Long-term Outcomes of Combined Phacotrabeculectomy Surgery in a Singapore Tertiary Hospital.

Purpose: To describe the long-term outcomes of phacotrabeculectomy from a tertiary glaucoma service in Singapore.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Methods: Seven hundred ninety-six eyes of 698 patients who underwent phacotrabeculectomy surgery at the Singapore National Eye Centre between 2005 and 2007 with a minimum follow-up of three years were included.

Brown discoloration of acrylic hydrophobic intraocular lens.

Objective: We report a case series of brown discoloration of Abbott Medical Optics, USA, acrylic intraocular lens (IOLs; AABOO, ZCBOO, and ZMBOO) after cataract operation.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Participants: Patients with brown discoloration of their IOLs postoperatively during the period from March 2013 to October 2013 at the Singapore National Eye Centre were consecutively identified.

Ocular Biometrics of Myopic Eyes With Narrow Angles.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the ocular biometrics between myopic patients with and without narrow angles.

Methods: Patients with a stable myopic refraction (myopia worse than -1.00 D spherical equivalent) were prospectively recruited.

Retinal vascular caliber between eyes with asymmetric glaucoma.

Purpose: To compare differences in retinal arterial and venular caliber (RAC and RVC respectively) between fellow eyes with glaucoma of asymmetric severity.

Methods: We included subjects with bilateral primary glaucoma that had vertical cup-disc ratios (VCDR) >0.2 between both eyes, or visual field (VF) mean deviation (MD) >6.

Nodular scleritis and Sweet's syndrome.

The authors report a case of nodular scleritis in Sweet's syndrome. The patient was a 40-year-old Malay woman with a history of Sweet's syndrome presented with a 6-day history of a red and painful right eye associated with blurred vision. Clinical examination revealed nodular scleritis of the right eye which was deemed secondary to Sweet's syndrome after investigations for other systemic diseases were negative.

Prevalence of dengue maculopathy in patients hospitalized for dengue fever.

Objective: Dengue fever causes numerous systemic manifestations, including maculopathy, with loss of vision. This study sought to determine the prevalence of dengue maculopathy in patients hospitalized with dengue fever.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study in which consecutive patients hospitalized with dengue fever during a dengue epidemic were enrolled over a 3-week period.

Sympathetic ophthalmia in Singapore: new trends in an old disease.

Background: Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is an uncommon uveitic condition that occurs after injury to the uvea of one eye and may occur after accidental ocular trauma or ocular surgery. We sought to investigate the common causes of SO in Singapore and the demographic profile as well as the final visual acuity after treatment in these patients.

Methods: This was a retrospective, non-comparative case series in which patients with SO were identified from the Singapore National Eye Centre uveitis database in the period between 1993 and 2003.

Infectious keratitis associated with daily disposable contact lenses.

Purpose: To report two cases of infectious keratitis associated with the use of daily disposable soft contact lenses.

Method: Two case reports of individuals who developed infectious keratitis while wearing daily disposable soft contact lenses are presented.

Results: The first case is that of a 34-year-old woman who had been using daily disposable soft contact lenses for 18 months before she developed a corneal ulcer in her left eye.