Update on pseudophakic cystoid macular edema treatment options.

As far as the treatment of chronic pseudophakic CME is concerned, it is important to understand that postoperative CME usually resolves with time. One must gauge the various treatment modalities outlined above with improvements in visual acuity and decreasing clinical macular thickening. Mild cases usually require no treatment, whereas those that entail clinically significant reductions in vision or macular thickening do require appropriate intervention.

Subtenon's depot corticosteroid injections in patients with a history of corticosteroid-induced intraocular pressure elevation.

Purpose: To determine whether a history of intraocular pressure elevation from local corticosteroid administration could predict subsequent intraocular pressure elevation after posterior subtenon's corticosteroid injection.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed of 64 consecutive patients (64 eyes) receiving posterior subtenon's corticosteroid injection. Patients were categorized as either historical corticosteroid responders or nonresponders based on intraocular pressure response to topical corticosteroid drops in the same eye or to previous posterior subtenon's corticosteroid injection of the fellow eye.