The carbon footprint of cataract surgery in a French University Hospital.

Purpose: To assess the carbon footprint of cataract surgery in a French university hospital.

Setting: Operating room of Cochin University Hospital, Paris, France.

Design: Single-center component analysis.

Effect of Visual Search Training on Saccades in Age-related Macular Degeneration Subjects.

Objective: To compare the impact of unilateral versus bilateral Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) on saccadic movements, and to show the effect of visual search training on these eye movement performances in AMD subjects. We hypothesized that unilateral and bilateral AMD subjects had abnormal saccadic performances, and that visual search training could improve their performances.

Methods: Three groups participated in visual search training: 13 elderly unilateral AMD subjects (mean age: 74.

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism in the treatment of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy: a pilot study.

Purpose: Based on experimental data showing that central serous chorioretinopathy could result from overactivation of mineralocorticoid receptor pathway in choroid vessels, the authors studied eplerenone, a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, as a potential treatment for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy.

Methods: This nonrandomized pilot study included 13 patients with central serous chorioretinopathy of at least 4-month duration, treated with 25 mg/day of oral eplerenone for a week followed by 50 mg/day for 1 or 3 months. The primary outcome measure was the changes in central macular thickness recorded by optical coherence tomography, and the secondary outcomes included changes in foveal subretinal fluid (SRF) measured by OCT, in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and the percentage of eyes achieving complete resolution of subretinal fluid during the treatment period.

Mineralocorticoid receptor is involved in rat and human ocular chorioretinopathy.

Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) is a vision-threatening eye disease with no validated treatment and unknown pathogeny. In CSCR, dilation and leakage of choroid vessels underneath the retina cause subretinal fluid accumulation and retinal detachment. Because glucocorticoids induce and aggravate CSCR and are known to bind to the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), CSCR may be related to inappropriate MR activation.

A case of acute retinal pigment epithelitis: spectral domain optical coherence tomography time course and physiopathologic hypothesis.

Purpose: To report the time course of retinal morphologic changes in a patient with acute retinal pigment epithelitis (ARPE) using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Methods: A 30-year old man was referred for blurred vision of his right eye after five days that appeared suddenly 15 days after recovery from a flu-like syndrome. SD-OCT was performed immediately, followed by fluorescein and infracyanine angiography at eight days and then at three weeks.