Publications by authors named "R J Starita"
Purpose: To compare the mean central corneal thickness (CCT) in patients with congenital aniridia to that of a group of age-matched control subjects. The findings of specular and confocal microscopy in a patient with aniridia are discussed.
Methods: The mean values of five consecutive pachymetry measurements of patients with aniridia and control subjects were used for analysis.
Objective: To describe an alternative method to repair exposed glaucoma drainage devices (GDDs) when conventional attempts have failed.
Methods: Four eyes, from 3 patients, with severe ocular surface disease were included in the study. All eyes had previously received a Baerveldt GDD for uncontrollable intraocular pressure and postoperatively had exposed GDDs.
Purpose: To present a case series of a new technique to repair late bleb leaks.
Design: Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series.
Participants: Forty-seven autologous conjunctival resurfacings of late bleb leaks were performed by four surgeons at two institutions.
Purpose: We compared the therapeutic efficacy and safety of timolol hemihydrate to timolol maleate in patients with ocular hypertension and chronic open-angle glaucoma.
Methods: We conducted this three-month study as a multicentered, masked, parallel group comparison. Both the 0.
Purpose: To study operated-related variability in images obtained by laser polarimetry of the nerve fiber layer, a new imaging technique that attempts to estimate thickness of the nerve fiber layer by using the fact that it is birefringent.
Methods: Measurements were made using a commercial device, the Nerve Fiber Analyzer (Laser Diagnostic Technologies, San Diego, CA), which uses a dedicated scanning laser ophthalmoscope to produce a retardation map of the retina adjacent to the optic nerve head. Four trained operators tested 11 subjects twice each, resulting in 88 images.