Glaucoma Severity Stage at First Visit at a University Eye Clinic in Congo.

Prcis: Initial presentation of glaucoma at a major eye clinic mostly features advanced disease with a high proportion of blindness. This is likely a microcosm of a nationwide issue requiring concerted strategies to detect glaucoma early.

Purpose: To characterize the severity stage of new glaucoma patients in Congolese attending a university eye clinic.

Effect of intravitreal injection of bevacizumab in treated and untreated eyes of Black African patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.

Objective: To evaluate the response of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) in eyes treated with intravitreal bevacizumab (BVZ) and untreated fellow eyes in black Africans.

Methods: We studied 22 eyes (12 patients) divided into 12 treated and 10 untreated eyes from January 2017 to January 2020. Treated eyes received 1 monthly injection of BVZ 2.

Neuroretinitis and Juxtapapillary Retinochoroiditis as Atypical Presentations of Ocular Toxoplasmosis.

We report three cases of optic nerve toxoplasmosis, an unusual form of ocular toxoplasmosis. In one patient, the optic nerve involvement occurred in an eye with a toxoplasmic chorioretinal scar and choroidal neovascularization in the supramacular area, subretinal fibrosis, and pigment epithelium detachment. The other two patients had papilledema without healed or active chorioretinal lesions, but both had retinal hemorrhage and macular involvement.

Quality of timolol eye drops marketed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Objective: To assess the quality of timolol eye drops sold in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Methods: Seven samples of timolol maleate 0.5% were purchased over the counter in seven randomly selected public pharmacies in 3 neighborhoods in Kinshasa.

Profile of retinal diseases in adult patients attending two major eye clinics in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Aim: To determine the frequency and types of retinal diseases and the extend of the related visual loss in adult patients attending two public eye clinics of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Methods: Review of medical records of patients with retinal diseases seen in the major eye clinics in Kinshasa, the University Hospital of Kinshasa (UHK) and Saint Joseph Hospital (SJH), from January 2012 to December 2014. Demographics and diagnoses were retrieved and analyzed.