Clinical characteristics and optical coherence tomography of concomitant macular hole and rhgematogenous retinal detachment.

To study the clinical characteristics of macula off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) with peripheral causative breaks and concomitant macular hole (RRD+MH). This is a bi-center study. Consecutive eyes of macula off RRD with or without macular hole (MH) were collected.

Infrared images help to identify retinal emboli in hemodynamic retinal artery occlusion.

To report a case of stroke with internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion and retinal artery occlusion (RAO) with multiple emboli identified by infrared images. The patient presented with acute blurred vision and slurred speech since woke up in the morning. Carotid Doppler ultrasonography showed severe left ICA stenosis with the decreased flow.

Bilateral retinal artery occlusions with carotid artery occlusions-ocular and cerebral hemodynamic changes.

Purpose: To introduce a case of bilateral retinal artery occlusions with carotid occlusions to achieve a fuller understanding of hemodynamic flow changes and the origin of emboli.

Observations: A 58-year-old male presented with binocular vision loss. Fundus examination revealed bilateral retinal whitening with multiple emboli.

Retinal arterial occlusion with multiple retinal emboli and carotid artery occlusion disease. Haemodynamic changes and pathways of embolism.

Objective: To introduce a special subgroup, retinal artery occlusion (RAO) with multiple emboli, which is highly associated with ipsilateral carotid artery occlusion disease (CAOD).

Methods And Analysis: This is a cohort study. Cases of RAO with multiple retinal emboli were consecutively enrolled.

Peripheral Retinal Vascular Patterns in Patients with Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment in Taiwan.

This is an observational study of fluorescein angiography (FA) in consecutive patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in Changhua Christian Hospital to investigate the peripheral retinal vascular patterns in those patients. All patients had their age, sex, axial length (AXL), and refraction status (RF) recorded. According to the findings in FA of the peripheral retina, the eyes were divided into 4 groups: in group 1, there was a ramified pattern of peripheral retinal vasculature with gradual tapering; in group 2, there was an abrupt ending of peripheral vasculature with peripheral non-perfusion; in group 3, there was a curving route of peripheral vasculature forming vascular arcades or anastomosis; and in group 4, the same as in group 3, but with one or more wedge-shaped avascular notches.

Progressive outer retinal necrosis associated with occlusive vasculitis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

A 45-year-old man, a case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, received a highly active antiretroviral therapy at the outpatient service for 4 years without regular follow-up. He experienced progressively blurred vision for 6 months and a cutaneous zoster on his back 3 months ago. He was diagnosed with progressive outer retinal necrosis by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism using an aqueous humor sample, which revealed an existence of varicella zoster virus.

Multilayered optic disc hemorrhages in adolescents.

Purpose: To describe the clinical characteristics of multilayered optic disc hemorrhages, which are defined as subretinal, superficial retinal, and subhyaloid or vitreous hemorrhages in adolescents.

Methods: Case records of adolescents with acute multilayered optic disc hemorrhages were identified and evaluated retrospectively from 1994 to 2012. The appearance of the hemorrhages including the size, location, extension, and disc anatomy was recorded.

Clinical manifestations of central retinal artery occlusion in eyes of proliferative diabetic retinopathy with previous vitrectomy and panretinal photocoagulation.

Purpose: To report the clinical characteristics of central retinal artery occlusion in eyes of proliferative diabetic retinopathy with previous vitrectomy and panretinal photocoagulation.

Methods: Retrospective case series.

Results: Twelve eyes in 12 patients (4 women and 8 men) with a mean age of 55.

Combination treatment of pediatric coats' disease: a bicenter study in Taiwan.

Purpose: To present the clinical outcome of different combination treatment modalities in pediatric Coats' disease in two Taiwan medical centers.

Methods: A retrospective review of clinical records was done of pediatric patients with Coats' disease treated at National Taiwan University Hospital and Changhua Christian Hospital. Data regarding the age at the time of diagnosis, initial presentation, methods of treatment, visual and anatomic results, and complications were recorded.

Ocular coherence tomographic and clinical characteristics in patients of punctuate inner choroidopathy associated with zonal outer retinopathy.

Purpose: To describe the findings of optical coherence tomography and clinical characteristics in patients of zonal outer retinopathy associated with punctuate inner choroidopathy.

Method: Review of consecutive cases on fundus photographs, spectral domain ocular coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography, indocyanine green angiography, visual field, and electrophysiological studies of patients with punctate inner choroidopathy and associated zonal outer retinopathy.

Results: This study involves 4 patients suffering visual field defect far beyond the area corresponding to punctate inner choroidopathy lesions.

Intravitreal ranibizumab as salvage therapy in an extremely low-birth-weight infant with rush type retinopathy of prematurity.

We report the effects of intravitreal ranibizumab as salvage therapy in an extremely low-birth-weight (ELBW) infant with rush type retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). This case was a girl of 23 weeks gestational age weighing 480 g at birth. At a postconceptual age of 33 weeks, she presented with zone 1, stage 3 ROP with plus disease.

Choroidal infarction after photodynamic therapy combined with bevacizumab and triamcinolone reversed by tissue plasminogen activator: case report.

Purpose: To present a case of choroidal infarction after combined therapy of photodynamic therapy, intravitreal bevacizumab, and sub-Tenon triamcinolone injection salvaged by tissue plasminogen activator administration.

Methods: Interventional case report.

Results: Combined therapy of full-fluence photodynamic therapy, intravitreal bevacizumab, and sub-Tenon triamcinolone injection was given on the same day to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration in an 82-year-old patient.

Nonparaneoplastic autoimmune retinopathy presenting with peripheral retinal vasoocclusion: case report.

Purpose: To report a case of nonparaneoplastic autoimmune retinopathy presenting with severe peripheral retinal vasoocclusion.

Methods: Interventional case report.

Case Report: A 44-year-old woman complained of blurred vision and photopsia in both eyes.

Unusual optical coherence tomography and fundus autofluorescence findings of eclipse retinopathy.

A 63-year-old female patient complained of dimness in the central field of vision in the left eye after viewing an annular partial eclipse without adequate eye protection on 22 July 2009. Fundoscopy showed a wrinkled macular surface. Fundus autofluorescence study revealed well-demarcated hyperautofluorescence at the fovea.

Different refractive errors in triplets with retinopathy of prematurity treated with bevacizumab.

The authors report refractive errors possibly resulting from intravitreal bevacizumab injection. Triplet A presented with stage 3 retinopathy of prematurity, was treated with intravitreal bevacizumab, and high refractive errors were noted. Triplet B presented with stage 2 retinopathy of prematurity in the right eye and stage 3 retinopathy of prematurity in the left eye, which regressed spontaneously.

Clinical characteristics and surgical management of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy-associated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report the clinical characteristics and surgical outcome of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy-associated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

Methods: Retrospective interventional case series of patients with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy-associated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. All cases had preoperative and postoperative clinical evaluations.

Unusual maculopathy secondary to hypergammaglobulinemia in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Purpose: To report the unusual findings of fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography in a case of systemic lupus erythematosus with hypergammaglobulinemia.

Design: Interventional case report.

Results: A 59-year-old woman had systemic lupus erythematosus but had stopped taking medication for 6 months.

Successful treatment of toxoplasmosis-associated choroidal neovascular lesions with bevacizumab and antiparasitic therapy.

Purpose: To report the effects of oral trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and intravitreal bevacizumab injection in the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis-associated choroidal neovascular lesions (CNV).

Methods: This was a noncomparative, nonrandomized, consecutive case series. All eyes with ocular toxoplasmosis-associated CNV received one intravitreal bevacizumab injection under the coverage of oral trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.

Reactive macular edema and acute visual loss after photodynamic therapy on the same day of fluorescein angiography.

Reactive macular edema can occur following photodynamic therapy (PDT) in patients who have undergone fluorescein angiography (FA) on the same day. It might be better not to perform PDT on the same day of FA to avoid side effects. The safety interval between FA and PDT should be at least 24 hours, considering fluorescein retention in the body.

Scleral fixation intraocular lens as a barrier for silicone oil in traumatic aphakia, aniridia, and recurrent retinal detachment:case report.

Purpose: We report a patient with recurrent retinal detachment complicated with traumatic aniridia and aphakia, which was successfully managed by scleral fixation polymethyl methacrylate posterior chamber intraocular lens (PMMA PCIOL) and vitrectomy with silicon oil tamponade.

Method: Interventional case report.

Results: A 35-year-old man with traumatic aniridia, aphakia, and recurrent retinal detachment who received the combined surgery of scleral fixation PMMA PCIOL and vitrectomy with silicon oil tamponade.

Macular thickness measurements in central retinal artery occlusion by optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To evaluate the structural features of central retinal artery occlusion by means of optical coherence tomography.

Methods: Eleven consecutive patients with acute central retinal artery occlusion and at least 3-month follow-up were enrolled prospectively in this study. The main outcome measures included best-corrected visual acuity, foveal thickness (FT), and total macular volume by optical coherence tomography.

Endogenous mycotic endophthalmitis in an immunocompetent postpartum patient.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report endogenous mycotic endophthalmitis in an immunocompetent postpartum patient who has undergone perineotomy in childbirth.

Methods: A 29-year-old immunocompetent postpartum woman had floaters in the left eye 2 weeks after childbirth. She denied ocular trauma, previous intraocular surgery, or intravenous drug use.

Treatment of inferior rhegmatogenous retinal detachment by pneumatic retinopexy technique.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of pneumatic retinopexy as an alternative technique for repairing inferior rhegmatogenous retinal detachments.

Design: Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series.

Methods: A review on 13 patients (13 eyes) who had undergone pneumatic retinopexy as the initial procedure for primary retinal detachments with causative break(s) in the inferior one third of retina.

Influence of systemic steroids on subretinal fluid after scleral buckle surgery for macula-off retinal detachment.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of postoperative systemic steroid therapy on the incidence and duration of the subretinal fluid (SRF) and its correlation with the visual outcome after scleral buckle surgery for macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

Methods: Prospective interventional study of sixty patients with macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment who undertook scleral buckle surgery. Those patients who had recurrent retinal detachment, proliferative preretinal membrane, or primary surgical failure were excluded.

The effect of intravitreal bevacizumab in the treatment of Coats disease in children.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if intravitreal bevacizumab can reduce subretinal exudates and exudative retinal detachment and facilitate the treatment of Coats disease in children.

Methods: Prospective, interventional, and noncomparative case series of three eyes in three children with Coats disease were studied. All eyes received only intravitreal bevacizumab injection as the primary treatment.