Safety and Effectiveness of Smooth Incision Lenticular Keratomileusis (SILK) Using the ELITA Femtosecond Laser System for Correction of Myopic and Astigmatic Refractive Errors.

Purpose: To evaluate visual outcomes following the Smooth Incision Lenticular Keratomileusis (SILK) procedure for correction of myopic refractive errors with and without astigmatism, using the ELITA Femtosecond Laser System.

Patients And Methods: A prospective, multicenter, single-arm, open-label clinical study was conducted. Eighty-five myopic subjects (n = 170 eyes), aged 18 years or older, with manifest refractive spherical equivalent (MRSE) up to -12.

Relative in vitro rates of attachment and penetration of hydrogel soft contact lenses by haplotypes of fusarium.

Purpose: To investigate the relative abilities of different haplotypes of the Fusarium solani (FSSC)-Fusarium oxysporum (FOSC) complexes to attach to and invade hydrogel contact lenses.

Methods: Silicone hydrogel and traditional hydroxyethylmethacrylate soft contact lenses were exposed to conidia [10 ml in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)] of different haplotypes of fusaria associated with the Fusarium keratitis outbreak of 2004-2006. Select lenses and fungi were examined under conditions of organic enrichment.

Fusarium keratitis and contact lens wear: facts and speculations.

Over the past several decades mycotic keratitis has been considered a rare sequel to hydrogel contact lens wear. In 2005--2006 an upswing in the incidence of Fusarium keratitis was associated with a disproportionate use of one multipurpose contact lens solution (MPS, ReNu with MoistureLoc, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY). The MPS, as manufactured and marketed, was sterile and met regulatory guidelines for antimicrobial activity.

Differences among strains of the Fusarium oxysporum-F. solani complexes in their penetration of hydrogel contact lenses and subsequent susceptibility to multipurpose contact lens disinfection solutions.

Purpose: To examine in vitro conditions for attachment and penetration of silicone hydrogel (SH) lenses by clinical isolates of the Fusarium oxysporum-F. solani complexes and the relative susceptibilities of the fusaria in the lens matrices to multipurpose contact lens solutions (MPSs).

Methods: SH soft contact lenses were soaked in Sabouraud dextrose broth (SAB) for 2 hours and transferred to 3.

Attachment to and penetration of conventional and silicone hydrogel contact lenses by Fusarium solani and Ulocladium sp. in vitro.

Purpose: To analyze the relative capacities of Fusarium solani and Ulocladium sp. to attach to and penetrate silicone hydrogel soft contact lenses.

Methods: Representative silicone hydrogel (SH, siloxy complexes) and conventional [hydroxyethylmethylacrylate (HEMA)] soft contact lenses were exposed to suspensions of F.

Growth and survival of Fusarium solani-F. oxysporum complex on stressed multipurpose contact lens care solution films on plastic surfaces in situ and in vitro.

Purpose: To analyze factors implicating the association of ReNu with MoistureLoc (ReNu ML) multipurpose contact lens solution (MPS) with the increased incidence of Fusarium keratitis.

Methods: Used contact lens cases with and without contact lenses and MPS containers were collected from patients with confirmed or possible Fusarium keratitis. Direct microscopy including transparent adhesive tape preparations and swab cultures were used to determine fungal colonization.

Chlamydia conjunctivitis and central retinal vein occlusion.

Purpose: To report a case of coexistent Chlamydia conjunctivitis and central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) in which both problems improved significantly after oral doxycyline.

Design: Interventional case report.

Methods: A healthy 39-year-old man presented with follicular and papillary conjunctivitis, unresponsive to topical antibiotic therapy, and a CRVO.