2022
Trends in Sports-Related Ocular Trauma in United States Emergency Departments from 2010 to 2019: Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study
Patel V, Pakravan P, Mehra D, Watane A, Yannuzzi N, Sridhar J. Trends in Sports-Related Ocular Trauma in United States Emergency Departments from 2010 to 2019: Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study. Seminars In Ophthalmology 2022, 38: 333-337. PMID: 35920677, DOI: 10.1080/08820538.2022.2107400.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSports-related ocular injuriesAnterior segment injuriesPosterior segment injuriesSports-related traumaOcular injuriesSegment injuriesOcular traumaEmergency departmentEye injuriesType of sportInjury severityUnited States hospital emergency departmentsNational Electronic Injury Surveillance SystemUnited States emergency departmentsElectronic Injury Surveillance SystemInjury Program (NEISS-AIP) databaseStates emergency departmentsTraumatic eye injuryInjury Surveillance SystemMulti-Center CrossCross-sectional studyHospital emergency departmentGreater frequencyYoung male adolescentsMean ageUtilization of Crowdfunding for Cataract and LASIK Procedures
Patil SA, Luu A, Vail DG, Watane A, Levine R, Hafler B, Parikh R. Utilization of Crowdfunding for Cataract and LASIK Procedures. Seminars In Ophthalmology 2022, 37: 657-660. PMID: 35353643, DOI: 10.1080/08820538.2022.2054664.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2021
TRENDS IN INTRAVITREAL CORTICOSTEROID AGENT USE BY US OPHTHALMOLOGISTS IN MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES AND ASSOCIATION WITH PHYSICIAN–INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS
Watane A, Kalavar M, Yannuzzi NA, Kuriyan AE, Sridhar J. TRENDS IN INTRAVITREAL CORTICOSTEROID AGENT USE BY US OPHTHALMOLOGISTS IN MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES AND ASSOCIATION WITH PHYSICIAN–INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS. Retina 2021, 41: 1754-1761. PMID: 33315816, PMCID: PMC8190160, DOI: 10.1097/iae.0000000000003081.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSurgeon demographic and surgical volume trends in adult strabismus surgery in the United States
Kalavar M, Watane A, Sridhar J, Cavuoto K. Surgeon demographic and surgical volume trends in adult strabismus surgery in the United States. Journal Of American Association For Pediatric Ophthalmology And Strabismus 2021, 25: 78.e1-78.e5. PMID: 33711430, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.10.012.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Scleral-Sutured Intraocular Lens Dislocations Secondary to Eyelet Fractures
Watane A, Botsford BW, Sood AB, Williams AM, Xu D, Gupta RR, Conner IP, Sivalingam A, Gupta OP, Ward MS, Mehta S, Cid M, Crossan A, Sierpina DI, Hwang FS, Rachitskaya A, Ehmann DS, Kovacs KD, Orlin A, Zhang AY, Patel U, Dubovy S, Klufas MA, Patel NA, Sridhar J, Yannuzzi NA. Scleral-Sutured Intraocular Lens Dislocations Secondary to Eyelet Fractures. American Journal Of Ophthalmology 2020, 221: 273-278. PMID: 32777376, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2020.07.049.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overArtificial Lens Implant MigrationFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansIntraoperative ComplicationsLens Implantation, IntraocularMaleMiddle AgedPhacoemulsificationPostoperative ComplicationsProsthesis FailureRetrospective StudiesScleraSuture TechniquesTime FactorsVisual AcuityVitrectomyConceptsPostoperative fracturesIntraocular lensesClinical featuresIntraoperative fractureVisual acuityIntraocular lens dislocationLogMAR visual acuityObservational case seriesIOL displacementLens dislocationVisual outcomeLens subluxationCase seriesMedian timeFracture groupLens replacementLens optionsSurgical techniquePatientsClinical settingSuture of choiceMean timeGore-TexComplicationsScleralGut microbial dysbiosis in individuals with Sjögren’s syndrome
Mendez R, Watane A, Farhangi M, Cavuoto KM, Leith T, Budree S, Galor A, Banerjee S. Gut microbial dysbiosis in individuals with Sjögren’s syndrome. Microbial Cell Factories 2020, 19: 90. PMID: 32293464, PMCID: PMC7158097, DOI: 10.1186/s12934-020-01348-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealthy controlsDE symptomsFull criteriaGut microbiomeGut microbial dysbiosisDepletion of FirmicutesExpansion of ProteobacteriaDry eyeSjögren's syndromeMicrobial dysbiosisMicrobiome alterationsDE measuresConclusionsIn conclusionMicrobial compositionEye measuresSyndromeSymptomsSjögrenDifferential clusteringAssociationSignsIndividualsPrinciple co-ordinate analysisPhylum levelMicrobiome
2016
Automatic Segmentation and Quantification of White and Brown Adipose Tissues from PET/CT Scans
Hussein S, Bagci U, Green A, Watane A, Reiter D, Chen X, Papadakis G, Wood B, Cypess A, Osman M. Automatic Segmentation and Quantification of White and Brown Adipose Tissues from PET/CT Scans. IEEE Transactions On Medical Imaging 2016, 36: 734-744. PMID: 28114010, PMCID: PMC6421081, DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2016.2636188.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsConditional Random FieldsUnsupervised learning methodLabel fusion algorithmOne-shot learningAutomatic segmentationArt performanceAutomatic detectionBody region levelFusion algorithmLearning methodsAutomated SegmentationNovel frameworkInefficient solutionsDistance metricSecond moduleExperimental evaluationFirst moduleRandom fieldsSegmentationComplementary informationModuleAnalysis systemDetection unitAlgorithmLearning