Aim: To evaluate and compare the quality of life of patients submitted to XEN implant or trabeculectomy and the relationship with potentially involved variables.
Methods: A cross-sectional study of patients with advanced open-angle glaucoma who underwent implantation of XEN (group 1) and trabeculectomy (group 2) between October 2015 and February 2017. The studied variables were: age, gender, follow-up time, need of topical anti-hypertensive therapy, visual acuity and intraocular pressure (IOP).
Purpose. To report a case of bilateral punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC). Case Report.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To report a case of Purtscher retinopathy and its therapeutic approach.
Methods: In this observational case report, complete ophthalmologic examination was performed, including best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) testing, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, dilated fundus examination, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), fluorescein angiography (FA), and Humphrey 24-2 visual field testing.
Results: The patient complained of right eye diminished visual acuity 48 hours after a car accident, with severe thoracic and abdominal blunt trauma but no direct ocular trauma.