LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS OF CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION COMPLICATING ANGIOID STREAKS.

Purpose: To report the very long-term visual prognosis of choroidal neovascularization complicating angioid streaks in the antivascular endothelial growth factor era.

Methods: Retrospective monocentric study aimed at analyzing patients' demographics, choroidal neovascularization features, angioid streak-associated conditions, and previous and current therapies for choroidal neovascularization. The main outcome measures were the quantitative measurement of central retinal pigment epithelial atrophy enlargement by comparing the ratio of pixels involved on automated infrared images acquired by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and the changes in best-corrected visual acuity.

Inaugural severe vaso-occlusive retinopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Purpose To report the case of a patient with an inaugural severe bilateral vaso-occlusive retinopathy due to systemic lupus erythematosus. Method Clinical examination, fundus pictures and fluorescein angiography were performed. Results A 26-year-old, healthy, African man presented with a meningo-encephalitic syndrome and a severe bilateral visual impairment.

Takayasu disease revealed by bilateral loss of vision.

Purpose: Takayasu arteritis is a nonspecific granulomatous inflammatory arteriopathy of unknown cause, most frequently diagnosed in young Asian women. The authors present an atypical initial presentation of Takayasu disease with bilateral loss of vision in a young Haitian man.

Methods: Case report.

Influence of a capsular tension ring on ocular aberrations after cataract surgery: a comparative study.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of a capsular tension ring on ocular and corneal aberrations after cataract surgery.

Methods: In this prospective, randomized, contralateral eye study, 20 patients who underwent bilateral cataract surgery were divided into two groups: eyes that received the capsular tension ring (CTR group) and fellow eyes that did not receive the capsular tension ring (IOL group). Total optical aberrations were measured 3 months postoperatively.

Ocular aberrations after cataract surgery with hydrophobic and hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses: comparative study.

Purpose: To compare tilt and some higher-order aberrations (HOAs) in patients who had cataract surgery and implantation of 2 types of acrylic intraocular lens (IOL), the hydrophobic MA60AC (Alcon) or the hydrophilic XLSTABI (Ioltech).

Setting: Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, Department of Pr Hoang-Xuan, Paris, France.

Methods: Sixty eyes were included in this study.