Vitrectomy Results for Stages 4 and 5 Retinopathy of Prematurity in Iraq.

Background: Stage 4 and 5 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a serious condition that may require surgical intervention at some point. Timely intervention is a key element and, with the peculiarity of eyes among this group that necessities a certain level of surgical standards, operations cannot be undertaken in any surgical eye center.

Aim Of The Study: To recognize the outcomes of vitrectomy in Iraqi preterm babies with stage 4 and 5 ROP, and to study factors that might increase the risk of re-detachment in operated eyes.

Endophthalmitis in the era of small gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy--meta analysis and review of literature.

Purpose: The goal of this study was to review, evaluate, and perform a meta-analysis on the current literature that reports rates of postoperative endophthalmitis after small gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (TSV) and compare it to 20-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (20G PPV).

Methods: We performed an extensive review of the current literature. We included only large comparative institutional reviews.

NSAIDs in combination therapy for the treatment of chronic pseudophakic cystoid macular edema.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the addition of topical nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to intravitreal corticosteroid and antivascular endothelial growth factor injections for the treatment of chronic cystoid macular edema.

Methods: Thirty-nine patients with chronic pseudophakic cystoid macular edema completed a single-center, randomized, investigator-masked study. All patients were treated with an intravitreal triamcinolone and bevacizumab injection at study entry; the bevacizumab injection was repeated at 1 month.

Her vision was tied down.

A 50-year-old female presented with progressive painless vision loss in the left eye and was subsequently diagnosed to have a pituitary macroadenoma, consistent with a prolactinoma, which was compressing the chiasm primarily on the left and involving the left cavernous sinus. She was treated with oral bromocriptine, resulting in marked shrinkage of the tumor and significant visual field recovery. Subsequently, she again began noting progressive vision loss in both eyes and was initially thought to have pituitary tumor regrowth.

Photopic ERGs in patients with optic neuropathies: comparison with primate ERGs after pharmacologic blockade of inner retina.

Purpose: To determine whether anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and compressive optic neuropathy in humans alter the photopic flash ERG and to investigate the cellular origins of the waves that are affected by pharmacologic agents in primates.

Methods: Photopic flash ERGs were recorded differentially, with DTL electrodes, between the two eyes of 22 patients with diagnosed optic neuropathy (n = 17, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy [AION]; n = 5, compressive optic neuropathy) and 25 age-matched control subjects and in 17 eyes of 13 monkeys (Macaca mulatta). The stimulus consisted of brief (<5 ms) red (lambda(max) = 660 nm) Ganzfeld flashes (energy range, 0.

Medical and surgical management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension in pregnancy.

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a syndrome of increased intracranial pressure without hydrocephalus or mass lesion with elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure but otherwise normal CSF composition. It has been found that pregnancy occurs in IIH patients at about the same rate as in the general population, that IIH can occur in any trimester of pregnancy, that patients have the same spontaneous abortion rate as the general population, and that the visual outcome is the same as for nonpregnant patients with IIH. Although it is also stated that pregnant patients with IIH should be managed and treated the same way as any other patient with IIH, the use of imaging and drug contraindications do make a difference between the two groups.

Glenoid suture anchor fixation strength: Effect of insertion angle.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of varying insertion angles on the fixation strength of screw-in devices placed in the glenoid rim. Type of study Cadaveric biomechanical analysis.

Methods: Eighteen cadaveric glenoids had 3.