Comparative study of vitrectomy versus intravitreous triamcinolone for diabetic macular edema on randomized paired-eyes.

Background: The present study was performed to compare the effects of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) and single intravitreaous triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) on diabetic macular edema (DME) in paired eyes.

Methods: Prospective comparative study on randomized paired-eyes was carried out at two hospitals. Forty eyes of 20 patients with bilateral DME were included.

Posturing time after macular hole surgery modified by optical coherence tomography images: a pilot study.

Purpose: To see the early postoperative stage of macular hole (MH) surgery and to distinguish eyes needing prolonged posturing from those that do not use Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT).

Design: Interventional case series.

Methods: Sixteen eyes of 15 patients with MH underwent the protocol at Kagoshima University Hospital.

Stromal-derived factor-1 and inflammatory cytokines in retinal vein occlusion.

Purpose: To identify the roles of stromal-derived factor (SDF-1) and inflammatory cytokines in retinal vein occlusion (RVO).

Methods: Samples were collected by vitrectomy and the levels of SDF-1, vascular endothelial growth factor, and inflammatory cytokines (interleukins [IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12p70]; tumor necrosis factor-alpha) were measured in 20 eyes with RVO, and 9 eyes with epiretinal membrane served as negative controls. Four eyes with inflammatory diseases were also investigated.

Conjunctival nodules associated with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.

Background: To report on conjunctival nodules as an unusual manifestation of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.

Methods: A 24-year-old woman presented with a two-month history of bilateral conjunctival injection and gradually decreased vision. Ophthalmological examinations revealed bilateral granulomatous uveitis and bulbar conjunctival nodules, and a biopsy of the conjunctival nodules was performed.

Recurrence of diabetic macular edema after intravitreous injection of triamcinolone following vitrectomy.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of intravitreous triamcinolone acetonide (TA) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for diabetic macular edema (DME).

Methods: We studied a prospective interventional case series. TA was injected intravitreously after PPV in 28 eyes (PPV+TA group).

Results of visual acuity and foveal thickness in diabetic macular edema after vitrectomy.

Purpose: To report results of an investigation of visual acuity (VA) and foveal thickness in diabetic macular edema (DME) patients after vitrectomy.

Methods: A retrospective study was performed of the records of 47 patients (61 eyes) who received pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for DME. All eyes were followed up for over 6 months (mean, 24.

Reduced incidence of intraoperative complications in a multicenter controlled clinical trial of triamcinolone in vitrectomy.

Purpose: To evaluate the benefits and potential complications of using triamcinolone acetonide (TA) in pars plana vitrectomy (PPV).

Design: Multicenter, prospective, controlled clinical trial.

Participants: In total, 774 patients from 8 Japanese hospitals were enrolled, with 391 patients undergoing TA-assisted PPV and 383 control patients undergoing conventional PPV.

Endoscopy-guided subretinal fluid drainage in vitrectomy for retinal detachment.

Purpose: To study the usefulness of endoscopy-guided subretinal fluid drainage in pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Participants/methods: A prospective non-comparative study of a small number of RRD cases. The study involved examining 10 eyes of 10 patients with RRD that received PPV.

Vitreomacular adhesion and the defect in posterior vitreous cortex visualized by triamcinolone-assisted vitrectomy.

Purpose: To study the vitreomacular adhesion and the contractile force of posterior hyaloid, which are shown in triamcinolone acetonide (TA)-assisted pars plana vitrectomy (PPV).

Design: Interventional case series.

Methods: Twenty-eight eyes with diabetic macular edema (DME) without posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) received TA-assisted PPV.

Fibrous proliferation of the pre-papillary canal in proliferative diabetic retinopathy: Cloquet's canal as a scaffold for proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Background: The structure of the vitreous body is known to play an important role in the pathogenesis of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). The purpose of this study was to ascertain the pattern of fibrous membrane proliferation in PDR focusing on pre-optic disc canal-like fibrous proliferation.

Methods: The investigation comprised two parts.

Weak symptoms of bacterial endophthalmitis after a triamcinolone acetonide-assisted pars plana vitrectomy.

Purpose: To report a case of endophthalmitis after triamcinolone acetonide (TA)-assisted par plane vitrectomy (PPV).

Methods: A 60-year-old Japanese man developed endophthalmitis after TA-assisted PPV for diabetic macular edema. Preoperative visual acuity was 20/200.

Spontaneous closure of traumatic macular hole.

Purpose: To report eight cases of spontaneous closure of traumatic macular hole.

Design: Consecutive observational case series.

Patients And Methods: In a consecutive series of 18 eyes of 18 patients with traumatic macular hole, eight patients achieved spontaneous closure of traumatic macular hole.