Unveiling idiopathic macular telangiectasia: clinical applications of optical coherence tomography angiography.

Purpose: Idiopathic macular telangiectasia type 2 (IMT2) is a bilateral acquired maculopathy, with a spectrum of clinical presentations associated with inner retinal telangiectatic vascular anomalies. Cases often are underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Current diagnostic modalities such as spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and fluorescein angiography (FA) are valuable to the understanding of the clinicopathology.

Sleep apnea syndrome represents a risk for glaucoma in a veterans' affairs population.

Purpose. To determine whether the diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) represents a risk-factor for glaucoma. Design.

Evaluation of the Xal-Ease latanoprost delivery system.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare drops of latanoprost dispensed using the Xal-Ease (Pfizer Ophthalmics, New York, New York) delivery system with drops dispensed manually.

Methods: Twenty-four 2.5-mL bottles of Xalatan (Pfizer Ophthalmics) were evaluated with or without the delivery system.

The relationship among race, iris color, central corneal thickness, and intraocular pressure.

Purpose: Central corneal thickness (CCT) influences applanation intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement. The present study sought to determine whether iris color might represent a qualitative surrogate for CCT or race, and therefore differential risk for elevated IOP and, consequently, developing glaucoma.

Methods: Eligible patients included those with best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) better than 20/40 and who had not worn contact lenses within 24 hours.

The reliability of frequency-doubling technology (FDT) perimetry in a pediatric population.

Purpose: Frequency-doubling Technology IFDT) Perimetry was introduced as a rapid, easy method for detection of visual-field defects in adults. Its reliability, howev, has never been tested among pediatric patients. The purpose of this study was to determine if children could complete a screening program of FDT Perimetry reliably and to define the age range over which it might be most applicable.

The relationship among axial length, corneal curvature, and ocular fundus changes at the posterior pole and in the peripheral retina.

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether fundus findings in moderately to highly myopic eyes are more likely to occur in the posterior pole or peripheral retina and to describe the type and frequency of ocular fundus variations.

Methods: Patients qualified for inclusion if the refractive error was 6.00 D or greater of myopia or the axial length was 26 mm or greater Data collection included refractive correction, corneal curvature, axial length, and stereoscopic ocular fundus evaluation.