Publications by authors named "Claudia Oliveira-Ferreira"

Purpose: Syphilis is a re-emerging infectious disease with various systemic manifestations, including ocular involvement, which can lead to significant morbidity if untreated. This study aims to analyze the ocular manifestations of syphilis in patients treated at a Portuguese tertiary center over a 14-year period.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective review of patients diagnosed with syphilis who presented with ocular symptoms from 2010 to 2023 was conducted.

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  • The purpose of the study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of scleral-fixated Akreos AO60 intraocular lens (IOL) implantation using Gore-Tex suture in patients lacking capsular integrity after cataract surgery.
  • The study involved analyzing data from 37 eyes of 36 patients over a mean follow-up period of about 549 days, focusing on pre- and postoperative visual acuity and complications.
  • Results showed a significant improvement in visual acuity from an average logMAR score of 1.61 before surgery to 0.57 after, indicating successful surgical outcomes for various indications like aphakia and subluxated IOLs.
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Introduction: Endogenous endophthalmitis is a rare but devastating ocular infection, resulting from microbial seeding of the eye during bacteremia or fungemia. Among other sources of septicemia, intravenous drug abuse is a significant risk factor, and endogenous endophthalmitis should always be thought of in any patient with a history of injectable drug use, presenting with a painful vision loss and a red inflamed eye.

Case Description: We report the case of a 47-year-old male, with a history of injectable drug consumption, who presented to our emergency department complaining of a painful red eye and recent deterioration of visual acuity.

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Introduction: To describe a "triple" surgical procedure, which combined traumatic cataract extraction by phacoemulsification with gas endotamponade and cyclocryotherapy in the successful treatment of a traumatic cyclodialysis cleft.

Methods: A 44-year-old man who suffered severe left eye blunt trauma with an elastic band developed a 4-hour extent cyclodialysis cleft with consequent hypotony. After 7 weeks of persistent hypotonic maculopathy unresponsive to medical treatment, and with an evolving traumatic cataract, the patient underwent cataract surgery combined with intravitreal gas endotamponade (20% SF6) and cyclocryotherapy.

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In the late 1970s, prone positioning was established as an efficient treatment for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Currently, with the world facing a global health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become an accepted routine practice in intensive care units dealing with critically ill COVID-19 patients. Ophthalmic complications associated with the prone position are not a novelty in clinical practice.

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Prcis: An Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) tube in the ciliary sulcus (CS) is safer for the endothelium. At 4 years of follow-up, there was a significant decrease in endothelial cell count only with anterior chamber (AC) placement.

Purpose: Corneal endothelium (CE) damage is one of the most feared long-term complications that can result from glaucoma drainage devices.

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The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate if, in ocular normotensive patients, at the time of diagnosis of optic nerve head drusen (ONHD), perimetric mean deviation (PMD) on visual field (VF) examination and retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness on optical coherence tomography correlated with intraocular pressure (IOP). There was a significant association between IOP and PMD (Spearman's rho = -0.863, < .

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Introduction: Unexplained visual loss after removal of silicone oil from the eye has been described. The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence of unexplained loss of visual acuity after SO removal and to provide possible explanations for this phenomenon.

Methods: This retrospective study included patients that underwent vitreoretinal surgery, at Centro Hospitalar São João, between January of 2012 and October of 2018.

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Purpose: To determine the incidence of intraoperative complications of phacoemulsification cataract surgery in a teaching hospital and to compare the intraoperative complication rate between resident trainees and staff ophthalmologists, to ascertain the overall rate of intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation on postoperative day 1 (POD1), and, again, to compare this value between resident trainees and staff surgeons.

Setting: Centro Hospitalar São João, Oporto, Portugal.

Design: Retrospective study.

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The role of retinal vasculature's dysfunction in the physiopathology of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) has been extensively described. Recently, the existence of a diabetic choroidal vasculopathy has been proposed. The purpose of this study was to compare choroidal thickness (CT) in nondiabetic patients and in type 2 diabetic patients without retinopathy, using EDI SD-OCT.

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The microbiological profile of infectious keratitis has shown great differences across the world. Due to the continuous shifting trends in microbiological profile and antibiotic resistance patterns reported in several studies, constant local updates are crucial to provide an adequate treatment. The propose of this study was to analyze the incidence of infectious keratitis, possible changing trends in microbiological profile, and bacteria sensitivity to commonly used antibiotics, in our tertiary center, in the last 10 years.

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