Publications by authors named "Helena Yuri Kurimori"

Purpose: To determine the significance of correlation between the intraoperative OCT findings and postoperative retinal morphologic and physiologic features in eyes with an idiopathic macular hole (MH).

Design: Retrospective, interventional case-control study.

Participants: Pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling and air tamponade was performed on 33 eyes with idiopathic MHs.

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Purpose: To report a case of unilateral acute idiopathic maculopathy (UAIM) associated with yellow fever.

Observations: A 59-year-old man presented with acute blurring of his vision 30 days after symptoms of yellow fever virus infection. Findings resembling unilateral acute idiopathic maculopathy of the left eye were noted on ophthalmoscopy, fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography.

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Purpose: To report the findings and surgical techniques on two cases of severe tilting of an intraocular lens (IOL) that had been implanted with intrascleral fixation and the tilting was detected by anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Observations: Two patients underwent flanged intrascleral fixation of an IOL with the double needle technique. AS-OCT showed that the tilt of IOL was 25.

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