Young patients with branch retinal vein occlusion: a review of 60 cases.

Purpose: To investigate the risk factors for branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) in young patients.

Methods: Observational case series with retrospective comparative controls. The medical records of 60 consecutive patients (aged ≤ 49 years) with BRVO were reviewed to note patients' age, sex, body mass index, history of smoking, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hormonal replacement therapy in women.

Combining phacoemulsification and vitrectomy in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Purpose Of Review: Modern vitrectomy and cataract extraction techniques have reached levels not imagined 20 years ago. Combining pars plana vitrectomy with phacoemulsification and posterior capsulectomy now has the potential to condense three separate procedures: pars plana vitrectomy, phacoemulsification, and YAG capsulotomy into one procedure. Interest in combined surgery is increasing as reports in the literature documenting its safety and efficacy continue to be published.

Complications of hydrogel explants used in scleral buckling surgery.

Purpose: To report a group of patients with symptoms of pain, strabismus, sensation of orbital fullness, and presence of a subconjunctival mass many years after successful scleral buckling surgery using hydrogel explants.

Design: We present an interventional consecutive case series of patients who underwent scleral buckling surgery using hydrogel explants from 4 to 14 years before onset of clinical symptoms.

Setting: This is a retrospective, multicenter clinical study.

Hypercoagulable states and central retinal vein occlusion.

Central retinal vein occlusion is a common cause of permanent visual loss. Work up and laboratory evaluation of patients requires the clinician to rule out hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and glaucoma. Patients without an identifiable risk factor are often subject to extensive testing for primary and secondary thrombophilias.

Combining phacoemulsification with pars plana vitrectomy in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: a series of 223 cases.

Purpose: To describe the results of combined phacoemulsification, insertion of posterior chamber intraocular lens (PCIOL), and pars plana vitrectomy for patients with retinal disorders resulting from diabetic retinopathy.

Design: Retrospective, consecutive, noncomparative, interventional case series.

Participants: Two hundred twenty-three patients with vitreoretinal disorders secondary to diabetic retinopathy.