Publications by authors named "Aristides J Mendoza"
Purpose: To describe the optical coherence tomography (OCT) characteristics of patients with group 2A idiopathic parafoveal telangiectasis (IPFT) and to correlate them with biomicroscopic and fluorescein angiographic (FA) findings based on Gass and Blodi staging classification for group 2A IPFT.
Methods: Fifty-two eyes of 26 consecutive patients with IPFT underwent biomicroscopic fundus examination, color fundus photography, FA, and OCT. Main outcome measures were OCT characteristics and their correlation with biomicroscopy and FA.
Purpose: To determine the feasibility, safety, and clinical effect of treating patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with indocyanine green (ICG)-mediated photothrombosis (IMP) with and without intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (TA).
Methods: Fifteen patients (19 eyes) participated in the study. Nine eyes of seven patients were treated with IMP immediately followed by an intravitreal injection of 4 mg of TA (Group A), and 10 eyes of 8 patients were treated with IMP only (Group B).
Purpose: To describe 19 patients (20 eyes) who developed a macular hole (MH) after undergoing bilateral LASIK for the correction of myopia.
Design: Noncomparative, interventional, retrospective, multicenter case series.
Participants: Nineteen patients (20 eyes) who developed an MH after bilateral LASIK for the correction of myopia at 10 institutions in Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States.
Background: There is a need for alternative treatments for the management of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The purpose of this paper is to determine the feasibility, safety, and clinical effect of indocyanine green (ICG)-mediated photothrombosis (IMP) combined with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (TA) in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in AMD.
Methods: Thirty-one eyes of 26 patients who were treated with IMP immediately followed by an intravitreal injection of 4 mg of TA were investigated in the study.
The authors describe the management of subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes in highly myopic eyes after laser in situ keratomileusis with photodynamic therapy. Five cases of choroidal neovascular membrane after laser in situ keratomileusis for the correction of myopia (mean, 13.3 diopters; range, -8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine the characteristics of immune recovery uveitis (IRU) in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients with inactive cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis who responded to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in a Venezuelan population.
Methods: We examined 34 patients (50 eyes) with AIDS (HAART responders) and healed CMV retinitis. Patients were observed for a median of 19.