period, every anti-VEGF injection was followed by total NV regression and 6/6 BCVA. Both aflibercept and ranibizumab appear to be effective in the treatment of PCNM secondary to sarcoidosis.
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- Artemis Matsou
- Department of Ophthalmology, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University General Hospital of Patras, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Li Z, Wang Z, Lee MC, Zenkel M, Peh E, Ozaki M, Topouzis F, Nakano S, Chan A, Chen S, Williams SEI, Orr A, Nakano M, Kobakhidze N, Zarnowski T, Popa-Cherecheanu A, Mizoguchi T, Manabe SI, Hayashi K, Kazama S, Inoue K, Mori Y, Miyata K, Sugiyama K, Higashide T, Chihara E, Ideta R, Ishiko S, Yoshida A, Tokumo K, Kiuchi Y, Ohashi T, Sakurai T, Sugimoto T, Chuman H, Aihara M, Inatani M, Mori K, Ikeda Y, Ueno M, Gaston D, Rafuse P, Shuba L, Saunders J, Nicolela M, Chichua G, Tabagari S, Founti P, Sim KS, Meah WY, Soo HM, Chen XY, Chatzikyriakidou A, Keskini C, Pappas T, Anastasopoulos E, Lambropoulos A, Panagiotou ES, Mikropoulos DG, Kosior-Jarecka E, Cheong A, Li Y, Lukasik U, Nongpiur ME, Husain R, Perera SA, Álvarez L, García M, González-Iglesias H, Fernández-Vega Cueto A, Fernández-Vega Cueto L, Martinón-Torres F, Salas A, Oguz Ç, Tamcelik N, Atalay E, Batu B, Irkec M, Aktas D, Kasim B, Astakhov YS, Astakhov SY, Akopov EL, Giessl A, Mardin C, Hellerbrand C, Cooke Bailey JN, Igo RP, Haines JL, Edward DP, Heegaard S, Davila S, Tan P, Kang JH, Pasquale LR, Kruse FE, Reis A, Carmichael TR, Hauser M, Ramsay M, Mossböck G, Yildirim N, Tashiro K, Konstas AGP, Coca-Prados M, Foo JN, Kinoshita S, Sotozono C, Kubota T, Dubina M, Ritch R, Wiggs JL, Pasutto F, Schlötzer-Schrehardt U, Ho YS, Aung T, Tam WL, Khor CC. Association of Rare CYP39A1 Variants With Exfoliation Syndrome Involving the Anterior Chamber of the Eye. JAMA 2021; 325:753-764. [PMID: 33620406 PMCID: PMC7903258 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.0507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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IMPORTANCE Exfoliation syndrome is a systemic disorder characterized by progressive accumulation of abnormal fibrillar protein aggregates manifesting clinically in the anterior chamber of the eye. This disorder is the most commonly known cause of glaucoma and a major cause of irreversible blindness. OBJECTIVE To determine if exfoliation syndrome is associated with rare, protein-changing variants predicted to impair protein function. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A 2-stage, case-control, whole-exome sequencing association study with a discovery cohort and 2 independently ascertained validation cohorts. Study participants from 14 countries were enrolled between February 1999 and December 2019. The date of last clinical follow-up was December 2019. Affected individuals had exfoliation material on anterior segment structures of at least 1 eye as visualized by slit lamp examination. Unaffected individuals had no signs of exfoliation syndrome. EXPOSURES Rare, coding-sequence genetic variants predicted to be damaging by bioinformatic algorithms trained to recognize alterations that impair protein function. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcome was the presence of exfoliation syndrome. Exome-wide significance for detected variants was defined as P < 2.5 × 10-6. The secondary outcomes included biochemical enzymatic assays and gene expression analyses. RESULTS The discovery cohort included 4028 participants with exfoliation syndrome (median age, 78 years [interquartile range, 73-83 years]; 2377 [59.0%] women) and 5638 participants without exfoliation syndrome (median age, 72 years [interquartile range, 65-78 years]; 3159 [56.0%] women). In the discovery cohort, persons with exfoliation syndrome, compared with those without exfoliation syndrome, were significantly more likely to carry damaging CYP39A1 variants (1.3% vs 0.30%, respectively; odds ratio, 3.55 [95% CI, 2.07-6.10]; P = 6.1 × 10-7). This outcome was validated in 2 independent cohorts. The first validation cohort included 2337 individuals with exfoliation syndrome (median age, 74 years; 1132 women; n = 1934 with demographic data) and 2813 individuals without exfoliation syndrome (median age, 72 years; 1287 women; n = 2421 with demographic data). The second validation cohort included 1663 individuals with exfoliation syndrome (median age, 75 years; 587 women; n = 1064 with demographic data) and 3962 individuals without exfoliation syndrome (median age, 74 years; 951 women; n = 1555 with demographic data). Of the individuals from both validation cohorts, 5.2% with exfoliation syndrome carried CYP39A1 damaging alleles vs 3.1% without exfoliation syndrome (odds ratio, 1.82 [95% CI, 1.47-2.26]; P < .001). Biochemical assays classified 34 of 42 damaging CYP39A1 alleles as functionally deficient (median reduction in enzymatic activity compared with wild-type CYP39A1, 94.4% [interquartile range, 78.7%-98.2%] for the 34 deficient variants). CYP39A1 transcript expression was 47% lower (95% CI, 30%-64% lower; P < .001) in ciliary body tissues from individuals with exfoliation syndrome compared with individuals without exfoliation syndrome. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this whole-exome sequencing case-control study, presence of exfoliation syndrome was significantly associated with carriage of functionally deficient CYP39A1 sequence variants. Further research is needed to understand the clinical implications of these findings.
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
- iScreen Research Team, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Ophthalmology, University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Miyazaki Medical College Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Miyazaki Medical College Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Glaucoma Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, England
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Laboratory of Medical Biology-Genetics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Medical Biology-Genetics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago and GENVIP Research Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and GenPoB Research Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Galicia, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- DAMAGEN Genetic Diagnostic Center, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Emil-Fischer-Zentrum, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute for Computational Biology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Institute for Computational Biology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Institute for Computational Biology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Eye Pathology Section, Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine, Singapore
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine, Singapore
- Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- First and Third Departments of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Department of Frontier Medical Science and Technology for Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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- State Research Institute of Highly Pure Biopreparations FMBA Russia, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Nanyang Technological University School of Biological Sciences, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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Dervenis N, Harris A, Coleman AL, Wilson MR, Founti P, Yu F, Siesky B, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Kilintzis V, Topouzis F. Factors associated with non-active retinal capillary density as measured with Confocal Scanning Laser Doppler Flowmetry in an elderly population: the Thessaloniki Eye Study (TES). Br J Ophthalmol 2019; 104:1246-1253. [PMID: 31784501 DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-315212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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PURPOSE To identify factors associated with retinal capillary density as measured with Confocal Scanning Laser Doppler Flowmetry (Heidelberg retina flowmeter (HRF)) in the Thessaloniki Eye Study (TES). METHODS Participants of the TES (age ≥60 years, cross-sectional population-based study) were assessed for active capillary density in the superior and inferior peripapillary retina using the HRF. Pixel-by-pixel analysis was performed to quantify the percentage of zero flow pixels (ZFPs; surrogate for % retinal area with non-active capillaries). Multivariable regression analyses were performed to assess the association of non-active vascular density with ophthalmic and systemic variables. Glaucoma, late age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy subjects were excluded. RESULTS 1189 subjects were included in the analysis. Older age (per year) was associated with higher percentage of ZFP in both the superior (slope estimate (SE)=0.0020) and the inferior (SE=0.0019) peripapillary retina (p<0.0001). History of migraine was associated with lower percentage of ZFP (SE=-0.0166) compared with no history of migraine in the superior peripapillary retina only (p<0.05). Higher intraocular pressure ((IOP) per mm Hg) and height (per cm) were associated with higher percentage of ZFP in the inferior peripapillary retina only (SE=0.0012, p<0.05 and SE=0.0005, p<0.05, respectively). The group consuming vegetables one to three times per week compared with the group consuming vegetables at least once a day had higher percentage of ZFP only in the inferior peripapillary retina (SE=0.0080, p<0.05). CONCLUSION At a population level, our study revealed associations of older age, higher IOP and taller height with lower active retinal capillary density and of migraine with higher capillary density. Looking further into these associations may provide insight into disease mechanisms.
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- Nikolaos Dervenis
- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Glaucoma Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
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- Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Dervenis N, Coleman AL, Harris A, Wilson MR, Yu F, Anastasopoulos E, Founti P, Pappas T, Kilintzis V, Topouzis F. Factors Associated With Retinal Vessel Diameters in an Elderly Population: the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2019; 60:2208-2217. [PMID: 31108551 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.18-26276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Purpose To identify the factors associated with retinal vessel diameters in the population of the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Methods Cross-sectional population-based study (age ≥ 60 years). Subjects with glaucoma, late age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy were excluded from the analyses. Retinal vessel diameters were measured using the IVAN software, and measurements were summarized to central retinal artery equivalent (CRAE), central retinal vein equivalent (CRVE), and arteriole to venule ratio (AVR). Results The analysis included 1614 subjects. The hypertensive group showed lower values of CRAE (P = 0.033) and AVR (P = 0.0351) compared to the normal blood pressure (BP) group. On the contrary, the group having normal BP under antihypertensive treatment did not have different values compared to the normal BP group. Diastolic BP (per mm Hg) was negatively associated with CRAE (P < 0.0001) and AVR (P < 0.0001), while systolic BP (per mm Hg) was positively associated with CRAE (P = 0.001) and AVR (P = 0.0096). Other factors significantly associated included age, sex, alcohol, smoking, cardiovascular disease history, ophthalmic medication, weight, and IOP; differences were observed in a stratified analysis based on BP medication use. Conclusions Our study confirms previous reports about the association of age and BP with vessel diameters. The negative correlation between BP and CRAE seems to be guided by the effect of diastolic BP as higher systolic BP is independently associated with higher values of CRAE. The association of BP status with retinal vessel diameters is determined by diastolic BP status in our population. Multiple other factors are also independently associated with retinal vessel diameters.
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- Nikolaos Dervenis
- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Glaucoma Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Tzamalis A, Matsou A, Anastasopoulos E, Ziakas N. Treatment of spontaneous corneal perforation secondary to undiagnosed Sjögren's syndrome using regenerating agent and autologous serum eye drops. Eur J Ophthalmol 2019; 31:NP17-NP21. [PMID: 31137968 DOI: 10.1177/1120672119853106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to report a case of sterile corneal ulcer leading to perforation, which was treated effectively with autologous serum eye drops, topical regenerative agent (poly-carboxymethylglucose sulfate), steroids, and systemic immunosuppression in a patient with undiagnosed primary Sjögren's syndrome. METHODS A 74-year-old female presented with a month's history of gradually worsening blurry vision in her left eye. Ophthalmic examination revealed a central descemetocele with excessive corneal stromal melting and absence of signs of infection. A bandage contact lens was applied for tectonic support along with topical corticosteroid and antibiotic drops. Autoimmune screen disclosed a diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome, and the patient was commenced on systemic immunosuppression. Forty-eight hours after presentation, the patient developed a localized corneal perforation, presenting with a flat anterior chamber. RESULTS Urgent amniotic membrane transplantation was arranged while topical dexamethasone, moxifloxacin, and autologous serum eye drops were administered. After 24 h of intensive topical treatment, a significant reforming of the anterior chamber and subsequent gradual regeneration of the corneal stroma were noted, thus postponing amniotic grafting. The patient remained under close monitoring, showing progressive clinical improvement. Regenerating agent eye drops (Cacicol20®) were also applied over the next month, with careful and slow tapering of topical dexamethasone. Further improvement of corneal thickness was observed, and visual acuity increased to 20/80. CONCLUSION This case report demonstrates the successful medical treatment of an autoimmune-related sterile corneal perforation without surgical intervention, highlighting the fact that early diagnosis and rigorous medical treatment with autologous serum and regenerating agent eye drops can effectively aid tissue regeneration and favorable visual rehabilitation.
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- Argyrios Tzamalis
- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.,St. Paul's Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Founti P, Coleman AL, Wilson MR, Yu F, Anastasopoulos E, Harris A, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Kilintzis V, Salonikiou A, Raptou A, Topouzis F. Overdiagnosis of open-angle glaucoma in the general population: the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Acta Ophthalmol 2018; 96:e859-e864. [PMID: 30178607 DOI: 10.1111/aos.13758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2017] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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PURPOSE To assess the overdiagnosis of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) and to investigate associated factors. METHODS This was a cross-sectional, population-based study of an urban Caucasian population in northern Greece. Randomly selected subjects ≥60 years (n = 2554) participated in the Thessaloniki Eye Study. The definition of OAG required the presence of structural and functional damage, irrespective of intraocular pressure (IOP). Non-OAG subjects were classified as overdiagnosed with OAG if they had reported at least one of the following (self-reported glaucoma): (i) prior diagnosis of glaucoma, (ii) prior laser for glaucoma, (iii) prior glaucoma surgery. Factors associated with the overdiagnosis of OAG were investigated using a logistic regression model. RESULTS Of 57 (2.2%) subjects with self-reported glaucoma, 34 (60%) were overdiagnosed with OAG, corresponding to a prevalence of 1.3% (34/2554). In a logistic regression model among non-OAG subjects, worse visual acuity (VA) (20/200 or worse versus 20/25 or better; odds ratio (OR) = 4.30, 95% Confidence Intervals (CI), 1.13-16.35), family history of glaucoma (OR = 8.69, 95% CI, 2.83-26.67) and history of cataract surgery (OR = 11.50, 95% CI, 3.85-34.36) were statistically significantly associated with the overdiagnosis of OAG. Age, sex, higher IOP, higher vertical cup-to-disc ratio and pseudoexfoliation were not statistically significant. CONCLUSION The overdiagnosis of OAG was substantial in this elderly, Caucasian population. The overdiagnosis of glaucoma has not been previously addressed in population-based studies and needs to be further explored.
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- Panayiota Founti
- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
- Glaucoma Unit; Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London UK
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- UCLA Stein Eye Institute; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles CA USA
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- UCLA Stein Eye Institute; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles CA USA
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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- Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis IN USA
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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- 1st Department of Ophthalmology; School of Medicine; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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Anastasopoulos E, Haidich AB, Coleman AL, Wilson MR, Harris A, Yu F, Koskosas A, Pappas T, Keskini C, Kalouda P, Karkamanis G, Topouzis F. Risk factors for Age-related Macular Degeneration in a Greek population: The Thessaloniki Eye Study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2018; 25:457-469. [PMID: 30265203 DOI: 10.1080/09286586.2018.1512634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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PURPOSE To assess the association of potential risk factors with early and late age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the Thessaloniki Eye Study (TES) population Design: Population-based, cross-sectional study of subjects over age of 60 living in Thessaloniki, Greece Methods: Subjects without any AMD features and subjects with early and late AMD (neovascular AMD or geographic atrophy) were identified in the TES cohort using standardized procedures and masked grading of stereo color fundus photos. Demographic, lifestyle, systemic and other ophthalmic covariates were also collected during a detailed examination process. Their association with AMD was investigated using univariate and multivariate adjusted logistic regression models. RESULTS Among the 2108 participants with gradable photos, the grading process identified 1204 subjects with no AMD, 848 subjects with early AMD, and 56 subjects with late AMD (24 with geographic atrophy and 32 with neovascular AMD). In multivariate analysis, compared to no AMD, late AMD was positively associated with older age (OR:1.16; 95%CI:1.10-1.22 per year of age), current smoking (smoking vs. never smoking, OR:2.34; 95%CI:1.12-4.90), prior cataract surgery (cataract surgery vs. no cataract surgery OR:2.06; 95%CI:0.96-4.40), marital status (divorced/separated vs. married, OR:3.10; 95%CI:1.08-8.93) and with 60% lower odds when sleeping in the afternoon (yes vs. no, OR:0.40; 95%CI:0.22-0.72). Early AMD was positively associated with older age (OR: 1.03; 95%CI:1.01-1.05 per year of age) and negatively with higher pulse pressure (OR:0.99; 95%CI:0.98-0.99 per mmHg). CONCLUSIONS In TES, apart for well-known risk factors for AMD like age, smoking, and cataract surgery, two novel behavioral risk factors for prevalent late AMD were suggested. Sleeping in the afternoon was associated with 60% decreased odds for late AMD and 67% decreased odds for neovascular AMD. Being divorced/separated compared to married was associated with 3-fold higher odds for late AMD. Large longitudinal population-based studies will be necessary to further establish the potential late AMD risk effects of these two novel factors, to demonstrate potential implications of underlying pathogenetic mechanisms, and to explore preventive measures and therapeutic targets.
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- Eleftherios Anastasopoulos
- a Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- b Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- c Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA , University of California Los Angeles , Los Angeles , CA , USA
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- e Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology , Indiana University School of Medicine , Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
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- f Department of Biostatistics , UCLA Fielding School of Public Health , Los Angeles , CA , USA
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- a Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- a Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology (LARCAO), Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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INTRODUCTION Prostaglandin F2α analogs were the first prostaglandin agonists introduced for glaucoma treatment. Thanks to their efficacy and favorable tolerability they set a high bar in competition, with a resultant paucity in new hypotensive drug development for many years. However, the scientific community has shown recently a new interest in exploring new options for glaucoma treatment, generating a remarkable incentive in the marketplace for new drugs. AREAS COVERED This article reviews agents targeting prostaglandin receptors that are currently being investigated for glaucoma treatment. We searched published literature for agonists targeting all subtypes of prostaglandin receptors found in ocular tissues. EP and FP receptor agonists are currently in the spotlight of clinical research, while less attention is paid in DP receptor agonists. EXPERT OPINION Prostaglandin analogs, targeting different and combinations of receptor subtypes and compounds that exhibit additivity to commonly prescribed medications seem to be highly promising options. New treatments need to be safe, more effective, superior to existing therapies, tolerable and cost-effective. New generation compounds with multiple mechanisms of action or multiagent formulations are vigorously being investigated and generated in laboratories around the world.
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- Artemis Matsou
- a 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital of Papageorgiou, Medical School , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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- a 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital of Papageorgiou, Medical School , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Greece
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Chatzikyriakidou A, Founti P, Melidou A, Minti F, Bouras E, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Haidich AB, Lambropoulos A, Topouzis F. MicroRNA-related polymorphisms in pseudoexfoliation syndrome, pseudoexfoliative glaucoma, and primary open-angle glaucoma. Ophthalmic Genet 2018; 39:603-609. [DOI: 10.1080/13816810.2018.1509352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Anthoula Chatzikyriakidou
- Laboratory of Medical Biology - Genetics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology, 1st Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Department of Glaucoma, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Medical Biology - Genetics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology, 1st Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology, 1st Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Medical Biology - Genetics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology, 1st Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Salonikiou A, Founti P, Kilintzis V, Antoniadis A, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Raptou A, Topouzis F. Tolerable rates of visual field progression in a population-based sample of patients with glaucoma. Br J Ophthalmol 2017; 102:916-921. [PMID: 28972029 DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-310635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Revised: 08/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Abstract
AIMS To provide population-based data on the maximum tolerable rate of progression to avoid visual impairment (maxTRoP_VI) and blindness (maxTRoP_BL) from open-angle glaucoma (OAG). METHODS Participants with OAG in the Thessaloniki Eye Study (cross-sectional, population-based study in a European population) were included in the analysis. Visual impairment was defined as mean deviation (MD) equal to or worse than -12dB and blindness as MD equal to or worse than -24dB. Additional thresholds for visual impairment were tested. For each participant maxTRoP_VI was defined as the rate of progression which would not lead to visual impairment during expected lifetime. MaxTRoP_BL was defined accordingly. Both parameters were calculated for each OAG subject using age, sex, MD and life expectancy data. The eye with the better MD per subject was included in the analysis. RESULTS Among 135 subjects with OAG, 123 had reliable visual fields and were included in the analysis. The mean age was 73±6 years and the median MD was -3.65±5.28dB. Among those, 69.1% would have a maxTRoP_VI slower than -1dB/year and 18.7% would have a maxTRoP_VI between -1 and -2dB/year. Also, 72.4% would have a maxTRoP_BL slower than -2dB/year. For all tested thresholds for visual impairment, approximately 86% of the OAG study participants would not be able to tolerate a rate of progression equal to or faster than -2dB/year. CONCLUSIONS The majority of patients with glaucoma in our study would have a maximum tolerable rate of progression slower than -1dB/year in their better eye. Patient-tailored strategies to monitor the visual field are important, but raise the issue of feasibility with regard to the number of visual field tests needed.
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- Angeliki Salonikiou
- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Glaucoma Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Colijn JM, Buitendijk GHS, Prokofyeva E, Alves D, Cachulo ML, Khawaja AP, Cougnard-Gregoire A, Merle BMJ, Korb C, Erke MG, Bron A, Anastasopoulos E, Meester-Smoor MA, Segato T, Piermarocchi S, de Jong PTVM, Vingerling JR, Topouzis F, Creuzot-Garcher C, Bertelsen G, Pfeiffer N, Fletcher AE, Foster PJ, Silva R, Korobelnik JF, Delcourt C, Klaver CCW. Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Europe: The Past and the Future. Ophthalmology 2017; 124:1753-1763. [PMID: 28712657 PMCID: PMC5755466 DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2017.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 287] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2017] [Revised: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Purpose Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a frequent, complex disorder in elderly of European ancestry. Risk profiles and treatment options have changed considerably over the years, which may have affected disease prevalence and outcome. We determined the prevalence of early and late AMD in Europe from 1990 to 2013 using the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) consortium, and made projections for the future. Design Meta-analysis of prevalence data. Participants A total of 42 080 individuals 40 years of age and older participating in 14 population-based cohorts from 10 countries in Europe. Methods AMD was diagnosed based on fundus photographs using the Rotterdam Classification. Prevalence of early and late AMD was calculated using random-effects meta-analysis stratified for age, birth cohort, gender, geographic region, and time period of the study. Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was compared between late AMD subtypes; geographic atrophy (GA) and choroidal neovascularization (CNV). Main Outcome Measures Prevalence of early and late AMD, BCVA, and number of AMD cases. Results Prevalence of early AMD increased from 3.5% (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.1%–5.0%) in those aged 55–59 years to 17.6% (95% CI 13.6%–21.5%) in those aged ≥85 years; for late AMD these figures were 0.1% (95% CI 0.04%–0.3%) and 9.8% (95% CI 6.3%–13.3%), respectively. We observed a decreasing prevalence of late AMD after 2006, which became most prominent after age 70. Prevalences were similar for gender across all age groups except for late AMD in the oldest age category, and a trend was found showing a higher prevalence of CNV in Northern Europe. After 2006, fewer eyes and fewer ≥80-year-old subjects with CNV were visually impaired (P = 0.016). Projections of AMD showed an almost doubling of affected persons despite a decreasing prevalence. By 2040, the number of individuals in Europe with early AMD will range between 14.9 and 21.5 million, and for late AMD between 3.9 and 4.8 million. Conclusion We observed a decreasing prevalence of AMD and an improvement in visual acuity in CNV occuring over the past 2 decades in Europe. Healthier lifestyles and implementation of anti–vascular endothelial growth factor treatment are the most likely explanations. Nevertheless, the numbers of affected subjects will increase considerably in the next 2 decades. AMD continues to remain a significant public health problem among Europeans.
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- Johanna M Colijn
- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), Brussels, Belgium; Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, Brussels, Belgium
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- Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal; Department of Ophthalmology, Coimbra Hospital and University Center (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal; Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
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- University Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Team LEHA, Bordeaux, France
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- University Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Team LEHA, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Eye and Nutrition Research Group, Dijon, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Neurosciences (NIN), Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Department of Ophthalmology, AMC, Amsterdam and LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- UiT The Arctic University of Norway/University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom; Integrative Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal; Department of Ophthalmology, Coimbra Hospital and University Center (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal; Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal
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- University Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Team LEHA, Bordeaux, France; CHU de Bordeaux, Service d'Ophtalmologie, Bordeaux, France
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- University Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Team LEHA, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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Aung T, Ozaki M, Lee MC, Schlötzer-Schrehardt U, Thorleifsson G, Mizoguchi T, Igo RP, Haripriya A, Williams SE, Astakhov YS, Orr AC, Burdon KP, Nakano S, Mori K, Abu-Amero K, Hauser M, Li Z, Prakadeeswari G, Bailey JNC, Cherecheanu AP, Kang JH, Nelson S, Hayashi K, Manabe SI, Kazama S, Zarnowski T, Inoue K, Irkec M, Coca-Prados M, Sugiyama K, Järvelä I, Schlottmann P, Lerner SF, Lamari H, Nilgün Y, Bikbov M, Park KH, Cha SC, Yamashiro K, Zenteno JC, Jonas JB, Kumar RS, Perera SA, Chan ASY, Kobakhidze N, George R, Vijaya L, Do T, Edward DP, de Juan Marcos L, Pakravan M, Moghimi S, Ideta R, Bach-Holm D, Kappelgaard P, Wirostko B, Thomas S, Gaston D, Bedard K, Greer WL, Yang Z, Chen X, Huang L, Sang J, Jia H, Jia L, Qiao C, Zhang H, Liu X, Zhao B, Wang YX, Xu L, Leruez S, Reynier P, Chichua G, Tabagari S, Uebe S, Zenkel M, Berner D, Mossböck G, Weisschuh N, Hoja U, Welge-Luessen UC, Mardin C, Founti P, Chatzikyriakidou A, Pappas T, Anastasopoulos E, Lambropoulos A, Ghosh A, Shetty R, Porporato N, Saravanan V, Venkatesh R, Shivkumar C, Kalpana N, Sarangapani S, Kanavi MR, Beni AN, Yazdani S, Lashay A, Naderifar H, Khatibi N, Fea A, Lavia C, Dallorto L, Rolle T, Frezzotti P, Paoli D, Salvi E, Manunta P, Mori Y, Miyata K, Higashide T, Chihara E, Ishiko S, Yoshida A, Yanagi M, Kiuchi Y, Ohashi T, Sakurai T, Sugimoto T, Chuman H, Aihara M, Inatani M, Miyake M, Gotoh N, Matsuda F, Yoshimura N, Ikeda Y, Ueno M, Sotozono C, Jeoung JW, Sagong M, Park KH, Ahn J, Cruz-Aguilar M, Ezzouhairi SM, Rafei A, Chong YF, Ng XY, Goh SR, Chen Y, Yong VHK, Khan MI, Olawoye OO, Ashaye AO, Ugbede I, Onakoya A, Kizor-Akaraiwe N, Teekhasaenee C, Suwan Y, Supakontanasan W, Okeke S, Uche NJ, Asimadu I, Ayub H, Akhtar F, Kosior-Jarecka E, Lukasik U, Lischinsky I, Castro V, Grossmann RP, Sunaric Megevand G, Roy S, Dervan E, Silke E, Rao A, Sahay P, Fornero P, Cuello O, Sivori D, Zompa T, Mills RA, Souzeau E, Mitchell P, Wang JJ, Hewitt AW, Coote M, Crowston JG, Astakhov SY, Akopov EL, Emelyanov A, Vysochinskaya V, Kazakbaeva G, Fayzrakhmanov R, Al-Obeidan SA, Owaidhah O, Aljasim LA, Chowbay B, Foo JN, Soh RQ, Sim KS, Xie Z, Cheong AWO, Mok SQ, Soo HM, Chen XY, Peh SQ, Heng KK, Husain R, Ho SL, Hillmer AM, Cheng CY, Escudero-Domínguez FA, González-Sarmiento R, Martinon-Torres F, Salas A, Pathanapitoon K, Hansapinyo L, Wanichwecharugruang B, Kitnarong N, Sakuntabhai A, Nguyn HX, Nguyn GTT, Nguyn TV, Zenz W, Binder A, Klobassa DS, Hibberd ML, Davila S, Herms S, Nöthen MM, Moebus S, Rautenbach RM, Ziskind A, Carmichael TR, Ramsay M, Álvarez L, García M, González-Iglesias H, Rodríguez-Calvo PP, Fernández-Vega Cueto L, Oguz Ç, Tamcelik N, Atalay E, Batu B, Aktas D, Kasım B, Wilson MR, Coleman AL, Liu Y, Challa P, Herndon L, Kuchtey RW, Kuchtey J, Curtin K, Chaya CJ, Crandall A, Zangwill LM, Wong TY, Nakano M, Kinoshita S, den Hollander AI, Vesti E, Fingert JH, Lee RK, Sit AJ, Shingleton BJ, Wang N, Cusi D, Qamar R, Kraft P, Pericak-Vance MA, Raychaudhuri S, Heegaard S, Kivelä T, Reis A, Kruse FE, Weinreb RN, Pasquale LR, Haines JL, Thorsteinsdottir U, Jonasson F, Allingham RR, Milea D, Ritch R, Kubota T, Tashiro K, Vithana EN, Micheal S, Topouzis F, Craig JE, Dubina M, Sundaresan P, Stefansson K, Wiggs JL, Pasutto F, Khor CC. Genetic association study of exfoliation syndrome identifies a protective rare variant at LOXL1 and five new susceptibility loci. Nat Genet 2017; 49:993-1004. [PMID: 28553957 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is the most common known risk factor for secondary glaucoma and a major cause of blindness worldwide. Variants in two genes, LOXL1 and CACNA1A, have previously been associated with XFS. To further elucidate the genetic basis of XFS, we collected a global sample of XFS cases to refine the association at LOXL1, which previously showed inconsistent results across populations, and to identify new variants associated with XFS. We identified a rare protective allele at LOXL1 (p.Phe407, odds ratio (OR) = 25, P = 2.9 × 10-14) through deep resequencing of XFS cases and controls from nine countries. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of XFS cases and controls from 24 countries followed by replication in 18 countries identified seven genome-wide significant loci (P < 5 × 10-8). We identified association signals at 13q12 (POMP), 11q23.3 (TMEM136), 6p21 (AGPAT1), 3p24 (RBMS3) and 5q23 (near SEMA6A). These findings provide biological insights into the pathology of XFS and highlight a potential role for naturally occurring rare LOXL1 variants in disease biology.
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- Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Ozaki Eye Hospital, Hyuga, Miyazaki, Japan.,Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Ophthalmology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.,Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.,Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- 'Carol Davila' University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.,Department of Ophthalmology, University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Fundación para el Estudio del Glaucoma, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Clinique Spécialisée en Ophtalmologie Mohammedia, Mohammedia, Morocco
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Meselik, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Department of Ophthalmology, Otsu Red Cross Hospital, Otsu, Japan
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- Genetics Department, Institute of Ophthalmology 'Conde de Valenciana', Mexico City, Mexico.,Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.,Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- Jadhavbhai Nathamal Singhvi Department of Glaucoma, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai, India
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- Jadhavbhai Nathamal Singhvi Department of Glaucoma, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai, India
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- Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.,Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
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- Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumchi, China
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- Center for Human Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China.,Sichuan Translational Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China.,Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Shenzhen Eye Hospital, Jinan University, Shenzhen, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China.,Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Département d'Ophtalmologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Angers, France
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- Département de Biochimie et Génétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Angers, France
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of General Biology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of General Biology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- GROW Research Laboratory, Narayana Nethralaya Foundation, Bangalore, India
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- Narayana Nethralaya Eye Hospital, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Genetics, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Madurai, India
| | | | | | | | | | - Mozhgan R Kanavi
- Ocular Tissue Engineering Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Afsaneh Naderi Beni
- Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Shahin Yazdani
- Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Alireza Lashay
- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Homa Naderifar
- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Nassim Khatibi
- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Antonio Fea
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Carlo Lavia
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Laura Dallorto
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Teresa Rolle
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Paolo Frezzotti
- Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
| | - Daniela Paoli
- Department of Ophthalmology, Monfalcone Hospital, Gorizia, Italy
| | - Erika Salvi
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
| | - Paolo Manunta
- Department of Nephrology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
| | | | | | - Tomomi Higashide
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
| | | | - Satoshi Ishiko
- Department of Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
| | - Akitoshi Yoshida
- Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
| | - Masahide Yanagi
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - Yoshiaki Kiuchi
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | | | - Takako Sugimoto
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
| | - Hideki Chuman
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
| | - Makoto Aihara
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Masaru Inatani
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
| | - Masahiro Miyake
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Norimoto Gotoh
- Center for Genomic Medicine, INSERM U852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Fumihiko Matsuda
- Center for Genomic Medicine, INSERM U852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Nagahisa Yoshimura
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan
| | - Yoko Ikeda
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Morio Ueno
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Chie Sotozono
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Jin Wook Jeoung
- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Min Sagong
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea
| | - Kyu Hyung Park
- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea
| | - Jeeyun Ahn
- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Marisa Cruz-Aguilar
- Genetics Department, Institute of Ophthalmology 'Conde de Valenciana', Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Sidi M Ezzouhairi
- Clinique Spécialisée en Ophtalmologie Mohammedia, Mohammedia, Morocco
| | | | | | - Xiao Yu Ng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore
| | | | | | | | - Muhammad Imran Khan
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
| | - Olusola O Olawoye
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
| | - Adeyinka O Ashaye
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
| | | | - Adeola Onakoya
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.,Guinness Eye Centre, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria
| | - Nkiru Kizor-Akaraiwe
- Department of Ophthalmology, ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria.,Eye Specialists Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Chaiwat Teekhasaenee
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - Yanin Suwan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - Wasu Supakontanasan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - Suhanya Okeke
- Department of Ophthalmology, ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria.,Eye Specialists Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Nkechi J Uche
- Eye Specialists Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ituku Ozalla Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Ifeoma Asimadu
- Department of Ophthalmology, ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Humaira Ayub
- Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
| | - Farah Akhtar
- Pakistan Institute of Ophthalmology, Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
| | - Ewa Kosior-Jarecka
- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
| | - Urszula Lukasik
- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
| | | | - Vania Castro
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Lima, Peru
| | | | - Gordana Sunaric Megevand
- Clinical Research Centre Adolphe de Rothschild, Société Médicale de Beaulieu, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Sylvain Roy
- Clinical Research Centre Adolphe de Rothschild, Société Médicale de Beaulieu, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Edward Dervan
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Eoin Silke
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Aparna Rao
- Shri Mithu Tulsi, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - Priti Sahay
- Shri Mithu Tulsi, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | | | | | - Delia Sivori
- Fundación para el Estudio del Glaucoma, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Tamara Zompa
- Centro Oftalmologico Charles, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Richard A Mills
- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - Emmanuelle Souzeau
- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - Paul Mitchell
- Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Jie Jin Wang
- Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Alex W Hewitt
- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Michael Coote
- Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Jonathan G Crowston
- Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Sergei Y Astakhov
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - Eugeny L Akopov
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - Anton Emelyanov
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia.,St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | | | | | | | - Saleh A Al-Obeidan
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Ohoud Owaidhah
- King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | | | - Balram Chowbay
- Clinical Pharmacology, SingHealth, Singapore.,Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory, National Cancer Centre, Singapore.,Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
| | - Jia Nee Foo
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.,Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
| | | | | | | | | | - Shi Qi Mok
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| | | | | | - Su Qin Peh
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| | | | | | - Su-Ling Ho
- Department of Ophthalmology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
| | | | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
| | | | - Rogelio González-Sarmiento
- Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain.,Molecular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
| | - Frederico Martinon-Torres
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,GENVIP Research Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - Antonio Salas
- Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - Kessara Pathanapitoon
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
| | - Linda Hansapinyo
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
| | | | - Naris Kitnarong
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - Anavaj Sakuntabhai
- Institut Pasteur, Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Genomes and Genetics, Paris, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 3012, Paris, France
| | - Hip X Nguyn
- Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | | | - Trình V Nguyn
- Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | - Werner Zenz
- Department of General Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - Alexander Binder
- Department of General Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - Daniela S Klobassa
- Department of General Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - Martin L Hibberd
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.,Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
| | | | - Stefan Herms
- Department of Genomics, Life &Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
| | - Markus M Nöthen
- Department of Genomics, Life &Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Susanne Moebus
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
| | - Robyn M Rautenbach
- Division of Ophthalmology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Ari Ziskind
- Division of Ophthalmology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Trevor R Carmichael
- Division of Ophthalmology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - Michele Ramsay
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - Lydia Álvarez
- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
| | - Montserrat García
- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
| | - Héctor González-Iglesias
- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
| | - Pedro P Rodríguez-Calvo
- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
| | - Luis Fernández-Vega Cueto
- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Meselik, Eskisehir, Turkey
| | - Nevbahar Tamcelik
- Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
| | - Eray Atalay
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
| | - Bilge Batu
- Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
| | - Dilek Aktas
- DAMAGEN Genetic Diagnostic Center, Ankara, Turkey
| | - Burcu Kasım
- Department of Ophthalmology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
| | - M Roy Wilson
- School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - Anne L Coleman
- Center for Community Outreach and Policy, Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Yutao Liu
- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, James and Jean Culver Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
| | - Pratap Challa
- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
| | - Leon Herndon
- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
| | - Rachel W Kuchtey
- Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| | - John Kuchtey
- Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| | - Karen Curtin
- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
| | - Craig J Chaya
- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
| | - Alan Crandall
- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
| | - Linda M Zangwill
- Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
| | - Tien Yin Wong
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Masakazu Nakano
- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Shigeru Kinoshita
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Department of Frontier Medical Science and Technology for Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Anneke I den Hollander
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.,Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
| | - Eija Vesti
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
| | - John H Fingert
- Institute for Vision Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
| | - Richard K Lee
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
| | - Arthur J Sit
- Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
| | | | - Ningli Wang
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China.,Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Daniele Cusi
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italian National Research Centre (ITB-CNR), Segrate-Milano, Italy
| | - Raheel Qamar
- Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.,Department of Biochemistry, Al-Nafees Medical College and Hospital, Isra University, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - Peter Kraft
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Margaret A Pericak-Vance
- John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
| | - Soumya Raychaudhuri
- Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.,Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Steffen Heegaard
- Department of Ophthalmology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, Eye Pathology Section, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Tero Kivelä
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - André Reis
- David Tvildiani Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
| | - Friedrich E Kruse
- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Robert N Weinreb
- Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
| | - Louis R Pasquale
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Jonathan L Haines
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,Institute of Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
- deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Fridbert Jonasson
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Department of Ophthalmology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - R Rand Allingham
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
| | - Dan Milea
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
| | - Robert Ritch
- Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
| | - Toshiaki Kubota
- Department of Ophthalmology, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
| | - Kei Tashiro
- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Eranga N Vithana
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Shazia Micheal
- Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
| | - Fotis Topouzis
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - Jamie E Craig
- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - Michael Dubina
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia.,St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - Periasamy Sundaresan
- Dr. G.Venkataswamy Eye Research Institute, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India
| | - Kari Stefansson
- deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Janey L Wiggs
- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Francesca Pasutto
- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Chiea Chuen Khor
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Kalouda P, Keskini C, Anastasopoulos E, Topouzis F. Achievements and Limits of Current Medical Therapy of Glaucoma. Dev Ophthalmol 2017; 59:1-14. [PMID: 28442683 DOI: 10.1159/000458482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Prescribing medical therapy for the treatment of glaucoma can be a complex process since many parameters should be taken into consideration regarding its achievements and limits. Today, a variety of options, including multiple drug classes and multiple agents within classes, are available to the clinician, but caution should be given to their side effects and contraindications. Glaucoma patients with preexisting ocular surface disease should be treated with caution, and preferably with preservative-free formulations, as there is an increased risk for symptom deterioration. The development and use of fixed-combination therapies has reduced the preservative-related side effects that threaten patient adherence and has minimized the washout effect of multiple instillations. Adherence to medical treatment is not only crucial to its efficacy but also to its cost-effectiveness. Further factors to consider are that there are patients who are nonresponders to treatment, and also that the target intraocular pressure (IOP) cannot be reached in all patients, regardless of the response to treatment. The progression of damage can occur even under maximum medical treatment or maximally tolerated medical treatment, and regardless of whether low IOP levels are reached. Furthermore, there is some conflict between medical treatment and quality of life due to long-term everyday use and to side effects of treatment. New molecules and new delivery systems are being investigated to open new horizons in glaucoma management. Although the general rule is to initiate glaucoma management with medical treatment, the limits of medical therapy should be considered to identify those patients in need of surgical management.
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Matsou A, Riga P, Samouilidou M, Dimitrakos S, Anastasopoulos E. Bilateral intermediate uveitis with appearance of frosted branch angiitis and association with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection: case report and review of the literature. J AAPOS 2016; 20:358-61. [PMID: 27132140 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2016.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2015] [Revised: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 02/25/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
A 12-year-old girl presented with acute bilateral visual loss following a mild upper respiratory tract infection. Clinical examination revealed bilateral severe peripheral retinal vasculitis with an appearance of frosted branch angiitis and cystoid macular edema. All tests for etiological diagnosis were negative, apart from positive IgM and IgG antibodies for Mycoplasma pneumoniae. She was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and intravenous corticosteroids. She responded to treatment, with dramatic improvement of her visual acuity, remission of angiitis, and a residual macular star formation. This is the first reported case of bilateral intermediate uveitis possibly associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.
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- Artemis Matsou
- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki.
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki
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- 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki
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Founti P, Haidich AB, Chatzikyriakidou A, Salonikiou A, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Lambropoulos A, Viswanathan AC, Topouzis F. Ethnicity-Based Differences in the Association of LOXL1 Polymorphisms with Pseudoexfoliation/Pseudoexfoliative Glaucoma: A Meta-Analysis. Ann Hum Genet 2015; 79:431-50. [PMID: 26404116 DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 07/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Abstract
Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) is an age-related disorder of the extracellular matrix; it is strongly associated with glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. We conducted an ethnic-based meta-analysis of the association of LOXL1 polymorphisms with PEX/pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG). Association studies were retrieved systematically from PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Knowledge. Allelic and genotype frequencies of rs3825942, rs1048661, and rs2165241 were compared between PEX/PEXG and controls. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using a random effects model. Overall, 39 independent cohorts were included. Rs3825942 (G) was an at risk allele for PEX/PEXG in Caucasians, Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, South Asians, and Middle Easterners, but protective in Black South Africans (OR = 0.10, 95%CI:0.06-0.16). Rs1048661 (G) was an at risk allele for PEX/PEXG in Caucasians, South Asians, Middle Easterners and Black South Africans, but was protective in Japanese (OR = 0.03, 95%CI:0.02-0.06) and Koreans (OR = 0.10, 95%CI:0.05-0.22). These associations we-re confirmed for the genotypic recessive models. Rs2165241 (C) was a protective allele for PEX/PEXG in Caucasians, but was an at risk allele in Japanese (OR = 7.49, 95%CI:3.22-17.41) and Koreans (OR = 6.63, 95%CI:2.60-16.90). This was confirmed for the genotypic dominant model. Other genetic and/or environmental factors may modify the effect of LOXL1 polymorphisms in certain ethnic groups.
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- Panayiota Founti
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Biology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Biology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Aung T, Ozaki M, Mizoguchi T, Allingham RR, Li Z, Haripriya A, Nakano S, Uebe S, Harder JM, Chan ASY, Lee MC, Burdon KP, Astakhov YS, Abu-Amero KK, Zenteno JC, Nilgün Y, Zarnowski T, Pakravan M, Safieh LA, Jia L, Wang YX, Williams S, Paoli D, Schlottmann PG, Huang L, Sim KS, Foo JN, Nakano M, Ikeda Y, Kumar RS, Ueno M, Manabe SI, Hayashi K, Kazama S, Ideta R, Mori Y, Miyata K, Sugiyama K, Higashide T, Chihara E, Inoue K, Ishiko S, Yoshida A, Yanagi M, Kiuchi Y, Aihara M, Ohashi T, Sakurai T, Sugimoto T, Chuman H, Matsuda F, Yamashiro K, Gotoh N, Miyake M, Astakhov SY, Osman EA, Al-Obeidan SA, Owaidhah O, Al-Jasim L, Shahwan SA, Fogarty RA, Leo P, Yetkin Y, Oğuz Ç, Kanavi MR, Beni AN, Yazdani S, Akopov EL, Toh KY, Howell GR, Orr AC, Goh Y, Meah WY, Peh SQ, Kosior-Jarecka E, Lukasik U, Krumbiegel M, Vithana EN, Wong TY, Liu Y, Koch AEA, Challa P, Rautenbach RM, Mackey DA, Hewitt AW, Mitchell P, Wang JJ, Ziskind A, Carmichael T, Ramakrishnan R, Narendran K, Venkatesh R, Vijayan S, Zhao P, Chen X, Guadarrama-Vallejo D, Cheng CY, Perera SA, Husain R, Ho SL, Welge-Luessen UC, Mardin C, Schloetzer-Schrehardt U, Hillmer AM, Herms S, Moebus S, Nöthen MM, Weisschuh N, Shetty R, Ghosh A, Teo YY, Brown MA, Lischinsky I, Crowston JG, Coote M, Zhao B, Sang J, Zhang N, You Q, Vysochinskaya V, Founti P, Chatzikyriakidou A, Lambropoulos A, Anastasopoulos E, Coleman AL, Wilson MR, Rhee DJ, Kang JH, May-Bolchakova I, Heegaard S, Mori K, Alward WLM, Jonas JB, Xu L, Liebmann JM, Chowbay B, Schaeffeler E, Schwab M, Lerner F, Wang N, Yang Z, Frezzotti P, Kinoshita S, Fingert JH, Inatani M, Tashiro K, Reis A, Edward DP, Pasquale LR, Kubota T, Wiggs JL, Pasutto F, Topouzis F, Dubina M, Craig JE, Yoshimura N, Sundaresan P, John SWM, Ritch R, Hauser MA, Khor CC. Corrigendum: a common variant mapping to CACNA1A is associated with susceptibility to exfoliation syndrome. Nat Genet 2015; 47:689. [PMID: 26018902 DOI: 10.1038/ng0615-689c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Williams KM, Bertelsen G, Cumberland P, Wolfram C, Verhoeven VJM, Anastasopoulos E, Buitendijk GHS, Cougnard-Grégoire A, Creuzot-Garcher C, Erke MG, Hogg R, Höhn R, Hysi P, Khawaja AP, Korobelnik JF, Ried J, Vingerling JR, Bron A, Dartigues JF, Fletcher A, Hofman A, Kuijpers RWAM, Luben RN, Oxele K, Topouzis F, von Hanno T, Mirshahi A, Foster PJ, van Duijn CM, Pfeiffer N, Delcourt C, Klaver CCW, Rahi J, Hammond CJ. Increasing Prevalence of Myopia in Europe and the Impact of Education. Ophthalmology 2015; 122:1489-97. [PMID: 25983215 PMCID: PMC4504030 DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Purpose To investigate whether myopia is becoming more common across Europe and explore whether increasing education levels, an important environmental risk factor for myopia, might explain any temporal trend. Design Meta-analysis of population-based, cross-sectional studies from the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) Consortium. Participants The E3 Consortium is a collaborative network of epidemiological studies of common eye diseases in adults across Europe. Refractive data were available for 61 946 participants from 15 population-based studies performed between 1990 and 2013; participants had a range of median ages from 44 to 78 years. Methods Noncycloplegic refraction, year of birth, and highest educational level achieved were obtained for all participants. Myopia was defined as a mean spherical equivalent ≤−0.75 diopters. A random-effects meta-analysis of age-specific myopia prevalence was performed, with sequential analyses stratified by year of birth and highest level of educational attainment. Main Outcome Measures Variation in age-specific myopia prevalence for differing years of birth and educational level. Results There was a significant cohort effect for increasing myopia prevalence across more recent birth decades; age-standardized myopia prevalence increased from 17.8% (95% confidence interval [CI], 17.6–18.1) to 23.5% (95% CI, 23.2–23.7) in those born between 1910 and 1939 compared with 1940 and 1979 (P = 0.03). Education was significantly associated with myopia; for those completing primary, secondary, and higher education, the age-standardized prevalences were 25.4% (CI, 25.0–25.8), 29.1% (CI, 28.8–29.5), and 36.6% (CI, 36.1–37.2), respectively. Although more recent birth cohorts were more educated, this did not fully explain the cohort effect. Compared with the reference risk of participants born in the 1920s with only primary education, higher education or being born in the 1960s doubled the myopia prevalence ratio–2.43 (CI, 1.26–4.17) and 2.62 (CI, 1.31–5.00), respectively—whereas individuals born in the 1960s and completing higher education had approximately 4 times the reference risk: a prevalence ratio of 3.76 (CI, 2.21–6.57). Conclusions Myopia is becoming more common in Europe; although education levels have increased and are associated with myopia, higher education seems to be an additive rather than explanatory factor. Increasing levels of myopia carry significant clinical and economic implications, with more people at risk of the sight-threatening complications associated with high myopia.
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- Katie M Williams
- Department of Ophthalmology, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Life Course, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Section, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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- University Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eye and Nutrition Research Group UMR 1324 INRA, University Hospital Dijon, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Experimental Medicine, Institute of Clinical Science, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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- University Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eye and Nutrition Research Group UMR 1324 INRA, University Hospital Dijon, France
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- University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Department of Ophthalmology, Nordland Hospital, Norway, Bodø, Norway
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- University Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Mainz, Germany
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
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- University Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Mainz, Germany
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- University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Life Course, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Section, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ophthalmology, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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Williams KM, Verhoeven VJM, Cumberland P, Bertelsen G, Wolfram C, Buitendijk GHS, Hofman A, van Duijn CM, Vingerling JR, Kuijpers RWAM, Höhn R, Mirshahi A, Khawaja AP, Luben RN, Erke MG, von Hanno T, Mahroo O, Hogg R, Gieger C, Cougnard-Grégoire A, Anastasopoulos E, Bron A, Dartigues JF, Korobelnik JF, Creuzot-Garcher C, Topouzis F, Delcourt C, Rahi J, Meitinger T, Fletcher A, Foster PJ, Pfeiffer N, Klaver CCW, Hammond CJ. Prevalence of refractive error in Europe: the European Eye Epidemiology (E(3)) Consortium. Eur J Epidemiol 2015; 30:305-15. [PMID: 25784363 PMCID: PMC4385146 DOI: 10.1007/s10654-015-0010-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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To estimate the prevalence of refractive error in adults across Europe. Refractive data (mean spherical equivalent) collected between 1990 and 2013 from fifteen population-based cohort and cross-sectional studies of the European Eye Epidemiology (E(3)) Consortium were combined in a random effects meta-analysis stratified by 5-year age intervals and gender. Participants were excluded if they were identified as having had cataract surgery, retinal detachment, refractive surgery or other factors that might influence refraction. Estimates of refractive error prevalence were obtained including the following classifications: myopia ≤-0.75 diopters (D), high myopia ≤-6D, hyperopia ≥1D and astigmatism ≥1D. Meta-analysis of refractive error was performed for 61,946 individuals from fifteen studies with median age ranging from 44 to 81 and minimal ethnic variation (98 % European ancestry). The age-standardised prevalences (using the 2010 European Standard Population, limited to those ≥25 and <90 years old) were: myopia 30.6 % [95 % confidence interval (CI) 30.4-30.9], high myopia 2.7 % (95 % CI 2.69-2.73), hyperopia 25.2 % (95 % CI 25.0-25.4) and astigmatism 23.9 % (95 % CI 23.7-24.1). Age-specific estimates revealed a high prevalence of myopia in younger participants [47.2 % (CI 41.8-52.5) in 25-29 years-olds]. Refractive error affects just over a half of European adults. The greatest burden of refractive error is due to myopia, with high prevalence rates in young adults. Using the 2010 European population estimates, we estimate there are 227.2 million people with myopia across Europe.
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- Katie M Williams
- Department of Ophthalmology, King's College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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Aung T, Ozaki M, Mizoguchi T, Allingham RR, Li Z, Haripriya A, Nakano S, Uebe S, Harder JM, Chan ASY, Lee MC, Burdon KP, Astakhov YS, Abu-Amero KK, Zenteno JC, Nilgün Y, Zarnowski T, Pakravan M, Safieh LA, Jia L, Wang YX, Williams S, Paoli D, Schlottmann PG, Huang L, Sim KS, Foo JN, Nakano M, Ikeda Y, Kumar RS, Ueno M, Manabe SI, Hayashi K, Kazama S, Ideta R, Mori Y, Miyata K, Sugiyama K, Higashide T, Chihara E, Inoue K, Ishiko S, Yoshida A, Yanagi M, Kiuchi Y, Aihara M, Ohashi T, Sakurai T, Sugimoto T, Chuman H, Matsuda F, Yamashiro K, Gotoh N, Miyake M, Astakhov SY, Osman EA, Al-Obeidan SA, Owaidhah O, Al-Jasim L, Al Shahwan S, Fogarty RA, Leo P, Yetkin Y, Oğuz Ç, Kanavi MR, Beni AN, Yazdani S, Akopov EL, Toh KY, Howell GR, Orr AC, Goh Y, Meah WY, Peh SQ, Kosior-Jarecka E, Lukasik U, Krumbiegel M, Vithana EN, Wong TY, Liu Y, Koch AEA, Challa P, Rautenbach RM, Mackey DA, Hewitt AW, Mitchell P, Wang JJ, Ziskind A, Carmichael T, Ramakrishnan R, Narendran K, Venkatesh R, Vijayan S, Zhao P, Chen X, Guadarrama-Vallejo D, Cheng CY, Perera SA, Husain R, Ho SL, Welge-Luessen UC, Mardin C, Schloetzer-Schrehardt U, Hillmer AM, Herms S, Moebus S, Nöthen MM, Weisschuh N, Shetty R, Ghosh A, Teo YY, Brown MA, Lischinsky I, Crowston JG, Coote M, Zhao B, Sang J, Zhang N, You Q, Vysochinskaya V, Founti P, Chatzikyriakidou A, Lambropoulos A, Anastasopoulos E, Coleman AL, Wilson MR, Rhee DJ, Kang JH, May-Bolchakova I, Heegaard S, Mori K, Alward WLM, Jonas JB, Xu L, Liebmann JM, Chowbay B, Schaeffeler E, Schwab M, Lerner F, Wang N, Yang Z, Frezzotti P, Kinoshita S, Fingert JH, Inatani M, Tashiro K, Reis A, Edward DP, Pasquale LR, Kubota T, Wiggs JL, Pasutto F, Topouzis F, Dubina M, Craig JE, Yoshimura N, Sundaresan P, John SWM, Ritch R, Hauser MA, Khor CC. A common variant mapping to CACNA1A is associated with susceptibility to exfoliation syndrome. Nat Genet 2015; 47:387-92. [PMID: 25706626 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is the most common recognizable cause of open-angle glaucoma worldwide. To better understand the etiology of XFS, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 1,484 cases and 1,188 controls from Japan and followed up the most significant findings in a further 6,901 cases and 20,727 controls from 17 countries across 6 continents. We discovered a genome-wide significant association between a new locus (CACNA1A rs4926244) and increased susceptibility to XFS (odds ratio (OR) = 1.16, P = 3.36 × 10(-11)). Although we also confirmed overwhelming association at the LOXL1 locus, the key SNP marker (LOXL1 rs4886776) demonstrated allelic reversal depending on the ancestry group (Japanese: OR(A allele) = 9.87, P = 2.13 × 10(-217); non-Japanese: OR(A allele) = 0.49, P = 2.35 × 10(-31)). Our findings represent the first genetic locus outside of LOXL1 surpassing genome-wide significance for XFS and provide insight into the biology and pathogenesis of the disease.
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- Tin Aung
- 1] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore. [2] Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore. [3] Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. [4] Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore. [5] Duke University-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- 1] Ozaki Eye Hospital, Hyuga, Japan. [2] Hayashi Eye Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Intraocular Lens and Cataract Clinic, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
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- 1] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore. [2] Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore
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- 1] Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. [2] Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- 1] Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [2] Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Institute of Ophthalmology Conde de Valenciana, Mexico City, Mexico. [2] Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Meselik, Turkey
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Research Center, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Key Laboratory, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing, China
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Monfalcone Hospital, Gorizia, Italy
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- 1] Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Disease Gene Study, Hospital of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China. [2] School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. [3] Sichuan Translational Medicine Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Glaucoma Services, Narayana Nethralaya Eye Hospital, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- 1] Miyata Eye Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan. [2] Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Center for Genomic Medicine/INSERM U852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- 1] Center for Genomic Medicine/INSERM U852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. [2] Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Research Center, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Research Center, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Research Center, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Meselik, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Meselik, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Research Center, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Research Center, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Research Center, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Ophthalmology, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- 1] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore. [2] Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore. [3] Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- 1] Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. [2] Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- 1] Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. [2] Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumchi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
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- 1] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore. [2] Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- 1] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore. [2] Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore
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- National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Cancer Therapeutics and Stratified Oncology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- 1] Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. [2] Department of Genomics, Life &Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. [3] Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. [4] Human Genetics Research Group, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Glaucoma Services, Narayana Nethralaya Eye Hospital, Bangalore, India
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- 1] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore. [2] Genes, Repair and Regeneration in Ophthalmic Workstation Research Laboratory, Narayana Nethralaya Foundation, Bangalore, India
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- 1] Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. [2] Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- 1] Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [2] Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Key Laboratory, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Key Laboratory, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Center for Community Outreach and Policy, Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing, China
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- New York University School of Medicine, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Medical Sciences, Humphrey Oei Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Centre of Singapore, Singapore
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
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- 1] Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany. [2] Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany. [3] German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Fundación para el Estudio del Glaucoma, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Key Laboratory, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- 1] Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Disease Gene Study, Hospital of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China. [2] School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. [3] Sichuan Translational Medicine Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Surgery, Section of Ophthalmology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- 1] King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [2] Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- 1] Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 1] Department of Ophthalmology, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia. [2] St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
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- Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- 1] Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. [2] Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- 1] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore. [2] Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. [3] Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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Anastasopoulos E, Coleman AL, Wilson MR, Sinsheimer JS, Yu F, Katafigiotis S, Founti P, Salonikiou A, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Katopodi T, Lambropoulos A, Topouzis F. Association of LOXL1 polymorphisms with pseudoexfoliation, glaucoma, intraocular pressure, and systemic diseases in a Greek population. The Thessaloniki eye study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014; 55:4238-43. [PMID: 24917141 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-13991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate the association of the two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the lysyl oxidase-like 1 (LOXL1) gene with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX), pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG), and primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in a Greek population-based setting, from the Thessaloniki Eye study. METHODS A total of 233 subjects with successful DNA extraction, PCR amplification, and genotyping were included in the genetic analysis of G153D and R141L SNPs of LOXL1 gene and classified into four groups: controls (n = 93); subjects with PEX (n = 40); POAG (n = 66); and PEXG (n = 34). Multinomial logistic regression was used to test their association with LOXL1 SNPs with adjustment for covariates. The association of LOXL1 with IOP (in untreated subjects) and with systemic diseases was explored. RESULTS Both LOXL1 SNPs were present in high frequencies in controls and cases. The G153D was strongly associated with both PEX (odds ratio [OR] = 23.2, P = 0.003 for allele G) and PEXG (OR = 24.75, P = 0.003 for allele G) and was not associated with POAG (P = 0.451). In contrast, the R141L was not associated with PEX (P = 0.81), PEXG (P = 0.063), or POAG (P = 0.113). No association of the G153D with either intraocular pressure (IOP) or systemic diseases was found. CONCLUSIONS In the Thessaloniki Eye Study, the G153D SNP of LOXL1 gene was strongly associated with both PEX and PEXG, whereas the R141L was not associated. No association of the LOXL1 with IOP or with systemic diseases was found. These findings further support the hypothesis that the LOXL1 gene contributes to onset of PEXG through PEX. Gene variants of LOXL1 do not help to identify those with PEX at increased risk for glaucoma development.
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- Eleftherios Anastasopoulos
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Center for Eye Epidemiology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, California, United States
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- Center for Eye Epidemiology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Laboratory of General Biology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of General Biology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of General Biology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Topouzis F, Wilson MR, Harris A, Founti P, Yu F, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Salonikiou A, Coleman AL. Association of open-angle glaucoma with perfusion pressure status in the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Am J Ophthalmol 2013; 155:843-51. [PMID: 23394905 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2012.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2011] [Revised: 11/30/2012] [Accepted: 12/05/2012] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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PURPOSE To investigate the association of open-angle glaucoma (OAG), primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG) with ocular perfusion pressure status (ocular perfusion pressure with or without antihypertensive treatment). DESIGN Cross-sectional, population-based study. METHODS A total of 2554 randomly selected, ≥ 60-year old subjects participated in the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Only clinic-visit participants (n = 2261), who had uniformly collected data, were included in the analyses. A logistic regression model was run for OAG in all clinic-visit participants; covariates included age, sex, diastolic ocular perfusion pressure, antihypertensive treatment, intraocular pressure (IOP), IOP-lowering treatment, pseudoexfoliation, and vascular factors identified as risk factors for glaucoma in a previous analysis. Similar logistic regression models were run separately for POAG and PEXG. In addition, logistic regression models were run for OAG, POAG, and PEXG in subjects with and without antihypertensive treatment. Also, logistic regression models were run to assess the role of systolic ocular perfusion pressure in OAG, POAG, and PEXG. RESULTS Among clinic-visits, 1212 subjects (53.7%) were using antihypertensive treatment. An association of borderline significance was found between low diastolic ocular perfusion pressure and POAG (OR = 0.84 per 10 mm Hg, 95% CI = 0.70-1.01, P = .059). The effect of antihypertensive treatment on POAG was not statistically significant (OR = 1.20, 95% CI = 0.75-1.91, P = .45). In subgroup analyses, diastolic ocular perfusion pressure was significantly associated with POAG in subjects using antihypertensive treatment (OR = 0.78 per 10 mm Hg, 95% CI = 0.62-0.97, P = .028). No association was found between diastolic ocular perfusion pressure and PEXG, regardless of the use of antihypertensive treatment. No associations were found between systolic ocular perfusion pressure and OAG, POAG, or PEXG, regardless of the use of antihypertensive treatment. CONCLUSIONS Low diastolic ocular perfusion pressure may be associated with increased risk for POAG. This association was confirmed in subjects treated for systemic hypertension in subgroup analysis. This may support the hypothesis that the concept of ocular perfusion pressure status may be more relevant to glaucoma pathogenesis than ocular perfusion pressure alone.
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- Fotis Topouzis
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Mandalos A, Anastasopoulos E, Makris L, Dervenis N, Kilintzis V, Topouzis F. Inter-examiner Reproducibility of Ocular Response Analyzer Using the Waveform Score Quality Index in Healthy Subjects. J Glaucoma 2013; 22:152-5. [DOI: 10.1097/ijg.0b013e318227e63e1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Anastasopoulos E, Kakoulidou A, Coleman AL, Sinsheimer JS, Wilson MR, Yu F, Salonikiou A, Koskosas A, Pappas T, Founti P, Lambropoulos A, Topouzis F. Association of sequence variation in the CX3CR1 gene with geographic atrophy age-related macular degeneration in a Greek population. Curr Eye Res 2012; 37:1148-55. [PMID: 22816662 DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2012.705413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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PURPOSE To explore the association of two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CX3CR1 gene with grades of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a population-based setting. METHODS The Thessaloniki Eye study is a cross-sectional population-based epidemiologic study of chronic eye diseases in Thessaloniki, Greece. A total of 371 subjects were included and classified according to their AMD status. Subjects with AMD Grades 0-1 (n = 188) were compared to those with AMD Grades 2-3 (n = 138), to those with AMD Grade 4 (geographic atrophy) (n = 20) and to those with AMD Grade 5 (neovascular AMD) (n = 25) with regard to the presence of CX3CR1 polymorphisms (V249I and T280M). Polychotomous logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, and smoking was conducted and the log-additive allelic model was preferred. RESULTS Participants with AMD Grade 4 were approximately three times more likely to carry the VI249 and nine times more likely to carry the II249 alleles, compared to those with AMD Grades 0-1, whereas those with AMD Grades 2-3 or Grade 5 did not differ. The T280M polymorphism was not associated with either AMD Grades 2-3 or AMD Grades 4 or 5. CONCLUSION In this Greek population, after adjusting for known risk factors, increased risk of geographic atrophy (GA) AMD among the carriers of the V249I polymorphism in the CX3CR1 gene was found. Our study failed to reveal any association with the T280M polymorphism reported in previous studies. Additional studies in different ethnic populations using standardized methodology are needed in order to confirm this association.
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- Eleftherios Anastasopoulos
- A' Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Topouzis F, Founti P, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Salonikiou A, Wilson MR, Harris A, Yu F, Coleman AL. Reply. Am J Ophthalmol 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2011.07.030] [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: 11/27/2022]
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Founti P, Harris A, Papadopoulou D, Emmanouilidis P, Siesky B, Kilintzis V, Anastasopoulos E, Salonikiou A, Pappas T, Topouzis F. Agreement among three examiners of colour Doppler imaging retrobulbar blood flow velocity measurements. Acta Ophthalmol 2011; 89:e631-4. [PMID: 21933359 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2011.02236.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE To assess the agreement among three masked examiners on central retinal artery (CRA) and ophthalmic artery (OA) blood flow velocity measurements performed with colour Doppler imaging (CDI) in healthy volunteers. METHODS The study included 30 eyes of 15 healthy volunteers. Prior to the study, all examiners underwent intensive CDI training by an expert to facilitate uniformity in performing measurements according to a specific protocol. Following the eligibility visit, three masked examiners performed CDI measurements assessing the CRA and OA in both eyes of all subjects. All CDI images were analysed by a masked grader. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were calculated for peak systolic velocity (PSV) and end diastolic velocity (EDV) in the CRA and OA among the examiners. p-values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. RESULTS The study included seven men and eight women (mean age 30.9 ± 4.5 years). In right eyes, ICCs for PSV and EDV in the CRA ranged from 0.917 to 0.961 and from 0.937 to 0.980, respectively. ICCs for PSV and EDV in the OA ranged from 0.802 to 0.926 and from 0.611 to 0.891, respectively. In left eyes, all ICCs for PSV and EDV were >0.9, both in the CRA and the OA. All p-values calculated for ICCs were statistically significant. CONCLUSION Expert training and execution of a specific protocol for CDI of ocular blood flow velocity measurements provide highly reproducible results in healthy volunteers. This is important for long-term studies assessing ocular hemodynamics, where multiple examiners may be involved.
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- Panayiota Founti
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Topouzis F, Wilson MR, Harris A, Founti P, Yu F, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Salonikiou A, Coleman AL. Risk factors for primary open-angle glaucoma and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma in the Thessaloniki eye study. Am J Ophthalmol 2011; 152:219-228.e1. [PMID: 21664597 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2011.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2010] [Revised: 01/11/2011] [Accepted: 01/11/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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PURPOSE To investigate risk factors for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG) in the Thessaloniki Eye Study. DESIGN Cross-sectional, population-based study. METHODS Randomly selected subjects 60 years of age and older (n=2554) participated in the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Glaucomatous damage and presence of pseudoexfoliation (PEX) were defined according to specific criteria. Open-angle glaucoma (OAG) subjects were compared with nonglaucoma subjects (controls), POAG subjects were compared with controls without PEX, and PEXG subjects were compared with controls with PEX for demographic, lifestyle, ophthalmic, and systemic factors. Factors with P < .2 in the univariate analysis were retained for multivariate analyses. RESULTS In multivariate analysis restricted to persons who participated in clinic visits and who had at least 1 phakic eye (n=2078), intraocular pressure (odds ratio [OR], 1.21 per 1 mm Hg; P<.001), PEX (OR, 2.81; P<.001), history of coronary artery bypass or vascular surgery (OR, 1.95; P=.017), and moderate-to-high myopia (≥ -3 diopters; OR, 2.40; P=.009) were associated with higher odds for OAG. In analysis including all clinic visits (n=2261), age became significantly associated (OR, 1.05; P=.004). In multivariate analysis for POAG (n=1840), associations were found for age (OR, 1.04 per year; P=.048), IOP (OR, 1.19 per 1 mm Hg; P<.001), history of coronary artery bypass or vascular surgery (OR, 2.09; P=.01), and history of diabetes treated with insulin (OR, 3.05; P=.045). In multivariate analysis for PEXG (n=238), the latter was associated with increased IOP (OR, 1.25 per 1 mm Hg; P<.001). CONCLUSIONS IOP was the only factor associated with both POAG and PEXG, whereas moderate-to-high myopia showed borderline significance in both. Vascular systemic diseases and their treatment were associated only with POAG. The implications of these differences for the pathogenesis between the 2 common types of OAG should be explored further.
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Topouzis F, Harris A, Wilson MR, Koskosas A, Founti P, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Yu F, Coleman AL. Reply. Am J Ophthalmol 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.10.014] [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: 10/19/2022]
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Topouzis F, Harris A, Wilson MR, Koskosas A, Founti P, Yu F, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Coleman AL. Increased likelihood of glaucoma at the same screening intraocular pressure in subjects with pseudoexfoliation: the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Am J Ophthalmol 2009; 148:606-613.e1. [PMID: 19427989 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Revised: 03/18/2009] [Accepted: 03/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To compare the clinical characteristics of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG) identified in the Thessaloniki Eye Study and to evaluate the proportion of subjects with and without pseudoexfoliation (PEX) who have glaucoma by screening intraocular pressure (IOP). DESIGN Cross-sectional, population-based study. METHODS Randomly selected subjects > or =60 years (n = 2,554) participated in the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Subjects were classified as having POAG or PEXG according to specific criteria. POAG and PEXG cases were compared for various clinical characteristics. The proportion with glaucoma among subjects with PEX and the proportion with glaucoma among subjects without PEX were estimated by IOP levels. RESULTS Among the clinic-visit participants (n = 2,261), 94 subjects (4.2%) had POAG and 41 (1.8%) had PEXG. The prevalence of glaucoma among subjects with PEX was 15.2% and the prevalence of glaucoma among subjects without PEX was 4.7%. In subjects without treatment, the mean IOPs were 19.8 mm Hg and 24.3 mm Hg for POAG and PEXG, respectively. For IOP level >20 mm Hg, the proportion with glaucoma among subjects with PEX was higher than that for glaucoma among subjects without PEX (37% vs 15%; P = .004), while no statistically significant difference was found for IOP level < or =20 mm Hg (2.1% vs 2.1%; P = .999), Fisher exact test. CONCLUSIONS In the Thessaloniki Eye Study, for screening IOP </=20 mm Hg the proportion with glaucoma was similar in subjects with and without PEX. For IOP level >20 mm Hg, the proportion with glaucoma increased highly in subjects both with and without PEX, while it was much higher among those with PEX at the same screening IOP.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Ahepa Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Topouzis F, Anastasopoulos E, Augood C, Bentham GC, Chakravarthy U, de Jong PTVM, Rahu M, Seland J, Soubrane G, Tomazzoli L, Vingerling JR, Vioque J, Young IS, Fletcher AE. Association of diabetes with age-related macular degeneration in the EUREYE study. Br J Ophthalmol 2009; 93:1037-41. [PMID: 19429584 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.146316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the association between self-reported diabetes history and early or late age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the European population. METHODS Participants aged 65 years and over in the cross-sectional population-based EUREYE study underwent an eye examination including digital retinal photography. The images were graded at a single centre. A structured questionnaire was administered by trained field workers for putative risk factors for AMD including history of diabetes mellitus. Logistic regression models were used to examine the association between diabetes and stages of AMD, taking account of potential demographic, behavioural, dietary and medical (history of cardiovascular disease) confounders. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Photographic images were graded according to the modified International Classification System for AMD and stratified into five exclusive stages from no signs of AMD (AMD stage 0), early AMD (Stages 1-3) and late AMD (Stage 4). Late AMD was subdivided in neovascular AMD (NV-AMD) or geographic atrophy (GA). RESULTS Data on diabetes history and potential confounders were available in 2117 control subjects without AMD, 2182 with early AMD, 49 with GA and 101 with NV-AMD. Of all participants, 13.1% reported a history of diabetes. After adjusting for potential confounders, subjects with neovascular AMD compared with controls had increased odds for diabetes (odds ratio 1.81; 95% confidence interval, 1.10 to 2.98, p = 0.02). Subjects with AMD grades 1 to 3 or GA had no increased odds for diabetes compared with those without AMD. CONCLUSIONS In the EUREYE study, after multiple adjustments, positive association of diabetes mellitus with neovascular AMD was found. The hypothesis that diabetes is associated with neovascular AMD but not with geographic atrophy may suggest a different pathogenesis of the two advanced forms of the disease and needs to be further evaluated.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Mavroudis L, Harris A, Topouzis F, Wilson MR, Yu F, Anastasopoulos E, Koskosas A, Siesky B, Pappas T, Founti P, Coleman AL. Reproducibility of pixel-by-pixel analysis of Heidelberg retinal flowmetry images: the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Acta Ophthalmol 2008; 86:81-6. [PMID: 17850404 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2007.01003.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE To identify the investigator effect in the analysis results of Heidelberg retinal flowmetry (HRF) images when pixel-by-pixel analysis is performed. METHODS Thirty-two of 732 HRF images were randomly selected from a population-based study. Pixel-by-pixel analysis was performed by two trained masked graders in the following way: a square window of 40 x 40 pixels or two windows of 30 x 30 pixels or four windows of 20 x 20 pixels free from blood vessels at the peripapillary retina were identified. Using a 1 x 1-pixel window, the grader performed pointwise analysis according to a specific protocol. The analysis process was performed by each observer three times (A, B, C) at 1-week intervals. The percentage of pixels with < 1 arbitrary unit of flow (zero flow), the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles and mean flow values were calculated. The difference between the results of analyses B-A and C-A for all HRF parameters was estimated using the Wilcoxon signed rank test. Mixed-effect regression models were also used after controlling for grader effect and correlation within subjects. RESULTS There was no statistically significant difference between the results of analyses B-A and C-A or for any parameter in the mixed-effect regression models. Intraclass correlation was 0.9665 for the percentage of zero flow pixels. CONCLUSIONS Pixel-by-pixel analysis of HRF images by trained graders remains a highly reproducible method. No grader effect was found. If a precise protocol is followed, the results are independent of the exact placement of the analysis windows and the pointwise analysis of the identified and mapped retinal tissue.
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- Leonidas Mavroudis
- II Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Topouzis F, Wilson MR, Harris A, Anastasopoulos E, Yu F, Mavroudis L, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Coleman AL. Prevalence of open-angle glaucoma in Greece: the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Am J Ophthalmol 2007; 144:511-9. [PMID: 17893012 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2007.06.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2007] [Revised: 06/08/2007] [Accepted: 06/19/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To estimate the prevalence of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) in a population-based sample of subjects 60 years of age or older in Thessaloniki, Greece. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based study. METHODS Subjects randomly identified from municipality registers in Thessaloniki underwent a complete ophthalmologic examination. Glaucoma was defined in two ways. Definition 1 was based on the presence of both glaucomatous optic disk and confirmed glaucomatous visual field defect. Subjects also were classified as having glaucoma when the clinical judgment was strongly in favor of the presence of glaucoma even though the strict criteria were not fulfilled (definition 2). RESULTS Of the 3,617 eligible subjects, 2,554 (71%) participated. The prevalence of OAG was 3.8% and 5.5% by definitions 1 and 2, respectively. The prevalence of primary OAG was 2.7% and 3.8% by definitions 1 and 2, respectively, and the prevalence of pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEXG) was 1.1% and 1.7% by definitions 1 and 2, respectively. Pseudoexfoliation was present in 11.9% of participants, whereas 15.2% among those with pseudoexfoliation had PEXG. CONCLUSIONS The prevalence of OAG in the Thessaloniki Eye Study (TES) is similar or slightly higher compared with other population-based studies in White persons. The overall slightly higher prevalence of OAG in the TES compared with other studies may be attributed to the high prevalence of PEXG in the TES.
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- Fotis Topouzis
- II Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Topouzis F, Koskosas A, Pappas T, Anastasopoulos E, Raptou A, Psilas K. Foveomacular Retinitis and Associated Optical Coherence Tomography Findings. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina 2007; 38:333-5. [PMID: 17674927 DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20070701-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 11/20/2022]
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A 45-year-old man presented with clinical manifestations of foveomacular retinitis, including visual symptoms and foveal lesions characteristic of solar retinopathy, but repeated questions failed to elicit a history of sun gazing. Cross-sectional retinal images produced by optical coherence tomography revealed localized loss of retinal pigment epithelium cells in both eyes. A different pattern of reflectivity at the level of the photoreceptor layer was observed between the right and left eye, reflecting asymmetry in tissue damage. This case is described to provide additional evidence that solar retinopathy and foveomacular retinitis are the same entity and may also have common optical coherence tomography findings.
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- Fotis Topouzis
- Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology, II Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Anastasopoulos E, Yu F, Coleman AL. Age-related macular degeneration is associated with an increased risk of hip fractures in the Medicare database. Am J Ophthalmol 2006; 142:1081-3. [PMID: 17157603 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.06.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [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] [Received: 02/08/2006] [Revised: 06/21/2006] [Accepted: 06/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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PURPOSE To explore the relationship between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and incident hip fractures in the Medicare population. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS With a 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries in 1995, 8596 cases were coded with exudative AMD; 26,942 cases were coded with atrophic AMD, and 1,013,748 cases were coded without AMD. The Medicare claims from 1996 to 1999 were evaluated for hip fracture codes. The relationship between AMD and incident hip fractures was analyzed with multiple logistic regression models, with adjustment for baseline, ocular, and systemic covariates. RESULTS In adjusted analyses, the risk of hip fractures was similar in cases that were coded with exudative AMD (odds ratio, 1.03; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.95, 1.12) compared with cases with no AMD but was significantly higher in cases that were coded with atrophic AMD (odds ratio, 1.11; 95% CI, 1.06, 1.16). CONCLUSION Medicare patients with a code for atrophic AMD had an 11% greater risk of hip fractures than did patients without a code for AMD over a four-year follow-up period.
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- Center for Eye Epidemiology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Topouzis F, Coleman AL, Harris A, Anastasopoulos E, Yu F, Koskosas A, Pappas T, Mavroudis L, Wilson MR. Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in Greece: the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Am J Ophthalmol 2006; 142:1076-9. [PMID: 17157601 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [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] [Received: 06/06/2006] [Revised: 07/18/2006] [Accepted: 07/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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PURPOSE To estimate the age- and gender-specific prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a population-based sample of subjects 60 years of age or older in Thessaloniki, Greece. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based study. METHODS A total of 2554 subjects randomly identified from municipality registers in Thessaloniki underwent a complete ophthalmologic examination. RESULTS Of the 3617 eligible subjects, 2554 (71%) participants completed a clinical examination. The prevalence was 2.5% for AMD, 1.4% for neovascular (NV) AMD, and 1.3% for geographic atrophy (GA). Bilateral AMD was present in 40% of AMD cases. The prevalence of AMD, NV, GA, and bilateral AMD increased with increasing age (P< .0001). No gender-specific statistically significant differences were noted. Of all participants with AMD, 67% were unaware of the diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS The prevalence of AMD in Greece is comparable to that in other Caucasian populations. A dramatic increase in prevalence in people older than 80 years of age was observed.
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- Fotis Topouzis
- II Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Topouzis F, Coleman AL, Harris A, Jonescu-Cuypers C, Yu F, Mavroudis L, Anastasopoulos E, Pappas T, Koskosas A, Wilson MR. Association of blood pressure status with the optic disk structure in non-glaucoma subjects: the Thessaloniki eye study. Am J Ophthalmol 2006; 142:60-67. [PMID: 16815251 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.02.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2005] [Revised: 02/08/2006] [Accepted: 02/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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PURPOSE To study the association of blood pressure (BP) status on the optic disk structure as measured with the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) in people without glaucoma. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based setting study. METHODS Consecutive participants in the Thessaloniki Eye Study were included in this study. HRT images of the optic disk and BP measurements were taken. Hypertension was defined as a systolic BP (SBP) > or =140 mm Hg, diastolic BP (DBP) >/=90 mm Hg, or both. Subjects were classified in three groups by SBP and DBP. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare the three groups with respect to the HRT parameters. Regression models adjusted for age, gender, height, disk size, intraocular pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and duration of antihypertensive treatment were used for each HRT parameter to compare values among the different groups. The P value was considered significant at <.05. RESULTS A total of 232 subjects were included in the analysis. Rim area was significantly different among groups when DBP was considered as the criterion to classify subjects (P = .005). In regression models, cup area, and cup-to-disk (c/d) ratio were increased in subjects with normal DBP that was the result of treatment, as compared with both the high DBP and untreated normal DBP groups. CONCLUSIONS In patients without glaucoma, the DBP <90 mm Hg that results from antihypertensive treatment is associated with increased cupping and decreased rim area of the optic disk. This information should be considered in research aiming to define the role of the BP status as an independent factor initiating optic disk changes and/or as a contributing factor to glaucoma damage.
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- II Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Topouzis F, Tranos P, Koskosas A, Pappas T, Anastasopoulos E, Dimitrakos S, Wilson MR. Risk of sudden visual loss following filtration surgery in end-stage glaucoma. Am J Ophthalmol 2005; 140:661-6. [PMID: 16226517 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2005] [Revised: 04/05/2005] [Accepted: 04/05/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of filtration surgery on visual acuity and visual fields in patients with end-stage glaucoma during the immediate postoperative period and to assess the risk of sudden visual loss. DESIGN Prospective interventional, consecutive case-series. METHODS The study prospectively included consecutive patients with end-stage glaucoma who underwent trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C. The inclusion criterion was a preoperative visual field with Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study score over 16. Main outcome measures included change in best corrected logMAR visual acuity, in mean deviation (MD) of visual field test, in number of points among the four central visual field points with a sensitivity less than 5 dB and in mean sensitivity of the four central visual field points after surgery. The incidence of intraoperative and postoperative complications was also recorded. RESULTS Twenty-one patients (21 eyes) were enrolled. Mean age was 64 years (range 31 to 78). Surgery resulted in a reduction of preoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) by 14.1 +/- 9.2 mm Hg (P < .001) and a decrease in postoperative antiglaucoma medication use (P < .001). Preoperatively the mean visual acuity was 0.77 +/- 0.78, and the mean value of the mean deviation at the visual field test was -27.94 +/- 2.7 dB. Three months after surgery, there was no significant difference in visual acuity (0.74 +/- 0.79, P = .73) and mean deviation (-27.50 +/- 2.6 dB, P = .1). Similarly there was no significant change in the visual field parameters tested to assess central visual field sensitivity. There were no intraoperative complications. Transient hypotony occurred in three eyes while one eye presented more extended hypotony. Three of these eyes experienced bleb leak (seidel). CONCLUSIONS In our case-series of consecutive patients with end-stage glaucoma, followed for 3 months after filtration surgery IOP was reduced effectively and vision was preserved with no occurrences of "wipe-out" phenomenon.
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- General Hospital Papageorgiou, B'Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Topouzis F, Coleman AL, Yu F, Mavroudis L, Anastasopoulos E, Koskosas A, Pappas T, Dimitrakos S, Wilson MR. Sensitivity and specificity of the 76-suprathreshold visual field test to detect eyes with visual field defect by Humphrey threshold testing in a population-based setting: the Thessaloniki eye study. Am J Ophthalmol 2004; 137:420-5. [PMID: 15013863 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2003.09.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/16/2003] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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PURPOSE To evaluate the screening performance of the 76-Suprathreshold (76-STHR) visual field test to detect eyes with visual field defect (VFD) as measured by Humphrey threshold testing in a population-based setting. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS All 88 subjects who agreed to participate in the pilot phase of the Thessaloniki Eye Study were included. Participants underwent a 76-STHR visual field test followed by a 30-full threshold (30-2 FTHR) test (Humphrey field analyzer). One eye/subject was randomly selected and included in the analysis. Sensitivity and specificity rates of the 76-STHR to detect eyes with VFD by the 30 to 2 FTHR test were calculated. RESULTS When eyes with borderline results in the 30 to 2 FTHR test were classified as having a VFD, sensitivity rates of the 76-STHR to detect eyes with VFD by the 30 to 2 FTHR were 85.2%, 77.8%, and 74.1%, whereas specificity rates were 70%, 78%, and 86%, depending on the cutoff used for the 76-STHR. CONCLUSIONS The 76-STHR test showed high sensitivity and low false-negative results at the "at least one point missed" cutoff level criterion to detect eyes with visual field defect by Humphrey threshold testing in a population-based setting. This criterion should be used when screening in a population-based study setting. By contrast, the 76-STHR would not be the appropriate screening test in a primary care setting with limited resources.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Kosmidis PA, Baxevanis CN, Tsavaris N, Papanastasiou M, Anastasopoulos E, Bacoyiannis C, Mylonakis N, Karvounis N, Bafaloukos D, Karabelis A. The prognostic significance of immune changes in patients with renal cell carcinoma treated with interferon alfa-2b. J Clin Oncol 1992; 10:1153-7. [PMID: 1535102 DOI: 10.1200/jco.1992.10.7.1153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 12/27/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To evaluate the response rate and the immunorestorative properties of subcutaneously administered interferon alfa-2b (IFN-A2b) in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and to correlate the immune status with the clinical responses. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-six patients with advanced RCC were treated with recombinant IFN-A2b. The dose was increased progressively from 5 x 10(6) IU the first week to 10 x 10(6) IU the second week, and thereafter to 15 x 10(6) IU subcutaneously. RESULTS Four patients (15%) achieved partial responses (PRs), and five patients (19%) had stable disease (S), whereas 17 patients (65%) progressed. In all patients, blood was withdrawn before IFN treatment and monthly thereafter. T lymphocytes after isolation from peripheral blood were tested for proliferation in the autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (autoMLR) and allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction (alloMLR), interleukin-2 (IL-2) production, expression of IL-2 receptors during the alloMLR, and the production of interleukin-1 (IL-1) by peripheral-blood monocytes. Twelve patients were assessable, four patients had a PR, one patient had S, and seven patients had progressive disease. Striking increases were demonstrated in all parameters 1 month after treatment with IFN-A2b in the four patients who responded and the patient with S. Namely, the autoMLR responses showed a mean increase of 250%, the IL-2 production 247%, the expression of IL-2-specific receptors 446%, the alloMLR responses 160%, and the production of IL-1 262%. On the contrary, the nonresponders did not show any change in their overall immune status, and in some, deterioration of the already depressed immunologic functions was observed. CONCLUSIONS Administration of IFN-A2b results in a marked potentiation of deficient cellular immune response in vitro in those patients with RCC who respond to the treatment. This may have prognostic significance, and certainly more patients are required to be studied for definite conclusions.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Metaxa Cancer Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
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Baxevanis CN, Thanos D, Reclos GJ, Anastasopoulos E, Tsokos GC, Papamatheakis J, Papamichail M. Prothymosin alpha enhances human and murine MHC class II surface antigen expression and messenger RNA accumulation. The Journal of Immunology 1992. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.148.7.1979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Prothymosin alpha (ProT alpha) is an acidic polypeptide with potentiating effects on HLA-DR-restricted in vitro cellular immune response systems such as T cell proliferative responses to soluble proteins and cellular auto- or alloantigens. Experiments were performed to investigate the effect of ProT alpha on MHC class II Ag expression in human monocytes, murine splenocytes, and tumor cell lines at both protein and molecular levels. RIA and immunofluorescence analysis revealed that ProT alpha enhances HLA-DR surface Ag expression whereas Northern blot analysis demonstrated that ProT alpha causes significant accumulation of MHC class II mRNA. The enhancing effect of ProT alpha was demonstrated convincingly using precultured human peripheral monocytes, which are known to express decreased amounts of surface HLA-DR Ag, and HLA-DR-positive human cell lines. Moreover, ProT alpha was shown to induce HLA-DR Ag expression in a priori HLA-DR-negative tumor cells. Furthermore, ProT alpha was shown to be active in vivo. Splenocytes from mice pretreated with ProT alpha expressed more surface Ilpha Ag and contained more I alpha-specific mRNA. These findings suggest that ProT alpha may be important in the regulation of the immune response by enhancing MHC class II Ag expression in APC.
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- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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Baxevanis CN, Thanos D, Reclos GJ, Anastasopoulos E, Tsokos GC, Papamatheakis J, Papamichail M. Prothymosin alpha enhances human and murine MHC class II surface antigen expression and messenger RNA accumulation. J Immunol 1992; 148:1979-84. [PMID: 1545115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Prothymosin alpha (ProT alpha) is an acidic polypeptide with potentiating effects on HLA-DR-restricted in vitro cellular immune response systems such as T cell proliferative responses to soluble proteins and cellular auto- or alloantigens. Experiments were performed to investigate the effect of ProT alpha on MHC class II Ag expression in human monocytes, murine splenocytes, and tumor cell lines at both protein and molecular levels. RIA and immunofluorescence analysis revealed that ProT alpha enhances HLA-DR surface Ag expression whereas Northern blot analysis demonstrated that ProT alpha causes significant accumulation of MHC class II mRNA. The enhancing effect of ProT alpha was demonstrated convincingly using precultured human peripheral monocytes, which are known to express decreased amounts of surface HLA-DR Ag, and HLA-DR-positive human cell lines. Moreover, ProT alpha was shown to induce HLA-DR Ag expression in a priori HLA-DR-negative tumor cells. Furthermore, ProT alpha was shown to be active in vivo. Splenocytes from mice pretreated with ProT alpha expressed more surface Ilpha Ag and contained more I alpha-specific mRNA. These findings suggest that ProT alpha may be important in the regulation of the immune response by enhancing MHC class II Ag expression in APC.
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- C N Baxevanis
- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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Anastasopoulos E, Reclos GJ, Baxevanis CN, Gritzapis AD, Tsilivakos V, Panagiotopoulos N, Fotiou S, Missitzis I, Karydas I, Papamichail M. Monocyte disorders associated with T cell defects in patients with solid tumors. Anticancer Res 1992; 12:489-94. [PMID: 1533752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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T cells proliferate in response to autologous monocytes in the autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (AMLR). AMLR was found to be impaired in patients with advanced cancer (stages III and IV), whereas normal values were found in the early stages of the disease (stages I and II). Peripheral T lymphocytes from patients with advanced stages also exhibited a decreased ability to produce Interleukin-2 (IL-2) during an AMLR response, whereas production of IL-2 by T cells in stages I and II was comparable to that of normal donors. The impaired IL-2 production by T lymphocytes in the AMLR was associated with high concentrations of soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) in culture supernatants and reduced expression of membrane-bound interleukin-2 receptors (IL-2R) on the same AMLR-activated T lymphocytes. These abnormalities in T cells from cancer patients were demonstrated to be associated with dysfunctions of autologous monocytes. Thus monocytes from patients with advanced cancer exhibited diminished expression of HLA-DR antigens and produced low levels of Interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and Tumor Necrosis Factor a (TNFa). No changes were detected in the expression of HLA-A, -B, -C antigens. The results presented here demonstrate that decreased in vitro T cell responses may be attributed to monocyte dysfunctions in these patients and provide new information for a better understanding of the impaired T cell function in cancer patients.
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- E Anastasopoulos
- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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Baxevanis CN, Sfagos C, Anastasopoulos E, Reclos GJ, Papamichail M. Prothymosin-alpha enhances HLA-DR antigen expression on monocytes from patients with multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 1990; 27:141-7. [PMID: 2139665 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(90)90063-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Monocytes from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) express decreased numbers of class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens in peripheral blood and are poor stimulators in the autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (autoMLR). We assessed the effect of prothymosin-alpha (ProT alpha) on the expression of MHC class II antigens by monocytes. Immediately after isolation, monocytes were analyzed for MHC class II antigen expression using a radiolabelled monoclonal antibody specific for a monomorphic determinant on HLA-DR antigens. After incubation with ProT alpha we observed significant increases in HLA-DR antigens on MS monocytes (1.5- to 4-fold increase compared to freshly isolated monocytes). Kinetic analysis revealed that enhancement peaked after 2 days of incubation with ProT alpha. The increase in HLA-DR antigen on MS monocytes resulted in the restoration of the deficient autoMLR in MS patients. This is the first demonstration suggesting a link between HLA-DR antigen expression and cellular immune defects in MS. The significance of low autoMLR responses for T suppressor levels in MS patients is discussed.
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- C N Baxevanis
- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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Baxevanis CN, Frillingos S, Seferiadis K, Reclos GJ, Arsenis P, Katsiyiannis A, Anastasopoulos E, Tsolas O, Papamichail M. Enhancement of human T lymphocyte function by prothymosin alpha: increased production of interleukin-2 and expression of interleukin-2 receptors in normal human peripheral blood T lymphocytes. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol 1990; 12:595-617. [PMID: 2092041 DOI: 10.3109/08923979009019679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The in vitro incubation of phytohemagglutinin (PHA)- or alloantigen-stimulated peripheral blood T cells with prothymosin alpha (ProT alpha) resulted in a marked and reproducible increase in the production of interleukin-2 (IL-2). Incubation of T cells with ProT alpha, in the absence of PHA or alloantigen, failed to induce any production of IL-2. ProT alpha by itself did not exert any IL-2 activity. Finally, ProT alpha was shown to increase the expression of IL-2 receptors on phytohemagglutinin- or alloantigen-activated T cells. These data provide the basis for understanding the in vitro immunoenhancing effects of ProT alpha in cellular immune systems.
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- C N Baxevanis
- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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Baxevanis CN, Reclos GJ, Arsenis P, Anastasopoulos E, Katsiyiannis A, Lymberi P, Matikas N, Papamichail M. Decreased expression of HLA-DR antigens on monocytes in patients with multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 1989; 22:177-83. [PMID: 2649510 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(89)90015-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 01/02/2023]
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Immunofluorescence, cell binding assays and enzyme immunoassays were used to investigate the expression of class II major histocompatibility antigens on peripheral blood monocytes in 67 patients with multiple sclerosis. Monocytes from patients with active disease expressed fewer HLA-DR molecules on their surface than normal monocytes; furthermore the percentage of cells which exhibited detectable amounts of surface HLA-DR antigens was decreased in patients with active multiple sclerosis. During the inactive stage of the disease both deficiencies were milder, probably representing secondary pathogenetic phenomena. Quantitation of monocyte surface HLA-DR antigen expression could be valuable in assessing the clinical disease activity. The demonstration of a molecular defect in patients with multiple sclerosis will improve our understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease.
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- C N Baxevanis
- Department of Immunology, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
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