Bowman Layer Transplantation With Stromal Inclusion Using Femtosecond Laser: 3-year Results.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the 3-year clinical results of Bowman layer with stromal inclusion (Bowman layer) transplantation using femtosecond laser for patients with advanced keratoconus.

Methods: This single-center retrospective study included 7 eyes of 7 patients diagnosed with progressive keratoconus who underwent Bowman layer transplantation with stromal inclusion between 2018 and 2020. Follow-up was carried out from the date of surgery until 36 months later.

Boston Keratoprosthesis type 1 (KPro) without contact lens wearing in end-stage corneal disease: The APEC experience.

Purpose: To report the visual outcomes and survival analysis of keratoprosthesis without contact lens wearing in a tertiary eye care hospital in Mexico City, Asociación Para Evitar La Ceguera (APEC, Coyoacán, México).

Design: Retrospective cohort with survival analysis.

Participants: Twenty-three eyes (22 patients) received KPro type 1 between 2015 and 2020 with a follow-up time of three years.

Cataract surgery in patients with underlying keratoconus: focused review.

An underlying diagnosis of keratoconus (KC) can complicate cataract surgery. In this study, the results of a focused review of the literature pertaining to cataract surgery in patients with KC are detailed. Topics essential for the appropriate management of this patient population are discussed.

Pars plana vitrectomy and therapeutic keratoplasty in endophthalmitis and infectious keratitis.

Purpose: To describe the anatomical and functional outcomes of patients with infectious keratitis (IK) and secondary endophthalmitis who underwent penetrating keratoplasty (PK) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) assisted by temporary keratoprosthesis (TKP).

Methods: An observational retrospective case series was performed. Data were collected from January 2013 to July 2020.

Photoactivated Chromophore for Keratitis-Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking (PACK-CXL) Improves Outcomes of Treatment-Resistant Infectious Keratitis.

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy of photoactivated chromophore corneal collagen cross-linking (PACK)-CXL in the management of treatment-resistant infectious keratitis.

Design: Observational cohort study.

Participants: Forty-two eyes from 41 patients with treatment-resistant infectious keratitis.

In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Findings in Bowman Layer Transplantation.

Purpose: To report the in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) findings of a case who underwent femtosecond laser-assisted Bowman layer transplantation (BLT).

Methods: This is a case report.

Results: In a 25-year-old man with previous diagnosis of keratoconus in whom a BLT was performed using the femtosecond laser-assisted technique, IVCM (Confoscan 4; Fortune Technologies, Vigonza, Italy) was performed 3 months after surgery, obtaining a sequence of 4 digitalized images of the total thickness of the cornea, from the epithelium to the endothelium, and then backward.

Visual and Anatomic Results After Sole Full-Thickness Sutures for Acute Corneal Hydrops.

Purpose: To determine whether sole full-thickness corneal sutures are a feasible treatment for acute corneal hydrops, and if so, report the anatomic and visual results of this technique.

Methods: A retrospective case series was carried out in 17 patients, all of whom received sole full-thickness sutures as a treatment for corneal hydrops.

Results: The included patients reported symptom commencement a median of 15 days before the surgical intervention.

Efficacy and safety of bromfenac 0.09% and sodium hyaluronate 0.4% combination therapy, versus placebo in patients with pterygium I-III for clinical signs on ocular inflammation.

This study evaluated the clinical efficacy and safety of bromfenac 0.09%, sodium hyaluronate 0.4% (SH) combination therapy, versus placebo and SH in a clinical model of pterygium I-III.

[Mesectodermal leiomyoma. Unusual tumor of the ciliary body].

Background: Mesectodermal leiomyoma is a benign tumor of smooth muscle of the ciliary body, which is derived from the neural crest.

Clinical Case: We report the case of a 35-year-old Mexican woman with visually impaired and blurred vision of the right eye of 2 months duration. The clinical and imaging presuntional diagnosis was adenoma of the non pigmented epithelium of the ciliary body and it was surgically resected.

Occupational corneal argyrosis in art silver solderers.

Purpose: To determine the value of confocal and specular microscopy in the examination of corneal argyrosis in art silver solderers.

Methods: Six patients with corneal argyrosis underwent a complete physical and ophthalmologic examination. Specular microscopy was performed in three cases, and in vivo confocal microscopy in four cases.