Prevalence of diabetes and diabetic macular edema in patients undergoing senile cataract surgery in Italy: The DIabetes and CATaract study.

Background: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of diabetes and diabetic macular edema in patients undergoing senile cataract surgery in Italy.

Methods: It is a prospective, multicenter, cross-sectional study. Thirteen ophthalmic units equally distributed across the Italian territory have been involved in the study.

Placido disk-based topography versus high-resolution rotating Scheimpflug camera for corneal power measurements in keratoconic and post-LASIK eyes: reliability and agreement.

Aim: To compare the repeatability/reproducibility of measurement by high-resolution Placido disk-based topography with that of a high-resolution rotating Scheimpflug camera and assess the agreement between the two instruments in measuring corneal power in eyes with keratoconus and post-laser keratomileusis (LASIK).

Methods: One eye each of 36 keratoconic patients and 20 subjects who had undergone LASIK was included in this prospective observational study. Two independent examiners worked in a random order to take three measurements of each eye with both instruments.

Corneal Astigmatism Measurement by Ray Tracing Versus Anterior Surface-Based Keratometry in Candidates for Toric Intraocular Lens Implantation.

Purpose: To compare corneal astigmatism derived from total corneal refractive power (CA), a ray-tracing method, with that derived from simulated keratometry (CA), an anterior surface-based method, in candidates for toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Design: Reliability analysis.

Methods: In 1 eye of 200 consecutive patients (mean age 71 ± 9 years) with cataract, a Pentacam HR (Oculus) was used to measure CA and CA.

Retinal nerve fibre layer and macular thickness analysis with Fourier domain optical coherence tomography in subjects with a positive family history for primary open angle glaucoma.

Aim: To detect early structural changes of retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) and macular ganglion cell complex (GCC) in subjects with a positive family history for primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) using Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) (RTVue-100).

Methods: This was a cross-sectional observational study. First and second degree relatives of POAG patients, healthy subjects, and subjects with preperimetric glaucoma (PPG) without a family history for glaucoma, were enrolled.

Morphology of optic disc through heidelberg retina tomograph in retinal vein occlusions alone or in combination with primary open angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To evaluate the morphology of optic discs in eyes suffering from retinal vein occlusion (RVO) alone or in combination with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).

Methods: Prospective, observational study. 48 consecutive patients were enrolled, 30 with unilateral RVO diagnosis, 18 with unilateral retinal vein occlusion (RVO) associated with POAG.