Outcomes of surgery for idiopathic macular hole: a case-control study comparing silicone oil with gas tamponade.

Background And Objective: To compare outcomes of macular hole surgery using silicone oil with C3F8 gas tamponade.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective case-control study of patients who underwent macular hole surgery for stage 2, 3, or 4 macular holes.

Results: Forty-six eyes of 44 patients underwent macular hole surgery involving injection of silicone oil (23 cases) or gas tamponade (23 controls).

Endophthalmitis after pars plana vitrectomy: Incidence, causative organisms, and visual acuity outcomes.

Purpose: To investigate the incidence, causative organisms, and visual acuity outcomes associated with endophthalmitis after pars plana vitrectomy.

Design: Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series.

Methods: The medical records were reviewed of all patients who developed acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis (within 6 weeks of surgery) after pars plana vitrectomy at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 2003.

Immediate postoperative use of a topical agent to prevent intraocular pressure elevation after pars plana vitrectomy with gas tamponade.

Objective: To determine whether a single topical aqueous suppressant applied immediately after pars plana vitrectomy with long-acting gas tamponade prevents intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation.

Methods: Fifty patients who met the inclusion criteria and underwent pars plana vitrectomy with long-acting gas tamponade were randomized to receive a combination of timolol maleate and dorzolamide hydrochloride, long-acting timolol alone, dorzolamide alone, or placebo at the conclusion of surgery. The IOP was checked by a portable, handheld tonometer (Tono-Pen) at the conclusion of surgery and at 5 hours, 1 day, and 1 week after surgery.

Endophthalmitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Objective: To investigate the clinical settings and treatment outcomes for endophthalmitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Design: Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series.

Methods: The medical records were reviewed of all patients treated for P.

Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis: review of incidence and visual outcomes (1995-2001).

Background And Objective: To determine the incidence rate of acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis and to assess visual acuity outcomes after treatment from the most recent 7 years (1995-2001) compared with the previous 11 years (1984-1994) among patients undergoing intraocular surgery at the same institution.

Patients And Methods: The medical records were reviewed of all patients undergoing intraocular surgery at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2001.

Results: The 7-year incidence rate of acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis was 0.

Infraorbital nerve palsy: a complication of laser in situ keratomileusis.

Purpose: To report infraorbital nerve dysfunction after laser in situ keratomileusis.

Design: Observational case report.

Methods: Neuro-ophthalmologic examination with brain and orbital magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and orbital computed tomography (CT).