[Treatment of cystoid macular edema with bevacizumab in course of Irvine-Gass syndrome].

Purpose: To determine clinical effect of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) in patients with cystoid macular edema after cataract surgery.

Material And Methods: Four eyes of four patients treated with 1 intravitreal injection of 1.25 mg Avastin.

Long-term evaluation of vitreomacular traction disorder in spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: The aim of this article was to estimate the natural course of vitreomacular traction (VMT) disorder using high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Methods: Nineteen eyes of 19 patients with idiopathic symptomatic VMT and who underwent spectral-domain optical coherence tomographic follow-up examinations were included in the retrospective observational study. The average observation period of all patients who underwent the examination was 8 months (±4.

Evolution from macular pseudohole to lamellar macular hole - spectral domain OCT study.

Background: The pathogenesis of macular pseudohole (MPH) is supposed to be different from that of macular lamellar hole (LMH). MPH is thought to be caused by centripetal contraction of previously present epiretinal membrane. LMH is considered to be an effect of abortive process of full-thickness macular hole formation, or a result of de-roofing of a foveal cyst in persistent cystoid macular oedema.

Surgical treatment of lamellar macular holes.

Background: The aim of this study is to present functional and anatomical results of pars plana vitrectomy without gas tamponade in lamellar macular holes. Additionally, the study determines factors influencing final outcome.

Methods: Twenty-six eyes of 26 patients with lamellar macular hole were diagnosed using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Optical coherence tomography in multiple sclerosis: thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer as a potential measure of axonal loss and brain atrophy.

Background: Axonal distribution within the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) measured by optical coherence tomography (OCT) correlates with axonal viability and integrity.

Objective: To investigate correlations between RNFL and MRI measures of axonal loss in MS patients.

Methods: Fifty one remitting-relapsing MS patients, 20 with a history of optic neuritis (MS-ON), 31 without optic neuritis (MS N-ON), and 12 healthy control subjects (HC) were included in the study.

[Pathomorphology of membranes appearing in proliferative vitreoretinopathies].

Immunohistochemical techniques were used to investigate the cell content of epiretinal membranes occuring in proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). Ten epiretinal membranes were obtained during surgery from eyes with PVR and five from eyes with PDR. This material was studied histopathologically and immunohistochemically.

[Evaluation of state of the organ of sight in patients with diabetes type II].

Purpose: To evaluate the state of eyes in patients with diabetes type 2, and to gain current data about the presence of diabetic retinopathy, cataract, prevalence of particular types of retinopathy and percentage of people treated with laser photocoagulations.

Material And Methods: The study included 1300 patients, at the age from 18 to 91 years and treated for diabetes type 2 for the period between 1 and 46 years. The analysis was based on a full ophthalmologic examination.

[Evaluation of results of combined pars plana vitrectomy and cataract removal].

Purpose: Cataract often coexists with pathologies of the vitreous body. Moreover, after several months after vitrectomy, the lens becomes opaque. Lens opacities interfere with appropriate visualisation of the vitreous chamber and the eye fundus, which makes performing vitreoretinal procedures difficult.