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Conjunctivitis in the newborn, also called ophthalmia neonatorum (ON), occurs within the first month of life and can have a chemical, viral or bacterial aetiology. It is the most common eye disease......

Children with congenital microcephaly caused by Zika virus, a viral infection that can be transmitted to the unborn child during the gestational period, may present with cerebral visual dysfunction regardless of the presence......

Results of an Italian study just published in the journal Acta Diabetologica show a correlation between glycaemic variability (GV) and early retinal neurodegeneration in subjects with......

The red eye is caused by dilated blood vessels in the eye and is one of the most common eye problems. The conjunctivitis is among the main causes of red eye and is also one of the most common eye diseases that leads to frequent medical consultations, around 70%, by the patient.

Conjunctivitis is characterised by inflammation of the superficial conjunctival blood vessels that cover the ocular surface, as well as cellular infiltration and exudation. The aetiology of conjunctivitis may be infectious or non-infectious; virus......

A team of Italian researchers developed and validated a fully organic retinal prosthesis, which was implanted in an in vivo mouse model. Electrophysiological and behavioural analyses have......

Under physiological conditions, the eyeball is protected and covered by a community of non-pathogenic microorganisms, the ocular microbiome. However, in the event of penetrating, accidental, surgical or injection-associated trauma, the injury that is generated can facilitate the migration of these micro-organisms within the eye itself, with the following infectious outcome. Suffice it to say that up to 82% of the post-cataract endophthalmitis are caused by the same microbial communities that populate the eye, an estimate that underlines the need for know and monitor the distribution of these ocular micro-organisms and their possible antibiotic resistance.

Eye infections can vary in nature, complexity and severity. Bacterial conjunctivitis is probably the most common infection, while the most serious, but less common, is endophthalmitis, which, in the......

Diabetic retinopathy, proliferative retinopathy and exudative retinal detachment

Physiological changes occurring during the gestational period, such as increased blood pressure and serum cortisol levels, blood hyper-coagulability and transient conditions of insulin resistance, could......

Confirmation of how to counteract the onset and progression of diabetic retinopathy.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA), a society of more than 14,000 healthcare professionals that has been providing 'standards of care' for the management of diabetes for more than 25 years, has published......