Publications by authors named "Beatriz de-Lucas-Viejo"
Purpose: To analyze patients' anxiety levels using the Visual Analog Scale for Anxiety (VASA), in regard to intravitreal injection treatment and to determine possible associated risk factors related to the disease and treatment characteristics.
Methods: Cross-sectional observational study with consecutive sampling of patients who were going to receive an intravitreal injection. Subjects completed the VASA prior to the procedure, and afterwards, their data were collected from the electronic medical history.
Article Synopsis
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) software typically uses adult reference values for assessing macular ganglion cell layers, which can misclassify children’s eye health.
- A cross-sectional study involving 140 healthy children (5-18 years old) evaluated the impact of using pediatric reference values and resulted in age-specific data for better accuracy.
- The findings highlighted a significant difference: adult software misidentified low ganglion cell thickness in about 14% of children, emphasizing the need for pediatric-specific norms to enhance detection of eye conditions in younger individuals.
The authors introduce a 42-year-old woman with a choroidal osteoma. After 10 years the patient presented a second choroidal osteoma in the same eye; this osteoma has been growing in the last years. New tests that were unavailable during the first diagnosis were performed such as Fundus Autofluorescence or Enhanced Depth Imaging-Optical Coherence Tomography (EDI-OCT).
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