VITREOMACULAR TRACTION AFFECTS ANTI-VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOR EXUDATIVE AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of vitreomacular traction (VMT) on visual acuity outcomes and central retinal thickness (CRT) measurements after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapy for treatment of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: In this retrospective series, the authors evaluate the clinical records and optical coherence tomography of 34 eyes of 32 patients, with VMT confirmed on optical coherence tomography at baseline, to assess the effects of VMT on anti-VEGF therapy for newly diagnosed exudative wet AMD. Best-corrected visual acuity at baseline, 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months and CRT at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months were assessed.

Deep sclerectomy versus trabeculectomy: a morphological study with anterior segment optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To investigate the intraocular pressure (IOP) lowering mechanisms of deep sclerectomy (DS) with anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Methods: In a prospective cross-sectional study, AS-OCT parameters were compared between DS, trabeculectomy and control cases. Association with IOP and success (IOP≤16 mm Hg without medication) was investigated.

Common spectral domain OCT and electrophysiological findings in different pattern dystrophies.

Objectives: (1) To investigate and integrate the tomographic, angiographic and electrodiagnostic findings in pattern dystrophy. (2) To correlate visual acuity (VA) with central macular thickness (CMT), the electrooculogram (EOG) and pattern electroretinogram (PERG).

Design: A retrospective study of patients with pattern dystrophy.

[Birdshot chorioretinopathy--case report].

This is a case report of Birdshot chorioretinopathy to highlight investigations required to establish the diagnosis and to assess outcome under specific treatment.

[Type IIA juxtafoveal telangiectasis associated with subretinal neovascularisation].

This is a case report of a type IIA juxtafoveal telangiectasia complicated with secondary subretinal neovascularization in one eye and treated with VEGF inhibitor that succeeded in at least temporary inactivating the neovascular membrane.

[Glomus tumor with diplopia].

This paper highlights the case of a 46-year-old female patient who seeks ophthalmic medical advice for her complaint about double vision on right gaze. Patient's medical history reveals several symptoms like headaches, progressive hearing loss on right side and dysphonia for which all investigations proved irrelevant. Thourough clinical examination, lab exams and imaging techniques revealed the cause for this symptoms i.

[Overdiagnosis in glaucoma--a real problem?].

Purpose: To reassess the diagnosis in a group of patients with diagnosis and treatment for open-angle glaucoma.

Method: Group of 100 patients with diagnosis and treatment for open-angle glaucoma, sent in our clinic for automated perimetry. We assess: intraocular pressure, automated perimetry, the head of optic disc; sometimes we stopped the treatment and reassess the intraocular pressure; sometimes pahimetry.

[Familial choroideremia--case report].

We present a case of familial choroideremia followed for several years in 3 successive generations and which represented a diagnostic challenge as the final diagnosis was provided only by genetic testing.

[Posttraumatic hyphema?].

The authors present the case of a patient with ocular pain and visual impairment after an ocular trauma. The ophthalmologic exam and the complementary exams show atypical aspects of the traumatic ocular pathology.

[Stem cells in ophthalmology. Pathologic implications].

A real challenge in medicine for the knowledge of the physiologic processes of organism's development as well as for the future therapy of some of the most serious diseases, stem cells are discovered step by step. This paper sets forth the present knowledge about stem cells in general, and in particular, for ophthalmology with the respective pathologic implications.

[Amniotic membrane transplantation in palliative treatment of bullous keratopathy].

Purpose: To assess the efficacy of amniotic membrane transplantation for the improvement of symptoms in bullous keratopathy.

Material And Method: Prospective study. 14 patients were operated between 01.