Cat-scratch disease: ocular manifestations and treatment outcome.

Purpose: To characterize cat-scratch disease (CSD) ocular manifestations and visual outcome and evaluate the effect of systemic antibiotics and corticosteroids on final visual acuity (VA).

Methods: Multicentre retrospective cohort study. Medical records of 86 patients with ocular disease (107 eyes) of 3222 patients identified in a national CSD surveillance study were reviewed.

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function following intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection.

To evaluate the pituitary-adrenal axis function by means of the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulation test following a single intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA). Prospective comparative clinical interventional study. Twenty-eight patients (28 eyes) received a single IVTA (4 mg in 0.

Treatment of dry eye syndrome with orally administered CF101: data from a phase 2 clinical trial.

Objective: To explore the safety and efficacy of CF101, an A(3) adenosine receptor agonist, in patients with moderate to severe dry eye syndrome.

Design: Phase 2, multicenter, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study.

Participants: Sixty-eight patients completed the study, 35 patients in the placebo group and 33 patients in the CF101 group.

Reactivation of ocular toxoplasmosis after LASIK.

Purpose: To report a reactivation of ocular toxoplasmosis after LASIK.

Methods: Case report of a 34-year-old man who underwent bilateral LASIK. The posterior segment examination revealed an old toxoplasmosis scar in the retinal periphery of the right eye.