Electrochemotherapy in Spine Metastases: A Case Series Focused on Technical Aspects, Surgical Strategies and Results.

Metastases are complications of primary tumors due to prolonged cancer survival and have become an important issue for oncological patients and the most frequent cause of death and disability. Bone metastases occur at a later stage of cancer disease, and the spine is the most frequent site. To date, the aim of the treatment of metastases remains to be the control of disease and provide a satisfactory quality of life.

Hamstring Strain Injury (HSI) Prevention in Professional and Semi-Professional Football Teams: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Hamstring Strain Injuries (HSIs) are the most common type of lesion in professional footballers and the leading cause of absence days from sports. However, recent studies have shown that high-level football teams apparently do not apply any HSI prevention protocol. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of preventive strategies and protocols in reducing the incidence of hamstring muscle injuries in professional and semi-professional football teams.

Correlation Analysis between Foveal Avascular Zone and Peripheral Ischemic Index in Diabetic Retinopathy: A Pilot Study.

Purpose: To investigate the foveal avascular zone (FAZ) by OCT angiography (OCT-A) in patients affected by diabetic retinopathy and its correlation with peripheral retinal ischemic index.

Design: Observational, cross-sectional study, prospectively designed.

Participants: Consecutive patients with treatment-naïve diabetic retinopathy were prospectively recruited between October 2015 and January 2017.

Sudden visual loss after cardiac resynchronization therapy device implantation.

Purpose: To report a case of sudden decrease in visual acuity possibly due to a cardiogenic embolism in a patient who underwent cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device implantation.

Methods: A 62-year-old man with severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction and a left bundle branch block was referred to our department because of a sudden decrease in visual acuity. Nine days earlier, he had undergone cardiac transapical implantation of a CRT device, which was followed, 2 days later, by an inflammatory reaction.

Optical coherence tomography angiography findings in laser maculopathy.

Purpose: Handheld laser pointer thermal injury affects primarily the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). However, so far no study has reported on the possible effects of laser pointers in the deeper layers, beneath the RPE. Here, we describe the spectral-domain optical coherence tomography angiography findings in the choriocapillaris of a patient with laser maculopathy.

Photobleaching by Spectralis Fixation Target.

Importance: The aim of this study is to determine whether the cross-shaped fixation target in a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography instrument (Spectralis; Heidelberg Engineering) could produce a cross-shaped increase fundus autofluorescence artifact on subsequent imaging.

Observations: Thirty eyes of 15 healthy volunteers (8 women and 7 men; mean [SD] age 24 [3] years) were included in the study, which was conducted between October 2015 and December 2015. In all eyes, a cross-shaped increase in macular autofluorescence with variable intensity occurred after Spectralis spectral-domain optical coherence tomography acquisition.

Comparison of the Performance of Two Different Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Devices in Clinical Practice.

Purpose: To compare the performance of two different spectral-domain optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) devices in clinical practice by evaluating examination execution time and the number of motion artifacts per image.

Methods: Seventy-six patients affected by different ocular diseases and 13 healthy subjects consecutively underwent assessments by two different OCTA devices: AngioPlex (Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, Calif.