Fovea-threatening and fovea-involving peripheral Coats disease: effects of posture and intervention.

Background: We believe that our experience with patients presenting with Coats disease and macular sparing should be shared with our colleagues. We would like to show the effect of posture and prompt intervention in cases with fovea-threatening and/or fovea-involving peripheral Coats disease (FTPCD). This association has been poorly debated in our specialty and literature.

Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Findings in Diffuse Unilateral Subacute Neuroretinitis.

Background And Objective: To report a unique case series of diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis (DUSN) patients imaged with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).

Patients And Methods: In this retrospective case series, multimodal imaging was performed in four patients with DUSN at the time of patient visit. The study patients underwent standard clinical treatment for DUSN.

Steroid-induced ocular hypertensive response in children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The aim of this study was to evaluate intraocular pressure (IOP) associated with use of glucocorticoids in children and adolescents treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. We carried out a prospective descriptive study with measurement of IOP before treatment (D0), 8th (D8), 14th (D14), and 28 h days (D28) of treatment. We examined 12 patients, with two cases of ocular hypertension, and it was found a statistically significant difference between the means of IOP between D0 versus D8 and D0 versus D14 (P = 0.

[Retinal impairment in young individuals with sickle cell anemia (hemoglobin SS disease) in university hospital in Northeastern of Brazil].

Purposes: To describe and categorize retinal vascular changes in patients with sickle cell anemia, as well as to compare diagnostic methods (indirect ophthalmoscopy and fluorescein angiography).

Methods: Patients with sickle cell anemia over the age of seven were examined. Complete ophthalmologic examination with indirect ophthalmoscopy and angiography was performed in each patient.

[Comparison of scanning laser polarimetry, optical coherence tomography 1 and Stratus optical coherence tomography for the detection of axonal loss in band atrophy of the optic nerve].

Purpose: To compare the abilitiy of scanning laser polarimetry (GDx), optical coherence tomography (OCT) 1 and Stratus- optical coherence tomography to discriminate between healthy eyes and eyes with band atrophy of the optic nerve and temporal hemianopsia.

Methods: Twenty-three eyes with band atrophy of the optic nerve and 23 eyes from healthy subjects were included in this observational prospective case-control study. All eyes underwent retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness analysis using GDx, optical coherence tomography-1 and Stratus-optical coherence tomography.

Retinal nerve fiber layer loss documented by Stratus OCT in patients with pituitary adenoma: case report.

Purpose: To report abnormalities of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness using optical coherence tomography (Stratus OCT) in patients with pituitary adenoma.

Methods: Two patients with long-standing bitemporal visual field defects and optic nerve band atrophy were submitted to optical coherence tomography examination (Stratus OCT).

Results: Both patients with band atrophy revealed diffuse loss of the retinal nerve fiber layer on Stratus OCT, with severe reduction in the nasal and temporal areas of the optic disc.

Conjunctival hyperemia associated with bimatoprost use: a histopathologic study.

Purpose: To evaluate histopathologic signs of conjunctival inflammation in patients with conjunctival hyperemia induced by bimatoprost treatment.

Design: Prospective interventional study.

Methods: The study included 15 eyes of 15 patients scheduled for cataract surgery.

Intraocular pressure fluctuations in medical versus surgically treated glaucomatous patients.

The purpose of this study was to compare the IOP fluctuations in the daytime tension curves of glaucoma patients under ocular hypotensive therapy with those of patients previously submitted to trabeculectomy. We also evaluated the IOP peaks and fluctuations for the same patients in response to the water-drinking test (WDT). The study included 30 primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients using ocular hypotensive medications and with no history of previous intraocular surgery (medical group), and 30 POAG patients previously submitted to one or more trabeculectomies though taking no medication at the time of the study (surgical group).