EFFECTS OF CAPSULAR TENSION RING ON SURGICAL OUTCOMES OF PREMIUM INTRAOCULAR LENS IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ZONULAR WEAKNESS.

Effects of capsular tension ring on surgical outcomes of premium intraocular lens in patients with suspected zonular weakness.

PURPOSE:To assess the influence of capsular tension ring (CTR) on surgical outcomes of toric and multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) in eyes at high risk of zonular instability.METHODS:Fifty-five eyes of 43 patients who had undergone phacoemulsification and IOL implantation were included in the analysis.They had some risk of zonular weakness, such

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Slavic ornaments in the decoration of the costume of Islamic Egypt

The article is devoted to the analysis of a group of fabrics from the collection of the Ashmolean Museum - the Center for Islamic and Asian Art.Yousef at Oxford University (Ashmolean - Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Center for Islamic and Asian Art).More than 1000 textile fragments from the graves and from the garbage mounds of the cities of Al-

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Exome-Wide Search for Genes Associated With Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases Following CHIKV Infection: The Tip of the Iceberg

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emergent arbovirus that causes a disease characterized primarily by fever, rash and severe persistent polyarthralgia, although <1% of cases develop severe neurological manifestations such as inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDD) of the central nervous system (CNS) like acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (A

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Comparison of the diagnostic performance of 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography in diabetic and non-diabetic patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Abstract Background Diabetics have high prevalence of subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD) with typical characteristics (diffuse disease, large calcifications).Although 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography has high diagnostic accuracy to detect CAD, its diagnostic Serving Bowls performance in diabetics with su

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