Infectious Scleritis - Clinical Characteristics, Causative Factors, and Treatment Outcomes in an Indian Population.

Purpose: To study the clinical features, causative factors and treatment outcomes in patients with infectious scleritis seen in India.

Methods: A retrospective study of all patients examined at a tertiary care center between August 2012 and March 2021.

Results: Forty-five patients (45 eyes; mean age 52.

SUPRACHOROIDAL SPACE INJECTION TECHNIQUE: Expert Panel Guidance.

Purpose: To develop professional guidelines for best practices for suprachoroidal space (SCS) injection, an innovative technique for retinal therapeutic delivery, based on current published evidence and clinical experience.

Methods: A panel of expert ophthalmologists reviewed current published evidence and clinical experience during a live working group meeting to define points of consensus and key clinical considerations to inform the development of guidelines for in-office SCS injection.

Results: Core consensus guidelines for in-office SCS injection were reached and reported by the expert panel.

Systemic and Ocular Manifestations of Arboviral Infections: A Review.

Purpose: To provide an overview of pre-selected emerging arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) that cause ocular inflammation in humans.

Methods: A comprehensive review of the literature published between 1997 and 2023 was conducted in PubMed database. We describe current insights into epidemiology, systemic and ocular manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of arboviral diseases including West Nile fever, Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Rift Valley fever, Zika, and Yellow fever.

Shifts in ophthalmic care utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US.

Background: Healthcare restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in ophthalmology, led to a differential underutilization of care. An analytic approach is needed to characterize pandemic health services usage across many conditions.

Methods: A common analytical framework identified pandemic care utilization patterns across 261 ophthalmic diagnoses.

Herpetic anterior uveitis following COVID-19 vaccines: a case series.

Purpose: To report a case series of herpetic uveitis following COVID-19 vaccinations.

Methods: Demographic, clinical and treatment-related data of herpetic anterior uveitis cases was collected at five tertiary eye hospitals between January 2021 and June 2022. A retrospective database review at one of the centers comparing the number of cases of herpetic eye disease before and after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccination was performed as well.

Alternative career paths for ophthalmologists.

Purpose: Traditionally, ophthalmologists complete training and then choose a clinical care setting. The skills required to become an ophthalmologist can be applied to a variety of alternative career paths within and beyond healthcare. Not unexpectedly, therefore, there is a growing trend for ophthalmologists to explore alternative career paths in both healthcare and the life science industry more broadly.

A Review of Human Ocular RNA Virus Infections Excluding Coronavirus, Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus, and Arboviruses.

We provide an updated review of pre-selected RNA viruses causing ocular inflammation in humans. RNA viruses such as coronaviruses and arboviruses are reviewed elsewhere. A Google Scholar search was conducted to identify recent publications on ocular inflammation caused by the RNA viruses specified here.

Patients with Low Vision Struggle with Placing Eye Drops and Benefit from an Eye Drop Aid.

Purpose: To evaluate eye drop self-administration in a low-vision patient population and test whether a nose-pivoted drop delivery device (NPDD, GentleDrop) can improve eye drop delivery in these patients.

Design: Repeated-measures case series.

Participants: Thirty subjects (58 eyes) with low vision, defined as best-corrected visual acuity worse than 20/60 or visual field worse than 20° in the better-seeing eye.

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM PHENOTYPE OF IDIOPATHIC MULTIFOCAL CHOROIDITIS.

Purpose: To describe the clinical characteristics and multimodal imaging features of a distinctive subtype of active idiopathic multifocal choroiditis (iMFC) lesions with grey-yellow chorioretinal lesions surrounded by smaller satellite dots, a presentation referred to as "chrysanthemum lesions."

Methods: Retrospective, observational, multicenter case series of eyes with active iMFC and chrysanthemum lesions. Multimodal imaging features were reviewed and presented.

A 48-YEAR-OLD CAUCASIAN MAN WITH UNILATERAL "SMUDGE" IN INFERIOR VISUAL FIELD.

Purpose: To report an increasingly prevalent fundoscopic manifestation of syphilitic uveitis.

Methods: Case report of a patient with acute retinal necrosis secondary to syphilis.

Results: A 48-year-old man presented with decreased vision, anterior segment inflammation, and a wedge-shaped retinal lesion in the superior periphery, with a diaphanous leading edge extending down toward the superior arcade.

Sympathetic Ophthalmia - An Overview.

Introduction: Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is rare, bilateral granulomatous panuveitis that typically occurs following penetrating or perforating ocular trauma or surgery. This review aims to provide an update on the etiopathogenesis, clinical presentations, diagnosis and treatment of SO.

Methods: Reports cited in MEDLINE database, that analyzed SO in at least 5 patients, published prior to December 1st, 2021 were included.

BARTONELLA HENSELAE -ASSOCIATED OPTIC NEUROPATHY PRESENTING AS A CENTRAL SCOTOMA IN THE ABSENCE OF OVERT PAPILLITIS: A MULTIMODAL IMAGING STUDY.

Background/purpose: The purpose of this report was to describe the use of multimodal imaging to establish the diagnosis of Bartonella henselae -associated optic neuropathy in a patient who presented with a central scotoma without overt evidence of optic nerve involvement.

Methods: This was a case report. Main outcome measures included clinical, optical coherence tomography, and fluorescein angiography findings.