Role of vitrectomy for syphilitic uveitis in a tertiary hospital in Spain.

Diagnosis and treatment of ocular syphilis can be challenging due to the wide spectrum of clinical presentations of this sexually transmitted disease. In some cases of syphilitic panuveitis, pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) can be useful in management since it plays an important role in improving fundus examination allowing treatment of possible retinal associated lesions when vitreous inflammation is intense. We present 3 cases of patients with ocular syphilis that underwent a therapeutic PPV, vitreous sample was taken and analyzed in two of them.

Protocol for the treatment of cystoid macular edema secondary to retinitis pigmentosa and other inherited retinal dystrophies.

Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRD) are the leading cause of legal blindness in the working population. Cystic macular edema (CME) is one of the treatable causes of visual loss, affecting up to 50% of the patients. A bibliographic review has been carried out combining "inherited retinal dystrophy", "retinitis pigmentosa", "macular oedema" and a diagnostic-therapeutic protocol according to the levels of evidence and recommendations of the "US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality".

The retinal bacillary layer detachment: Clinical features and outcomes in posterior uveitis.

Purpose: To describe the clinical characteristics, presentation and response to treatment in posterior uveitis patients with bacillary layer detachment (BLD) seen on optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Materials And Methods: Retrospective review of patients with posterior uveitis and SD-OCT scans consistent with BLD. Data collected included demographics, uveitic etiology, treatment and duration of follow-up.

Clinical and histopathological features of choroidal melanoma-related enucleated eyes in a Spanish tertiary hospital.

Objective: To study clinical and pathological variables leading to a poor prognosis in a sample of uveal malignant melanoma patients who required eyeball enucleation as final treatment approach. All patients were seen and treated in the same public tertiary hospital in Madrid (Spain) within a 6-year time-period.

Materials And Methods: Longitudinal observational retrospective study.

Ocular surface changes in recurrent pterygium cases post-operatively treated with 5-fluorouracil subconjunctival injections.

Introduction:: To investigate the ocular surface changes occurring in eyes with recurrent pterygium post-operatively treated with 5-fluorouracil intralesional injections.

Methods:: Retrospective observational study of recurrent pterygium cases treated with weekly intralesional injections of 0.1 mL (5 mg) of 5-fluorouracil (10 injections).

Cortical Blindness in a Child Secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection.

Our objective is to present a case of an uncommon complication associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in a child where cortical blindness was the main clinical feature. Stroke due to an infection by M. pneumoniae is very uncommon.