RETINA

Purpose:

To evaluate choroidal changes over time in school-age children with a history of prematurity.

Methods:

A study of 416 eyes of 208 eligible participants, including 88, 190, 36, 56, and 46 eyes in the full-term control, preterm, spontaneously regressed retinopathy of prematurity, intravitreal bevacizumab (injection of bevacizumab)–treated retinopathy of prematurity, and laser-treated retinopathy of prematurity groups, respectively, were enrolled in this study. The choroidal thickness was measured 4 times at 6-month intervals using optical coherence tomography.

Results:

Of all the groups, the laser-treated children had the thinnest choroid compared with full-term children (−52.3 µm, P = 0.04). Preterm children exhibited greater attenuation in choroidal thickness over time than did full-term children (−6.3 ± 26.9 and −1.1 ± 12.8 µm/year, P = 0.03), whereas no difference was observed between injection of bevacizumab and laser treatments (−4.6 ± 18.9 and −2.0 ± 15.7 µm/year, P = 0.46). In all groups, the changes in axial length were negatively associated with the changes in choroidal thickness (all P

Purpose:

To investigate the incidence and morphological biomarkers to predict the exudative conversion in eyes with type 1 nonexudative macular neovascularization using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography.

Methods:

Macular …

Purpose:

To analyze the outcomes of eyes treated for retinopathy of prematurity in posterior Zone I.

Methods:

In a part retrospective (9 years) and part prospective (1 year) interventional study, we analyzed eyes treated for retinopathy of prematurity in posterior Zone I with a minimum follow-up for 6 months.

Results:

This study included 109 eyes of 56 infants; mean gestational age and birth weights were 29.3 (±2.1) weeks and 1112.5 (±381.9) g, respectively. The treatment included intravitreal anti–vascular endothelial growth factor as the initial treatment modality in 101 eyes (92.6%), either alone (27 eyes) or combined with laser or vitreous surgery (73 eyes). Laser was the initial treatment modality in eight eyes, either alone (n = 3) or in combination with surgery (n = 5). With anti–vascular endothelial growth factor alone, 30.68% (n = 27) eyes responded favorably, and the remaining 69.32% (n = 59) eyes needed retreatment (laser in the majority). At the final follow-up, 89.9% (out of 109) of eyes did well anatomically. Good outcome was significantly linked to no detachment at presentation (P

Introduction:

To determine whether the two popular artificial intelligence chatbots, ChatGPT and Bard, can provide high-quality information concerning procedure description, risks, benefits, and alternatives of various ophthalmic surgeries.

Methods:

ChatGPT and Bard were prompted with questions pertaining to the description, potential risks, benefits, alternatives, and implications of not proceeding with various surgeries in different subspecialties of ophthalmology. Six common ophthalmic procedures were included in the authors’ analysis. Two comprehensive ophthalmologists and one subspecialist graded each response independently using a 5-point Likert scale.

Results:

Likert grading for accuracy was significantly higher for ChatGPT in comparison with Bard (4.5 ± 0.6 vs. 3.8 ± 0.8, P

Purpose:

To report the long-term clinical outcomes of transscleral four-point fixation of Akreos intraocular lens using a closed continuous-loop suture technique.

Methods:

This was a retrospective, multicenter, interventional case series. Primary outcome measures were best-corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure, corneal endothelial cell density, and complications with a minimum of 1-year follow-up.

Results:

One hundred and ninety-two eyes of 177 patients from two surgical hospital sites were identified. The mean best-corrected visual acuity improved from 0.88 ± 0.74 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (Snellen 20/152) preoperatively to 0.42 ± 0.52 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (Snellen 20/53) postoperatively (P

Purpose:

Serine (Ser) and glycine (Gly) levels were reported to differ between patients with macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel) compared with healthy controls. Because they are closely related to methylation metabolism, this report investigates…

Purpose:

To observe the diagnostic value of multispectral fundus imaging (MSI) in hypertensive retinopathy (HR).

Methods:

A total of 100 patients with HR were enrolled in this cross-sectional study, and all participants received fundus photo…

Purpose:

To determine the level of vascularization and peripheral vascular findings by fluorescence angiography in patients with aggressive retinopathy of prematurity or Type 1 retinopathy of prematurity treated with a single dose of anti–vascular …

Purpose:

To explore the relationship between retinal hemorrhage in the green and red channels on ultra-widefield fundus images and the nonperfusion area (NPA) on ultra-widefield fundus fluorescein angiography in patients with acute branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).

Methods:

This was a retrospective cross-sectional study with 96 patients, including 46 with ischemic BRVO and 50 with nonischemic BRVO. Correlation analysis between green channel hemorrhage (GCH), red channel hemorrhage (RCH), and NPA was performed. Panretina was divided into posterior and peripheral areas.

Results:

Ischemic BRVO showed significantly higher GCH% and RCH% than nonischemic BRVO in the peripheral regions (both P 0.05). Significant correlations were found between NPA% in the panretinal and peripheral areas and the corresponding GCH% and RCH% (all P 0.05). In addition, peripheral GCH% and RCH% were related to panretinal NPA% (r = 0.506, P

Purpose:

To explore characteristic imaging features of nonparaneoplastic autoimmune retinopathy (npAIR) to augment diagnostic criteria.

Methods:

This is a retrospective cohort study of patients with npAIR evaluated at the Emory Eye Center be…