Publications by authors named "Atsuhiko Sugitani"
Purpose: To describe outcomes of intravitreal ranibizumab using a pro re nata regimen for treatment-naive exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD), in Japanese patients over the first 2 years.
Methods: Clinical records were retrospectively reviewed of 48 eyes of 48 patients with treatment-naive exudative AMD who underwent intravitreal ranibizumab therapy. After three monthly injections (induction), patients were examined monthly, and subsequent injections were performed as needed (pro re nata) for any residual activity, by fundus biomicroscopy and imaging studies, regardless of severity.
Background: To investigate frequencies and clinical features of intraocular inflammation (uveitis) in Tokyo, Japan.
Methods: Records of 834 consecutive new referral patients (352 men, 482 women) examined at the Kyorin University Hospital from April 2000 to December 2007 were retrospectively reviewed.
Results: Mean age at onset was 44.
Purpose: The clinical features and visual prognosis after vitrectomy for endophthalmitis which had developed after cataract surgery were compared in two groups with or without background factors, including malignant tumor, diabetes, oral steroid administration, collagen disease, dacryocystitis, and lid closure disturbance.
Method: Fifty-two patients (53 eyes) who underwent a vitrectomy for the treatment of endophthalmitis which had developed within 6 weeks after cataract surgery. They were divided into two groups according to the presence (21 eyes, group A) or absence (32 eyes, group B) of background factors, and were retrospectively compared based on their medical records.
Purpose: We examined the refractive changes in pseudophakic eyes of patients with idiopathic macular hole treated with silicone oil injection.
Methods: Twenty consecutive eyes of 19 patients with idiopathic macular hole who had undergone successful pars plana vitrectomy using silicone oil tamponade were studied retrospectively. Lensectomy with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation was performed on each patient before vitreous surgery.
Purpose: To report the anatomical and visual results of primary pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) without long-acting gas tamponade to repair primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRDs).
Methods: Twenty-seven consecutive patients (27 eyes) with peripheral retinal tears and new RRDs were treated according to the surgical protocol. Patients underwent PPV with fluid-air exchange and endolaser treatment to repair the RRD.