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Vinay Aakalu

Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan
Verified email at med.umich.edu
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Engineering polymersomes for diagnostics and therapy

J Leong, JY Teo, VK Aakalu, YY Yang… - Advanced healthcare …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Engineered polymer vesicles, termed as polymersomes, confer a flexibility to control their
structure, properties, and functionality. Self‐assembly of amphiphilic copolymers leads to …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling of mGluR/Homer and PSD-95 complexes by the Shank family of postsynaptic density proteins

…, RS Petralia, P Brakeman, A Doan, VK Aakalu… - Neuron, 1999 - cell.com
Shank is a recently described family of postsynaptic proteins that function as part of the NMDA
receptor–associated PSD-95 complex (Naisbitt et al., 1999 [this issue of Neuron]). Here, …

Orbital implants in enucleation surgery: a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology

EJ Wladis, VK Aakalu, RK Sobel, MT Yen, JR Bilyk… - Ophthalmology, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To compare the motility and complication rates of porous and nonporous implants
after enucleation surgery. Methods Literature searches of the PubMed and Cochrane Library …

Corneal neurotization for neurotrophic keratopathy: review of surgical techniques and outcomes

…, SE Fung, MS Cortina, IM Leyngold, VK Aakalu - The ocular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Neurotrophic keratopathy is a degenerative disease in which damage to the corneal nerves
leads to corneal hypoesthesia. Injuries to neurotrophic corneas are notoriously difficult to …

Indeterminate orbital masses: restricted diffusion at MR imaging with echo-planar diffusion-weighted imaging predicts malignancy

AR Sepahdari, VK Aakalu, P Setabutr, M Shiehmorteza… - Radiology, 2010 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To determine whether magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with diffusion-weighted (DW)
imaging can help discriminate between radiologically indeterminate benign and …

Diffusion-weighted imaging of orbital masses: multi-institutional data support a 2-ADC threshold model to categorize lesions as benign, malignant, or indeterminate

AR Sepahdari, LS Politi, VK Aakalu… - American Journal …, 2014 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: DWI has been increasingly used to characterize orbital
masses and provides quantitative information in the form of the ADC, but studies of DWI of …

MRI of orbital cellulitis and orbital abscess: the role of diffusion-weighted imaging

AR Sepahdari, VK Aakalu, R Kapur… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. Our aims were to describe the role of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in
detecting abscess as a complication of orbital cellulitis and to assess whether abscess can be …

Relative incidence of blepharoptosis subtypes in an oculoplastics practice at a tertiary care center

JM Lim, JH Hou, RM Singa, VK Aakalu, P Setabutr - Orbit, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: In patients referred with blepharoptosis, the possibility of an underlying systemic
cause for their ptosis can warrant a more detailed evaluation. The purpose of this study is to …

Binocular treatment of amblyopia: a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology

SL Pineles, VK Aakalu, AK Hutchinson, JA Galvin… - Ophthalmology, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose To review the published literature assessing the efficacy of binocular therapy for
the treatment of amblyopia compared with standard treatments. Methods Literature searches …

A comparison of endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy and external dacryocystorhinostomy: a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology

RK Sobel, VK Aakalu, EJ Wladis, JR Bilyk, MT Yen… - Ophthalmology, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose To assess the efficacy of endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) compared with
external DCR. Methods A literature search was conducted in the PubMed database in March …