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PubMed

• Factors Associated With Laboratory Test Negativity Following a Transition in Specimen Collection in Microbial Keratitis Cases.
  Keith D Miller, Avi Toiv, Callie Deng, Ming-Chen Lu, Leslie M Niziol
  Current Eye Research. 2024-04-01
• 1 citations
  Corneal Specialists' Confidence in Identifying Causal Organisms of Microbial Keratitis.
  Eric Sherman, Leslie M Niziol, Alan Sugar, Mercy Pawar, Keith D Miller
  Current Eye Research. 2024-03-01
• 6 citations
  A Randomized Trial of Topical Fibrinogen-Depleted Human Platelet Lysate Treatment of Dry Eye Secondary to Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease.
  Alan Sugar, Munira Hussain, Winston Chamberlain, Reza Dana, David Patrick Kelly
  Ophthalmology Science. 2022-09-01

Journal Articles

• Donor, Recipient, and Operative Factors Associated with Increased Endothelial Cell Loss in the Cornea Preservation Time Study  
  Mark D Mifflin, Alan Sugar, Jonathan H Lass, Mark A Greiner, David D Verdier, Thomas F Mauger, Yassine J Daoud, Michael B Raizman, Sanjay V Patel, Sadeer B Hannush, Ro..., JAMA
• Corneal surgical problem, April Consultation # 2 (Mooren Ulcer)  
  Wolle M, Estopinal C, Sugar A, J Cataract Refract Surg, 1/1/2016
• Cornea Preservation Time Study: Methods and potential impact on the cornea donor pool in the United States  
  Cornea Preservation Time Study Group (Sugar A), Cornea, 1/1/2015
• Corneal surgical problem, Consultation 2 (Ascher Corneal Rings)  
  Sand D, Amin S, Sugar A, J Cataract Refract Surg, 1/1/2015
• Crossed versus conventional pseudophakic monovision; patient satisfaction, spectacle independence and visual function  
  Zhang F, Sugar A, Arbisser L, Jacobsen G, Artico J, J Cataract Refract Surg, 1/1/2015
• The importance of corneal endothelial cell survival after endothelial keratoplasty Commentary on “Endothelial survival after Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty...  
  Sugar A, JAMA Ophthalmol, 1/1/2015
• Factors predictive of corneal graft survival in the Cornea Donor Study  
  Writing Committee for the Cornea Donor Study research Group: Sugar A, Gal RL, Kollman C, Raghinaru MS, Dontchev M, Croasdale CR, Feder RS, Holland EJ, Lass JH, Macy JI..., JAMA Ophthalmol, 1/1/2015
• The effect of donor diabetes on graft failure and endothelial cell density ten years after keratoplasty  
  Lass JH, Riddlesworth TD, Gal RL, Kollman C, Benetz BA, Price F, Sugar A, Terry M, Soper M, Beck RW for the Cornea Donor Study Research Group, Ophthalmology, 1/1/2015
• Corneal Graft Rejection Ten Years after Penetrating Keratoplasty in the Cornea Donor Study  
  Dunn SP, Gal RL, Kollman C, Raghinaru D, Dontchev M, Blanton CL, Holland EJ, Lass JH, Kenyon KR, Mannis MJ, Mian SI, Rapuano CJ, Stark WJ, Beck RW for the Cornea Donor..., Cornea, 1/1/2014
• Long-term use of autologous serum eye drops for the treatment of dry eye disease  
  Hussain M, Shtein RM, Sugar A, Soong HK, Woodward MA, DeLoss K, Mian SI, Cornea, 1/1/2014
• Do it right the first time: Advice for Cornea authors (Editorial)  
  Sugar A, Sugar J, Schwab I, Perry H, de Luise V, Soong HK, Weiss J, Cornea, 1/1/2014
• Nine loci for ocular axial length identified therough genome-wide association studies, including shared loci with refractive errors  
  Cheng C-Y, Schache M, Ikram IK…The Fuchs’ Genetics Multi-Center Study Group, et al (Sugar A), Am J Hum Genet, 1/1/2013
• Faster and Better (Editorial)  
  Sugar A, Cornea, 1/1/2013
• Corneal thickness as a predictor of corneal transplant outcome  
  Verdier DD, Sugar A, Baratz K, Beck RW, Dontchev M, Dunn S, Gal RL, Holland EJ, Kollman C, Lass JH, Mannis MJ, Penta J, for the Cornea Donor Study Investigator Group, Cornea, 1/1/2013
• Association of smoking and other risk factors with Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy  
  Zhang X, Igo RP, Fondran J, Mootha V, Oliva M, Hammersmith K, Sugar A, Lass JH, Iyengar SK for the Fuchs’ Genetics Multi-Center Study Group, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2013
• Endothelial morphometric measures to predict endothelial graft failure after penetrating keratoplasty  
  Benetz BA, Lass JH, Gal RL, Sugar A, Menegay H, Dontchev M, Kollman C, Beck RW, Mannis MJ, Holland EJ, Gorovoy M, Hannush SB, Bokosky JE, Cuadill JW for the Cornea Don..., JAMA Ophthalmol, 1/1/2013
• Genome-wide meta-analysis of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia  
  Verhoeven VJM, Hysi PG, Wojciechowski R…The Fuchs’ Genetics Multi-Center Study Group, et al (Sugar A), Nature Genetics, 1/1/2013
• Donor age and other factors related to endothelial cell loss ten years after penetrating keratoplasty: Specular Microscopy Ancillary Study results  
  Writing Committee for the Cornea Donor Study Research Group, Lass JH, Benetz BA, Gal RL, Kollman C, Raghinaru D, Dontchev M, Mannis MJ, Holland EJ, Chow C, McCoy K, Pr..., Ophthalmology, 1/1/2013
• The effect of donor age on penetrating keratoplasty for endothelial disease: Graft survival after 10 years in the Cornea Donor Study  
  Writing Committee for the Cornea Donor Study Research Group, Mannis MJ, Holland EJ, Gal RL, Dontchev M, Kollman C, Raghinaru D, Dunn SP, Schultze RL, Verdier DD, Lass ..., Ophthalmology, 1/1/2013
• Nd:YAG laser lysis of retained cortex after phacoemulsification cataract surgery  
  Hood CT, Shtein RM, Mian SI, Sugar A, Am J Ophthalmol, 1/1/2012
• Relationship of Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy severity to central corneal thickness  
  Kopplin LJ, Przepyszny K, Schmotzer B, et al, for the Fuchs' Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy Genetics Multi-Center study Group (Sugar A), Arch Ophthalmol, 1/1/2012
• Relationship between Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy severity and glaucoma and/or ocular hypertension  
  Nagarsheth M, Singh A, Schmotzer B, Babineau DC, Sugar J, Lee WB, Iyengar SK, Lass JH, for the Fuchs’ Genetics Multi-Center Study Group (Sugar A), Arch Ophthalmol, 1/1/2012
• Endothelial keratoplasty without Descemet’s stripping after failed penetrating keratoplasty  
  Heitor de Paula F, Kamyar R, Shtein RM, Sugar A, Mian SI, Cornea, 1/1/2012
• A multi-center study to map Genes for Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy: Baseline characteristics and heritability  
  Louttit MD, Kopplin LJ, Igo RP, Fondran JR, Tagliaferri A, Bardenstein D, Aldave AJ, Croasdale CR, Price M, Rosenwasser GO, Lass JH, Iyengar SK for the FECD Genetics M..., Cornea, 1/1/2012
• Effect of donor and recipient factors on corneal graft rejection  
  Stulting RD, Sugar A, Beck R, Belin M, Dontchev M, Feder RS, Gal RL, Holland EJ, Kollman C, Mannis MJ, Price F, Stark W, Verdier DD,for the Cornea Donor Study Investig..., Cornea, 1/1/2012
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Books/Book Chapters

• Duane's Clinical Ophthalmology 
  Chapter: Conjunctival Flaps for Corneal Disease. 
  De la Parra P, Sugar A, Mian SIEditors: Tasman W, Jaeger EA.JB Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA2015
• Ophthalmology 
  Chapter: Chapter 4: Corneal Degenerations. 
  Page 269 - 273Woodward MA, Mian S, Sugar AEditors: Yanoff M, Duker J.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 4th,2014
• Clinical Eye Atlas 
  Chapter: Lens and Cataract. 
  Page 551 - 567Sugar A, Shtein RMEditors: Gold DH, Lewis RA.Oxford University Press, New York, NYEdition 2nd,2011
• Cornea 
  Chapter: Corneal complications after intraocular surgery. 
  Page 1155 - 1168Mian S, Sugar AEditors: Krachmer J, Mannis M, Holland E.Mosby/Elsevier, LondonEdition 3rd,2011
• Clinical Eye Atlas 
  Chapter: Cornea. 
  Page 193 - 295Mian SI, Cooney T, Sugar AEditors: Gold DH, Lewis RA.Oxford University Press, New York, NYEdition 2nd,2011
• Cornea Handbook. 
  Chapter: Corneal Inflammatory Disorders. 
  Page 37 - 60Malta J, Ahmad F, Mian S, Sugar AEditors: Trattler W, Majmudar P, Luchs J, Swartz T.Slack Inc.2010
• Corneal Surgery 
  Chapter: The future of keratoplasty. 
  Page 597 - 603Ahmad O, Mian S, Sugar AEditors: Brightbill F, McDonnell PJ, McGhee C, Farjo A, Serdarevic O.Mosby/ Elsevier, New York, NY2009
• Ophthalmology 
  Chapter: Corneal Degenerations. 
  Page 318 - 323Farjo QA, Sugar AEditors: Yanoff M and Duker JS.Mosby/ Elsevier2009
• Corneal Surgery 
  Chapter: Preoperative considerations: Aphakic and pseudophakic eyes. 
  Page 273 - 276Sugar AEditors: Brightbill F, McDonnell PJ, McGhee C, Farjo A, Serdarevic O.Mosby/ Elsevier, New York, NY2009
• Ophthalmology 
  Chapter: Pterygium and conjunctival degenerations. 
  Page 248 - 250Farjo QA, Sugar AEditors: Yanoff M and Duker JS.Mosby/ Elsevier2009
• Current Ocular Therapy 
  Chapter: Dermatophytosis. 
  Page 21 - 22Patel SV, Sugar AEditors: Roy FH, Fraunfelder F.Saunders/Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 6th,2008
• Cornea 
  Chapter: Surgical trauma: pseudophakic and aphakic corneal edema. 
  Page 1263 - 1276Mian S, Sugar AEditors: Krachmer J, Mannis M, Holland E.Elsevier Mosby, Philadelphia, PAEdition 2nd,2005
• Ophthalmology 
  Chapter: Corneal and conjunctival degenerations. 
  Page 446 - 453Farjo Q, Sugar AEditors: Yanoff M, Duker J.Mosby2004
• The Eye Pathologist 
  Chapter: Fabry Disease. 
  Brooks B, Sugar AEditors: Klintworth G.Duke University2003
• Color atlas of the eye in systemic disease. 
  Chapter: Psoriasis. 
  Page 561 - 563Sugar AEditors: Gold D, Weingeist T.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA2001
• Clinical Eye Atlas. 
  Chapter: Lens. 
  Page 757 - 778Sugar AEditors: Gold D, Lewis RA.AMA Press, Chicago, IL2001
• Guidelines for optimal ambulatory surgical care and office-based surgery 
  Berggren RB, Large JW, Noyes PF, Siegert PT, Sugar AAmerican College of Surgeons, Chicago, ILEdition 3rd,2000
• Companion Handbook to The Cornea 
  Chapter: Corneal and conjunctival degenerations. 
  Page 449 - 472Sugar AEditors: Kaufman HE, Barron BA, McDonald MB, Kaufman SC.Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, MAEdition 2nd,2000
• Corneal Surgery; Theory, Technique, and Tissue. 
  Chapter: Preoperative considerations in aphakic and pseudophakic eyes. 
  Page 265 - 270Sugar AEditors: Brightbill FS.Mosby, St. Louis, MOEdition 3rd,1999
• Ophthalmology. 
  Chapter: Degenerations of the cornea and conjunctiva. 
  Sugar, AEditors: Yanoff M, Duker J.Mosby, London1999
• Clinical Ophthalmology. 
  Chapter: Corneal Surgery 
  Tasman W, Jaeger EAEditors: Sugar A - Section Editor.Harper and Row, Philadelphia, PA1997
• Cornea 
  Chapter: Surgical Trauma: Pseudophakic and aphakic corneal edema. 
  Page 1423 - 1435Sugar, AEditors: Krachmer J, Mannis M, Holland E.Mosby, Philadelphia, PA1996
• Diseases of the Eye and Skin Disease. 
  Chapter: Sphingolipidoses. 
  Page 79 - 87Sugar, AEditors: Mannis M, Macsai M, Huntley A.Lippincott-Raven, New York, NY1996
• The Glaucomas 
  Chapter: Glaucoma associated with penetrating keratoplasty 
  Page 1363 - 1372Sugar A, Higginbotham EEditors: Ritch R, Shields M, Krupin T.Mosby, Philadelphia, PAEdition 2nd,1996
• Duane's Clinical Ophthalmology 
  Chapter: Conjunctival flaps for corneal disease. 
  Page 1 - 6Sugar, AEditors: Tasman W, Jaeger EA.J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA1995
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Abstracts/Posters

• Comparison of Resource consumption in penetrating versus endothelial keratoplasty from 2009-2010.
  Raoof-Daneshvar D, Shtein RM, Blachley TS, Woodward MA, Mian SI, Sugar A, Stein J, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Seattle, WA, 1/8/2013
• Treatment of ocular Graft-vs.-Host Disease with topical lotoprednol etabonate 0.5%.
  Hussain MT, Woodward MA, Shtein RM, Soong HK, Sugar A, Mian SI, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago, IL, 1/12/2012
• Surgeon characteristics of eye bank distributed corneal tissue.
  Ross KW, Tennant BB, Shtein RM, Woodward MA, Hussain MT, Sugar A, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago, IL, 1/12/2012
• Long-term outcome of autologous serum tears for treatment of dry eye.
  Shtein R, Sugar A, Soong HK, Woodward MA, Mian SI, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago, IL, 1/12/2012
• Comparison of femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty with traditional penetrating keratoplasty in keratoconus
  Mian S, Knowlton J, Hussain M, Shtein R, Sugar A, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago, IL, 1/17/2010
• Anterior segment optical coherence tomography and in vivo confocal microscopy findings in femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty
  Kelly K, Shtein M, Knowlton J, Musch D, Niziol L, Sugar A, Mian S, World Cornea Congress VI, Boston, MA, 1/8/2010
• Quality of life assessment after femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty
  Knowlton J, Dutta S, Shtein R, Sugar A, Mian S, World Cornea Congress VI, Boston, MA, 1/8/2010
• Prophylactic treatment of ocular graft-versus-host disease with topical Cyclosporine 0.05%
  Malta J, Soong HK, Shtein RM, Musch D, Rhodes W, Sugar A, Mian S, American Academy of Ophthlamology, San Francisco, CA, 1/26/2009
• Early outcomes after femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty
  Mian S, Shtein R, Kelley K, Dutta S, Sugar A, American Academy of Ophthlamology, San Francisco, CA, 1/26/2009
• Femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty: A pilot clinical trial
  Dutta S, Shtein RM, Sugar A, Mian SI, ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1/4/2009
• Refractive effect of posterior lenticule insertion during Descemet-stripping endothelial keratoplasty
  Sugar A, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, GA, 1/9/2008
• Long-term results of scleral-sutured posterior chamber IOLs in penetrating keratoplasty
  Sugar A, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, GA, 1/9/2008
• Design of phase 2/3 clinical trials of a Cyclosporine A eluting implant, LX201, for the prevention and treatment of corneal allograft rejection or graft failure in pat...
  Sugar A, LUCIDA Investigator Group, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2008
• Long-term outcomes in patients who received a corneal graft for keratoconus in 1980 to 1986.
  Musch D, Niziol LM, Sugar A, Soong HK, Mian SI, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2008
• Femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty: Wound shapes, surgical technique and image analysis in eye bank globes.
  Malta JB, Banitt M, Soong HK, Shtein R, Musch D, Sugar A, Mian S, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2008
• Outcomes of lasik & Visian phakic implantable contact lens in treatment of high myopia
  Parker JW, Sugar A, Soong HK, Musch D, Mian S, ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1/4/2007
• Outcomes of lasik & Visian phakic implantable contact lens in treatment of high myopia.
  Parker JW, Sugar A, Soong HK, Musch D, Mian S, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2007
• Recurrent ectasia after penetrating keratoplasty in keratoconus
  Patel S, Tester R, Soong K, Sugar A, Farjo QA, ARVO, Ft. Lauderdaule, FL, 1/2/2005
• Recurrent ectasia after penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus.
  Patel SV, Tester R, Soong HK, Sugar A, Farjo Q, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2005
• Initiation of a multi-center study to map genes for Fuchs'endothelial corneal dystrophy.
  Lass J, Iyengar S, Shaffer S, Norell M, Bardenstein D, Belin M, Sugar A, Farber M, Elner V, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2005
• Analysis of mutations in the gene for the alpha 2 chain of type VIII collagen (COL8A2) in families and cases with Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy.
  Iyengar SK, Shaffer S, Kluge A, Gong B, Capriotti J, Bardenstein D, Belin M, Sugar A, Lass J, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2005
• Postoperative outcome and complications following ocular surgery in patients with nanophthalmos.
  Wu W, Elner SG, Dawson D, Meyer K, Sugar A, Moroi SE, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1/6/2002
• Postoperative outcome and complications following ocular surgery in patients with nanophthalmos.
  Wu W, Elner SG, Dawson D, Meyer K, Sugar A, Moroi SE, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/2002
• Diamond-burr superficial keratectomy for treatment of recurrent corneal erosion
  Soong HK, Farjo QA, Meyer RF, Sugar A, American Academy of Ophthalmology, New Orleans, LA, 1/13/2001
• Colobomata and cataracts –outcome and complications of phacoemulsification and intraocular lens placement.
  Nordlund ML, Moroi SE, Sugar A, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1/1/1999
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Lectures

• Mycobacterial Keratitis After LASIK 
  Driggs, ID - 1/11/2016
• Research Ethics in Ophthalmology 
  University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - 1/19/2015
• Cornea and Lens Based Procedures 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/13/2015
• Prevention of Complications in Refractive Surgery 
  Detroit, MI - 1/3/2015
• Characteristics of Patients Undergoing Endothelial versus Penetrating Keratoplasty for Corneal Endothelial Disease, 2009 to 2011. 
  Chicago, IL - 1/19/2014
• Donor diabetes' effect on graft failure and endothelial cell density ten years after penetrating keratoplasty. 
  Chicago, IL - 1/17/2014
• Corneal transplantation: Past, present and future 
  Toronto, Canada - 1/30/2013
• Where is the evidence? Intracameral antibiotic prevention of post-cataract endophthalmitis. 
  Toronto, Canada - 1/29/2013
• Comparison of Resource consumption in penetrating versus endothelial keratoplasty from 2009-2010. 
  Chicago, IL; Boston, MA - 1/18/2013
• The effect of donor age on penetrating keratoplasty for endothelial disease: Graft survival and endothelial cell loss after 10 years in the Cornea Donor Study 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/15/2013
• The Cornea Donor Study and Corneal Transplantation 
  Boston, MA - 1/13/2013
• The ethics and regulation of clinical research in ophthalmology 
  Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA - 1/12/2013
• Intracameral antibiotic prevention of post-cataract endophthalmitis. 
  Driggs, ID - 1/10/2013
• Cornea Donor Study and corneal transplantation 
  Hollywood, FL - 1/23/2012
• Endothelial morphometric parameters to predict endothelial graft failure after penetrating keratoplasty 
  Hollywood, FL - 1/23/2012
• The pathophysiology of graft adherence in endothelial keratoplasty 
  University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - 1/23/2012
• The ethical basis of clinical research in ophthalmology 
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ - 1/7/2012
• The corneal donor study and corneal transplantation 
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ - 1/7/2012
• Pathophysiology of corneal donor adhesion in endothelial keratoplasty 
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ - 1/7/2012
• Comparison of visual function and patient satisfaction with bilateral multifocal IOL or monovision pseudophakia. 
  San Diego, CA - 1/28/2011
• Biomedical ethics issues in eye banking and corneal transplantation. 
  Tucson, AZ - 1/25/2011
• Impact of the Cornea Donor Study (CDS) on acceptance of older donors 
  Tucson, AZ - 1/25/2011
• The Cornea Donor Study and Implications for Eye Banking 
  Orlando, FL - 1/21/2011
• Endothelial Keratoplasty: What makes it stick? 
  Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA - 1/18/2011
• The ethical basis for clinical research in ophthalmology 
  Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA - 1/17/2011
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Other

• Herpes Simplex Keratitis. 
  Sugar A, Up-To-Date, Release 17.3
  1/1/2009
• Herpes simplex keratitis. Clinical Update, vol 1, module 3, American Academy of Ophthalmology 
  Sugar A, Sugar J
  www.aao.org/scu/ced-cornea
  1/1/2004
• Herpes simplex keratitis 
  Sugar A
  http://www.uptodate.com/contents/herpes-simplex-keratitis
  UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-01-03