Patient creates filtering bleb: hypotony following traumatic rupture of an old scleral incision for intracapsular cataract surgery.

An 86-year-old woman presented with symptomatic hypotony on the left eye since a few weeks, blurry vision and a very sensitive eye. She had a history of bilateral intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE) in 1982 and secondary intraocular lens implantation in 1988. The patient mentioned a fall on the left side of the head 6 months earlier.

Fifteen years of IOL exchange: indications, outcomes, and complications.

Purpose: To report the indications, frequency, and outcomes regarding intraocular lens (IOL) exchange in 2 university hospital tertiary referral settings over a period of 15 years.

Setting: Ophthalmology departments of the University Hospital Antwerp and the University Hospital Leuven, Belgium.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Donor-Related Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Interface Infection After Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty.

Purpose: To describe the first reported case of Mycobacterium chelonae-related interface keratitis after Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK), successfully treated with DMEK exchange.

Methods: A case of donor-related DMEK interface keratitis, treated with medical therapy and DMEK exchange, was studied retrospectively.

Results: A patient with Fuchs endothelial dystrophy developed infectious interface keratitis after DMEK.

The role of the vitreous body in effective IOL positioning.

Purpose: To compare the effective lens position (ELP) after phaco surgery alone and after combined phacovitrectomy surgery.

Methods: Twenty patients who were scheduled for elective surgery in both eyes were included. In one eye, phacovitrectomy surgery was performed (without any tamponade), and in the fellow eye, only phaco surgery was performed using the same IOL type.

Clinical Practice: A Proposed Standardized Ophthalmological Assessment for Patients with Cystinosis.

Cystinosis is a rare autosomal recessive disease with an incidence of approximately 1 case per 100,000-200,000 live births. Over the years, gaining in-depth knowledge of the disease has led to vast improvement in patient life expectancy. However, debilitating, extra-renal manifestations such as eye disease, in particular corneal crystal deposition and its associated photophobia, still occur frequently, regardless of patient age and notwithstanding the increased implementation of systemic therapy.

Frosted branch angiitis with undiagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma.

Purpose: To report the case of a patient with bilateral frosted branch angiitis and undiagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma.

Methods: Review of clinical history, laboratory findings, histology of supraclavicular lymph node biopsy, and follow-up.

Results: A 22-year-old man presented with a sudden, bilateral visual loss.

Lack of estrogen increases pain in the trigeminal formalin model: a behavioural and immunocytochemical study of transgenic ArKO mice.

In order to examine the effect of estrogen on facial pain, we first compared the face-rubbing evoked by a formalin injection in the lip of aromatase-knockout (ArKO) mice, lacking endogenous estrogen production, 17 beta-estradiol-treated ArKO mice (ArKO-E2) and wild-type (WT) littermates. During the 'acute' phase of pain the time spent rubbing was similar in the three groups, whereas during the following 'interphase' and the second phase of pain, grooming was increased in ArKO mice. Estradiol-treatment restored a behaviour similar to WT group.