Baerveldt Aqueous Shunt with or without Mitomycin C Augmentation: A Retrospective Comparison Study.

Objective: To evaluate if intraoperative mitomycin C (MMC) influences the success of Baerveldt aqueous shunts.

Design: Retrospective comparative case series.

Participants: The study population consisted of 88 patients.

Comparison of 1-year surgical outcomes of combined cataract surgery and gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT) versus cataract surgery and iStent Inject.

Purpose: Evaluate the efficacy, safety, and complication rates of phacoemulsification cataract surgery when combined with either gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT) or iStent Inject.

Methods: This is a retrospective case-control study to compare the surgical outcomes of combined phacoemulsification cataract surgery with either GATT (phaco-GATT) or iStent Inject (phaco-iStent). Both groups had at least 1-year follow-up.

Endoscopic Goniosynechialysis for Acute Angle Closure Glaucoma Following Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty.

We describe a new modified technique to release the peripheral iridocorneal adhesions that formed after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty. The usual technique of goniosynechialysis was modified and performed using endoscopic fiber-optic light and camera probe to aid visualization of the adherent iris tissue and carry out uneventful 270 degrees release of adhesions. The iris tissue was gently pulled away using micro forceps.

Primary meningococcal conjunctivitis: an unusual case of transmission by saliva.

A 49-year-old diabetic man presented with a 2-day history of a painful right eye associated with a purulent discharge. Prior to becoming symptomatic, he reported that someone spat at him, resulting in direct contact between the saliva and his affected eye. Gram stain revealed numerous leucocytes with Gram-negative diplococci, and culture yielded Neisseria meningitidis (serogroup C).

Cannula detachment during cataract surgery: results of a survey.

Objective: To ascertain whether cannula displacement during cataract surgery with the use of the Luer lock is a common and recognized complication.

Methods: A questionnaire was sent to attending physicians on the Royal College of Ophthalmologists U.K.

Gonioaspiration for refractory glaucoma secondary to traumatic hyphema in patients with sickle cell trait.

The authors describe a new surgical method for treating disproportionately high intraocular pressures secondary to small traumatic hyphemas in three patients with the sickle cell trait. A novel technique was performed in all three cases to clear the hyphema from the anterior chamber angle. A Lewicky anterior chamber maintainer cannula was placed at the superior limbus to maintain infusion into the anterior chamber.

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: the association between weight loss and the requirement for systemic treatment.

Background: To determine whether weight loss is significantly associated with a discontinuation of treatment for idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Methods: The notes of 36 patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension under regular review for at least 12 months by a single neuro-ophthalmologist were retrospectively reviewed. Weight was recorded at each assessment and weight loss recommended. Treatment was adjusted according to symptoms, visual function including visual fields and optic disc appearance only.