Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty: six-month results of the first 100 consecutive surgeries performed solo by a surgeon using 1 technique with 100% follow-up.

Purpose: To determine the outcomes and complication rates achieved by a novice cornea surgeon when performing Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) while precisely following a previously described forceps insertion technique.

Methods: Prospective, noncomparative interventional case series including 100 eyes of 74 patients with endothelial decompensation. An institutional review board approved, prospective, DSAEK series was initiated.

Ocular neuromyotonia after gamma knife stereotactic radiation therapy.

Three patients who underwent multiple intracranial operations for recurrent nonsecreting pituitary adenomas followed by gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery developed diplopia at 1, 5, and 6 years after the treatments. Examination disclosed features of ocular neuromyotonia, a phenomenon attributed to radiation damage to ocular motor cranial nerves. Amply reported after external beam radiotherapy, neuromyotonia has not been described after radiosurgery previously.

The effect of lubricating eye drops on optical coherence tomography imaging of the retina.

Introduction: The goal of this study was to examine the potential value of corneal lubrication in improving the quality of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of the retina.

Materials And Methods: This study is a consecutive series of 13 eyes of 11 patients in whom repeated attempts at OCT imaging failed to yield a good quality study despite the absence of significant media opacity or inadequate pupil dilation. Immediately following several poor quality scans, each eye received lubricating eye drops.

Long-term survival of central visual field in end-stage glaucoma.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term survival of visual field and visual acuity in treated glaucoma patients with end-stage glaucomatous visual field loss defined by a field constricted to a 10-degree radius or less.

Design: Retrospective chart review.

Participants: Sixty-four patients with end-stage glaucoma.