Publications by authors named "Evangelia Papavasileiou"

Purpose: The purpose is to assess the effect of ethnicity on surgical macular hole closure.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was undertaken in five UK National Health Service Hospitals. We included all patients with known ethnicity undergoing vitrectomy, internal limiting membrane peel, and gas/oil tamponade for all stages of primary full-thickness macular hole (FTMH).

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Introduction: The principles of surgery for managing primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) are to precisely identify and correctly treat all causative retinal breaks. Estimates regarding unidentified breaks complicating RRDs vary from 2.2%-22.

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Purpose: Uveitis occurs in a subset of patients with sarcoidosis. The purpose of this study was to determine whether genetic variants that have been associated previously with overall sarcoidosis are associated with increased risk of developing uveitis.

Methods: Seventy-seven subjects were enrolled, including 45 patients diagnosed with sarcoidosis-related uveitis as cases and 32 patients with systemic sarcoidosis without ocular involvement as controls.

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Article Synopsis
  • - The RD-OGI Score is a clinical tool created to predict the likelihood of retinal detachment (RD) following open globe injury (OGI), and this study aimed to validate it with new patient data.
  • - The study involved a retrospective review of data from two patient groups, comparing results over different time periods to assess the score's predictive accuracy and categorize patients into low, moderate, and high-risk classes.
  • - Results showed significant variations in RD rates among different risk classes after one year, confirming that the RD-OGI Score is a reliable predictor, particularly effective within 30 days after the injury.
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Purpose: Previous studies have yielded conflicting results regarding whether serum lipid levels are associated with retinal hard exudates in diabetic retinopathy. The majority of studies have assessed hard exudates only as a dichotomous trait (presence vs. absence) and included limited numbers of African Americans (AA).

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Purpose: To report ritonavir-associated retinal pigment epithelium toxicity in a patient infected with the HIV on highly active antiretroviral therapy including ritonavir.

Methods: Retrospective single case report. The authors describe a case of gradual onset of blurry vision in both eyes in an HIV-positive male.

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Purpose: To determine whether hyperreflective foci (HF) and macular thickness on spectral domain ocular coherence tomography are associated with lipid levels in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

Methods: Two hundred and thirty-eight participants from four sites had fundus photographs and spectral domain ocular coherence tomography images graded for hard exudates and HF, respectively. Regression models were used to determine the association between serum lipid levels and 1) presence of HF and hard exudates and 2) central subfield macular thickness, central subfield macular volume, and total macular volume.

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Purpose: To assess personal and demographic risk factors for proliferative diabetic retinopathy in African Americans with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: In this prospective, non-interventional, cross-sectional case-control study, 380 African Americans with type 2 diabetes were enrolled. Participants were recruited prospectively and had to have either: (1) absence of diabetic retinopathy after ≥10 years of type 2 diabetes, or (2) presence of proliferative diabetic retinopathy when enrolled.

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Objective: To study real world outcomes of ranibizumab (Lucentis) intravitreal injection in diabetic macular oedema (DMO).

Subjects And Methods: We included 100 patients with DMO. Those who had optical coherence tomography central retinal thickness (CRT) of 400μm or more (Group 1) underwent combination treatment with ranibizumab and macular LASER, while those with CRT less than 400μm (Group 2) had LASER monotherapy.

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Objective: To report the anatomical and functional results of intravitreal injections of aflibercept (Eylea) (A-IVI) for the treatment of naïve eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nv-AMD).

Subjects And Methods: This retrospective, one-center, non-comparative chart review included 26 treatment naïve eyes with nv-AMD of 26 patients (14 male) with a mean age of 80.5 (range 63-91) who had a complete follow-up of 14 months.

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Purpose: To report swept-source optical coherence tomography findings of sarcoid choroidal granulomas in the posttreatment convalescent stage of disease.

Patients/methods: The authors retrospectively reviewed charts from patients with sarcoid-related choroidal granulomas and recorded pertinent examination and imaging findings. Swept-source optical coherence tomography was performed using the DRI 3D-OCT-1 Atlantis (Topcon) over the areas of previous choroidal granulomas after the patients had been treated.

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We report a case of birdshot chorioretinopathy (BSCR) in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). A 40-year-old male with history of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy with significant facial diplegia and lagophthalmos presents for an evaluation of bilateral choroiditis with vasculitis and optic disc edema. Clinical examination included fundus and autofluorescence photographs, fluorescein angiography, and optical coherence tomography.

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Purpose: To report a case of ocular ischemic syndrome presenting as retinal vasculitis in a patient with Moyamoya syndrome.

Methods: A retrospective chart review was conducted to record clinical data including fluorescein angiography, optical coherence tomography, and serologic testing. A review of the literature from 1969 to 2014 of ocular involvement in Moyamoya syndrome was performed.

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Purpose: Ipilimumab, a monoclonal antibody directed against the immune protein cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4), characteristically induces side effects called "immune-related adverse events" (IRAE). Although ophthalmic involvement is rare, we report 7 cases of eye and orbit complications related to ipilimumab therapy.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of patients with metastatic melanoma who developed ipilimumab-related ocular or orbital inflammation who were seen at our institutions.

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Purpose. To evaluate the visual outcomes and effect of phacoemulsification surgery on the progression of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods.

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The number of people identified with diabetes in England increased by nearly 5% during 2011-2012 to well over 2.5 million. During 2011-2012 the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme screened more than 1.

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Purpose: To report a combined intravitreal treatment for submacular hemorrhage.

Methods: This retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series included 7 patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration and 2 with idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, presenting with fovea-involving submacular hemorrhage ≥ 4 disk areas in size, of <10 days of duration. All patients received a single 0.

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Background: The purpose of this study is to illustrate the fundus autofluorescence and high-definition optical coherence tomography (HD-OCT) features of acute and long-standing retinal artery occlusions.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Participants: Patients with acute and chronic retinal and cilioretinal artery occlusions are included in this series.

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