Peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome treated with dexamethasone implant: A case report.

Purpose: To describe a case of peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome (PPS) in a diabetic patient with cystoid macular edema (CME), treated with intravitreal dexamethasone implant (IDI) injection. This report also illustrates the history of the disease after repeated IDI and dexamethasone topical treatment.

Methods: A case report.

Heads-up 3D eye surgery: Safety outcomes and technological review after 2 years of day-to-day use.

Background: 3D heads-up visualization systems are aimed to improve the surgical experience by providing high-resolution imaging. Objective of our study is to analyze, over a long-time span, the grade of satisfaction and safety of day-to-day 3D surgery compared to standard surgery and to investigate the technical distinctiveness between the heads-up systems currently in use.

Methods: In this retrospective observational case series.

Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty After Previous Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty to Improve the Visual Outcomes.

Purpose: To describe a series of patients who underwent deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) after previous anterior lamellar keratoplasty (ALK) to improve their visual outcomes.

Methods: This is a retrospective case series of 9 DALK eyes (9 patients) with a history of previous ALK and an unsatisfactory visual outcome. Surgery was performed in all cases at least 3 years after ALK.

Wide-angle 3D viewing system with valved trocar applied to chandelier-assisted scleral buckling.

Introduction: Scleral buckling (SB) has been the first technique to repair a retinal detachment (RD) and it is still largely in use. Pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) is currently the most common technique, being more versatile and easier to approach. Here we report on a new SB variant, modified by using some of the latest technological advances borrowed from PPV.

Total or subtotal full thickness recipient bed cut to repair donor-recipient curvature disparity in cases of DM rupture with manual DALK.

Purpose: To report how to manage a specific type of Descemet's membrane (DM) rupture during manual DALK with a concurrent donor-recipient disparity of curvature.

Methods: Case report of two patients that had DM rupture during manual DALK with a concurrent donor-recipient disparity of curvature; the recipient bed was flatter (post-infectious scar, case 1) and steeper (keratoglobus, case 2) than the donor. Preoperative diagnosis, clinical exam, and best spectacle correct visual acuity (BSCVA) have been reported.

Manual deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty after partial unintentional full-thickness trephination.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe a surgical technique to perform deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) despite inadvertent full thickness trephination in one quadrant.

Methods: Case report of a 19-year-old boy who underwent DALK for visually significant post-infectious stromal scar in his left eye. An unintentional full thickness trephination occurred in the upper-nasal quadrant at the beginning of the surgery.

Cataract surgery in corneal transplantation.

Purpose Of Review: Corneal diseases are often associated with lens opacity. The present article reviews the recent advances in the management of cataract and corneal transplant.

Recent Findings: Thanks to the development of lamellar transplant techniques and the evolution of cataract surgery, we now have several strategies to address corneal diseases and cataract including 'lamellar triple procedure'.