Glaucoma Care of Incarcerated Patients at an Academic Institution: A Case-Control Study.

Purpose: To evaluate medication and follow-up adherence in incarcerated patients examined at an academic glaucoma clinic, in comparison to nonincarcerated controls.

Methods: Retrospective, case-control study. Consecutive prisoners presenting for initial visits in the Glaucoma Clinic at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary between December 2015 and December 2017 were included in the study.

Glaucoma Care of Prison Inmates at an Academic Hospital.

Importance: Glaucoma care for prison inmates is underrepresented in the literature even though managing the treatment of such patients may provide unique challenges.

Objectives: To evaluate the glaucoma profile of prison inmates treated at an academic ophthalmology center and to report on the medical and surgical management and follow-up metrics.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective cohort study assessed data from 82 incarcerated patients treated at the glaucoma clinic, an academic referral center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, between January 2013 and December 2017.

Zone of retinal vascularization and refractive error in premature eyes with and without spontaneously regressed retinopathy of prematurity.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between zone of retinal vascularization and refractive error in premature infants without retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) or with spontaneously regressed ROP.

Methods: The medical records of neonates screened for ROP between 2009 and 2015 at a tertiary academic center were reviewed retrospectively. Cases included untreated eyes with spontaneously regressed ROP; premature eyes without a diagnosis of ROP were control subjects.

Brimonidine tartrate for the treatment of glaucoma.

Brimonidine tartrate is a commonly used eyedrop for short- and long-term lowering of intraocular pressure. Its use has been popularized due to its effects on aqueous suppression and uveoscleral outflow, as well as the suggestion of neuroprotection. Although available with alternative preservative vehicles, brimonidine is associated with high rates of local allergy and is contraindicated in breastfeeding women, neonates, young children, and the elderly due to risk of central nervous system depression.

Cyst Masquerading as Inadvertent Bleb After a Scleral-Fixated Intraocular Lens in Marfan Syndrome: A Case Report.

Introduction: To present a case of an epithelial inclusion cyst masquerading as an inadvertent bleb in a patient with Marfan syndrome.

Case Report: A woman with Marfan syndrome presented with a subluxed crystalline lens in her right eye, which progressively subluxed over the following 2 years. A lensectomy was performed with placement of an anterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL); however, the patient experienced blurred vision and photopsias and preferred IOL explantation.

Systemic Disease and Long-term Intraocular Pressure Mean, Peak, and Variability in Nonglaucomatous Eyes.

Purpose: Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is a well-known risk factor in glaucoma development and progression. As most glaucoma risk factors are not modifiable, IOP remains the sole focus of medical and surgical therapy. Identifying modifiable factors and their effects on IOP, such as systemic diseases, is therefore of interest.

Assessment of Glaucomatous Damage After Boston Keratoprosthesis Implantation Based on Digital Planimetric Quantification of Visual Fields and Optic Nerve Head Imaging.

Purpose: To investigate glaucomatous damage in Boston keratoprosthesis type I (KPro) patients through structural analysis of the optic nerve head and digital planimetric quantification of Goldmann visual fields, a novel method of monitoring perimetric changes in KPro patients.

Methods: Records of patients undergoing KPro implantation from 2007 to 2015 at a single institution were reviewed. Parameters related to glaucoma status and KPro outcomes were analyzed.

Blepharospasm as a masquerade of glaucomatous visual field defects.

Purpose: To present blepharospasm as a cause of glaucomatous-like visual field defects.

Methods: We report a 72 year-old male with low-tension glaucoma who developed intermittent superior arcuate defects on Humphrey visual fields in one eye. Careful questioning and examination led to a diagnosis of blepharospasm (as part of hemifacial spasm), with secondary visual field changes.

Topical treatment of glaucoma: established and emerging pharmacology.

Glaucoma is a collection of optic neuropathies consisting of retinal ganglion cell death and corresponding visual field loss. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss worldwide and is forecasted to precipitously increase in prevalence in the coming decades. Current treatment options aim to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) via topical or oral therapy, laser treatment to the trabecular meshwork or ciliary body, and incisional surgery.

Characteristics of primary and secondary hepatic malignancies associated with hepatopulmonary shunting.

Purpose: To identify liver tumor characteristics associated with low (<10%), intermediate (10%-20%), and high (>20%) lung shunt fraction (LSF) at technetium 99m ((99m)Tc) macroaggregated albumin (MAA) imaging performed before yttrium 90 ((90)Y) radioembolization (RE).

Materials And Methods: In this single-center retrospective study, 141 patients (70 with hepatocellular carcinoma [HCC], 71 with other tumors; 95 men, 45 women; median age, 61 years) underwent mapping arteriography with (99m)Tc-MAA LSF calculation before (90)Y RE from 2006 to 2012. Tumor characteristics, including tumor type, index lesion size and morphologic structure (circumscribed, infiltrative), focality (solitary oligonodular, multinodular), disease distribution (unilobar, bilobar), tumor burden (≤50%, 50%), portal vein invasion (present, absent), and arterioportal shunting (present, absent) were correlated with (99m)Tc-MAA imaging-calculated LSFs at univariate and multivariate analysis.

Cataract extraction outcomes and the prevalence of zonular insufficiency in retinitis pigmentosa.

Purpose: To examine surgical outcomes in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) undergoing phacoemulsification cataract extraction.

Design: Retrospective observational case series.

Patients And Methods: In this single-institution study of consecutive RP patients who underwent phacoemulsification cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation by a single surgeon between 2002 and 2012, preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative records were analyzed with attention to best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), lens and zonular status, capsular tension ring use, incidence of posterior capsular opacification and neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet (YAG) laser capsulotomy, and surgical complications.