Publications by authors named "Maria Stephanie R Jardeleza"
Purpose: Progressive outer retinal necrosis (PORN) associated with varicella zoster virus (VZV) is usually diagnosed in HIV positive or immunosuppressed patients. We report two cases of immunocompetent patients with necrotizing viral retinitis found to have idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia.
Methods: Clinical presentation, examination, imaging, and laboratory testing of two patients with VZV retinitis are presented.
Purpose: To determine the rates, predisposing factors, and visual outcomes of retinal detachment (RD) after Boston Keratoprosthesis (KPro) implantation.
Methods: In this noncomparative, interventional case series, the medical records of 170 patients (205 eyes) who underwent Boston type 1 and type 2 KPro implantation at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary between April 1993 and June 2009 were retrospectively reviewed. Incidence and annual rates of RD were calculated, and the roles of possible predictive factors for RD after KPro were investigated.
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is a visually significant complication of diabetes mellitus. Pan-retinal photocoagulation (PRP) remains the standard treatment of choice. However, adverse effects of and clinical barriers to PRP have led to exploration of alternative and adjunctive therapeutic strategies in the treatment of proliferative disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine whether trypan blue causes a significant difference in the biomechanical properties (stiffness) of diabetic and nondiabetic anterior lens capsules and to determine whether diabetes significantly alters the stiffness of anterior lens capsules.
Setting: Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare Center System, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA.
Methods: In this unmasked prospective randomized controlled experimental study, anterior lens capsules were obtained from diabetic and nondiabetic patients approved for cataract surgery.
Purpose: To describe the morphologic features of Fuchs corneal dystrophy and compare them with those of bullous keratopathy.
Methods: This was an observational case series. The study group consisted of 32 corneal buttons with a diagnosis of Fuchs dystrophy and the comparison group consisted of 22 corneal buttons with bullous keratopathy.
Purpose: This report describes the clinical and histopathologic features and discusses the diagnostic difficulties and management of periocular deposition of petrolatum-based materials.
Methods: Excision of orbital and eyelid tissue, tissue processing, and histopathologic examination was performed in patients with deposition of petroleum-based products. Transmission electron microscopy was performed in 3 cases.