PURPOSE To show the clinical use of the NIDEK OPD-Scan wavefront aberrometer and OPD-Station software in anterior segment surgery and pathology. METHODS Case examples are presented along with discussion about the relevant clinical data obtained from the OPD-Scan and OPD-Station software. RESULTS Six case examples including cataract surgery, secondary IOL implantation, phakic intraocular len...

Thirty male adult Wistar rats (300-/+10 g body weight) underwent either 5/6 nephrectomy (Nx, n=20) or sham operation (SHAM, n=10) to determine olpadronate effects in an experimental model of uremic bone disease. For a 38-day period, 10 rats received olpadronate (16microg/100g bw) once a week (Nx+OPD) and the other vehicle (Nx). SHAM received vehicle. At baseline, treatment onset (t=7 days) and ...

PURPOSE To compare refractive assessment results obtained with an aberrometer, an autorefractor, and manual subjective refraction (SR) in a healthy population with optimal visual potential. METHODS Sixty adults aged 18-59 years with visual acuity of 20/25 or better, no media opacity, and no known corneal or retinal abnormalities were recruited during the course of routine eye examination. Ref...

PURPOSE To discuss the use of wavefront measurements generated from the NIDEK OPD-Scan II and OPD-Station for cataract surgery. METHODS Case examples are presented along with information and relevant clinical data obtained from the OPD-Scan II aberrometer and OPD-Station software. All eyes underwent corneal topography, wavefront aberrometry, autorefraction, keratometry, and pupillometry measu...

Large stellar telescope is indispensable for astronomy. Aperture synthesis is a well-known technique to simulate a large space telescope by an array of small telescopes. Condition for aperture synthesis is that the light of the telescopes have to be combined coherently. Therefore, an interferometric Fringe Sensor (FS) to detect and stabilize the Optical Path Difference (OPD) between light from ...

Otopalatodigital syndrome type I (OPD-I) (MIM 31130) is a rare X linked disorder characterised by a peculiar face with supraorbital ridges, flat nasal bridge, hypertelorism, micrognathia, and cleft palate (pugilistic face) and by hand and foot deformities with spatulate distal digits and short first digits arising from the second digits (tree frog hands and feet), together with conductive deafn...

BACKGROUND We aimed to determine whether (1) patients with obstructive pulmonary disease (OPD) have an increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) due to ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation (VT/VF), and (2) the SCA risk is mediated by cardiovascular risk-profile and/or respiratory drug use. METHODS A community-based case-control study was performed, with 1310 cases of SCA of the ARREST ...

We examined whether systemic cytokine signaling via interleukin (IL)-17 and growth-related oncogene-α (GRO-α) is impaired in smokers with obstructive pulmonary disease including chronic bronchitis (OPD-CB). We also examined how this systemic cytokine signaling relates to bacterial colonization in the airways of the smokers with OPD-CB. Currently smoking OPD-CB patients (n=60, corresponding to G...

PURPOSE Patterns of syncope evaluation vary widely among physicians and hospitals. The aim of this study was to assess current diagnostic patterns and medical costs in the evaluation of patients presenting with syncope at the emergency department (ED) or the outpatient department (OPD) of a referral hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 171 consecutive patients with syncope, who...

OBJECTIVES To compare the results obtained using a portable home-based uroflowmeter with the results of traditional flowmetry performed in the out-patient department (OPD). PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty-seven patients (mean age 61 years, range 38-79) with lower urinary tract symptoms and/or benign prostatic enlargement used a home-based uroflowmeter comprising a datalogger and specially designed...