Lamellar macular holes: surgical outcome of 106 patients with long-term follow-up.

Purpose: To determine long-term results of vitrectomy for lamellar macular holes (LMH). To evaluate how the type of lamellar macular hole (tractional vs. degenerative) and the crystalline lens status might influence visual outcomes.

Vitreoretinal lymphomas misdiagnosed as uveitis: Lessons learned from a case series.

Purpose: To present challenging cases of vitreoretinal lymphoma (VRL) that was misdiagnosed as uveitis because of the apparent intraocular inflammation. At the light of the new classification of intraocular lymphomas, we detail the characteristics that masqueraded the tumors and the clinical aspects that guided us to the correct diagnosis.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the patients referred to our uveitis service between January 2006 and December 2014.

Influence of cataract surgery on progression of lens opacities in the fellow eye.

Objective: To evaluate whether, in the Italian-American natural history study, cataract surgery in one eye influences the incidence/progression rate of lens opacities in the fellow eye.

Design: Follow-up study of age-related cataract.

Participants: A total of 1399 participants with age-related cataracts were regularly followed for 5 years and cataract status evaluated by the Lens Opacities Classification System II on slit-lamp and retroillumination lens photographs.

Self-assessment of the quality of vision: association of questionnaire score with objective clinical tests.

Purpose: To investigate the association of a quality of life-visual function questionnaire with an objective clinical test of visual function.

Methods: We have developed a questionnaire to assess self-reported visual satisfaction in ophthalmic patients suffering from chronic eye conditions causing visual impairment. The questionnaire was administered to 120 patients suffering from age-related cataract, chronic open angle glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, branch retinal vein occlusion, and presbyopia or minor refractive defects.

Distribution of cataract types in the Italian-American case-control study and at surgery in the Parma area.

Purpose: To compare the distribution of cataract types at surgery with the distribution detected in an ophthalmology clinic-based case-control study in the same geographic area (Parma, Italy).

Methods: The distribution of cataract type assessed according to the Lens Opacities Classification System I in 284 consecutive patients 45 years of age or older, who were admitted for cataract surgery to the Institute of Ophthalmology in Parma during 1994, was compared with the distribution assessed in 1008 participants in the Italian-American case-control study of age-related cataract in the Parma metropolitan area from 1987 to 1989.

Results: Analysis of cataract distribution indicates in the surgical group, compared with the case-control population, a significant increase of nuclear (N) and posterior subcapsular (PSC) opacities (any), a reduction of pure forms of cortical and N cataracts, and a marked increase of mixed types of opacities with a simultaneous N and PSC component.