Surgical outcomes of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment associated with ocular toxoplasmosis.

Purpose: To evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of surgical treatment of retinal detachment secondary to ocular toxoplasmosis.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of data from patients who had undergone vitreoretinal surgery for retinal detachment secondary to ocular toxoplasmosis was conducted. The parameters that were analyzed include surgical procedures, anatomical outcomes, visual acuity, and postoperative complications.

Recurrence rate and need for reoperation after surgery with or without internal limiting membrane removal for the treatment of the epiretinal membrane.

Purpose: To compare the recurrence rate and need for reoperation after epiretinal membrane surgery with and without removal of the internal limiting membrane.

Methods: In this retrospective study, 125 patients operated for epiretinal membrane removal were evaluated, with a minimum 6-month follow-up. Removal of the epiretinal membrane (ERM) was performed in 78 patients, while 47 had removal of the epiretinal membrane associated with internal limiting membrane peeling (ERM + ILM).

Net technique for intraocular lens support in aphakia without capsular support.

Background: This paper describes a modified surgical technique for intraocular lens implantation in aphakic eyes with no capsular support.

Methods: Retrospective case series. Seventeen eyes of 17 aphakic patients with no capsule support underwent intraocular lens (IOL) implantation using a standardized technique in which a net was created at the ciliary sulcus plane with two threads forming a net pattern.

Combined branch retinal vein and artery occlusion in toxoplasmosis.

A 22-year-old man complained of low visual acuity and pain in his left eye for five days. His ophthalmological examination revealed 2+ anterior chamber reaction and a white, poorly defined retinal lesion at the proximal portion of the inferotemporal vascular arcade. There were retinal hemorrhages in the inferotemporal region extending to the retinal periphery.

Autologous Internal Limiting Membrane Fragment Transplantation for Large, Chronic, and Refractory Macular Holes.

Objective: To evaluate a technique of autologous internal limiting membrane (ILM) fragment transplantation for the treatment of large, chronic, and/or refractory macular holes (MH).

Design: This was a 6-month prospective interventional case series.

Method: Ten eyes of 10 patients with MH underwent pars plana vitretomy (PPV) and ILM peeling followed by transplantation of an autologous ILM fragment to the MH.

Timing and outcomes after silicone oil removal in proliferative vitreoretinopathy: a retrospective clinical series.

Objective: To evaluate anatomical and functional outcomes after silicone oil extraction in patients with retinal detachment and proliferative vitreoretinopathy in an eye care referral center in Joinville, SC, southern Brazil.

Methods: Retrospective, noncomparative study of patients with retinal detachment and posterior proliferative vitreoretinopathy followed up after silicone oil removal. Prophylactic 360-degree peripheral laser photocoagulation was performed one to three months before silicone oil extraction.

Ophthalmologic findings in hepatitis C patients treated with pegylated interferon α-2b and ribavirin.

Purpose: To identify the effect of pegylated interferon ƒ¿-2b and ribavirin treatment in the ocular fundus examination, visual acuity, and visual field.

Methods: Prospective observational study was performed at the Hepatology Clinic of Sao Jose Regional Hospital and at the Vitreoretinal Department at the Sadalla Amin Ghanem Eye Hospital in patients with chronic hepatitis C before and during treatment with pegylated interferon ƒ¿-2b together with ribavirin.

Results: Six (37.

Causes of interruption of bevacizumab therapy in age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To evaluate the rate and the causes of interruption of bevacizumab intravitreal therapy in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a referential eye-care center in Joinville, southern Brazil.

Methods: Retrospective, non-comparative, consecutive case series. Cases included all patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration who were treated with one or more bevacizumab intravitreal injections at Sadalla Amin Ghanem Eye Hospital between January, 2006 and January, 2008.

[Posterior segment changes in microphthalmic eyes: case report].

Microphthalmos is a developmental ocular disorder defined as a small eyeball. The condition can be associated with abnormalities of anterior and posterior segments. The most common anterior characteristics include corneal opacities, angle-closure and a shallow anterior chamber and cataract.

[Clinical and tomographic aspects of macular microholes].

Purpose: To describe the clinical aspects and evaluate optical coherence tomography of macular microholes.

Methods: Seven patients were assessed (8 eyes) with microholes of the macula. All patients underwent complete eye examination, fundus photography, fluorescent angiography and OCT-3 imaging.