Outcomes and control rates for I-125 plaque brachytherapy for uveal melanoma: a community-based institutional experience.

Purpose. To evaluate our community-based institutional experience with plaque brachytherapy for uveal melanomas with a focus on local control rates, factors impacting disease progression, and dosimetric parameters impacting treatment toxicity. Methods and Materials.

Association of Propionibacterium acnes endophthalmitis with HLA-DQw5.

Background: An HLA-DQ1 association has been suspected in patients who develop Propionibacterium acnes endophthalmitis following cataract surgery. New techniques exist which may help to define this association.

Materials And Methods: Patients with culture-proven P.

Diagnostic ultrasound and pars plana vitrectomy in penetrating ocular trauma.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic ultrasonography in the preoperative evaluation of eyes with media opacity after penetrating ocular trauma and correlate the preoperative findings with ultimate visual outcome.

Methods: A retrospective comparison was made between the preoperative ultrasound diagnoses and the intraoperative findings in 46 eyes of 45 patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy after penetrating ocular trauma associated with dense media opacities. The preoperative echographic findings were correlated with long-term visual and anatomic outcome.

Postoperative Propionibacterium endophthalmitis. Treatment strategies and long-term results.

Purpose: Postoperative Propionibacterium endophthalmitis is a condition characterized by exacerbations and remissions that has often been accompanied by recurrence after treatment. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of initial therapies in preventing recurrent endophthalmitis and to assess the safety of intraocular lens (IOL) exchange performed during treatment of active endophthalmitis.

Methods: The records of 22 patients with culture-proven Propionibacterium endophthalmitis treated at one facility were retrospectively reviewed.

Transpalpebral extrusion of a silicone sponge exoplant.

We report an unusual case of scleral buckle extrusion in a 63-year-old woman. A 5 mm silicone sponge exoplant eroded through Tenon's capsule, conjunctiva, and full-thickness upper eyelid, traversing the tarsal plate.