Surgical treatment of lamellar macular hole associated with epimacular membrane.

Background: Although the surgical treatment of full-thickness macular hole is well established, the utility of pars plana vitrectomy in the treatment of lamellar macular hole (LMH) remains less clear. The purpose of the study is to report functional results of surgical treatment of LMH associated with epiretinal membrane.

Methods: Retrospective chart review of patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy and peeling of epiretinal membrane and internal limiting membrane, with or without air or gas tamponade, for symptomatic LMH associated with epimacular membrane.

Ultrastructural changes of the internal limiting membrane removed during indocyanine green assisted peeling versus conventional surgery for idiopathic macular epiretinal membrane.

Purpose: To evaluate the histologic features of cellular retinal fragments on the internal limiting membrane (ILM) removed during idiopathic macular epiretinal membrane (MEM) peeling surgery with and without the aid of indocyanine green (ICG) diluted in 5% glucose.

Methods: ILM specimens removed from 88 eyes during idiopathic MEM surgery between 1995 and 2003 were reviewed retrospectively. Histologic analysis focused on the presence and characteristics of retinal fragments on the retinal surface of the ILM.

Tearing and folding of the retinal internal limiting membrane associated with macular epiretinal membrane.

Purpose: To describe the clinical and histologic features of a particular form of macular epiretinal membrane.

Methods: The charts of all patients operated for macular epiretinal membrane by a single surgeon (E.H.

Peripapillary choroidal neovascularization associated with melanocytoma of the optic disc: a clinicopathologic case report.

Background: Melanocytoma of the optic disc is a benign melanocytic tumor that rarely causes visual impairment. We report a case of a melanocytoma of the optic disc with a decreased vision related to a peripapillary choroidal neovascular membrane (PCNVM) that was successfully treated by submacular surgery.

Methods: A 45-year-old southern European patient had a melanocytoma of the optic disc in his left eye with vision of 20/100.

Surgery for epimacular membrane: impact of retinal internal limiting membrane removal on functional outcome.

Purpose: To examine eyes that underwent vitrectomy and peeling of epimacular membrane and to correlate the functional results with the presence or absence of an internal limiting membrane (ILM) in the histologic specimens.

Methods: Seventy-one eyes underwent vitrectomy and peeling of an epimacular membrane. These membranes were examined with a transmission electron microscope.

Management of giant retinal tears with vitrectomy, internal tamponade, and peripheral 360 degrees retinal photocoagulation.

Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of vitrectomy, internal tamponade, and peripheral 360 degrees retinal photocoagulation in the management of giant retinal tears (GRTs).

Participants: Eighteen eyes of 18 consecutive patients with GRTs were operated on at Jules Gonin Eye Hospital between 1992 and 1999. None of them had previous vitreoretinal surgery.

Endogenous pneumococcal endophthalmitis followed by pneumococcal-induced uveitis.

Background: We describe the case of a fulminant bilateral endophthalmitis occurring in a patient, who had 9 years earlier a splenectomy for an idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

History And Signs: A 40-year-old woman, back from a trip to Morocco, presented with high fever, rapid decrease in visual acuity and loss of consciousness. Medical examination revealed a pneumococcal meningitis and bilateral endophthalmitis.

[Value of Lotmar interferometry with vision assessment for predicting visual acuity after surgery of epimacular membranes].

Background: To determine the usefulness of preoperative Lotmar interferometry to predict visual acuity recovery after surgery for epimacular membrane.

Patients And Methods: From 1999 to 2001, thirty pseudophakic eyes that underwent surgery for removal of epimacular membrane were examined prospectively. Visual acuity (VA) was recorded with the ETDRS chart before surgery and 6 months or more after (mean follow-up: 7.

[Mycotic endophthalmitis: management and treatment (9 year study)].

Unlabelled: Fungal endophthalmitis: management and therapy (a 9 years experience).

Background: The development of new azoles with a better ocular bioavailability (fluconazole), and the improvement of vitrectomy has recently influenced the treatment of fungal endophthalmitis.

Patients And Methods: Records of patients treated for fungal endophthalmitis at the Jules Gonin Eye Hospital were retrospectively reviewed from January 1992 to December 2000.