Clinical Outcomes of Cataract Surgery in Patients with Sjögren's Syndrome.

This study compared the biometric accuracy and refractive outcomes, and ocular surface changes after cataract surgery in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome (SS, S group), non-SS dry eye patients (D group), and healthy controls (C group). The medical records of patients who underwent cataract surgery and met certain inclusion criteria were reviewed. In total, 167 eyes of 87 patients were enrolled.

A randomized multicenter evaluation of the efficacy of 0.15% hyaluronic acid versus 0.05% cyclosporine A in dry eye syndrome.

Hyaluronic acid (HA) and cyclosporine A (CsA) eyedrops are commonly prescribed in dry eye syndrome (DES). The effectiveness of each preparation in DES is well-known, yet the superiority of one over another has been studied little. We assessed the efficacy and tolerability of 0.

Cataract Surgery Practices in the Republic of Korea: A Survey of the Korean Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2018.

Purpose: To describe current cataract surgery practice patterns and changing trends among Korean ophthalmologists.

Methods: A survey of members of the Korean Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery was performed in July 2018. One hundred and two (12.

Clinical Features of Herpes Simplex Keratitis in a Korean Tertiary Referral Center: Efficacy of Oral Antiviral and Ascorbic Acid on Recurrence.

Purpose: To describe the clinical manifestations of herpes simplex keratitis (HSK) in a tertiary referral center in South Korea and to determine whether ascorbic acid treatment prevents recurrence of herpetic epithelial keratitis.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included all consecutive patients with herpetic keratitis referred to our center from January 2010 to January 2015. Clinical features, ocular complications, and recurrences were recorded.

Clinical Results and Utility of Herpesviruses Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction: Assessment of Aqueous Humor Samples From Patients With Corneal Endotheliitis and High Intraocular Pressure.

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to evaluate herpesvirus infection in patients with corneal endotheliitis and high intraocular pressure (IOP) using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in aqueous humor samples.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective, observational study of immunocompetent patients living in South Korea. Eligible subjects had typical corneal endotheliitis with an IOP≥21 mm Hg or required antiglaucoma medication.

Serratia marcescens endophthalmitis after pterygium surgery: a case report.

Background: To report a case of Serratia marcescens endophthalmitis after pterygium surgery using the bare sclera technique with mitomycin C (MMC).

Case Presentation: A 69-year-old male patient underwent pterygium excision surgery using the bare sclera technique and 0.02% MMC.

Iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens implantation in an adult with retinopathy of prematurity: 1-year follow-up.

Purpose: To report a case of iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation in a patient with an extremely steep cornea, shallow anterior chamber, and small corneal diameter caused by retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and scleral encircling.

Methods: Case report.

Results: Iris-fixated pIOLs were implanted in a 19-year-old patient with refraction of -18.

Effects of exogenous recombinant human bone morphogenic protein-7 on the corneal epithelial mesenchymal transition and fibrosis.

Aim: To evaluate the effect of exogenous recombinant human bone morphogenic protein-7 (rhBMP-7) on transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)-induced epithelial mesenchymal cell transition (EMT) and assessed its antifibrotic effect topical application.

Methods: The cytotoxic effect of rhBMP-7 was evaluated and the EMT of human corneal epithelial cells (HECEs) was induced by TGF-β. HECEs were then cultured in the presence of rhBMP-7 and/or hyaluronic acid (HA).

Effect of Three-Dimensional Printed Personalized Moisture Chamber Spectacles on the Periocular Humidity.

To assess the effect of three-dimensional (3D) printed personalized moisture chamber spectacles (PMCS) on the periocular humidity. Facial computed tomography (CT) scanning was conducted on 10 normal subjects. PMCS was designed based on volume rendered CT images and produced using a 3D printer.

Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty for Epithelial Downgrowth After Clear Corneal Cataract Surgery.

Objectives: To describe the first case of Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) combined with argon laser photocoagulation and intracameral 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) injection in a patient with epithelial downgrowth after cataract surgery.

Methods: Case report and review of the literature.

Results: A 77-year-old female underwent uneventful cataract surgery using a clear corneal incision in her left eye.

Clinical Effects and Safety of 3% Diquafosol Ophthalmic Solution for Patients With Dry Eye After Cataract Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: To compare the efficacies and safety profiles of 3% diquafosol and 0.1% sodium hyaluronate in patients with dry eye after cataract surgery.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Reconstruction of the limbal vasculature after limbal-conjunctival autograft transplantation in pterygium surgery: an angiography study.

Purpose: We evaluated the angiographic features of the affected limbus in patients with pterygia and assessed limbal reconstruction outcomes after limbal-conjunctival autograft (LCA) transplantation in terms of vascular remodeling.

Methods: We studied prospectively 31 eyes of 31 patients who underwent pterygium excision and LCA transplantation; 28 eyes of 28 normal participants served as controls. Anterior segment indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) was performed for each participant preoperatively and at 1 week, and 1 and 3 months postoperatively.

Retinal detachment surgery in eyes with iris-fixated phakic intraocular lenses: Short-term clinical results.

Purpose: To evaluate the safety of retinal detachment (RD) surgery in eyes with iris-fixated phakic intraocular lenses (pIOLs) and the efficacy of the pIOLs in correcting myopia after RD surgery.

Setting: Single university-based tertiary referral center.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Streptococcus mitis/oralis endophthalmitis management without phakic intraocular lens removal in patient with iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens implantation.

Background: To report a case of Streptococcus mitis/oralis endophthalmitis management which had developed after complicated iris-fixated phakic intraocular (pIOL) lens implantation.

Case Presentation: A 23-year-old-woman received pIOL implantation followed secondary intraocular intervention to lower intraocular pressure. The patient presented with severe pain and decreased visual acuity and was managed with intravitreal and intracameral antibiotic injection with topical applications of fortified antibiotics.

Traumatic partial aniridia and cataract after iris-fixated foldable phakic intraocular lens implantation.

We present the first case of partial aniridia, traumatic cataract, and peripapillary subretinal hemorrhage after blunt trauma to an eye containing a foldable iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (pIOL). Although the patient experienced visual loss because of considerable corneal astigmatism and a traumatic cataract, vision was recovered by a 2-stage primary corneal repair and cataract surgery with a toric intraocular lens. This case exhibits clinical manifestations that differ from previously reported trauma of a non-foldable iris-fixated pIOL.

Transient anterior subcapsular vacuolar change of the crystalline lens in patients after posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation.

Background: We present two cases of transient vacuolar changes in the anterior subcapsular space of the crystalline lens in patients after posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation.

Case Presentation: Implantable collamer lenses (ICL) were implanted in healthy myopic patients. Vacuolar changes developed just after the irrigating procedure through the narrow space between the ICL and the crystalline lens.

Iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens implantation after retinal detachment surgery: long-term clinical results.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation to correct myopia in eyes with previous retinal detachment (RD) surgery.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Optical coherence tomographic findings of crystal deposits in the lens and cornea in Bietti crystalline corneoretinopathy associated with mutation in the CYP4V2 gene.

Background: We report the optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings of crystalline deposits in the cornea and lens of a patient with Bietti crystalline dystrophy (BCD), thus providing evidence for a better understanding of the pathophysiology of BCD.

Patient: A 49-year-old man showing typical chorioretinal degeneration with a CYP4V2 mutation was diagnosed with BCD.

Observations: The anterior segment OCT images clearly showed flat hyperreflective plaques just beneath the corneal epithelium and in the lens epithelium.

Modulation of retinal wound healing by systemically administered bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

Purpose: To evaluate whether systemically injected bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be incorporated into neuroretinal tissues and play an important role in retinal wound healing in the laser-induced retinal trauma model.

Methods: Retinotomies were made by applying an Nd:YAG laser to rat retina. On the first day after the injuries, cell suspensions that were obtained from the same line of rat (containing 1 × 10(6) green fluorescence protein [GFP]-marked bone marrow-derived MSCs) were injected through a tail vein in the experimental group and phosphate buffer solution (PBS) was injected in the same way in the control group.

Prognostic factors for the clinical severity of keratoconjunctivitis sicca in patients with Sjogren's syndrome.

Aims: To determine whether prognostic immunological profiles predict the severity of keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) in patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS).

Methods: 121 patients diagnosed with SS and followed for at least 1 year were enrolled in this study. Patients were allocated to either a mild KCS group (Mi-KCS; n=65) or to a moderate to severe KCS group (MS-KCS; n=56) based on the Oxford scheme and response to treatment.