BACKGROUND This study evaluated the effect of intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (IVB) on macular edema associated with diabetic retinopathy (DME) or branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVOME) using laser speckle flowgraphy. METHODS A comparative interventional study of 25 eyes from 22 patients with macular edema (DME group: 12 eyes; BRVOME group: 13 eyes) who underwent IVB. Mean blur rate (MB...

Treatment of Ca or Sr metal with Hg(C(6)F(5))(2) and 2,4,6-trimethylphenol (HOmes) in 1,2-dimethoxyethane (dme) at room temperature resulted in C-F bond activation, giving rise to the unique fluoro(aryloxo)alkaline earth cages [Ca(5)(mu(4)-F)(mu(3)-F)(4)(mu-Omes)(4)(Omes)(dme)(4)] 1 and [Sr(10)(mu(4)-F)(4)(mu(3)-F)(4)(mu-Omes)(12)(dme)(4)] 2, which can be viewed as arrested fluorite structures.

D iabetic macular edema (DME) is a treatable sequela of diabetic retinopathy and a significant cause of visual morbidity among working age individuals worldwide. While anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agents are first-line agents in the management of DME, corticosteroids and laser therapy can play a role as well. Despite a growing understanding of best clinical practices, man...

BACKGROUND Anti vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy is an established treatment for various retinal diseases. Long-term data on injection frequencies and visual acuity (VA), however, are still rare. METHODS Five-year analysis of real-life VA developments and injection patterns from 2072 patients (2577 eyes; 33 187 injections) with chronically active disease undergoing pro-re-nat...

Rare earth metals activated with ca. 2% iodine react directly with 2,6-diisopropylphenol (HOdip) in tetrahydrofuran (thf), 1,2-dimethoxyethane (dme), and dig-dme (dig = di(2-methoxyethyl) ether) to give solvated phenolate complexes [Ln(Odip)(3)(thf)(n)] (Ln = La, Nd, n = 3; Ln = Sm, Dy, Y, Yb, n = 2), [Eu(Odip)(μ-Odip)(thf)(2)](2), [Ln(Odip)(3)(dme)(2)] (Ln = La, Yb) and [La(Odip)(3)(dig)] in g...

Purpose Real-life clinical outcomes of patients treated with anti-VEGF drugs for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), diabetic macular edema (DME), or macular edema secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) are often inferior to results from randomized clinical trials. This observational cohort study investigates treatment adherence and real-life clinical outcomes within...

Tungsten NArR alkylidene complexes have been prepared that contain the electron-withdrawing ArR groups 2,4,6-X3C6H2 (ArX3, X = Cl, Br), 2,6-Cl2-4-CF3C6H2 (ArCl2CF3), and 3,5-(CF3)2C6H3 (Ar(CF3)2). Reported complexes include W(NArR)2Cl2(dme) (dme = 1,2-dimethoxyethane), W(NArR)2(CH2CMe3)2, W(NArR)(CHCMe3)(OTf)2(dme), and W(NArR)(CHCMe3)(ODBMP)2 (DBMP = 4-Me-2,6-(CHPh2)C6H2). The W(NArR)(CHCMe3)(...

We analyse the formation of He I lines in late-type dwarfs by statistical equilibrium (or NLTE radiative transfer) computations. Atmospheric models for dK (Eri) and dMe V1005Ori (=Gl 182) stars are considered. The validity of the weakly non-uniform approximation for dMe stars established in Lanzafame (1994a) for the lower transition region of dMe stars implies that streaming particles have virt...

BACKGROUND How patients are informed regarding their choices of durable medical equipment (DME) providers for home-going respiratory equipment may affect their decisions about which vendor to use. When a new enhanced information program to inform home-going patients about all available respiratory DME providers was implemented, we hypothesized that patients' utilization of providers would chang...

INTRODUCTION Laser photocoagulation has been the standard treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) for several decades. The discovery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and the subsequent determination of its critical role in the development DME and PDR has led to the development of VEGF inhibitory drugs. Ranibizumab was the first anti-VE...