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  Real-world data from numerous studies show a real difficulty for patients with diabetes in keeping plasma glucose under tight control. Consequently, despite......

An all-Italian study, published in September in the well-known journalPLoS ONE, and conducted by the team of Dr. Giuseppe Maulucci, researcher at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Department of......

Antibiotic resistance in the spotlight at SICSSO Congress 2017.

The talk entitled 'Antibiotic therapy in the era of multiresistance', given at the XVI SICSSO Congress by Stefania Stefani, Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and......

Those suffering from EMD know that among the most common symptoms and discomforts are distorted vision and impaired perception of colour vision, which......

In the experience of Dr Andrea Bedei, expert in refractive cataract surgery and head of the Ophthalmology O.U. at the Casa di Cura S. Camillo in Forte dei Marmi.

Dr Andrea Bedei, together with Drs Laura Castellini and Alessia Pietrelli, analysed the implant experience with SIFI's Mini WELL. This intraocular lens exploits multifocality related to the induction of an aberration......

The onset of diabetes mellitus (DM) results in multiple damage to the ocular surface, and there have been many studies published in the last 10 years dealing with the correlation. On the relationship between diabetes......

New frontiers for screening and follow-up therapy

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the most common microvascular complication of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and is the leading cause of non-traumatic blindness in adults of working age......

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......