Factors Associated with the Development of Posterior Capsule Opacification Requiring Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Capsulotomy.

Significance: Determining risk factors for posterior capsule opacification will allow for further interventions to reduce the risk of development and thus additional procedures.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate risk factors associated with development of clinically significant posterior capsule opacification requiring yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) capsulotomy.

Methods: Medical records of patients (≥18 years) who underwent cataract surgery between January 1, 2011, and March 31, 2014, at Kresge Eye Institute were reviewed.

Nonimmunologic graft failure after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) for presumed amantadine-induced corneal edema.

Context: With one exception, a case report of amantadine-induced corneal toxicity has described reversible corneal edema.

Objective: To report a patient with unrecognized amantadine-induced corneal edema.

Design: Patient with schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia developed bilateral corneal edema while receiving chronic amantadine hydrochloride.

Reduced need for corneal epithelial debridement during vitreo-retinal surgery using two different viscous surface lubricants.

Purpose: Corneal clarity is frequently reduced during vitrectomy and scleral buckling surgery secondary to epithelial edema, requiring epithelial debridement to improve visibility. The presence of toxic preservatives in the corneal lubricant solutions is hypothesized to be a contributing factor to epithelial edema during vitreo-retinal surgery.

Design: Interventional study.