Purpose: To describe central serous chorioretinopathy cases presenting as uveal effusion syndrome, providing new insights into "pachychoroid spectrum" diseases.
Methods: Clinical charts, color fundus photographs, fluorescein angiography, indocyanine green angiography, optical coherence tomography, ultrasound imaging, cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, and biometry of four eyes of three patients were assessed. A literature review was conducted.
Aims: Diabetic macular edema (DME) frequently presents bilaterally. In case of bilateral retinal disease, the visual impairment (VI) and the visual acuity (VA) are strongly correlated to the better eye. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of ranibizumab intravitreal injections (IVR) on VI in patients with simultaneous VA loss due to DME.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOphthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
June 2018
Background And Objective: To analyze the location of familial retinal arterial tortuosity (fRAT) in the three-dimensional structure of retinal capillaries.
Patients And Methods: Retrospective observational study. Twelve eyes of six patients (two of whom were brothers) were imaged by optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).
Background: To estimate the need for bilateral intravitreal anti-VEGF injections in patients treated for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), diabetic macular edema (DME), retinal vein occlusion, choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in high myopia, and other causes of CNV.
Methods: All consecutive patients treated with intravitreal anti-VEGF injection over a 1-month period were included in a prospective multicenter survey. The reason for intravitreal anti-VEGF injection and the involvement of the fellow eye in the pathology requiring a treatment with intravitreal anti-VEGF were recorded.
Purpose: To describe bridge arch-shaped serous retinal detachment (SRD) in exudative age-related macular degeneration and evaluate its functional outcomes.
Methods: In this monocentric, retrospective, noncomparative case series, patients were included. Patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration and bridge arch-shaped SRD treated with ranibizumab were included.
Purpose: To describe peripapillary retinal pigment epithelium changes observed in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and evaluate their prevalence.
Methods: This study is a prospective, monocentric, comparative case series including 104 consecutive patients with AMD, and 34 patients who are more than 60 years old and consulting for other conditions (control group). Color and fundus autofluorescence images centered on the optic disk were taken and graded by 2 independent readers from 0 to 4: 0, absent; 1, uneven background; 2, focal hyperautofluorescent dots and spots; 3, light reticular pattern; 4, dense reticular pattern.
Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate the long-term efficacy of ranibizumab for the treatment of myopic choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in a clinical setting.
Methods: This was a retrospective, monocentric, noncomparative analysis of 51 eyes of 51 patients with naïve juxtafoveal or subfoveal myopic CNV treated with intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) on a pro re nata basis for at least 24 months. The patients' demographic data were recorded, including the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) measured with an ETDRS chart, location of the CNV, grade of myopic changes, central foveal thickness (CFT), and number of administered IVR.
Purpose: To investigate the outcome of intravitreal ranibizumab and/or dexamethasone implant treatment for treatment of macular edema (ME) secondary to central or branch retinal vein occlusion (CRVO or BRVO) in a clinical setting.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients followed for at least 6 months. Data recorded included the type of occlusion, initial and final visual acuity, and number of injections.
Background/purpose: Recently, aflibercept was proposed with a protocol of a bimonthly fixed regimen. Our purpose was to evaluate the results of this regimen in patients treated with ranibizumab.
Method: We conducted a retrospective analysis of consecutive patients with naïve neovascular age-related macular degeneration treated with a bimonthly fixed regimen of intravitreal injections of ranibizumab after 3 monthly injections.
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol
November 2013
Background/purpose: Visual results of ranibizumab given pro re nata in clinical settings depend greatly from the achievement of the monthly follow-up. In 2007, a previous study performed in our tertiary care showed a mean visual gain of only + 0.7 ETDRS chart letters, probably because of insufficient number of follow-up visits and injections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the prevalence of macular complications in tilted disk syndrome by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT).
Methods: A monocentric retrospective study of consecutive patients with tilted disk syndrome, whose eyes were examined by spectral domain OCT (Cirrus; Zeiss) and fundus photography.
Results: Fifty consecutive patients (39 women and 11 men; age range, 41-96 years) with uni- or bilateral tilted disk syndrome were enrolled.
Purpose: To report the presence of pseudocysts in retinal layers of eyes with geographic atrophy (GA) attributable to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to estimate their prevalence.
Design: Retrospective study.
Methods: setting: Clinical practice.
Purpose: To evaluate the results of 1 year of treatment with intravitreal ranibizumab for exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a clinical setting.
Design: Nonrandomized, single-center, retrospective, interventional case series.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of consecutive charts and angiograms of patients with previously untreated exudative AMD, treated in one or both eyes with ranibizumab between January 2 and October 31, 2007.