- Retinal and Optic Conditions
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
- Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome
- Vasculitis and related conditions
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
- Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Retinal Development and Disorders
Fundação Altino Ventura
2014-2025
<h3>Importance</h3> The Zika virus (ZIKV) might cause microcephaly and ophthalmoscopic findings in infants of mothers infected during pregnancy. <h3>Objective</h3> To assess identify possible risk factors for born with a presumed clinical diagnosis ZIKV intrauterine infection. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> We conducted cross-sectional study at the Altino Ventura Foundation Recife, Brazil, that included 40 Pernambuco state, between May December 2015. Toxoplasmosis, rubella,...
Chagas disease (CD), a parasitic infection, may have ocular repercussions in its cardiologic form, since history of heart other etiologies already has been established as risk factor for neuropathies and maculopathies. The aim the present study was to investigate preclinical structural vascular optic nerve head (ONH) macular parameters patients with chronic CD. Nineteen CD 19 healthy subjects were evaluated optical coherence tomography, tomography angiography, Laguna ONhE® software. main...
To analyze the corneal thickness and anterior chamber (AC) angle using segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) in patients with acute uveitis (AAU).Twenty two (24 eyes) were included. All underwent complete ophthalmological examination, applanation tonometry AS-OCT at diagnosis fifteen days after treatment.Average before treatment was 564.2 ± 44.2 µm, 580.0 44.3 µm 580.1 2.9 respectively central, pericentral paracentral cornea. Fifteen a significant decrease of observed, 529.5 33.1...
<title>Abstract</title> Chagas disease (CD), a parasitic infection, may have ocular repercussion in its cardiological form, since history of heart other etiologies has already been established as risk factor for neuropathies and maculopathies. The aim the present study was to investigate preclinical structural vascular optic nerve head (ONH) macular parameters chronic CD patients. Chagasic patients healthy subjects (n = 19) were evaluated with optical coherence tomography, tomography...