Choroidal ischemia secondary to a diving injury.

Purpose: To report a case of choroidal ischemia in a professional diver after a decompression sickness accident.

Methods: A 31-year-old man presented a decompression sickness accident without any systemic manifestation. The symptoms were exclusively ophthalmic with sudden decrease of vision and presence of scotoma predominantly on the left eye immediately after a dive.

[Optic nerve head analysis using the confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (CSLO) of big cups versus normal cups].

Purpose: To comparatively evaluate the optic nerve head (ONH) using the confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (CSLO) in normal eye subjects (NE) versus big cup (BC) patients.

Materials And Methods: A total of 83 NEs (43 subjects) and 44 BC eyes (22 patients) were evaluated in this prospective study. The ONH was imaged using the CSLO (HRT-II; Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany).

Contribution of in vivo confocal microscopy to the diagnosis and management of infectious keratitis.

Infectious keratitis can lead to irreversible complications and even blindness. Identifying the infectious agent in this condition is a challenge for the ophthalmologist. Corneal cultures are considered to be the gold standard diagnostic tool for this condition.

[Wound healing modulation in glaucoma surgery].

The wound healing response is one of the major determinants of filtering surgery success. Over the last two decades, antifibrotic agents, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and mitomycin C (MMC), have modified the prognosis of filtering surgery, particularly in patients at high risk for failure. Nevertheless, these agents are associated with severe complications.