Ocular findings in Japanese patients with hydroxychloroquine retinopathy developing within 3 years of treatment.

Purpose: To describe the characteristics of Japanese patients with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) retinopathy developing within 3 years of treatment outset.

Study Design: Retrospective case series METHODS: Three patients with HCQ retinopathy developing within 3 years of treatment outset have been identified in Japan since HCQ became available in 2015. Their medical charts, containing optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus autofluorescence imaging, and visual field tests, were reviewed.

Sterile subconjunctival abscess in an HLA-B51-positive patient with ulcerative colitis.

Purpose: To report a rare case of aseptic abscess presenting as a subconjunctival abscess in an HLA-B51-positive patient with ulcerative colitis.

Observations: A 25-year-old, male, Japanese patient with ulcerative colitis presented with an unilateral subconjunctival abscess. Infective endocarditis with endophthalmitis was suspected of being the cause, and systemic antimicrobial therapy was begun.

FIVE-YEAR OUTCOMES OF INTRAVITREAL RANIBIZUMAB FOR CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH PATHOLOGIC MYOPIA.

Purpose: To determine the 5-year outcome of intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) for myopic choroidal neovascularization (CNV).

Method: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 51 eyes of 51 consecutive patients with myopic CNV who had been treated with IVR with a minimum follow-up period of 5 years after the initial IVR injection. The factors that predicted the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at 5 years after IVR were determined by multiple regression analysis.