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Quality of life in keratoconusSteven M Kymes
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110 1093, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 138:527-35. 2004..We examined the vision-related quality of life of patients in the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study...
The increased cost of medical services for people diagnosed with primary open-angle glaucoma: a decision analytic approachSteven M Kymes
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110 1093, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 150:74-81. 2010..We examine incremental cost of primary open-angle glaucoma considering both visual and nonvisual medical costs over a lifetime of glaucoma...
Assessing diagnostic accuracy and the clinical value of positron emission tomography imaging in patients with solitary pulmonary nodules (SNAP)Steven M Kymes
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, St Louis, MO, USA
Clin Trials 3:31-42. 2006..Clinical studies evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests and assessing their influence on decision making are essential to setting health policy and directing patient care...
Management of ocular hypertension: a cost-effectiveness approach from the Ocular Hypertension Treatment StudySteven M Kymes
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 141:997-1008. 2006..There is no consensus on which people with ocular hypertension would benefit from treatment...
Effect of patient's life expectancy on the cost-effectiveness of treatment for ocular hypertensionSteven M Kymes
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8096, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110 1093, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 128:613-8. 2010..To assess the influence of expected life span on the cost-effectiveness of treating ocular hypertension to prevent primary open-angle glaucoma...
The cost-effectiveness of treatment of age-related macular degeneration: a reviewM Kymes Steven
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110 1093, USA
Minerva Med 100:69-78. 2009..It also aimed to review reports of the cost-effectiveness of treatment of the disease, examining nutritional supplements, photodynamic therapy, and anti-VEGF treatments...
An introduction to decision analysis in the economic evaluation of the prevention and treatment of vision-related diseasesSteven M Kymes
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110 1093, USA
Ophthalmic Epidemiol 15:76-83. 2008..Examples employed include prominent studies of the cost-effectiveness of photodynamic therapy for treatment of neovascular macular degeneration and the treatment ocular hypertension to prevent glaucoma...
Preference-based quality of life measures in people with visual impairmentSteven M Kymes
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110 1093, USA
Optom Vis Sci 84:809-16. 2007..Finally, we present the results of previous cross-cultural and trans-national studies of vision-related quality of life to demonstrate how utility studies might provide insight into the meaning of disease across cultures...
Changes in the quality-of-life of people with keratoconusSteven M Kymes
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 145:611-617. 2008..For this study, we evaluated changes that occurred in V-QoL over seven years of follow-up...
Association of complement factor H and LOC387715 genotypes with response of exudative age-related macular degeneration to intravitreal bevacizumabMilam A Brantley
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Ophthalmology 114:2168-73. 2007..To investigate whether there is an association between complement factor H (CFH) or LOC387715 genotypes with response to treatment with intravitreal bevacizumab for exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
Cost-effectiveness of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a preliminary comparison of single-bundle and double-bundle techniquesE Scott Paxton
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Am J Sports Med 38:2417-25. 2010..There has been growing interest in anatomical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), including the use of double-bundle (DB) reconstruction techniques...
Clinical phenotypes associated with the complement factor H Y402H variant in age-related macular degenerationMilam A Brantley
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 144:404-408. 2007..To determine whether the complement factor H (CFH) Y402H variant is associated with specific age-related macular degeneration (AMD) clinical phenotypes...
Combined photodynamic therapy and intravitreal triamcinolone for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: effect of initial visual acuity on treatment responseRamin Schadlu
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, Barnes Retina Institute, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 245:1667-72. 2007..To evaluate visual outcomes in combination therapy with photodynamic therapy (PDT) and intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) from age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
The impact of anchor point on utilities for 5 common ophthalmic diseasesBryan S Lee
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Ophthalmology 115:898-903.e4. 2008..To elicit utilities on a perfect health and perfect vision scale for 5 common eye diseases...
Retrospective analysis of etiopathogenesis of all cases of endophthalmitis at a large tertiary referral centerHumeyra Karacal
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Box 8096, St Louis, MO 63105, USA
Int Ophthalmol 27:251-9. 2007..To report a large, consecutive series of endophthalmitis of all causes managed at a tertiary referral retina center...
Incorporating the results of the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study into clinical practiceMichael A Kass
Arch Ophthalmol 123:1021-2. 2005
A comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET and CT in the characterization of solitary pulmonary nodulesJames W Fletcher
Department of Radiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, University Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 5253, USA
J Nucl Med 49:179-85. 2008..Our objective was to compare CT and PET accuracy in veterans with SPN...
