Publications by authors named "Nieuwendaal C"
Introduction: To evaluate the long-term effect of corneal transplantation on mental health outcomes and to assess potential predictors of these outcomes.
Methods: For this multicentre prospective cohort study, patients awaiting corneal transplantation were recruited from 11 (academic) hospitals and eye clinics in the Netherlands. Participants (n = 238) completed the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety subscale (HADS-A) and the Dutch ICF Activity Inventory Emotional Health subscale (DAI-EH) and Fatigue subscale (DAI-F) 1 month prior and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after corneal transplantation.
Introduction: Allogeneic serum from blood donors is starting to be used to treat patients with dry eye disease (DED). However, the optimal dose is not known. We therefore aimed to evaluate the clinical efficaciousness and user-friendliness of micro-sized versus conventional-sized allogeneic serum eye drops (SEDs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Disturbing binocular problems can be too complex to be treated in such a way that comfortable binocular single vision is restored. The grey filter contact lens could offer a safe and clinically useful way to help these patients.
Background: In unilateral acquired reduced visual performance or intractable diplopia the binocular performance often is less than the performance of the better eye, possibly leading to complaints of binocular visual functioning.
Purpose: To report the results of long-term topical treatment with bevacizumab (Avastin) 5 mg/mL eyedrops in a case of aniridia-related neovacularization of the cornea.
Methods: Interventional case report. A female patient with aniridia had a decrease in the best corrected visual acuity from 0.
Objectives: To study the effects of corneal scars and the treatment of these scars with rigid gas-permeable (RGP) contact lenses on quality of vision including straylight. Visual effects were related to scar characteristics such as size and grade.
Methods: Straylight and best-corrected visual acuity were measured in 23 patients with corneal scars during and after RGP contact lens wear.
Purpose: To report on the beneficial results of an intense regimen of 0.05% cyclosporine eye drops, eight times a day in patients with therapy resistant vernal shield ulcers.
Methods: Case cohort of four eyes of three male children with vernal keratoconjunctivitis complicated by shield ulcers, who were treated with frequent cyclosporine 0.
The purpose of the study was to report the long-term outcome of unilateral implantation of a multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) in a pediatric cataract. This study was carried out at Tertiary Academic Ophthalmology Department, AMC, Amsterdam. This is a case report study of a 7-year-old child with a unilateral irradiation cataract, in whom an apodized diffractive multifocal IOL (SN6D3, Alcon) was implanted at the time of cataract surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: (1) To qualify complaints of quality of vision in patients with (severe) keratoconjunctivitis sicca by examining straylight values and (2) to check for an effect of scleral lens wear on straylight.
Methods: Straylight was measured in 16 patients with severe keratoconjunctivitis sicca using the Oculus C-Quant. In 9 of these patients, scleral lenses were used, and straylight was measured with and without scleral lenses.
Purpose: To report the incidence of opacification of the intraocular lens (IOL) after Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) in an academic ophthalmology clinic.
Methods: In this retrospective case series, all patients who underwent DSEK between 2003 and 2013 were included. In 2008, the first patient presented with reduced vision as a result of opacification of the IOL in our clinic.
Purpose: To present two cases with complications after Nd:YAG laser treatment of epithelial ingrowth.
Methods: Case reports.
Results: Dense central recurrent epithelial ingrowth was treated with a Nd:YAG laser directed at the epithelial nests in the LASIK flap interface in one case.
Purpose: To describe clinical and laboratory findings in a series of cases of intraocular lens (IOL) opacification after procedures involving intracameral injections of air or gas.
Setting: John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Purpose: To review the spectrum of disease, symptomatology, and management offered to patients referred for a second opinion after refractive surgery.
Methods: A prospective cohort study was done on all patients referred from October 1, 2006, to September 30, 2011, to a tertiary eye clinic after refractive surgery of any kind (ie, corneal laser surgery, conductive keratoplasty, radial keratotomy, phakic implants, refractive lens exchanges, or any combination thereof). Data analysis was performed on all demographic and clinical aspects of this cohort, including the initial complaint, type of referral, number of complaints, procedure previously performed, diagnosis at our center, type of advice given, and rate and type of surgical intervention.
We describe the case of an 83-year-old woman who had uneventful phacoemulsification with implantation of a tripod hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lens (IOL). Because of postoperative corneal decompensation, 2 Descemet-stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) procedures were performed within 2 years. After the second procedure, the graft was not well attached, requiring an intracameral injection of air on day 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo assess the incidence of elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) after descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK). Retrospective case series. From the start of the technique in our hospital in 2003 until the middle of 2010, 73 eyes underwent DSEK, of which 66 (90.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the effect on refraction of neodymium:YAG (Nd:YAG) laser posterior capsulotomy for posterior capsule opacification (PCO), and to evaluate the correlation between automated and subjective refraction in multifocal apodized diffractive pseudophakia.
Methods: A retrospective study of 75 pseudophakic eyes (50 patients) with multifocal apodized diffractive pseudophakia, treated for PCO with Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy, was performed. Pre- and postintervention values of refractive and visual parameters were compared.
Purpose: Long-term quality of vision after Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) was evaluated and correlated with corneal characteristics and subjective complaints.
Methods: Thirty-four eyes were examined; patients had a single visit 6 to 64 months after DSEK for Fuchs dystrophy. Best-corrected distance acuity (BCDA) and straylight were analyzed.
Purpose: To report 3 cases of unexplained intraocular lens (IOL) opacification in patients who previously underwent Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK).
Methods: Case series. Three pseudophakic eyes of 3 patients, who developed a membraneous opacification of the IOL after uneventful DSEK are presented.
Purpose: To compare visual, refractive, and satisfactory outcomes between a new-generation sectorial addition multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) (Lentis Mplus LS-312; study group) and a diffractive apodized multifocal IOL (Restor SN6AD1; control group).
Setting: Private practice, Driebergen, and Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Design: Comparative case series.
Objective: To evaluate the quality of vision (visual acuity and straylight) in patients with Fuchs dystrophy and the improvement in visual quality after Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK).
Methods: There was an observational case series (Amsterdam group) and a prospective interventional case series (Mayo group). Corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), straylight, and corneal thickness were measured in patients with phakic and pseudophakic eyes with Fuchs dystrophy recruited at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (99 eyes), and at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (48 eyes).
In a patient with complaints of photophobia and an ocular deviation, straylight was found to be increased to 1.61 (log[s]), which is 5 times the normal value. The only relative clinical finding was the edge of a too small posterior capsulotomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To compare straylight values before and 3 months after hyperopic laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) or laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy (LASEK) and determine the cause of any change.
Setting: Private refractive surgery clinic, Driebergen, The Netherlands.
Design: Comparative case series.
Purpose: To evaluate the rate of recurrence and to detect pre- or postoperative complications in pterygium surgery using fibrin glue to attach the conjunctival autograft.
Methods: Retrospective case series. In a period of 20 months, 35 patients were operated on for a pterygium using a conjunctival autograft, of which 7 patients were operated (20%) for a recurrent pterygium.
Purpose: (1) To quantify the effect of contact lens wear on straylight in rigid and soft contact lens wearers and (2) to relate findings to morphological changes and subjective complaints.
Methods: Straylight was measured using the Oculus C-Quant during contact lens wear and after contact lens removal in 30 rigid contact lens wearers and 30 soft contact lens wearers. Semi-quantitative (0-4) slit-lamp grading of anterior segment changes using Efron grading scales and contact lens characteristics were performed.