AVASCULAR OVERHANGING BLEB REDUCTION WITH MODIFIED SUTURELESS TECHNIQUE.

A late postoperative trabeculectomy complication could be the overhanging bleb, especially when antimetabolites are used. It can be associated with hypotony, foreign body sensation, dellen, and visual compromise. We report a case of an avascular overhanging bleb successfully reduced with a modified sutureless technique.

Discrimination of glaucomatous from non-glaucomatous optic neuropathy with swept-source optical coherence tomography.

Objective: To assess the ability of optic nerve head (ONH) parameters, peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL), and macular ganglion cell layer (GCL) thickness measurements with swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT), to discriminate between glaucomatous and non-glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON and NGON).

Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study involved 189 eyes of 189 patients, 133 with GON and 56 with NGON. The NGON group included ischemic optic neuropathy, previous optic neuritis, and compressive, toxic-nutritional, and traumatic optic neuropathy.

Impact of intraoperative floppy IRIS syndrome in cataract surgery by phacoemulsification: Analysis of 622 cases.

Background: Small pupil syndromes, including IFIS, increase the risk of complications during cataract surgery if proper surgical planning is not performed. Tamsulosin is associated with a very significant increase in the risk of IFIS, due to the prolonged inactivation of alpha-1 adrenergic receptors in the smooth muscle fiber of the iris.

Material And Methods: Single-center prospective observational study, carried out at the Hospital de l'Esperança - Parc de Salut Mar.

Macular optical coherence tomography for screening of pathology prior to cataract surgery: An approach based on tele-evaluation.

Background: To assess the benefit of macular spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) as a part of the routinary preoperative study of patients undergoing cataract surgery.

Methods: A prospective single-center study study was performed. Consecutive patients with normal biomicroscopic funduscopy, moderate cataract and no history of ophthalmological pathologies were enrolled.

Infectious postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery performed over 7 years. The role of azithromycin versus ciprofloxacin eye drops.

Objective: Although topical antibiotics have been used as antimicrobial prophylaxis after ocular surgery, recent studies have determined that intracameral cefuroxime at the end of surgery significantly reduce the risk to suffer an infection and suggest that the use of topical antibiotics in the prophylaxis of infectious postoperative endophthalmitis (IPOE) is controversial. Moreover, there is no evidence to confirm the higher effectiveness of topical ciprofloxacin, considered the standard of care, or topical azithromycin in preventing IPOE of cataract surgeries.

Methods: IPOE topical prophylaxis was performed with two different strategies: with azithromycin from January 1st, 2010 to December 31st, 2014 (group I) and with ciprofloxacin from January 1st, 2015 to January 31st, 2017 (group II).