Paul Baird

Should Donors Consent to Export Their Corneas? Examination of Eye Tissue and Eye Care Sector Opinion.

Heather Machin, Gerard Sutton, Paul N Baird

Journal article  |  2021  |  Cornea

PURPOSE: Corneal tissue international activity is only possible because of the willingness of export populations to donate their c..

Myopia

Paul N Baird, Seang-Mei Saw, Carla Lanca, Jeremy A Guggenheim, Earl L Smith III, Xiangtian Zhou, Kyoko-Ohno Matsui, Pei-Chang Wu, Padmaja Sankaridurg, Audrey Chia, Mohamad Rosman, Ecosse L Lamoureux, Ryan Man, Mingguang He

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Myopia, also known as short-sightedness or near-sightedness, is a very common condition that typically starts in childhood. Severe..

Supply and Demand of Domestic Corneal Tissue and Its Implications on Export Potential-Using Australia as an Example.

Heather Machin, Lisa Buckland, Pierre Georges, Mona Ghabcha, Tamme Golding-Holbrook, Candice Leighton, Adrienne Mackey, Luke Weinel, Victoria Whiting, Gerard Sutton, Paul N Baird

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cornea

PURPOSE: Corneal tissue importation is only possible if another country is able to export corneas without impacting its own domest..

Risk factors and association with severity of keratoconus: the Australian study of Keratoconus.

Srujana Sahebjada, Elsie Chan, Jing Xie, Grant R Snibson, Mark Daniell, Paul N Baird

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Ophthalmology

SIGNIFICANCE: Our results show that asthmatic patients tend to have more severe KC and thus close monitoring for disease progressi..

Should Nations With Surplus Donated Corneal Tissue Export to Those Without? A Review of Sector Opinion Through the Example of One Nation-Australia

Heather Machin, Gerard Sutton, Paul N Baird

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cornea

PURPOSE: There is a global demand for corneal tissue (CT) for transplantation, with some nations potentially able to export donati..

Understanding the uncertainties in modelling the growth of geographic atrophy in age-related macular degeneration

Janan Arslan, Kurt K Benke, Robyn H Guymer, Paul N Baird

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE

Examining the Impact of Corneal Tissue Transnational Activity, and Transplantation, on Import and Export Nations: A Review of the Literature

Heather Machin, Janan Arslan, Paul N Baird

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cornea

PURPOSE: Globally, an estimated 12.7 million people await a corneal transplant. Of these, 53% are without routine access to a dome..

Evaluating the Performance of Various Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Subclinical Keratoconus

Ke Cao, Karin Verspoor, Srujana Sahebjada, Paul N Baird

Journal article  |  2020  |  Translational Vision Science and Technology

Purpose: Keratoconus (KC) represents one of the leading causes of corneal transplantation worldwide. Detecting subclinical KC woul..

Ocular Tissue for Research in Australia: Strategies for Potential Research Utility of Surplus and Transplant-Ineligible Deceased Donations

Heather Machin, Karl Brown, Gerard Sutton, Paul Baird

Journal article  |  2020  |  Translational Vision Science and Technology

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of corneal curvature identifies novel loci and shared genetic influences across axial length and refractive error

Qiao Fan, Alfred Pozarickij, Nicholas YQ Tan, Xiaobo Guo, Virginie JM Verhoeven, Veronique Vitart, Jeremy A Guggenheim, Masahiro Miyake, J Willem L Tideman, Anthony P Khawaja, Liang Zhang, Stuart MacGregor, Rene Hoehn, Peng Chen, Ginevra Biino, Juho Wedenoja, Seyed Ehsan Saffari, Milly S Tedja, Jing Xie, Carla Lanca, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Communications Biology

Corneal curvature, a highly heritable trait, is a key clinical endophenotype for myopia - a major cause of visual impairment and b..