Publications by authors named "Milton F White"
Aim: To examine associations between retinal thickness and rod-mediated dark adaptation in older adults with non-exudative age-related maculopathy (ARM) or normal macular health.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 74 adults ≥ 50 years old from the comprehensive ophthalmology and retina services of an academic eye centre. ARM presence and disease severity in the enrolment eye was defined by the masked grading of stereofundus photos using the Clinical Age-Related Maculopathy grading system.
Purpose: To assess the risk of hemorrhagic complications when performing intravitreal injections on systemically anticoagulated patients.
Methods: A single-center retrospective case series of 520 consecutive patients (675 eyes) receiving 3,106 antivascular endothelial growth factor injections. Patients on the systemic anticoagulants Coumadin (warfarin sodium) or Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) were identified, as well as patients on aspirin.
Purpose: To estimate the risk of hemorrhagic complications associated with 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) when warfarin (Coumadin; Bristol-Myers Squibb, New York, NY) or clopidogrel (Plavix; Bristol-Myers Squibb) are continued throughout the surgical period, as compared with a control group.
Design: A single-center, retrospective, cohort study of 289 consecutive patients receiving either warfarin therapy or clopidogrel therapy or neither of those therapies who underwent 25-gauge PPV.
Participants: Included were 61 patients (64 eyes; 64 PPV procedures) in the warfarin group and 118 (125 eyes; 136 PPV procedures) in the clopidogrel group.
Background And Objective: To determine risk factors for immediate severe vision loss in patients with age-related macular degeneration after transpupillary thermotherapy for occult subfoveal choroidal neovascularization.
Patients And Methods: Retrospective review of 84 consecutive patients with age-related macular degeneration who received transpupillary thermotherapy for occult subfoveal choroidal neovascularization. Seven cases had severe vision loss and 77 were controls.
Macular holes associated with diabetic tractional retinal detachments.
Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging
September 2008
Background And Objective: Evaluation of surgical treatment of full-thickness macular holes secondary to diabetic tractional retinal detachments was conducted.
Patients And Methods: A retrospective review of medical records, fluorescein angiograms, fundus photographs, optical coherence tomography images, and operative findings of six consecutive patients with full-thickness macular holes and diabetic tractional retinal detachments was completed. Each eye was treated with pars plana vitrectomy, tractional retinal detachment repair, membranectomy, indocyanine green-assisted internal limiting membrane peeling, and intraocular gas tamponade.
Purpose: To report the incidence of acute endophthalmitis as a complication of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) (IVB) injection in a tertiary vitreoretinal group practice.
Methods: A retrospective chart review of 5,233 consecutive eyes that underwent IVB injection at Retina Consultants of Alabama (RCA) from October 1, 2005, to August 31, 2007, was performed to identify cases of acute endophthalmitis.
Results: During the 23-month study interval, the overall incidence rate of postinjection endophthalmitis was 0.
Purpose: To report the use of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) as an adjunctive treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).
Design: Retrospective case review.
Methods: Institutional review board approval to review patient data was obtained for this retrospective study.
Purpose: To examine the effect of a short course of high-dose retinol (preformed vitamin A) on dark adaptation in older adults with normal retinal health or early age-related maculopathy (ARM).
Methods: The study design was a randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled experiment. Adults > or = 50 years of age whose fundus photographs for the eye to be tested psychophysically fell within steps 1 to 9 of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) Grading System were randomly assigned to a 30-day course of 50,000 IU oral retinol or a placebo.
Purpose: To assess the visual outcome following vitrectomy for diabetic retinopathy compared with previous studies; to evaluate risk factors for light perception (LP) and no light perception (NLP) vision after diabetic vitrectomy.
Design: Retrospective medical record review.
Methods: The charts of 100 consecutive patients who underwent vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy between November 1, 1997, and November 30, 1998, were reviewed.
Purpose: To explore a clinically observed association between central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) DESIGN: A retrospective case-control study.
Participants And Controls: Sixty-nine consecutive patients diagnosed with CSC were compared with a control group of 55 non-CSC patients.
Methods: The records of 69 patients with CSC were retrospectively reviewed and compared with the records of 55 controls.
Objective: To test the hypothesis that retinochoroidal collateral veins (RCVs), or alternatively, retinociliary or optociliary shunts/collaterals/veins or opticociliary anastomoses, act protectively against the development of anterior segment neovascularization (ASN) following central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).
Design: Case-control retrospective medical record review of patients with CRVO.
Patients: We identified 107 patients with CRVO, of whom 34 had developed ASN, by reviewing their medical records.
Background: We studied ocular injuries and visual outcome after blunt trauma from paintball pellets.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed cases of ocular injury from paintball pellets occurring over 32 months.
Results: Ten cases of ocular injury from paintball pellets were recorded.