Publications by authors named "Edilberto Olivalves"
Purpose:: To evaluate the outcomes of phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in eyes with uveitis.
Methods:: Consecutive patients with uveitis and cataracts who had phacoemulsification and acrylic IOL implantation during 2007-2012 were evaluated for visual outcomes, etiology, and complications. Inflammation was controlled for at least 3 months before surgery, and oral prednisone (0.
Purpose:: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerance of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for the treatment of noninfectious uveitis using the methods advocated by the Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working Group and to compare this with other studies of immunosuppression in ocular inflammation.
Methods:: Retrospective case series. Patients with noninfectious uveitis, followed at a tertiary Uveitis Service in São Paulo, Brazil, from 2007 to 2014 and receiving oral MMF for a minimum of 6 months, were retrospectively reviewed.
Aim: To evaluate the choroidal thickness (CT) in patients with long-standing Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT).
Methods: A prospective case-control study developed at a tertiary centre at São Paulo, Brazil. EDI-OCT images were obtained in 16 patients (30 eyes) with VKH disease who had had the disease for more than 6 months since disease onset, and in 17 normal individuals controlled by age (32 eyes).
Background: To investigate indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) findings in patients with long-standing Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease and their correlation with disease activity on clinical examination as well as with systemic corticosteroid therapy.
Methods: Twenty-eight patients (51 eyes) with long-standing (≥6 months from disease onset) VKH disease whose treatment was tapered based only in clinical features were prospectively included at a single center in Brazil. All patients underwent standardized clinical evaluation, which included fundus photography, fluorescein angiography and ICGA.
Purpose: To assess the efficacy and side effects of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with Behçet's disease uveitis.
Methods: A nonrandomized retrospective case-series study analyzed data from 22 patients with Behçet's disease uveitis, from a single Uveitis Service, São Paulo, Brazil (period 1978-2007), under systemic chlorambucil and/or cyclosporine A, for at least 6 months with a minimum one-year follow-up. Drug efficacy was measured by reduction in relapse rate and reduction of prednisone dose.
Purpose: To propose an analytic framework for ocular fundus alterations in late-stage Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease, to describe the characteristics of overall retinal function as measured with full-field electroretinography (ERG), and to correlate the intensity of the fundus changes with full-field ERG alterations and to stratify patients accordingly.
Design: Cross-sectional case series.
Methods: Forty-seven eyes of 26 patients with late-stage VKH disease (> 6 months past disease onset) followed-up at the University of São Paulo School of Medicine underwent fundus photography within 2 months of a full-field ERG examination, both according to predefined protocols.
Purpose: To evalulate the applicability of the Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease to Brazilian patients and to verify the association between different disease categories, clinical parameters, and the presence of HLA-DRB1*0405.
Design: A retrospective observational case series.
Methods: Medical charts of 67 patients (10 to 64 years in age; 12 men and 55 women), from the Uveitis Service, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo School of Medicine (HCFMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil were reviewed.
Background: Ocular toxocariasis is usually a unilateral posterior uveitis in otherwise asymptomatic children. The authors report the rare occurrence of presumed ocular toxocariasis presenting as a juxtapapillary lesion in a 52-year-old woman with systemic manifestations of visceral larva migrans.
Case Report: A 52-year-old woman presented with blurred vision in her right eye for 2 months.
The authors report a case of a patient with idiopathic orbital inflammation with extension beyond the orbit. Biopsy was performed to confirm the diagnosis of idiopathic orbital inflammation and computed tomography demonstrated the extraorbital extension. Treatment with methotrexate and radiotherapy was used.
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