Publications by authors named "Nicola Vito Lassandro"
Introduction: Congenital arterial peripapillary loops are rare entities and very few cases are described in literature.
Case Description: A 25-year-old Asian man presented a diffuse vitreous hemorrhage in his Left Eye (LE). OCT-A revealed the presence of bilateral vascular loops at the optic nerve head.
Background: To evaluate the correlations between anatomical and functional changes after idiopathic epiretinal membrane (iERM) surgery.
Methods: In this prospective, observational, single-center study, consecutive patients who underwent iERM peeling were enrolled. Reported data were pre- and postoperative best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), retinal sensitivity (RS) and fixation stability values on microperimetry, structural macular features on SD-OCT and OCTA.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate the presence of pachychoroid spectrum disease (PSD) in patients with Cushing disease (CD) and to evaluate subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) and choriocapillary flow using spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT) with the enhanced depth imaging (EDI) and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A).
Methods: Thirty-two patients with CD and 32 age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers were enrolled in this observational study. All participants had a complete ophthalmic examination including SD-OCT with EDI and OCT-A, and were subjected to the Perceived Stress Scale test (PSS).
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report our experience with a case of punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) reactivation following COVID-19.
Case Report: A 29-year-old caucasian woman with past ophthalmological history of bilateral PIC reported sudden visual acuity decrease in her right eye (RE) 3 weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Her best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/32 in RE; fundus examination and multimodal imaging (including indocyanine-green angiography, fundus autofluorescence, and optical coherence tomography) was consistent with unilateral PIC reactivation.
Purpose: To report our experience with a peculiar case of asynchronous bilateral retinal vascular occlusion in a patient suffering from membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.
Case Report: A 57-year-old dialysed male affected by membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis who underwent kidney transplantation complained of a sudden vision loss in his right eye (RE). His best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/40 in RE and 20/20 in the left eye (LE); ophthalmological and fluorangiographic examinations revealed unilateral retinal obliterative vasculitis with panuveitis and apparent sparing of contralateral eye.
Introduction: Incidental finding of mass lesion in the choroid represents a very challenging situation for the ophthalmologist. We describe a case of an incidental, computed tomography (CT)-hyperintense, choroidal lesion in a patient with parotid malignancy and renal failure, and how multimodal imaging helped us reaching the correct diagnosis.
Case Description: A 63-year-old man with parotid gland malignancy was brought to our attention because preoperative staging CT showed a hyperintense choroidal lesion of the right eye.