Surgical treatment of macular holes with and without the use of autologous platelet-rich plasma.

Purpose: To compare the results of treatment of idiopathic full-thickness macular holes (MHs) with and without the use of autologous platelet-rich plasma (APRP).

Methods: This partially retrospective study included 152 patients (152 eyes) with MHs operated in the years 2010-2014 using conventional technology with internal limiting membrane peeling (control group) and 62 patients (62 eyes), operated by the same surgeons in 2015-2017 with additional application of APRP on MH (platelet group). Pre and postoperative best-corrected visual acuities (BCVA) were recorded, and retinal microstructure was studied using optical coherence tomography.

[Changes in perfusional and morphological parameters of the macular area after silicone oil tamponade of the vitreous cavity].

Purpose: To compare the changes of the macular morphological and functional parameters in the postoperative period in patients with silicone oil tamponade after successful surgery of the macula-on rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Material And Methods: The study included 20 eyes operated on for macula-on RRD, which made up the first group, and the control group (20 eyes) for comparison. All patients of the study group underwent vitrectomy using silicone oil tamponade.

[The mechanism of the resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to phages from the International Collection].

The resistance of methicillin-resistant staphylococci to phage 85 is due to the presence of a certain system restriction modification in microbial cells. The loss of the capacity for restricting phage DNA by the cell as the consequence of the loss of the mec determinant is not accompanied by the loss of its capacity for modifying phage DNA.