Publications by authors named "Fernando Gonzalez del Valle"
Purpose: To investigate best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), subretinal fluid (SRF) absorption time or ellipsoid zone (EZ) restoration time and various variables in patients with persistent SRF after successful primary repair of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).
Methods: This retrospective multicenter study allowed independent analysis of the healing pattern by two observers based on composite of serial cross-sectional macular optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans. Univariate and multivariate analyses were implemented.
Background: The aim of this study was to determine the 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) levels in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients.
Methods: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients were classified into four groups: early AMD (N = 10), intermediate AMD (N = 12), advanced atrophic AMD (N = 19) and advanced neovascular AMD (N = 52) after undergoing fundus photography. Serum 25(OH)D levels of all subjects were evaluated.
Our aim was to identify the potential risk factors for developing post-traumatic endophthalmitis (PTE) and the possible measures of prevention. Retrospective case-control study, with 15 cases of PTE and 2 matched controls. We reviewed the medical records of the cases and their respective controls during the period 1996-2008 at a Spanish Hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate the long-term safety and efficacy of microincisional 23-gauge pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling and gas tamponade in the treatment of myopic traction maculopathy.
Methods: A prospective nonrandomized multicenter study was designed. Patients with myopic traction maculopathy without macular hole and retinal detachment were included in the study between January 2009 and May 2012.
Objective: This study aims to assess whether changes in antibiotic prophylaxis used in cataract surgery in the La Mancha Centro General Hospital, Spain, were associated with a reduced incidence of postoperative endophthalmitis (POE).
Methods: The hospital employed two different antibiotic prophylaxis regimens during two clearly differentiated periods. In the first period (January 2000 to April 2003), subconjunctival injections of gentamicin were used while in the second (May 2003 to December 2008), vancomycin and gentamicin were added to the irrigating solution.
Introduction: Endogenous endophthalmitis (EE) is a prevalent but serious disease. Our aim was to describe cases of EE, with emphasis in the risk factors and the improvement of the prognosis.
Methods: A review of EE cases was done between 1996-2011 in a secondary care hospital in Spain.
Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of 3 spectral-domain (SD) optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices (Topcon 3D-1000 [Topcon]; Cirrus HD [Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc], and Spectralis OCT [Heidelberg Engineering]) before and after mydriasis for the diagnosis of diabetic macular edema.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Methods: Sixty-two eyes of 62 consecutive patients with diabetes without recent loss of vision referred for retinal control were assessed.
Objective: To compare the incidence of diplopia after topical or regional injection anesthesia in cataract surgery.
Study Design: Retrospective, noncomparative interventional case series.
Participants And Methods: Three thousand five hundred forty-two consecutive cataract surgeries, performed from March 1998 to December 2001, were studied.