One-Year Clinical Outcomes Following Aspheric Toric Monofocal IOL with a Double C-Loop Haptic Design Implantation.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate one-year clinical outcomes in cataract patients with pre-existing corneal astigmatism implanted with a biconvex aspheric toric monofocal intraocular lens (IOL) with a double C-loop haptic-design.

Methods: One hundred and eighteen patients (236 eyes) with corneal astigmatism (≥0.75D) were implanted bilaterally with the PODEYE toric IOL and assessed up to 1-year after surgery.

Stability and Visual Outcomes of the Capsulotomy-Fixated FEMTIS-IOL After Automated Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Anterior Capsulotomy.

Purpose: To evaluate stability and performance of a new monofocal anterior capsulotomy-fixated intraocular lens (IOL) (FEMTIS; Teleon Surgical B.V., Spankeren, Netherlands) after femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS).

[New intraocular lens designs for femtosecond laser-assisted cataract operations : Chances and benefits].

Background: The perfection and high reproducibility of capsulotomy in femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) lead to the possibility of new intraocular lens (IOL) designs for capsulotomy fixed implantation.

Issue: Which different designs have so far been presented for which problems in capsulotomy fixation?

Material And Method: An evaluation of the literature and conference data was carried out.

Results: Currently four different types of femtolenses for capsulotomy fixation are described in the literature or are commercially available.

Determining and Comparing the Effective Lens Position and Refractive Outcome of a Novel Rhexis-Fixated Lens to Established Lens Designs.

Purpose: WE sought to evaluate differences in effective lens position (ELP) based on the lens design. Intraocular lenses (IOLs) with plate-haptic, c-loop haptic, and a rhexis-fixated lens were compared.

Design: Retrospective, multicenter, comparative case series.

SFTA3 - a novel surfactant protein of the ocular surface and its role in corneal wound healing and tear film surface tension.

The study aimed to characterize the expression and function of SFTA3 at the ocular surface and in tears. Ocular tissues, conjunctival (HCjE) and human corneal (HCE) epithelial cell lines as well as tearfilm of patients suffering from different forms of dry eye disease (DED) were analyzed by means of RT-PCR, western blot, immunohistochemistry, and ELISA. A possible role of recombinant SFTA3 in corneal wound healing was investigated performing in vitro scratch assays.

Validity and repeatability of the Aladdin ocular biometer.

Aim: To assess the accuracy and reproducibility of biometry undertaken with the Aladdin (Topcon, Tokyo, Japan) in comparison with the current gold standard device, the IOLMaster 500 (Zeiss, Jena, Germany).

Setting: University Eye Clinic, Birmingham, UK and Refractive Surgery Centre, Kiel, Germany.

Methods: The right eye of 75 patients with cataracts and 22 healthy participants were assessed using the two devices.

Rock 'n' roll phacoemulsification technique: noncracking and nonchopping approach.

The rock 'n' roll phaco technique we describe does not require nucleus chopping or cracking. In this easy-to-learn technique, the lens nucleus is fragmented from both sides, which seems to be an advantage in very soft nuclei.

A new method of cornea modulation with excimer laser for simultaneous correction of presbyopia and ametropia.

Purpose: To investigate the outcomes of simultaneous correction of presbyopia and ametropia by a bi-aspheric cornea modulation technique, based on the creation of a central area hyperpositive for near vision and leaving the pericentral cornea for far vision in hyperopic, emmetropic, and myopic presbyopic patients.

Setting: Sixty eyes of 30 patients were treated with the PresbyMAX technique by one surgeon (D.U.

Perioperative intensity-modulated brachytherapy for refractory orbital rhabdomyosarcomas in children.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and toxicity of perioperative intensity-modulated brachytherapy (IMBT) as well as functional outcome in children with therapy-refractory orbital rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS).

Patients And Methods: Since 1993, children with therapy-refractory orbital RMS have been treated by a multidisciplinary approach combining function-preserving, mostly R1 tumor resection and perioperative IMBT at the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. All children with orbital RMS, who were enrolled in this multidisciplinary treatment protocol between 1993 and 2002, were prospectively assessed with respect to evaluation of side effects and functional outcome.

Laserinterferometric measurements of accommodative changes in the position of an optic-shift intraocular lens.

Purpose: To measure optically and pharmacologically induced movement of an optic-shift intraocular lens (HumanOptics 1CU).

Methods: The change in position as well as the accommodative effect of the 1CU was determined using an anterior chamber laser interferometer (Zeiss ACMaster) in 15 eyes of 9 patients. Accommodation was induced by optical stimulus and pharmacologically by pilocarpine 2%.

Potentially accommodating 1CU intraocular lens: 1-year results in 553 eyes and literature review.

Purpose: To investigate the advantages, clinical outcomes, and safety after implantation of the 1CU (HumanOptics AG) optic shift intraocular lens (IOL) in comparison with a conventional monofocal IOL.

Methods: In a prospective non-randomized study, 553 eyes implanted with the 1CU IOL were examined. In a control group, a monofocal posterior chamber IOL (MCTE, Dr Schmidt) was implanted in 219 eyes.

Feasibility of combined operation and perioperative intensity-modulated brachytherapy of advanced/recurrent malignancies involving the skull base.

Purpose: To assess the technical feasibility and toxicity of combined operation and perioperative intensity-modulated fractionated interstitial brachytherapy (IMBT) in advanced-stage malignancies involving the skull base with the goal of preserving the patients' senses of sight.

Patients And Methods: This series consisted of 18 consecutive cases: ten patients with paranasal sinus carcinomas, five with sarcomas, two with primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs), and one with parotid gland carcinoma. After, in most cases, subtotal surgical resection (R1-R2: carried out so that the patients' senses of sight were preserved), two to twelve (mean five) afterloading plastic tubes were placed into the tumor bed.

Intravitreal r-TPA and gas injection in traumatic submacular hemorrhage.

Aim: To present the technique and efficiency of intravitreal recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (r-TPA) and gas injection in acute submacular hemorrhage (SMH) due to traumatic choroidal rupture.

Patients And Methods: 0.4 ml of sulfur hexafluoride was injected into the vitreous cavity in 2 patients with SMH due to traumatic choroidal rupture.

Metastatic tumors of the orbit: a retrospective study.

Purpose: To present the clinical features and facts on prognosis, therapy and diagnostics of orbital metastases treated in the Orbital Center Kiel.

Methods: We reviewed the records of 20 patients with orbital metastases (ca. 2% of all orbital patients seen in a 10-year period).