Thirteen year experience of vitrectomy and air tamponade for primary retinal detachment repair with clinical outcomes.

Purpose: To report outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with air tamponade for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) and investigate the impact of vitreous cortex remnants (VCR) on surgical outcomes.

Methods: A retrospective review of 900 patients treated for uncomplicated primary RRD between 2007 and 2020. Exclusion criteria included axial length > 26 mm, prior retinal surgery, giant retinal tear, PVR grade > B, and inadequate follow-up.

Lamellar macular defects: are degenerative lamellar macular holes truly degenerative?

Purpose: To investigate morpho-functional changes after surgical treatment for ERM foveoschisis or lamellar macular hole (LMH), and to evaluate whether the two entities are associated with different healing processes and long-term outcomes.

Design: Retrospective interventional case series.

Methods: A total of 56 eyes, treated for lamellar macular defects and followed up for 24 months, were enrolled.

The prevalence of vitreomacular adhesion in eyes with macular oedema secondary to retinal vein occlusion selected for intravitreal injections.

Purpose: To assess the prevalence of vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) in consecutive naïve eyes diagnosed with macular oedema (ME) secondary to retinal vein occlusion (RVO) and to longitudinally evaluate the incidence of vitreomacular interface changes over time and the influence on response to treatment.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional analysis and longitudinal cohort study conducted at two Italian tertiary referral centres.

Methods: A total of 295 eyes, treated with intravitreal ranibizumab and/or dexamethasone for ME secondary to RVO between June 2008 and May 2018, were enrolled in the study.

Scleral thinning surgery for bullous retinal detachment with retinal pigment epithelial tear in central serous chorioretinopathy: a case report.

Background: Bullous serous retinal detachment (RD) with retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) tear is a rare and severe variant of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC). Due to its atypical presentation, it may raise diagnostic issues, leading to inappropriate therapeutic procedures. The optimum treatment for this CSC variant is still uncertain.

Intravitreal Injections for Macular Edema Secondary to Retinal Vein Occlusion: Long-Term Functional and Anatomic Outcomes.

Purpose: To report the long-term visual and anatomic outcomes of intravitreal injections for macular edema (ME) secondary to retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in a real-life clinical setting.

Design: Retrospective interventional case series.

Methods: A total of 223 consecutive eyes with ME secondary to RVO, treated with the first three intravitreal Ranibizumab or dexamethasone injections between August 2008 and September 2018, were enrolled in the study.

Large Idiopathic Macular Hole Surgery: Remodelling of Outer Retinal Layers after Traditional Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling or Inverted Flap Technique.

Objective: To investigate the influence of the inverted flap technique compared with traditional internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling in the postoperative remodelling of outer retinal layers of idiopathic macular holes (MHs) >450 µm.

Methods: We analyzed medical records and imaging studies of all patients with an idiopathic MH >450 µm who underwent vitrectomy at the Sacco University Hospital, Milan, and the Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Verona, Italy, between January 2008 and December 2017. Out of 41 eyes evaluated, 17 were treated with traditional ILM peeling and 24 with the inverted ILM flap technique.

A case of unilateral circumscribed posterior keratoconus evaluated by three different imaging tools: optical coherence tomography, videokeratography, and Scheimpflug corneal tomography.

Posterior keratoconus is a rare corneal anomaly which is part of the ectatic corneal disorders. We report a clinical presentation of a unilateral posterior keratoconus in a 42-year-old man. At the time of presentation, corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) was 20/20 with a correction of +2.

Effect of corneal light scatter on vision: a review of the literature.

The cornea is the transparent connective tissue window at the front of the eye. The physiological role of the cornea is to conduct external light into the eye, focus it, together with the lens, onto the retina, and to provide rigidity to the entire eyeball. Therefore, good vision requires maintenance of the transparency and proper refractive shape of the cornea.

Sliding Keratoplasty Followed by Transepithelial Iontophoresis Collagen Cross-linking for Pellucid Marginal Degeneration.

Purpose: To describe the changes in visual acuity and topographic analysis in a patient affected by advanced pellucid marginal degeneration (PMD).

Methods: A 59-year-old woman with bilateral PMD who was contact lens intolerant was treated by sliding keratoplasty before and 3 months after transepithelial (epi-on) iontophoresis collagen cross-linking (I-CXL) in one eye. Corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), spherical equivalent and cylinder refraction, corneal topography, ultrasound pachymetry, and endothelial cell count were assessed at baseline and up to 12 months postoperatively.

Intravitreal Injection of Dexamethasone Implant in Serous Macular Detachment Associated with Waldenström's Disease.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of one intravitreal injection of dexamethasone (Ozurdex(®); Allergan, Inc., Irvine, Calif., USA) in serous macular detachment (SMD) of one eye, associated with bilateral central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) in a patient affected by Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM).