Ji Hong Kim

PURPOSE: To investigate the relationship between topical glaucoma medications and meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) in early middle-aged patients with glaucoma. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 50 patients with glaucoma younger than 50 years who had used topical glaucoma medications for more than 6 months and 40 normal controls of similar age were included. Patients in each group were graded for MGD (0-4) using slit-lamp microscopy. Tear film breakup time (BUT), ocular surface staining, a

In young patients without underlying disease, cases of NAION require careful screening for coagulation disorders. Even if there is no abnormality in the test for routine coagulation status, it may be necessary to confirm a coagulation defect through an additional coagulation factor assay.

Various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) have become of significant interest to academia and industry in recent times.To satisfy these academic and industrial interests, it is necessary to comprehensively investigate trends in AI-related changes of diverse areas.In this study, we identified and predicted emerging convergences with the help of AI-associated research abstracts collected from the SCOPUS database.The bidirectional encoder representations obtained via the transformers-based to

BACKGROUND/AIMS: To assess the incidence of glaucoma in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to identify associated risk factors using a nationwide population-based cohort. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study analysed data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (2008-2022). A total of 9682 patients with SLE were identified using ICD-10 code M32 and rare intractable disease code V136 and matched 1:1 to non-SLE controls by age and sex. The incidence of glaucoma (ICD

Ion-conducting gels are indispensable for bioelectronics, offering softness, high ionic conductivity, and biocompatibility. Nevertheless, sustaining robust performance under physiological conditions demands moving beyond isolated material or device innovations to a unified, multiscale design approach. At the material level, advances in polymer network engineering enable precise tuning of ion mobility, retention, and electrochemical stability, while simultaneously imparting mechanical toughness,

Ophthalmic complications after tooth extraction are rare but discomforting events. This paper reports the rare complications of a 20-year-old male patient who presented with transient blurring of vision after surgical extraction of several teeth under general anesthesia. Additional diagnostic tests were performed to discern the reason for the pseudomyopia. A literature review was carried out by searching for articles published from 1936 to 2019 using the keywords "dental," "ophthalmic," "complic

This study is aimed to investigate the effect of hemodialysis (HD) on the lamina cribrosa (LC) of the optic nerve head (ONH) using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) and other ophthalmological parameters in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). This prospective observational study included 29 patients who underwent HD for ESKD. ONH parameters including neural canal diameter (NCD), peripapillary vertical height (PVH), and anterior LC depth (LCD), were assessed using SS-OC

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) and inflammasomes in diabetes-induced retinal cells and to determine their role in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy (DR). Methods: To establish diabetes-induced cell models, ARPE-19 cells were treated with high glucose. The expression levels of five miRNAs (miR-185, miR-17, miR-20a, miR-15a, and miR-15b) were measured in high glucose-treated ARPE-19 cells using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Wes