Fungal scleral keratitis and endophthalmitis following pterygium excision.

Purpose: The authors report a case of fungal scleral keratitis and endophthalmitis as a complication of pterygium surgery.

Methods: Case presentation.

Results: A 46-year old woman underwent pterygium excision with topical use of intraoperative mitomycin C.

Comparison of dynamic contour tonometry with Goldmann applanation tonometry in glaucoma practice.

Purpose: To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) readings taken using dynamic contour tonometry (DCT) with IOP readings taken with Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) in eyes with glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Methods: The present study included 100 eyes in 100 patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension. After pachymetry DCT and GAT were performed.

Reopening of failed trabeculectomies with ab interno Nd:YAG laser.

Purpose: To test the efficacy of ab interno Nd:YAG laser in reopening closed trabeculectomies and to specify the factors influencing the success or failure of the revision.

Methods: 27 patients underwent ab interno revision of their failed trabeculectomies with a Q switched, single-shot Cooper Vision 2500 Nd:YAG laser. The cause of obstruction was iris in 12 patients, transparent membrane in sclerectomy in 8 and fibrosis of the scleral flap in the remaining 7.

Penetrating keratoplasty and transsclerally suture-fixated intraocular lenses.

Background: One of the options the surgeon has, in the absence of lens capsule in an eye to be rendered pseudophakic, is a transsclerally sutured posterior chamber intraocular lens. This procedure can be combined with penetrating keratoplasty, in aphakic or pseudophakic covered edema.

Methods: We studied retrospectively the results of the first 10 cases of bullous keratopathy in which we performed penetrating keratoplasty combined with transsclerally suture fixated intraocular lenses.