Systemic Disease Associations in a Cohort of Hispanic Patients with Scleritis.

(1) Purpose: A patient with scleritis may have an associated systemic disease, which is often autoimmunological and seldom infectious in origin. The data regarding such associations in Hispanic populations are scarce. Therefore, we evaluated the clinical characteristics and systemic-disease associations of a cohort of Hispanic patients with scleritis.

Intravitreal bevacizumab as therapy for refractory neovascular glaucoma secondary to iris metastasis of breast carcinoma.

Purpose: To report a case of refractory glaucoma secondary to iris metastasis from breast cancer which was successfully treated with intravitreal bevacizumab.

Observations: A 72-year-old woman presented with left ocular pain, vision loss and neovascular glaucoma secondary to iris metastasis from breast cancer. A single intravitreal injection of bevacizumab resulted in prolonged resolution of iris neovascularization, reduction of intraocular pressure and ocular pain relief.