Heavy silicone oil tamponade: a multicentre experience.

Objective: To report multicentred use of the heavy silicone oil Densiron 68 for anatomical reattachment following rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) repair and its associated complications.

Methods And Analysis: Patients from seven vitreoretinal units within the UK that underwent RRD repair with Densiron 68 between January 2015 and December 2019 were identified. Primary outcome measures were primary and final reattachment rate, retained Densiron and failure rate.

Clinical outcomes and surgeon assessment after implantation of a new diffractive multifocal toric intraocular lens.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical outcome in eyes with significant corneal astigmatism after cataract surgery with implantation of a new diffractive multifocal toric intraocular lens (IOL).

Methods: Prospective, non-randomised multicentre clinical study including 57 eyes of 38 consecutive patients with an age between 37 and 84 years that underwent cataract surgery with implantation of the toric multifocal IOL Tecnis ZMT (Abbott Medical Optics, Santa Ana, California, USA). Changes in uncorrected and corrected logMAR distance, intermediate and near visual acuity ((uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), uncorrected intermediate visual acuity (UIVA) uncorrected near visual acuity (UNVA), corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), corrected near visual acuity) and manifest refraction were evaluated during a 2-4 month follow-up.

Intravitreal gas injection for the treatment of diabetic macular edema.

Purpose: This study investigates the efficacy of an intravitreal gas injection in inducing a posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) in patients with clinically significant diabetic macular edema refractory to laser therapy.

Methods: A local ethics committee-approved technique of an intravitreal injection of pure perfluoropropane gas (C(3)F(8)) was performed for all participants. After a period of prone positioning, the patients underwent regular and detailed clinical review.

Hyoscine skin patches for drooling dilate pupils and impair accommodation: spectacle correction for photophobia and blurred vision may be warranted.

Hyoscine skin patches diminish salivation by their anticholinergic action. The aim of reporting this case series is to present the ophthalmic side effects in children, and to highlight the precautions to take. Five children (two males, three females; age range 8-18y) with quadraplegic cerebral palsy (Gross Motor Function Classification System Level V) and profound intellectual impairment, wearing hyoscine skin patches to control excessive salivation, were examined.

PaCE: a technique to avoid subretinal fluid drainage in retinal detachment surgery.

Purpose: Subretinal fluid (SRF) drainage and thus the potential complications of this procedure during scleral buckling can be avoided by inducing SRF absorption preoperatively. The technique described in this series is named PaCE (Pneumatic Cryo Explant).

Methods: A total of 22 eyes of 22 patients with primary bullous rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) were included in this prospective non-comparative case trial.

Choroidal neovascularization after laser in situ keratomileusis in a patient with low myopia.

We report a case of choroidal neovascularization after laser in situ keratomileusis in a 37-year-old man with low myopia.