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Top-Eight of ARVO after-thoughts
May 4-9, 2003
David Goldblum, Andreas Boehm, Christian Vorwerk, Luca Rossetti, Marco Centofanti, Nadine Hamelin, Marc Salle and Andrew McNaught
- Treatment with prostaglandins analogues causes downregulation of prostaglandin FP receptors in human ciliary muscle. The relation of this reduction to long-term efficacy needs further studies.
- TM cells remodel ECM respons to IOP elevation.
- OPTN might be responsible for 16.7% of hereditary forms of NTG.
- A novel method for in vivo imaging of retinal ganglioncells undergoing apoptosis was described.
- Visual function testing is of paramount importance in community screening for glaucoma.
- The range of VCDR from the median to the 97.5th percentile was 0.24 (0.35 - 0.59) for small optic discs, (0.44 - 0.68) for medium sized discs, and 0.19 (0.55 - 0.74) for large discs.
- The current use of thyroxine was found to be independently associated with a twofold increased OAG prevalence.
- Patients with the myocillin mt.1 (+) genotype showed higher rates of progression.
