Surgical treatment of extensive peripapillary choroidal neovascularization in elderly patients.

Purpose: To report the visual outcomes and complications of surgical removal of extensive peripapillary choroidal neovascularization (PPCNV) in elderly patients.

Design: Retrospective review.

Participants: Seventeen consecutive eyes of 17 patients older than age 55 undergoing PPCNV resection.

Vitritis and chorioretinitis in a patient with West Nile virus infection.

Objective: To describe the visual outcome, fundus appearance, and fluorescein angiographic findings of a patient diagnosed as having acute West Nile virus infection.

Methods: We conducted comprehensive eye examinations, including visual acuity testing and slitlamp and fundus examinations, along with fluorescein angiography at the initial and follow-up visits.

Results: A 62-year-old white woman had a 2-week history of floaters in her left eye along with symptoms of fatigue, a left-sided frontal headache, and a low-grade fever.