Tamponade in the surgical management of retinal detachment.

Despite treatment advances, rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD) can have poor visual outcomes even with prompt and appropriate therapy. Pars plana vitrectomy is a leading management modality for the treatment of RD. This procedure is generally accompanied by the use of internal tamponade.

New Therapeutic Approaches in Diabetic Retinopathy.

Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus. It affects a substantial proportion of US adults over age 40. The condition is a leading cause of visual loss.

Rates of Reoperation and Abnormal Binocularity Following Strabismus Surgery in Children.

Purpose: To determine predictors of reoperation and abnormal binocularity outcomes (including amblyopia and diplopia) following pediatric strabismus surgery.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Methods: setting: Review of a national insurance database.

Mining Retrospective Data for Virtual Prospective Drug Repurposing: L-DOPA and Age-related Macular Degeneration.

Background: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of visual loss among the elderly. A key cell type involved in AMD, the retinal pigment epithelium, expresses a G protein-coupled receptor that, in response to its ligand, L-DOPA, up-regulates pigment epithelia-derived factor, while down-regulating vascular endothelial growth factor. In this study we investigated the potential relationship between L-DOPA and AMD.

Rates of Reoperation and Retinal Detachment after Macular Hole Surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate rates of reoperation and retinal detachment (RD) after macular hole surgery.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Participants: Patients in the insurance claim-based MarketScan databases from 2007 through 2013 with a record of macular hole surgery.

Current Infectious Endophthalmitis Rates After Intravitreal Injections of Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Agents and Outcomes of Treatment.

Background And Objective: To assess the incidence and outcomes of infectious endophthalmitis after intravitreal injections of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agents.

Patients And Methods: Patient records at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (BPEI) from January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2014, were reviewed. The largest commercial claims and encounters database in the U.

Strabismus Surgery Reoperation Rates With Adjustable and Conventional Sutures.

Purpose: To determine the association of strabismus surgery reoperation rates with adjustable or conventional sutures.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Methods: setting: Review of a large national private insurance database.

Incidence of postoperative suprachoroidal hemorrhage after glaucoma filtration surgeries in the United States.

Purpose: To report the 3-month incidence rates of postoperative suprachoroidal hemorrhage after glaucoma filtration surgeries and to examine the subsequent surgical treatments in these eyes.

Methods: This is a retrospective study using the nationally pooled, insurance claim-based MarketScan databases from the years 2007-2011. Patients with records of trabeculectomy and/or tube shunt procedures were identified, and all cases of "definite" (ie, properly coded) and "suspected" (possibly miscoded) postoperative suprachoroidal hemorrhage occurring within 3 months of their glaucoma filtration procedures were captured along with the surgical interventions used for this condition.

Ambulatory surgery center utilization by vitreoretinal surgeons: 1999-2011.

Background And Objective: To evaluate the utilization rates of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in the state of Florida for vitreoretinal, cataract, and glaucoma surgical procedures over a 13-year period from 1999 through 2011.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective analysis utilizing the State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD) for Florida from 1999 through 2011. ICD-9 codes for vitreoretinal, cataract, and glaucoma procedures were queried.

Incidence of bleb-associated endophthalmitis in the United States.

Purpose: To evaluate the 5-year incidence rate of blebitis and bleb-associated endophthalmitis in the United States.

Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, we utilized a large commercial health insurance claim-based database during 2007-2011 and identified all patients who had a record of trabeculectomy in 2007. These patients were followed until the end of 2011.

Endophthalmitis: state of the art.

Endophthalmitis is an uncommon diagnosis but can have devastating visual outcomes. Endophthalmitis may be endogenous or exogenous. Exogenous endophthalmitis is caused by introduction of pathogens through mechanisms such as ocular surgery, open-globe trauma, and intravitreal injections.

Risk factors predictive of endogenous endophthalmitis among hospitalized patients with hematogenous infections in the United States.

Purpose: To identify potential risk factors associated with endogenous endophthalmitis among hospitalized patients with hematogenous infections.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Methods: MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters, and Medicare Supplemental and Coordination of Benefit inpatient databases from the years 2007-2011 were obtained.

Feasibility of telemedicine in detecting diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.

Age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy are important causes of visual impairment and blindness in the world. Because of recent advances and newly available treatment modalities along with the devastating consequences associated with late stages of these diseases, much attention has been paid to the importance of early detection and improving patient access to specialist care. Telemedicine or, more specifically, digital retinal imaging utilizing telemedical technology has been proposed as an important alternative screening and management strategy to help meet this demand.

Fundus findings in chronic granulomatous disease.

Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disease that has been reported to present with various chorioretinal findings, predominantly in men. We report a case of a 17-year-old girl with a known diagnosis of CGD referred to the ophthalmology clinic for evaluation of an inflamed pingueculum. Upon clinical examination and ophthalmic imaging, high-quality montage fundus photographs demonstrated a wide array of bilaterally asymmetric chorioretinal findings known to be characteristic of the ophthalmic manifestations of CGD, including chorioretinitis and focal subretinal granuloma.