Publications by authors named "Jorge Freire"
Canine tick-borne diseases, such as babesiosis, rangeliosis, hepatozoonosis, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis, are of veterinarian relevance, causing mild or severe clinical cases that can lead to the death of the dog. The aim of this study was detecting tick-borne protozoan and rickettsial infections in dogs with anemia and/or thrombocytopenia in Uruguay. A total of 803 domestic dogs were evaluated, and 10% were found positive (detected by PCR) at least for one hemoparasite.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate efficacy, patient tolerance, and adverse effects of CyberKnife radiosurgery for the treatment of intraocular and periocular lymphoma.
Methods: Retrospective case series of 13 patients who underwent CyberKnife radiosurgery was conducted.
Results: Fourteen eyes of 13 patients were included.
Purpose: To evaluate treatment of juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma with plaque radiotherapy and to investigate the role of supplemental transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT).
Design: Retrospective, comparative case series.
Participants: We included 650 consecutive eyes with juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma within 1 mm of the optic disc.
Objective: To evaluate tumor control with plaque radiotherapy for juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma that overhangs the optic disc.
Methods: Retrospective medical record review of 141 consecutive patients with data on complications of treatment, final visual acuity, visual loss, enucleation, tumor recurrence, metastasis, and death.
Results: The median patient age was 61 years.
Conjunctival melanoma 3 years after radiation and chemotherapy for retinoblastoma.
J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus
November 2007
An 8-month-old infant with advanced bilateral retinoblastoma was managed with enucleation of the right eye and chemotherapy and radiotherapy of the left eye. Three years after treatment, an ill-defined, nonpigmented mass was noted in the anophthalmic right socket. Excisional biopsy revealed an amelanotic melanoma of the conjunctiva with superficial orbital invasion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report results of plaque radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma that completely encircles the optic disc (circumpapillary melanoma).
Methods: Retrospective medical record review over a 31-year period of 37 consecutive patients. The main outcome measures were treatment complications, long-term visual acuity, enucleation, tumor recurrence, metastasis, and death.
Purpose: To evaluate plaque radiotherapy for iris melanoma.
Design: Prospective noncomparative interventional case series.
Methods: For 38 patients, custom-designed plaque radiotherapy using iodine 125 isotope was applied overlying the cornea with a tumor apex dose of 80 Gy.
Purpose: To describe the principles and preliminary results of plaque brachytherapy for selected orbital malignancies.
Methods: A custom-designed Iodine-125 plaque, designed to deliver a target dose of 50 Gray, was placed surgically in the region from which an orbital malignancy was partially resected. The mean dose to the target area was 50 Gray.
Objective: To assess treatment complications and tumor control after plaque radiotherapy for large posterior uveal melanomas measuring 8 mm or greater in thickness.
Design: Prospective noncomparative interventional case series.
Participants: Three hundred fifty-four patients each of whom had a posterior uveal melanoma measuring 8 mm or greater in thickness treated with plaque radiotherapy.