Publications by authors named "Kreiger A"
Purpose: We report a case of silicone oil placement after Boston Type 1 keratoprosthesis implantation for improvement and maintenance of intraocular pressure in a patient with chronic hypotony secondary to chronic uveitis.
Methods: Observational case report.
Results: A 54-year-old female with a history of bilateral chronic panuveitis and subsequent hypotony presented with progressive corneal decompensation and band keratopathy in her better-seeing left eye.
MACULAR SLING: A CUSTOMIZABLE METHOD FOR MACULAR BUCKLING USING AVAILABLE ELEMENTS.
Retin Cases Brief Rep
September 2024
Purpose: Macular buckling surgery is used to treat certain cases of myopic traction maculopathy but is rarely performed in the United States. One of the main factors limiting its use is the lack of commercially available buckling elements. Here, we describe a novel technique for creating an effective macular buckle using readily obtainable buckling materials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrection to: Epiretinal proliferation after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol
April 2022
Purpose: To evaluate the mid-term outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy performed for retinal detachment (RD) repair after Boston Type 1 keratoprosthesis (KPro) implantation.
Methods: Retrospective review of medical records of KPro implanted at the Stein Eye Institute presenting with RD and treated by pars plana vitrectomy. Functional success was defined as a postoperative visual acuity maintained within 2 Snellen lines of the corrected distance visual acuity measured before the development of the RD (baseline) and anatomical success as an attached retina after the pars plana vitrectomy.
Epiretinal proliferation after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol
May 2022
Purpose: To determine the characteristics and appearance rate of epiretinal proliferation (ERP) on SD-OCT after surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) repair.
Methods: One hundred eight eyes of 108 patients who underwent one or more surgeries for RRD were enrolled. The eyes with other maculopathies that were directly related to RRD were excluded.
Background/aims: To analyse the long-term anatomic and visual outcomes of patients with peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome (PPS), a recently described entity in the pachychoroid disease spectrum.
Methods: This study retrospectively included patients from several retina centres worldwide. Visual acuity (VA), retinal thickness and choroidal thickness at baseline, 6 months and final follow-up were assessed.
Purpose: To describe the features of peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome (PPS), a novel pachychoroid disease spectrum (PDS) entity.
Methods: Medical records of 31 eyes (16 patients) with choroidal thickening associated with intraretinal and/or subretinal fluid in the nasal macula extending from the disk were reviewed (patients with PPS). Choroidal thickness was compared with 2 age-matched cohorts: typical PDS (17 eyes with central serous chorioretinopathy or pachychoroid neovasculopathy) and 19 normal eyes.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the presenting sign of retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukoencephalopathy and systemic manifestations, a rare autosomal dominant condition caused by mutations in the TREX1 gene, and to explore the potential efficacy of bevacizumab in preventing capillary occlusions.
Methods: Observational case report with the use of ultra-widefield fluorescein angiography, optical coherence tomography, and optical coherence tomography angiography.
Results: A 31-year-old man with a family history of retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukoencephalopathy and systemic manifestations presented with a scotoma in his left eye.
Purpose: To investigate anatomical and functional outcomes of vitreoretinal fellow-performed vitrectomy for tractional retinal detachment secondary to proliferative diabetic retinopathy in a county hospital system.
Methods: Consecutive retrospective review of patients surgically treated for diabetic tractional retinal detachment at Olive View-UCLA County Medical Center (Sylmar, CA) during a 2-year training period.
Results: Sixty-two eyes of 58 patients met inclusion criteria with a mean age of 48 ± 9 years and preoperative hemoglobin A1c of 8.
Research suggests that restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) can be subdivided into repetitive sensory motor (RSM) and insistence on sameness (IS) behaviors. However, because the majority of previous studies have used the autism diagnostic interview-revised (ADI-R), it is not clear whether these subcategories reflect the actual organization of RRBs in ASD. Using data from the Simons simplex collection (n = 1,825), we examined the association between scores on the ADI-R and the repetitive behavior scale-revised.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe the characteristics of and surgical outcomes for primary pediatric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) and to evaluate whether specific characteristics impact anatomical outcomes after surgical intervention.
Methods: Data for consecutive patients (18 years of age or younger) with RRD who required surgery over a 5-year period were studied retrospectively. Patients with recurrent retinal detachment or active retinopathy of prematurity were excluded.
Purpose: To describe patients with full-thickness macular holes (FTMHs) and lamellar macular holes (LMHs) in association with type 2 idiopathic macular telangiectasia (type 2 IMT).
Methods: Six patients with either FTMH or LMH and type 2 IMT were evaluated by means of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, funduscopy, and fluorescein angiography.
Results: The age of the examined patients ranged from 57 to 70 years (mean 62.
Purpose: To report the anatomic and functional outcomes of patients treated with vitrectomy and inferior retinectomy for recurrent, rhegmatogenous retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR).
Design: Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series.
Participants: Fifty-six patients with recurrent, rhegmatogenous retinal detachments complicated by PVR who underwent an inferior retinectomy for repair.
Purpose: To describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) after solid organ transplantation.
Design: Case series.
Participants: Fifteen patients who presented to the authors with CSC after solid organ transplantation.
Purpose: To report the clinicopathologic features of a patient with mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma of the conjunctiva and associated intraocular involvement.
Methods: This study is a retrospective clinicopathologic correlative case report summarizing the clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic findings of a patient with conjunctival MALT lymphoma and associated intraocular involvement.
Results: Ophthalmic examination and fluorescein angiography demonstrated progressive conjunctival infiltration bilaterally, marked uveal effusions in the left eye, and cellular white infiltrates of the choroid in the right eye.
Background: We compared the effects of clonidine added to levobupivacaine and bupivacaine on axillary brachial plexus block as well as the effectiveness of levobupivacaine alone compared with bupivacaine alone.
Methods: In this prospective, randomized, controlled, double-blind trial, four groups of 20 patients each were investigated, using (i) 40 ml of levobupivacaine 0.5% plus 0.
Background: Primary phakic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) without posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) represents a unique clinical entity that behaves differently from RRD associated with PVD. While previous studies have reported the long term findings in the fellow eye of patients with RRD and PVD, the outcome of the fellow eye of patients with RRD without PVD is not known.
Methods: Consecutive patients with RRD not associated with PVD were studied retrospectively.
Objective: To determine how often the fellow eyes of patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) without proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) harbor vision-threatening conditions at presentation and during follow-up.
Design: Retrospective, observational case series.
Participants: Two hundred forty-eight patients with RRD without PVR were studied.
Severe visual loss caused by ocular perforation during chalazion removal.
Am J Ophthalmol
January 2004
Purpose: To report two cases of ocular perforation during chalazion removal procedures leading to severe vision loss.
Design: Observational case series.
Methods: Two patients presented with unilateral decreased vision after chalazion removal procedures.
Objective: The document describes macular hole surgery and examines the available evidence to address questions about the efficacy of the procedure for different stages of macular hole, complications during and after surgery, and modifications to the technique.
Methods: A literature search conducted for the years 1968 to 2000 retrieved over 400 citations that matched the search criteria. This information was reviewed by panel members and a methodologist, and it was evaluated for the quality of the evidence presented.