Surgical treatment of retinal detachment following acute retinal necrosis syndrome: surgical results in four patients.

Background: Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) syndrome is an uncommon but severe ocular disease that typically affects otherwise healthy individuals. It is frequently complicated with retinal detachment and the visual prognosis in such patients is usually poor.

Methods: We operated on four eyes in four patients from 1999 through 2001.

Early postoperative capsular block syndrome.

Background: Postoperative capsular block syndrome (CBS) is a unique and rare complication of continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC). The purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics and results of early postoperative CBS.

Methods: Patients who developed early postoperative CBS after cataract surgery from October 1998 through September 2002 were retrospectively identified.

Retinal toxicity of intravitreal tissue plasminogen activator: case report and literature review.

Objective: To present the clinical picture of retinal toxicity of commercial tissue plasminogen activator (tPA).

Design: Case report and literature review.

Methods: Two successive intravitreal injections of tPA (50 micro g) 3 days apart with gas tamponade were given to treat a 49-year-old man with submacular hemorrhage.

Presumed choroidal atypical tuberculosis superinfected with cytomegalovirus retinitis in an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patient: a case report.

Background: To report an unusual case of multifocal choroidopathy with uveitis and cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) after initially presenting with pulmonary tuberculosis (Mycobacterium kansasii).

Case: Slit-lamp biomicroscopy and indirect ophthalmoscopic examination were done. Vitreous biopsy, pars plana vitrectomy, and retinal biopsy were performed.

High-density vitreous substitute in the management of advanced Coats' disease.

Advanced Coats' disease is a threat to vision. Management of advanced Coats' disease has long been a challenge to ophthalmologists. Some people have attempted to use pars plana vitrectomy and intraocular diathermy on diseased vessels followed by intraocular gas or silicone oil injection.

Selection of scleral buckling for primary retinal detachment.

Purpose: Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) may be caused by a flap tear or by an atrophic hole along the lattice degeneration. The aim of this study was to see whether different types of scleral buckling could achieve comparable reattachment rates in eyes with specific types of RRD.

Patients And Methods: 128 eyes with RRD were assigned to receive 1 of 3 buckling procedures according to the following guidelines: retinal detachments caused by flap tears were treated with radial segmental buckling; retinal detachments caused by atrophic holes with limited lattice degeneration were treated with circumferential segmental buckling, and retinal detachments caused by multiple breaks with extensive lattice degeneration were treated with encircling buckling.