Evaluating the 1-year success and safety of ab interno canaloplasty in combination with cataract surgery in glaucoma patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the treatment success and safety of ab interno canaloplasty (AbiC) combined with cataract surgery in glaucoma patients.

Methods: The prospective case study included 43 eyes that received an AbiC combined with cataract surgery (age 73.3 ± 8.

Clinical, Anatomical, and Densitometric Changes following Dresden vs. Accelerated Corneal Cross-Linking in Progressive Keratoconus.

Background: To compare clinical, anatomical, and densitometric changes following Dresden (DCXL) vs. accelerated (ACXL) corneal UVA cross-linking (CXL; Avedro KXL, Geuder, Heidelberg, Germany) in progressive keratoconus (KC).

Methods And Material: In this retrospective study, we analyzed 20 patients following DCXL (3 mW/cm², 30 min, 5.

Safety and feasibility of sutureless pars-plana vitrectomy in sub-Tenon anesthesia (SAFE-VISA): a prospective study.

Background: To determine the safety and feasibility of sutureless pars-plana vitrectomy (ppV) in sub-Tenon anesthesia.

Methods: In this prospective study. Pain and anxiety at various times after ppV using a visual analogue scale (VAS) and Wong-Baker-FACES scale as well as visual sensations during surgery were investigated.

Short-Term Clinical Results After ILM Removal and Inverted ILM Flap for Macular Hole Repair - A Single-Center Retrospective Experience.

Purpose: To compare results after ILM peeling and ILM inverted flap technique utilized the repair of full thickness macular holes, irrespective of their size.

Patients And Methods: Pre- and postoperative data of 109 patients who suffered from a full thickness macular hole were retrospectively analyzed. Forty-eight patients were treated with an inverted ILM flap technique, 61 patients were treated with ILM peeling.

Fullfield and extrafoveal visual evoked potentials in healthy eyes: reference data for a curved OLED display.

Purpose: Visual evoked potentials (VEP) present an important diagnostic tool in various ophthalmologic and neurologic diseases. Quantitative response data varied among patients but are also dependent on the recording and stimulating equipment. We established VEP reference values for our setting which was recently modified by using a curved OLED display as visual stimulator.

TREATMENT OF PERSISTENT MACULAR HOLES WITH HEAVY SILICONE OIL.

Background/purpose: To determine anatomical success and best-corrected visual acuity after secondary surgery with heavy silicone oil tamponade in patients with persistent full-thickness macular holes.

Methods: In this retrospective study, 63 eyes with persistent full-thickness macular holes after primary pars plana vitrectomy and internal limiting membrane peeling underwent secondary surgery with heavy silicone oil tamponade. Macular spectral domain optical coherence tomography and best-corrected visual acuity measurements were performed during the follow-up.

Outcomes of combined single-use dual blade goniotomy and cataract surgery.

Purpose: Single-use dual blade goniotomy (SBG) is a novel ab interno procedure that removes three to five clock hours of trabecular meshwork (TM). We analysed the reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) and topical glaucoma medication (Meds) in eyes following combined cataract surgery and SBG (Cat-SBG).

Methods: IOP and Meds were evaluated retrospectively in 55 eyes of 38 patients.

Telemetric non-contact intraocular pressure monitoring with an implanted sensor in patients with glaucoma: long-term safety report and monitoring data.

Background/aims: Glaucoma is a chronic disease that requires lifelong monitoring and treatment. However, its control is limited due to discontinuous intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring related to the practitioners' office hours. Implantable telemetric IOP sensors have made self-measurements possible and provide important information regarding the IOP profiles of patients.

Development of visual acuity under hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBO) in non arteritic retinal branch artery occlusion.

Purpose: Nonperfusion of retinal tissue due to arterial occlusion leads inevitably to mostly irreversible retinal damage. Until today no evidence-based treatment exists. Inhalation of 100% oxygen at high atmospheric pressure causes an increased solubility of oxygen in the blood that helps the retinal tissue to survive through diffusion in case of an artery occlusion till vascular recanalization occurs.

[Dry AMD - Cellular and Genetic Therapies].

The growing incidence of neurodegenerative diseases is based on our increasingly aging society as well as the difficulties in establishing defined therapy regimens. For dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the later stage of geographic atrophy (GA), various treatment options exist that only decelerate the progression of the disease. However, no therapy is currently available that can restore the degenerated retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and/or photoreceptor cells.

Long-term Clinical Results of Vitrectomy and Scleral Buckling in Treatment of Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment.

Purpose: Most studies about retinal detachment cover a limited follow-up period. The purpose of this research is to assess the long-term results after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) and scleral buckle (SB) surgery in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Methods: 155 patients with RRD are treated either with SB or PPV with a mean follow-up of more than 5 years.

Automated, Noncontact Intraocular Pressure Home Monitoring after Implantation of a Novel Telemetric Intraocular Pressure Sensor in Patients with Glaucoma: A Feasibility Study.

Purpose: Reliable and regular assessment of intraocular pressure (IOP) is important for the monitoring of patients with glaucoma. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a novel system for the automated, noncontact measurement of IOP.

Patients And Methods: A first-generation telemetric IOP sensor was previously implanted in the ciliary sulcus of six patients with open-angle glaucoma during cataract surgery.

[Treated cases of retinopathy of prematurity in Germany : 5-year data from the Retina.net ROP registry].

Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the main reasons for childhood blindness. The number of infants requiring treatment, however, is low for individual centers. The Retina.

Long-term follow-up after implantation of a telemetric intraocular pressure sensor in patients with glaucoma: a safety report.

Importance: To investigate the long-term safety of a novel intraocular telemetric pressure sensor.

Background: Acquisition of accurate intraocular pressure (IOP) data is vital for sufficient medical care of glaucoma patients. Non-invasive self-tonometry with a telemetric IOP sensor can provide important information regarding the individual IOP profile.

Three-Year Follow-Up of Trabeculectomy with 5-Fluorouracil.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term outcome of trabeculectomy with intra- and postoperative 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) application in glaucoma.

Methods: Eighty-six patients with glaucoma planned for primary trabeculectomy with 5-FU and a minimum follow-up of 3 years were retrospectively analyzed. Success rates, postsurgical 5-FU injections, needling procedures, and complications were analyzed.

Goldmann Applanation Tonometry Versus Dynamic Contour Tonometry After Vitrectomy.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the agreement of intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement using dynamic contour tonometry (DCT) and Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) in eyes after vitrectomy with intraocular gas endotamponade, in eyes after vitrectomy with no tamponade, and in controls.

Methods: In this prospective comparative study IOP was measured with GAT and DCT in 41 eyes with gas endotamponade (sulfur hexafluoride 20%) 1 to 3 days after vitrectomy, in 32 postvitrectomy eyes with intraocular water, and in 46 control eyes with no history of glaucoma or intraocular surgery. Corneal pachymetry and axial length measurements were additionally performed.

[Self-tonometry with a Telemetric Intraocular Pressure Sensor in Patients With Glaucoma].

Background: Accurate acquisition of intraocular pressure (IOP) data, particularly short-term and long-term fluctuations, plays an important role in the medical care of glaucoma patients. Non-invasive self-tonometry with a telemetric IOP sensor can provide important data on the individual IOP profile.

Methods: Within the framework of a prospective, single-centre pilot clinical trial, a ring-shaped telemetric IOP sensor was inserted into the ciliary sulcus after implantation of the intracapsular lens during planned cataract surgery.

Retrobulbar Hemodynamics and Visual Field Progression in Normal Tension Glaucoma: A Long-Term Follow-Up Study.

Purpose: Vascular risk factors are important factors in the pathogenesis of glaucoma. The purpose of this research was to investigate retrobulbar hemodynamics and visual field progression in patients with normal tension glaucoma (NTG).

Patients And Methods: 31 eyes of 16 patients with NTG were included in a retrospective long-term follow-up study.

Blue-yellow and standard pattern visual evoked potentials in phakic and pseudophakic glaucoma patients and controls.

Purpose: Blue-yellow short wavelength testing (BY-VEPs) has proven diagnostic relevance in detecting early ganglion cell damage, e.g., in glaucoma.

Central corneal thickness determination in corneal edema using ultrasound pachymetry, a Scheimpflug camera, and anterior segment OCT.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of post-surgical corneal edema on the reliability and reproducibility of central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements by a Scheimpflug camera (Pentacam), ultrasound pachymetry (USP), and anterior-segment spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Methods: Thirty-two patients planned for cataract surgery (n = 16) or vitrectomy (n =  6) were included in a prospective study. The non-surgery eye was used as control.

Implantation of a novel telemetric intraocular pressure sensor in patients with glaucoma (ARGOS study): 1-year results.

Purpose: We investigated the safety of a telemetric IOP sensor and the accuracy of its IOP measurements in six patients with open-angle glaucoma and cataract.

Methods: The study design was a prospective, single-center clinical trial. Here we present 1-year follow-up data.

[Long-term results after trabeculectomy with 5-fluorouracil].

Purpose: Trabeculectomy is among the first choice surgical treatments for glaucoma. Antimetabolites, especially mitomycin C, have improved the success rate. The aim of this study is to present the results of trabeculectomy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU).

Management of intraocular hypertension during hemodialysis by intravenous glucose administration.

A 64-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease and retinopathy secondary to type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with recurrent episodes of left ocular pain and acute loss of visual acuity during hemodialysis. During these episodes, markedly elevated intraocular pressures were measured. Several local and systemic antiglaucoma drugs were administered without improvement of intraocular pressure, resulting in the necessity of a glaucoma drainage device (Ahmed valve).