Polymerase chain reaction for DNA detection from ocular fluids in patients with various types of choroiditis in a referral eye center in India.

Aims: The aim of this study was to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) DNA with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in aqueous or vitreous samples of patients suffering from choroiditis presumed to be infectious origin.

Settings And Design: Hospital-based, retrospective case-control study.

Subjects And Methods: In all, forty eyes of forty patients with choroiditis divided into two groups - Group A (serpiginous-like choroiditis, ampiginous choroiditis, multifocal choroiditis) and Group B (choroidal abscess, miliary tuberculosis (TB), choroidal tubercle) were analyzed retrospectively.

Indications and outcomes of scleral buckle removal in a tertiary eye care center in South India.

Purpose: To study the clinical profile of patients undergoing scleral buckle removal (SBR) surgery.

Materials And Methods: All consecutive patients undergoing SBR surgery following scleral buckle for retinal detachment repair between January 2002 and December 2011 with a minimum postSBR follow-up of 6 months were included in this study. A record based on analysis of indications, methods, complications, and outcomes of the eyes was performed.

Delayed onset chloroquine retinopathy presenting 10 years after long-term usage of chloroquine.

Chloroquine retinopathy is a known complication of long-term use of chloroquine. This retinopathy can appear even after usage of chloroquine has stopped. The present case report describes the history and clinical features of chloroquine retinopathy developing a decade after discontinuing the drug.