Publications by authors named "Alenka Lavric"
To report a patient with a very rare variant of iris melanoma that grows in the shape of a ring (ring melanoma). A 65-year-old patient was examined because of a pigmented lesion on the sclera. After a complete ophthalmic and ultrasound examination, a ring melanoma was diagnosed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To describe the clinical course and the multimodal imaging of acute idiopathic maculopathy.
Methods: Medical records and multimodal imaging including color fundus photography, optical coherence tomography, and fundus autofluorescence were retrospectively reviewed. Recognition of the fundus autofluorescence patterns and their relationship with the disease duration, best-corrected visual acuity, and optical coherence tomography features represented the main outcome measures.
Purpose: To assess the association between perinatal risk factors for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and central retinal structures of former preterm children seen on optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).
Methods: This prospective cohort study included 40 children with a history of preterm birth and 33 healthy full-term children. We documented their birth weight, gestational age, other significant risk factors for ROP development and presence of ROP.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate 2-year visual outcomes in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) treated with anti-VEGF agents in a routine clinical setting.
Methods: The medical records of patients treated with ranibizumab or aflibercept due to DME at the Eye Hospital, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia, between January 2016 and March 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 123 patients (123 eyes) were included in the study.
Purpose: Evaluate choroidal structural changes in preterm children with and without retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) using image binarization technique on swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) scans.
Methods: Prospective case-control study. Forty-one (79 eyes) children aged 5-15 years with a history of preterm birth and 33 (63 eyes) age-matched full-term children were recruited.
Purpose: To report a case of solitary iris plasmacytoma successfully treated with ruthenium plaque radiotherapy.
Methods: A 44-year-old white woman presented with pain in the right eye and raised intraocular pressure. Her medical history included breast cancer treated 11 years earlier with lumpectomy, lymph node clearance, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.
Purpose: Although it has been known that patients' perspectives on their disease can significantly affect their level of functional disability as well as disease outcome, limited data are available on patients' perceptions of their dry eye disease (DED). The aim of this questionnaire-based study was to evaluate patients' perspectives on their DED.
Methods: This cross-sectional study included 91 patients with DED.
MESECTODERMAL LEIOMYOMA OF THE CILIARY BODY PRESENTING AS ANTERIOR STAPHYOMA.
Retin Cases Brief Rep
January 2018
Purpose: To report two cases of mesectodermal leiomyoma of the ciliary body presenting as anterior staphyloma.
Methods: Two case reports with cytopathologic correlation.
Results: First patient (15-year-old boy) presented with a nodular lesion in the sclera.
Purpose: To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients and analyze factors associated with bilateral posterior scleritis.
Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, records of patients with diagnosis of bilateral posterior scleritis at two tertiary-care centers in the UK and India were analyzed in comparison with the clinical profile of patients with unilateral scleritis.
Results: In total, 18 patients with bilateral posterior scleritis were identified and compared with 96 patients of unilateral posterior scleritis; 14 (77%) were women and the median age was 48 years.
Purpose: To report the clinical and ultrasound features and outcomes of a series of nodular posterior scleritis.
Methods: Retrospective medical record review of 11 consecutive patients with nodular posterior scleritis. Patient demographics, ocular and systemic findings, ultrasound features, and final anatomical and visual outcomes were recorded.
Purpose: To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with posterior scleritis, and to analyze the response to treatment and time to relapse.
Methods: Retrospective study of 114 cases of posterior scleritis from two tertiary care, university-affiliated, referral centers in the United Kingdom and India between 2004 and 2013. Data included sociodemographic factors, medical history, clinical, laboratory and ultrasound findings, therapies, and outcomes.
Purpose: To study different aspects of visual function, macular changes, and subjective differences between the eye with an ultraviolet (UV) and blue-light filtering intraocular lens (IOL) and the fellow eye with a UV-light filtering IOL.
Methods: Thirty patients (60 eyes) with senile cataract had both cataracts extracted, and an IOL was implanted at least 2 years before clinical evaluation. In one eye, AcrySof SA60AT (a UV-light filtering IOL) was implanted, whereas in the contralateral eye, AcrySof IQ SN60WF (a blue-light filtering IOL) was implanted.
Purpose: To report two cases of solitary unilateral vitreous cyst.
Methods: A complete ocular examination, fundus photography, B-scan ultrasound and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography were performed in both patients.
Results: The first patient (a 39-year-old man) presented with transient blurred vision in the right eye.