Publications by authors named "Pivetti-Pezzi P"
Purpose: To investigate demographic, clinical features and complications of Italian patients with ocular Behçet's disease (BD) over time.
Methods: Retrospective study of 385 patients examined from 1968 to 2011, 265 of whom had follow-up ≥ 12 months.
Results: A significant increase in the proportion of females (p = 0.
Aim: To assess the attitude and practice of contact lens (CL) wearers among teenage school students and to evaluate how much the teenagers adhere to the CL care procedures according to the proper care of CL guidelines.
Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study of Italian teenagers from high schools in Rome who wear CL. We inquired about the different aspects of CL care through a questionnaire.
Purpose: To describe the frequencies and risk factors of ocular complications and poor visual outcomes in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).
Methods: Retrospective cohort study, including 69 consecutive children (116 eyes) affected by JIA-associated uveitis managed at a tertiary uveitis clinic.
Results: The incidence of visual loss to the 20/50 or worse threshold was 0.
Purpose: To compare demographic and clinical data, systemic disease association, visual prognosis, and complications found in childhood and adult onset of intermediate uveitis (IU).
Methods: Retrospective cohort study of 287 patients with IU: 122 (42.5%) children at onset (<16 years), 165 (57.
Article Synopsis
- This study examined the occurrence and characteristics of luetic uveitis (eye inflammation caused by syphilis) at a uveitis center over seven years.
- Researchers analyzed cases from 2004 to 2010, focusing on serological evidence for syphilis and ensuring patients were tested for HIV.
- They found 14 new cases, with a notable number co-infected with HIV, emphasizing that eye inflammation can be a primary symptom of syphilis and the need for timely diagnosis.
purpose. To test the efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab (IB) in the treatment of inflammatory choroidal neovascularization (CNV). Methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate clinical data, outcome, and treatment of intermediate uveitis in children.
Methods: Retrospective cohort study, including 116 children affected by intermediate uveitis.
Results: Sixty-two percent of patients were males.
Purpose: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the roles of TGFs β1 and β2, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), and nerve growth factor (NGF) in the pathogenesis of idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM).
Methods: Eight patients, six males and two females, with an average age of 60.25 ± 17.
Purpose: To report a case of Cushing syndrome due to adrenocortical adenoma revealed by central serous chorioretinopathy.
Materials And Methods: A 45-year-old man presented with blurred vision and metamorphopsia in the left eye. He reported few episodes of high blood pressure in the last 3 months.
Purpose: To evaluate ocular complications of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-related uveitis; to study macular morphology and sensitivity.
Methods: Retrospective chart review of 67 patients. Fourteen consecutive patients (24 eyes) observed from January to December 2008 were submitted to optical coherence tomography study (OCT) and microperimetry MP-1 examination.
Purpose: To study use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for macular edema in uveitis.
Methods: In total, 44 patients with uveitis and macular edema underwent OCT. Data obtained were correlated with anatomic type, duration of uveitis, and visual acuity (VA).
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate, using ultrasound (US), knee involvement in patients with Behçet's disease (BD).
Methods: Knee US was performed in 30 unselected Italian BD patients. Signs of arthritis (joint effusion, synovial proliferation) and presence of bone erosions and Baker's cysts were recorded.
Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of infliximab in the treatment of sight-threatening uveitis and extraocular manifestations in patients with Behçet's disease.
Methods: Twelve patients with Behçet's disease and uveitis were treated with infliximab after unsuccessful therapy with other immunosuppressive drugs. The main outcome measures were as follows: the number of uveitis relapses, the number of Behçet's disease-related extraocular lesions, and the amount of corticosteroids administered during the treatment as well as during an equal prior period of time while the patients were on other immunosuppressive agents.
Purpose: To report the changing patterns of ocular manifestations in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositive patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
Methods: The clinical charts of HIV seropositive patients, 735 examined from 1997 to 2003 and treated with HAART for at least 2 months (Group 1), and 838 untreated examined from 1988 to 1995 (Group 2), were reviewed to assess the frequency of ocular manifestations.
Results: HIV-related retinal microangiopathy and opportunistic retinal infections (cytomegalovirus retinitis and toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis) were significantly higher in Group 2 than 1 (p<0.
Purpose: To compare the effect on outcomes of the route of administration of corticosteroids in acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
Design: Retrospective comparative interventional case series.
Settings: Nine international uveitis specialty clinics.
The paper describes the occurrence of unilateral paracentral corneal melting in a 65-year-old woman with ocular and systemic signs of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada's syndrome (VKH), psoriasis, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Corneal melting, often occurring in association with systemic vasculitis and connective tissue diseases, has rarely been reported in relation to diffuse psoriasis and never in association with VKH. A possible relationship between corneal melting and VKH is suggested.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the clinical characteristics and the visual prognosis of uveitis in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA).
Methods: The authors examined 63 patients with uveitis and JRA observed from January 1985 to December 2000. The following characteristics of each patient were considered: age at first visit, age at onset of uveitis and arthritis, sex, laterality and localization of uveitis, ocular complications, antinuclear antibody (ANA) and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DR11 positivity, and follow-up.
This study examined the hypothesis that the polymorphism of Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC) predisposes to and/or influences the clinical manifestations of Behçet's disease. The serum levels of IL-8 and monocyte chemotactic peptide (MCP)-1, two DARC-binding chemokines, were investigated and related to this polymorphism. Twenty-eight patients with Behçet's disease and 30 healthy blood donors were included in the study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Turner's syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality where phenotypic females have either a missing X chromosome or a structural aberration of the X chromosome. Several ocular diseases have been associated with Turner's syndrome in the past, including one case only of proven iridocyclitis.
Methods: In this study we report the clinical findings of three females with Turner's syndrome and uveitis followed up for a mean period of 12.
Objective: To describe the medical treatment of severe ocular hypotony in HIV-seropositive patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis and cidofovir-associated uveitis.
Patients And Methods: Two HIV-seropositive patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis and cidofovir-associated uveitis complicated by severe ocular hypotony were unresponsive to conventional therapy after treatment with cidofovir was stopped. They were subsequently treated successfully with ibopamine 2% eyedrops and dexamethasone 0.