Intraocular beta-radiation for proliferative vitreo-retinopathy.

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is the most common cause of failure in retinal detachment surgery. PVR is a result of an enhanced healing process. Various surgical and pharmacological methods have failed to provide a definite solution to the problem.

Early controlled drainage of massive suprachoroidal hemorrhage with the aid of an expanding gas bubble and risk factors.

Purpose: To assess the visual outcome after massive suprachoroidal hemorrhage managed by early controlled drainage using the aid of an intravitreal expanding gas bubble (100% perfluoropropane). The ocular and systemic risk factors were also reviewed.

Methods: Data were obtained retrospectively from patients with massive suprachoroidal hemorrhage who were treated in Worthing and Southlands National Health Service Trust between January 2003 and December 2008.

Reopening of a macular hole after nd:yag laser capsulotomy in a vitrectomized eye.

Purpose: To describe a case of reopening of macular hole in a vitrectomized eye after Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy.

Methods: A 70-year-old man presented with a Stage 3 macula hole 5 years previously with a vision of 6/24.

Results: The patient had a vitrectomy with perfluoropropane tamponade.

Visual function following transpupillary thermotherapy with adjusted laser parameters for the treatment of exudative age-related macular degeneration: a pilot study.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) using adjusted laser parameters for the treatment of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

Methods: TTT was performed on patients with CNV using a diode laser (810 nm) for 60 s in a subthreshold manner. Power settings were varied between 460 and 1200 mW, depending on lesion size, presence of pigment epithelial detachment and the amount of fundal pigmentation and subretinal fluid.