Yong Joon Kim

Sir:FigureThere are various complications, including hypersensitivity reaction, ecchymosis, contour abnormalities, inflammation, and necrosis, that occur after filler injection.1 Among other things, blindness is a rare but devastating complication of cosmetic injection of the face. There are several reports of blindness following injections of various materials, including corticosteroids, paraffin, silicone oil, hyaluronic acid, and calcium hydroxyapatite.2 However, to the best of our knowledge,

Ciliopathies are clinically overlapping genetic disorders involving structural and functional abnormalities of cilia. Currently, there are no small-molecule drugs available to treat ciliary defects in ciliopathies. Our phenotype-based screen identified the flavonoid eupatilin and its analogs as lead compounds for developing ciliopathy medication. CEP290, a gene mutated in several ciliopathies, encodes a protein that forms a complex with NPHP5 to support the function of the ciliary transition zon

Recent experimental studies have demonstrated an essential role for the Hippo-Yes-associated protein (YAP) pathway in GNAQ/GNA11-induced tumorigenesis in uveal melanoma (UM). However, the association between YAP activity and clinical outcomes remains elusive. We investigated possible associations between YAP activity and clinicopathological features including survival outcomes in patients with UM using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort and our local cohort. We estimated YAP activity by mRNA

To report retinal vein occlusion (RVO) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD)-related submacular hemorrhage developing after administration of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, a single-center, retrospective observational case series was conducted. Clinical data including fundus photographs and optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans were reviewed. Twenty-three eyes of 21 patients were included with the median age at symptom presentation being 77 years (range: 51-85 years). Twelve eyes (52.2%) had subma

Diabetic retinopathy progression can occur in patients with or without before DR after bariatric surgery, regardless of remission of T2DM. All patients with T2DM should be examined regularly by an ophthalmologist postoperatively, and more carefully patients with previous DR or albuminuria.

Infusion pressure increased markedly during vitrectomy using a flow-based IOP control system.

A healthy 46-year-old man presented with decreased vision in the right eye after ingestion of raw meat. On funduscopic examination, a cystic lesion was found on an edematous right optic disc with adjacent serous retinal detachment. Optical coherence tomography confirmed a peripapillary serous retinal detachment and a well-demarcated cystic lesion (200 × 200 × 500 μm) in the right eye. The patient had moderate eosinophilia and was seropositive for anti-Toxocara IgG antibody. Diagnosed with ocular

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been reported to affect vascular networks including the eye. However, evidence on the causal relationship between COVID-19 infection and retinal vascular occlusions remains limited. This study aimed to determine the change in retinal vascular occlusion incidence during COVID-19 era and whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection induces retinal vascular occlusion. Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) and retinal artery occlus

Importance: There is a lack of large-scale clinical studies exploring mental health among patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Additionally, few studies have evaluated the associations of visual impairment with mental health in young patients. Objective: To investigate the association between depressive disorder and RP. Design, Setting, and Participants: This was a retrospective, nationwide, population-based cohort study using data obtained from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment ser

PURPOSE: We evaluated the angiographic features of the affected limbus in patients with pterygia and assessed limbal reconstruction outcomes after limbal-conjunctival autograft (LCA) transplantation in terms of vascular remodeling. METHODS: We studied prospectively 31 eyes of 31 patients who underwent pterygium excision and LCA transplantation; 28 eyes of 28 normal participants served as controls. Anterior segment indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) was performed for each participant preoperati