Near-Infrared Confocal Reflectance Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (SLO) and Short-Wavelength Autofluorescence Imaging in Cystic Diabetic Macular Edema.

Objective: To characterize results of short-wavelength autofluorescent (SW-AF) and near-infrared confocal reflectance scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (NIR-cR SLO) imaging in cystic diabetic macular edema (DME).

Design: Cross-sectional study. Participants: 104 eyes from 52 naïve treatment patients with DME and mild to moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) Methods: complete ocular examination, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), and imaging were performed.

The quantitative measurements of choroidal thickness and volume in diabetic retinopathy using optical coherence tomography and optical coherence tomography angiography; correlation with vision and foveal avascular zone.

Background: To represent choroidal thickness (CT) and choroidal volume (CV) databases in diabetic retinopathy (DR) patients and healthy control participants using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and enhanced depth imaging OCT (EDI-OCT). No study had evaluated CT at all main stages of diabetic retinopathy in a single study.

Methods: The study included 176 eyes from 93 patients (39-80 years old; 42% females) who were divided into three groups based on DR severity and normal control group: 39 eyes no DR, 64 eyes NPDR, 33 eyes PDR, and 40 eyes normal control.

Oral Mineralocorticoid-Receptor Antagonists: Choroidal Parameters Changes Using OCT in Central Serous Chorioretinopathy.

Background And Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of oral eplerenone in the treatment of acute and chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR).

Patients And Methods: Treatment-naïve patients with acute (< 3 months) and chronic (≥ 3 months) CSCR were enrolled in this prospective, nonrandomized, interventional, comparative case series. Patients with acute CSCR were either treated with oral eplerenone (acute case group; n = 16) or observed only (acute control group; n = 8).

Quantitative measurement of vascular density and flow using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in patients with central retinal vein occlusion: Can OCTA help in distinguishing ischemic from non-ischemic type?

Background: To evaluate microvascular changes and quantitative parameters in patients with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) by using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) and finding difference between presumably ischemic and non ischemic CRVO.

Methods: Patients with CRVO (31) and healthy control (20) were enrolled in this observational case control study. The OCTA was done for each patient and control subject.

The rate of endophthalmitis after pars plana vitrectomy and its risk factors.

Purpose: To study the incidence of endophthalmitis after pars plana vitrectomy, its causative organisms, and visual acuity outcomes.

Patients And Methods: In this retrospective, comparative study, the medical records of patients with acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis after pars plana vitrectomy at Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran, during a 12-year period between January 2004 and November 2015 were reviewed. To compare the endophthalmitis patients with other cases who underwent pars plana vitrectomy at the same day and also the same operating room, a control group was developed by gathering the data from surgical records.

The quantitative measurements of foveal avascular zone using optical coherence tomography angiography in normal volunteers.

Purpose: To provide normative data of foveal avascular zone (FAZ) and thickness.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study both eyes of each normal subject were scanned with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) for foveal superficial and deep avascular zone (FAZ) and central foveal thickness (CFT) and parafoveal thickness (PFT).

Results: Out of a total of 224 eyes of 112 volunteers with a mean age of 37.

Accuracy of 3 imaging modalities for evaluation of the posterior lens capsule in traumatic cataract.

Purpose: To compare the accuracy of 3 imaging modalities for preoperative evaluation of the posterior lens capsule in traumatic cataract.

Setting: Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

Design: Case series.

The impact of macular laser photocoagulation on contrast sensitivity function in patients with clinically significant macular edema.

Background: Contrast sensitivity is an important aspect of visual function and is even more important for ordinary daily tasks than visual acuity. Contrast sensitivity function may be deteriorated to a significant level in diabetic retinopathy, especially in diabetic macular edema. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of macular laser photocoagulation-as the standard treatment of clinically significant macular edema-on contrast sensitivity function.