Standardized Flanged Intrascleral Intraocular Lens Fixation with the Double-Needle Technique for Cataract Luxation in the Vitreous Chamber during Phacoemulsification.

Purpose: To assess the visual and refractive outcome of immediate intraoperative vitrectomy and intrascleral intraocular lens implantation using a "standardized" sutureless Yamane technique during cataract luxation in the vitreous chamber as a complication of phacoemulsification.

Design: A prospective, interventional, consecutive case series.

Materials And Methods: Twelve patients underwent vitrectomy and intrascleral intraocular lens fixation using a standardized Yamane technique as the primary procedure during complicated phacoemulsification.

Confocal microscopy analysis of corneal changes after photorefractive keratectomy plus cross-linking for keratoconus: 4-year follow-up.

Purpose: To analyze corneal confocal microscopy changes after combined photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) plus the cross linking (CXL) procedure.

Design: Prospective interventional case series.

Methods: At the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs of the University of Bari, Bari, Italy, 17 eyes of 17 patients with progressive keratoconus underwent confocal microscopy examination before and after 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 48 months following PRK plus the CXL procedure.

Photorefractive keratectomy followed by cross-linking versus cross-linking alone for management of progressive keratoconus: two-year follow-up.

Purpose: To compare visual, refractive, topographic, and corneal higher-order aberration outcome at the 2-year follow-up after customized photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) followed by cross-linking (CXL) as a single procedure versus CXL alone in eyes with progressive keratoconus.

Design: Prospective, interventional, nonrandomized clinical trial.

Methods: Seventeen patients (34 eyes) with progressive keratoconus were assigned to 2 groups: the worse eye (17 eyes) was assigned to the PRK plus CXL group and the better eye (17 fellow eyes) was assigned to the CXL group.

Combined aniridia ring implantation and cataract surgery in an Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome: a UBM report.

Purpose: To describe ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) features in a patient with Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS) and cataract before and after anterior segment surgery using intraocular lens (IOL) and aniridic ring implantation (Morcher Aniridia rings 50 D).

Methods: Visual acuity, subjective glare disability, intraocular pressure, endothelial cell density, and UBM imaging were reviewed over a period of 1 year.

Results: One month after surgery, the operated eye showed improved visual acuity and visual comfort, and UBM examination showed a well-centered IOL and well-aligned aniridic ring fins.

Excimer laser-assisted lamellar keratoplasty and the corneal endothelium.

Purpose: To evaluate endothelial changes after excimer laser-assisted lamellar keratoplasty.

Design: Retrospective, interventional case series.

Methods: Seven eyes of 7 keratoconus patients were evaluated for 1 year after pachymetry-guided lamellar keratoplasty, performed using the iRES Laser (Ligi Tecnologie Medicali S.

Capsular block syndrome after implantation of an accommodating intraocular lens.

A patient presented with capsular block syndrome (CBS) 1 month after cataract surgery. An unexpected postoperative myopia linked to shallowing of the anterior chamber was evident. The 1540 microm IOL shift was sufficient to give useful spectacle-free near vision.