Association between time to treatment and outcome in branch retinal vein occlusion.

Purpose: To investigate the association between the time from onset to initial treatment and changes in visual acuity or the number of treatments in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (BVO).

Design: Retrospective.

Methods: Thirty-nine eyes of 39 consecutive patients with untreated acute-phase BVO who visited the University of Tokyo Hospital and were followed up for at least one year were included.

Investigating the factors affecting myopia in retinopathy of prematurity after laser treatment.

Background: We investigated the effect of the number of laser shots applied on the myopic variables to elucidate the mechanism of myopia development in laser-treated retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) eyes.

Methods: A total of 33 eyes of 17 infants with ROP who underwent laser treatment were included in the analysis. Cycloplegic retinoscopic refraction testing was carried out and the spherical equivalent (SE) was calculated.

Assessment of macular function in patients with non-vascularized pigment epithelial detachment.

Non-vascularized pigment epithelial detachments (PED) are usually associated with dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In this study, we aimed to investigate the correlation between visual function and morphologic parameters. Seventeen eyes of eleven patients with non-vascularized AMD were enrolled.

Association of Near-Infrared and Short-Wavelength Autofluorescence With the Retinal Sensitivity in Eyes With Resolved Central Serous Chorioretinopathy.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the results of near-infrared autofluorescence (NIRAF) and short-wavelength autofluorescence (SWAF) imaging of eyes with resolved central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) and to assess the retinal sensitivity (RS) in areas with abnormal autofluorescence (AF) using white-on-white (WW) and blue-on-yellow (BY) perimetries.

Methods: We examined 20 consecutive eyes with resolved CSC. We calculated the areas of abnormal AF detected by SWAF and NIRAF imaging as SWAF_area and NIRAF_area, respectively, and the number of measurement points within and outside abnormal SWAF and NIRAF regions were counted.

Quantification of residual ellipsoid zone and its correlation with visual functions in patients with cone-rod dystrophy.

Cone-rod dystrophy (CORD) is one of the inherited retinal diseases that result in central visual field deterioration and decreased visual acuity (VA). In CORD patients, impaired photoreceptor cells are observed as the disruption of ellipsoid zone (EZ) on optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. In the present study, we calculated the index of residual EZ (rEZ) to quantify the function of photoreceptor cells and investigated the correlation between rEZ index and visual functions.

Does the number of laser applications for ROP treatment influence the degree of myopia?

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between the number of laser shots applied during laser photocoagulation treatment and the degree of myopia at 3 years in children with laser-treated retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

Method: A total of 68 eyes of 34 infants who had developed prethreshold ROP and were treated by diode laser therapy were included in the current study. Cycloplegic retinoscopic refraction testing was performed in the children at the age of 3 years, and the spherical equivalent (SE) was calculated for all the examined eyes.

Clinical Features and Visual Outcome of Uveitis in Japanese Patients Younger than 18 Years.

: To investigate the clinical features and visual outcome of young Japanese patients with uveitis.: Patients younger than 18 years who presented with uveitis at the University of Tokyo Hospital between 2000 and 2018 were retrospectively reviewed.: The study comprised 98 patients whose mean age was 12.

The structure-function relationship measured with optical coherence tomography and a microperimeter with auto-tracking: the MP-3, in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the structure-function relationship in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) using optical coherence tomography and the MP-3 microperimeter. Visual field (VF) measurements were carried out using MP-3 microperimetry and the Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA, Carl-Zeiss, CA), 22 eyes of 11 patients with a clinical diagnosis of RP, both with the 10-2 test grid pattern. Optical coherence tomography (OCT, Spectralis, Heidelberg, Germany) was also performed and the ellipsoid zone (EZ) was identified in the OCT image.