PURPOSE:
Study off-label human amniotic membrane use outcomes for giant refractory macular hole closure.
Materials and Methods:
The study was performed at Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, over 52 months on patients who had undergone standard…
Purpose:
To investigate the associated features and the surgical outcomes in eyes with microcystoid macular edema (MME) and cone bouquet abnormalities (CBA) undergoing epiretinal membrane peeling.
Methods:
Retrospective study including patie…
Purpose:
To evaluate the value of the β-d-glucan (BDG) testing of intraocular fluid for the diagnosis of fungal endophthalmitis (FE).
Methods:
Twenty patients (22 eyes) with FE were diagnosed using both culture and nonculture methods. Intraocular fluid was collected for BDG testing, including 22 eyes of FE and 55 eyes of control group. Under different BDG cutoff points as the test-positives, the BDG sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for FE were analyzed.
Results:
The BDG testing value was 1,022.78 ± 1,362.40 pg/mL in the FE group, significantly higher than that of the control group (105.0 ± 180.80 pg/mL, P
Purpose:
We used deep learning to predict the final central foveal thickness (CFT), changes in CFT, final best corrected visual acuity, and best corrected visual acuity changes following noncomplicated idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery.
Met…
Purpose:
To determine the central and peripheral choroidal thickness in eyes with central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) and to compare these thicknesses values with those of control normal eyes.
Methods:
Wide-field optical coherence tomographic images of 24 eyes of 19 patients with CSC and 14 normal eyes of 7 individuals were recorded. A 20-mm vertical scan through the fovea was obtained with the Xephilio optical coherence tomographic S1 (Canon, Japan), a wide-field optical coherence tomographic device. The subfoveal choroidal thickness and the thickness at 5 mm superior (S5) and inferior (I5), 7 mm superior (S7) and inferior (I7), 8.5 mm superior (S8) and inferior (I8), and 10 mm superior (S10) and inferior (I10) from the fovea in the CSC eyes and normal eyes were compared.
Results:
There was no significant difference in the age (P = 0.8) or the refractive error (P = 0.7) between the CSC and normal eyes. The choroidal thickness was significantly thicker in the eyes with CSC than that in the normal eyes at subfoveal choroidal thickness (P 0.1).
Conclusion:
The thickened choroid in CSC was observed at the fovea and the area just superior to the fovea. The pathogenesis of CSC may be associated with the choroidal thickening confined to the fovea and superior foveal area.
Purpose:
To assess the long-term efficacy of intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor injections (IVI), alone or in combination with verteporfin photodynamic therapy (IVI/PDT), for management of choroidal neovascularization secondary to presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS).
Methods:
Retrospective, comparative, interventional case series analyzing 82 eyes in 74 patients treated with either IVI or IVI/PDT for presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome choroidal neovascularization from January 2006 to January 2021.
Results:
The average logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution VA in year 5 was 0.40 (20/50) and 0.52 (20/67) for IVI versus IVI/PDT groups, respectively (P = 0.33), and in year 10 was 0.53 (20/58) and 0.64 (20/86), respectively (P = 0.50). The average number of annual injections over the first 5 years of follow-up was 3.3 versus 1.7 for IVI versus IVI/PDT groups, respectively (P
Purpose:
This study is to test the feasibility of optical coherence tomography (OCT) detection of photoreceptor abnormality and to verify that the photoreceptor abnormality is rod predominated in early diabetic retinopathy (DR).
Methods:
OCT…