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A Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of MSCohi-O Lens in the Treatment of Immune-related Ocular Surface Diseases.

Immune-related ocular surface diseases are a kind of non-infectious eye disease pedigree, which is mediated by abnormal immune system function and characterized by ocular surface tissue damage. It mainly covers immune keratitis, immune disease-related dry eye, allergic keratoconjunctivitis, Thygeson superficial punctate keratitis, mucosal pemphigoid-related ocular surface damage and other clinical types, and its incidence is closely related to autoimmune disorder, abnormal immune response after infection, genetic susceptibility and environmental triggering factors. At present, there are still obvious therapeutic limitations in clinical routine treatment for immune-related ocular surface diseases. The first-line treatment plan mainly focuses on local glucocorticoid and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to inhibit inflammatory reaction. Although it can quickly control corneal edema and infiltration in acute stage, there are serious adverse reactions such as elevated intraocular pressure, cataract and corneal thinning and perforation after long-term use, which cannot meet the needs of long-term maintenance treatment. Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (UCMSC) have unique immunomodulatory characteristics in inflammatory environment. Its mechanism of action is mainly to inhibit the over-activation of immune cells and reduce the content of pro-inflammatory factors by secreting soluble cytokines and regulating the release of various anti-inflammatory factors. However, under the traditional medication mode, UCMSC can not stay on the ocular surface. Our company has developed a medicine, namely MSCohi-O lens, which uses soft hydrophilic contact lens to load UCMSC, so as to realize long-term local administration on the ocular surface, make UCMSC play an immunomodulatory role locally, inhibit the over-activation of immune/inflammatory reaction, and finally treat or alleviate the symptoms of immune-related ocular surface diseases. This clinical study is expected to explore the clinical effect of MSCohi-O lens in the treatment of immune-related ocular surface diseases, and initially determine the clinical application of MSCohi-O lens in the treatment of immune-related ocular surface diseases, so as to provide new clinical schemes and treatment ideas for the treatment of immune-related ocular surface diseases.

Evaluation of Next-Generation Sequencing-based Metabarcoding Versus Culturing for Microbiological Assessment in Infectious Keratitis

Infectious keratitis is a potential sight threatening condition. In conventional clinical practice culturing is performed in order to identify the causative microbial organism; however in recent years Next Generation Sequencing for the presence of ribosomal DNA from bacteria, fungi, or amoeba has become available. The present study aims to compare conventional culturing with Next Generation Sequencing for identifying microorganism causing keratitis.

Pattern of Microbial Keratitis in Assiut University Hospital

The aim of the study is to explore the epidemiology, including risk factors, causative microorganisms, complications and clinical outcomes of microbial keratitis among patients attending cornea clinic at Assiut University Hospital.

Complex Ocular Infection, Optimization of Microbiological Diagnosis

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of different technique to optimize the microbiological diagnosis of the COI. * Metagenomic for the endophtalmitis * Multiplex polymerase chain reaction for corneal abscesses