Publications by authors named "Darrell E Baskin"
Clinical Relevance: Visual function impairment from diabetic retinopathy can have a considerable impact on patient's quality of life. Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) is most commonly used to assess visual function and guide clinical trials. However, BCVA is affected late in the disease process, is not affected in early disease, and does not capture some of the visual disturbances described by patients with diabetes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the feasibility of daily Home OCT imaging among patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
Design: Prospective observational study.
Participants: Participants with ≥ 1 eye with previously untreated nAMD and visual acuity 20/20 to 20/320.
Objective: To determine whether stereoscopic footage of cataract surgery could be captured with smartphones and to develop a procedure for editing and viewing the footage. The authors sought to measure whether subjectively convincing stereo footage could be captured with smartphones, whether it would be possible to sync this footage for stereoscopic viewing, and whether these tasks could easily be performed at lower cost than commercially available options.
Design: Brief research report.
Objectives: To evaluate the effects of high-dose oral omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on electroretinography and omega-3 index in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration.
Design: Single institution, prospective, nonrandomized, noncomparative interventional case series comprising 34 eyes of 17 patients older than 50 years of age with early to intermediate age-related macular degeneration. Patients received oral supplementation with 4 g of omega-3 fatty acids daily (840 mg eicosapentaenoic acid/2520 mg docosahexaenoic acid) for 6 months.
Evolution of severe lightning maculopathy visualized with spectral domain optical coherence tomography.
Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging
March 2011
The authors report a case of lightning maculopathy with serial spectral domain optical coherence tomographs that, for the first time, elegantly illustrate the natural history of this uncommon, ominous condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose Of Review: Because optical coherence tomography (OCT) has developed quite rapidly in recent years, the purpose of this review is to synthesize much of the recent literature on the use of OCT in the diagnosis and management of diabetic macular edema (DME).
Recent Findings: OCT has become increasingly utilized in clinical management and in research protocols in the approach to DME. Spectral domain OCT has given clinicians and researchers an even greater pathophysiologic understanding of DME.
Purpose: To report (1) the prevalence of bacteremia among infants with dacryocystitis and (2) the influence of timing of antibiotic administration on the need for repeat probing in the management of these patients.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of the hospital records of 25 infants < or =6 weeks of age treated for acute dacryocystitis was conducted, including analysis of laboratory data and outcomes.
Results: Of 22 infants who underwent blood cultures, 5 (22.
Purpose: To report a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which manifested as recurrent bilateral keratoconjunctivitis in an infant.
Design: Interventional case report.
Intervention: The patient underwent numerous diagnostic studies, including two endoscopies, skin biopsy, conjunctival pH measurement, and a skeletal survey.