Treatment Paradigm After Uncomplicated Cataract Surgery: A Prospective Evaluation.

Purpose: To compare 3 clinical variables, namely, visual recovery, anterior chamber inflammation, and macular edema, between 2 different regimens after uncomplicated cataract surgery.

Design: Prospective, randomized, single-blind study at a single center, private, teaching practice in Las Vegas, NV.

Methods: Patients randomized to group I (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, n = 113) received besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension 0.

A survey of ocular diseases in an isolated rural Haitian community: a retrospective evaluation.

Purpose: To report the prevalence and incidence of ophthalmic pathology from a small, rural town in Haiti and to determine the leading causes of blindness in this population.

Design: Retrospective study from 2002 to 2009. Data collected include visual acuity, intraocular pressure, and ocular and family history.

Alloplant implant: a novel biomaterial in the management of recalcitrant glaucoma.

In North America, management of glaucoma includes observation, medical therapy, laser surgery, and ab-externa ocular surgery.[1] Although management of glaucoma in Russia does not differ greatly from that in the West, Russia has a unique biomaterial, Alloplant. Figure 1.

Ketorolac tromethamine LS 0.4% versus nepafenac 0.1% in patients having cataract surgery. Prospective randomized double-masked clinical trial.

Purpose: To compare the clinical, subjective, and objective outcomes of the use of 2 topical nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs--ketorolac tromethamine LS 0.4% (Acular) and nepafenac 0.1% (Nevanac)--in patients having cataract surgery.

Bilateral diffuse melanocytic proliferation associated with ovarian carcinoma and metastatic malignant amelanotic melanoma.

Purpose: To report a case of metastatic malignant amelanotic melanoma to the skin from a patient diagnosed with bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation (BDUMP). This dermatological finding is a unique phenomenon associated with BDUMP.

Design: Retrospective case report.