Successful Closure of an Idiopathic Macular Hole With Topical Therapy After Failed Surgery.

To describe the successful closure of an idiopathic macular hole (MH) with topical therapy after surgery failed. A case report was evaluated and prospective literature review performed. After surgery to correct an MH in a 57-year-old female patient failed, topical therapy was initiated.

Vitreoretinal Surgery in Uveitis: From Old to New Concepts - A Review.

Purpose: The aim of this article is to do a comprehensive literature review about the current role of pars plana vitrectomy in uveitis and in its different structural complications such as cystoid macular edema, epiretinal membrane, macular hole, and retinal detachment.

Methods: This comprehensive literature review was performed based on a search on PubMed, BioMed Central, Science Open, and CORE databases, of relevant articles abording pars plana vitrectomy in uveitis.

Discussion: Uveitis is a complex disease with multiple etiologies and pathogenic mechanisms.

Central retinal artery occlusion secondary to presumed traumatic carotid artery dissection in a healthy child.

Purpose: To describe a rare case of a 13 years-old healthy child that presented CRAO secondary to carotid artery dissection, which occurred after a neck rotation movement.

Methods: Case report with prospective literature review.

Patients: One patient described in the case report.

Pachychoroid disease spectrum: review article.

Purpose: The aim of this article is to do a comprehensive literature review about the current understandings of the pachychoroid disease spectrum, describing its multimodal imaging analysis, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and current types of management.

Methods: This comprehensive literature review was performed based on a search on the PubMed database, of relevant pachychoroid published papers according to our current knowledge.

Discussion: The pachychoroid disease spectrum, according to some authors, includes the following: pachychoroid pigment epitheliopathy (PPE), central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC), pachychoroid neovasculopathy (PNV), polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV)/aneurysmal type 1 neovascularization (AT1), and more recently focal choroidal excavation (FCE) and peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome (PPS).