Long-Term Effects of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells for the Treatment of Bilateral Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency.

Purpose: To determine the safety and feasibility of human autologous adipose tissue-derived adult mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) for ocular surface regeneration in patients with bilateral limbal stem-cell deficiency (LSCD).

Methods: A phase IIa clinical trial was designed (https://Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01808378) with 8 patients, 3 of whom had aniridia, 2 meibomian glands diseases, 2 multiple surgeries and 1 chronic chemical injury.

A Pilot Study of a Panel of Ocular Inflammation Biomarkers in Patients with Primary Sjögren's Syndrome.

Ocular diseases have a strong impact on individuals, the effects of which extend from milder visual impairment to blindness. Due to this and to their prevalence, these conditions constitute important health, social and economic challenges. Thus, improvements in their early detection and diagnosis will help dampen the impact of these conditions, both on patients and on healthcare systems alike.

Clinical and microbiological profile of infectious keratitis in an area of Madrid, Spain.

Introduction: To study antibiotic susceptibility in bacterial keratitis (BK), its profile over 10 years and its influence on ophthalmological practice.

Methods: Retrospective review of BK with positive corneal scraping over a 10-year period. Risk factors for keratitis, visual acuity (VA), empirical topical treatment, corneal infection characteristics and outcomes were analyzed for BK due to Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Propionibacterium acnes.

Intraocular minocycline for the treatment of ocular pythiosis.

Purpose: A case of ocular pythiosis successfully treated with surgery and intraocular and oral minocycline is reported.

Summary: A 30-year-old man who wore corrective contact lenses traveled to Brazil and Colombia where he swam in salt and fresh waters while wearing contact lenses. He sought treatment at an emergency department after 2 weeks of suffering with a painful corneal ulcer, redness, and loss of vision in his right eye that had been treated at other centers with ophthalmic moxifloxacin for 10 days and with fortified topical antibiotics (amikacin and vancomycin) for 2 days.

The analysis of human conjunctival epithelium proteome in ocular surface diseases using impression cytology and 2D-DIGE.

Conjunctival impression cytology samples from patients with meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), dry eye (DE), and healthy subjects (CT) were collected for determination of the degree of squamous metaplasia (SM) by PAS-hematoxylin staining and for comparative proteomic analyses by 2D-DIGE. The protein spots with discriminant expression were identified by MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry. Three independent statistical studies were conducted: i).

Herpes Simplex Keratitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.

Purpose: To describe a series of 5 patients with herpes simplex virus keratitis (HSK) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) under immunosuppressive treatment.

Methods: Retrospective study. Detailed data were obtained regarding symptoms and signs at the initial evaluation, treatment, microbiological diagnostic tests, evolution, and outcomes.

Staphylococcus aureus Blepharitis Associated with Multiple Corneal Stromal Microabscess, Stromal Edema, and Uveitis.

We report a case of an immunocompetent woman with atypical marginal keratitis. She presented with recurrent episodes of multiples microabscess distributed in a triangular pattern associated with stromal oedema and anterior chamber uveitis, affecting both eyes, but not simultaneously. The episodes responded to steroid drops, corneal inflammation was coincidental with a worsening of her blepharitis in the affected eye and S.

Recurrent ocular surface inflammation associated with human herpesvirus 6 infection.

Objectives: To report a case of atypical herpes keratitis and bilateral conjunctivitis associated with human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6).

Methods: An immunocompetent 34-year-old man was referred for herpetic epithelial keratitis in his left eye, which was non-responsive to topical acyclovir. Biomicroscopy revealed a central dendritic ulcer with a white stromal infiltrate beneath the ulcer.

Comparative study of limbal stem cell deficiency diagnosis methods: detection of MUC5AC mRNA and goblet cells in corneal epithelium.

Purpose: To evaluate a limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) diagnosis method based on the detection of the MUC5AC transcript by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in comparison with the standard diagnostic method based on goblet cell detection by periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-hematoxylin staining, using samples obtained from corneal epithelium impression cytology (IC).

Design: Transversal, comparative case series.

Participants: We studied 59 eyes from 43 patients clinically diagnosed with LSCD.