Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in Trinidad and Tobago. Early detection and management can help improve morbidity and mortality. Retinal artery microvascular disease has been shown to directly correlate with coronary artery disease. Retinal artery calibre screening via the Optic Coherence Tomography (OCT) will provide a non-invasive method of diagnosing CAD.

To collect data for a new image-guided diagnostic algoritm, enabling the investigators to differentiate more precisely between benign and malignant pigmented tumours at the bedside. This study will include 60 patients with four different pigmented tumours: seborrheic keratosis (n=15), dermal nevi (n=15), pigmented basal cell carcinomas (n=15), and malignant melanomas (n=15), these four types of tumours are depicted in Fig.1, and all lesions will be scanned by four imaging technologies, recruiting patients from Sept 2019 to May 2020. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy (CM) will be used to diagnose pigmented tumours at a cellular level ...

Heart transplantation is a golden standard for the treatment of terminal heart failure. The major cause of death in late posttransplant period is cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). This posttransplant complication develops slowly over several years, and when diagnosed either by conventional coronary angiography or due to graft failure, it is often too advanced and difficult to treat since it is diffuse coronary artery disease. Therefore, early prevention of CAV is a subject of major interest in the transplant cardiology. Since CAV is associated with immune factors, immunomodulatory therapeutic options, like extracorporeal photopheresis are lately being investigated. Unlike conventional coronary angiography ...

Case-control studies and meta-analysis have reported that several fundus features, especially the thickness of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer, are related to the brain degeneration and cognitive impairment. In our study, we aim to quantitatively assess retina features using OCT and define its associations with brain development and intelligence in children.

In this retrospective observational study, we collected intraocular structure parameters of malignant glaucoma and primary angle closure glaucoma. Anterior chamber depth (ACD) and width (ACW), lens vault (LV), ciliary process-ciliary process distance(CCD), trabecular-ciliary processes distance (TCPD), ciliary body max thickness (CBMT), peripheral iris thickness (PIT), trabecular ciliary process angle (TCPA), and anterior vault (AV), were measured by ultrasound biomicroscopy. Other parameters measured by A-scan ultrasonography and optical coherence tomography . To analyze the high risk factors and the possible pathogenesis of the disease and discuss the long-term effect of different treatment methods.

Based on the large population of patients, in-stent restenosis (ISR) is still an important problem in the field of cardiovascular disease. How to reduce the incidence of ISR and the treatment of ISR has become the focus and hot spot. The 2018 ESC Guidelines for Cardiovascular Intervention recommends treatment of ISR under the guidance of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), or optical coherent tomography (OCT). Circulation published a new Waksman ISR classification based on mechanisms and components of the restenosis tissue, which provides guidance for treatment strategy. Because of its good resolution, OCT makes it more accurate to distinguish the components of ...

Ocular toxoplasmosis is the most common cause of infectious uveitis worldwide. The diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis is primarily clinical when it is a typical presentation .With an atypical presentation in the fundus, parasitological diagnosis is a decisive contribution, as well as multimodal imaging. We investigate on vitreal, retinal, and choroidal morphologic changes in active and scarred toxoplasmosis lesions using swept source optical coherence tomography .

The aim of this study is to quantify and compare the foveal avascular zone (FAZ), the parafoveal and foveal vessel density of superficial (SCP) and deep capillary plexus (DCP) and retinal thickness in deprivation amblyopic eyes, fellow non-amblyopic eyes, and age-matched normal eyes, using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The FAZ, parafoveal and foveal SCP and DCP, and retinal thickness were measured in normal controls and at least 3 months postoperatively in children with unilateral cataract and compared between groups after adjusting for axial length and spherical equivalents.

Diabetes mellitus is a major and growing problem worldwide with many known micro and macrovascular complications. According to International Diabetes Federation, there were 285 million adults diagnosed with diabetes in 2010 and expected to increase to 439 million adult in 2030. It is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) followed by hypertension, glomerulonephritis, and cystic kidney disease. Renal impairment patients metabolize and excrete drugs differently from patients with normal renal function and hence only limited number of oral hypoglycemic agent (OHA) available for them. One of the choices is sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitor (SGLT2i) which is now widely ...

The bioengineered COMBO stent (Orbus Neich, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States) has a dual-therapy strategy, which combines a sirolimus-eluting coating with an anti-CD34 antibody layer to promote vessel healing. Sirolimus release (5 μg/mm) is completed in 30 days, and the biodegradable polymer disappears within 90 days. CD34 antibodies are immobilized on the surface of the stent and capture circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). The captured EPCs are triggered by sheer stress from the circulating blood and other cell signals to differentiate and mature into endothelial cells. COMBO Plus is the only stent with a biological coating that actively repairs ...

Patients undergo collection of tears, saliva, buccal mucosa, and fecal samples before stem cell transplant, at 2-3, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 months after stem cell transplant, and at cGVHD onset. Patients also undergo collection of blood samples before stem cell transplant, at 1-2, 2-3, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 months after stem cell transplant, and at cGVHD onset. Patients may undergo skin and mouth biopsy over 15-30 minutes before stem cell transplant, at 2-3 and 12 months after stem cell transplant, and at cGVHD onset. Patients undergo digital pictures of the eyes, mouth and skin, and optical ...

The purpose of this study is to prospectively evaluate the value of Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) for the of detection of suspected retinal complications With Sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) in Patients With Hepatitis C Virus Infection. 

The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the pre-operative integrity or not of the inner segment (IS) and outer segment (OS) photoreceptoral junction may influence the post-operative visual acuity, the macular morphology (assessed by Spectral Domain- Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT)) and function (evaluated by Multifocal Electroretinogram -mfERG) in patients with idiopathic epimacular membrane (EMM) followed-up for 6-month. In this observational prospective study, EMM patients are enrolled. They are divided into 2 groups in relationship to the pre-operative integrity of the SD-OCT IS/OS junction: the group with an intact IS/OS junction (EMM-I Group) and the group with ...

In most Asian medical centers, rapid on-site cytology evaluation is not available, the number of needle passes of EUS-FNA is decided by endoscopists. Full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) is a new optical imaging technique that could generate sectioning tomogram from fresh tissue and provide close-to-pathology depiction of the morphological structure and pathological changes in minutes without conventional tissue preparation, slicing, and staining, and dynamic cell imaging (DCI) added the viability information of cells/tissue, which could be more important in sample rapid evaluation.

Cross-sectional study design, including 60 patients and 30 healthy controls. Subjects were investigated clinically, underwent retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) and comprehensive cognitive assessments. The correlation between these modalities was evaluated by Spearman correlation.

The coronary images of invasive angiography and optical coherence tomography (or Coronary CT angiography) with FFR(Fractional Flow Reserve) values of the intermediate lesions (50-70% stenosis) will be prospectively registered

This study is a prospective, multi-center, non-inferior, randomized controlled clinical trial, aims to use optical Coherence tomography to observe the the early- and mid-stage vessel repair and neointimal proliferation. And to assess the safety and effectiveness of the Firehawk™ sirolimus target-eluting coronary stent system with abluminal grooves containing a biodegradable polymer (Firehawk™) comparing the XIENCE everolimus-eluting coronary stent system in the treatment of subjects with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

The aim of this study is to investigate the macular microvascular network alterations in high myopic eyes using optical coherence tomography angiography.

Knowledge of the pathogenesis of ocular conditions, a leading cause of blindness, has benefited greatly from recent advances in ophthalmic imaging. However, current clinical imaging systems are limited in resolution, speed, or access to certain structures of the eye. The use of a high-resolution imaging system improves the resolution of ophthalmoscopes by several orders of magnitude, allowing the visualization of many microstructures of the eye: photoreceptors, vessels, nerve bundles in the retina, cells and nerves in the cornea. The use of a high-speed acquisition imaging system makes it possible to detect functional measurements such as the speed of blood flow ...

Evidence regarding the role of early (<24 hours) antithrombotics post-revascularization with either intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), endovascular thrombectomy (EVT), or a combination of both remains scarce. In 2018 the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association changed their recommendation, stating that the risk of antithrombotic therapy within the first 24 hours after treatment with IVT (with or without EVT) is uncertain. This was changed after data emerged that early antithrombotics may be safe and may improve outcomes in select patients undergoing EVT. Recently our group showed for the first time that significant residual basilar thrombus can exist after EVT despite complete angiographic ...

The Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU) of Strasbourg is a translational research Institute aiming to develop hybrid surgery techniques. The IHU-SPECTRA research unit, entirely dedicated to the development of fluorescence-guided surgery, was set up to test several innovations as part of a large-scale project (ELIOS: Endoscopic Luminescent Imaging for Precision Oncology Surgery), funded by the ARC Foundation for Cancer Research. The proposed research protocol is part of the ELIOS project and targets in particular colon tumours. The Holy Grail in oncology surgery is the radical removal of cancer cells in order to reduce the rate of tumour recurrences and increase ...

There have been multiple trials to investigate the morphological changes in the macula and retinal nerve fiber layer of amblyopic eyes, due to the different published results and the lack of evident association between these changes and the patients' parameters. So, we perform this study to compare the variations in macular parameters (central thickness, average thickness, macular volume) and peripapillary thickness in different cases of amblyopic eyes versus the normal fellow eyes using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography . In addition, to estimate the relationship of optical coherence tomography variations with different defined patients' parameters (age, sex, best corrected visual acuity, spherical ...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of brolucizumab in treatment of patients with visual impairment due to diabetic macular edema (DME).

This study is a 48 week, single center, randomized controlled clinical trial. Approximately 150 subjects will be randomized into three separate arms. This study compares the efficacy of standard of care Lucentis (ranibizumab) monotherapy versus OCTA-Directed PDT Triple Therapy with Lucentis (ranibizumab), PDT with Visudyne (verteporfin), and Triescence (triamcinolone acetonide) in treatment-naïve patients with Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration. OCTA-Directed PDT Double Therapy with Lucentis (ranibizumab) and PDT with Visudyne (verteporfin) will also be tested to confirm the hypothesis that steroids are necessary.