Clinical characteristics and outcome of Candida keratitis.

Purpose: To characterize the clinical features and therapeutic outcome of Candida keratitis.

Design: Retrospective, observational case series.

Methods: We reviewed 26 patients treated for Candida keratitis, including two with recurrent keratitis and one with bilateral infection.

Anatomical success rate after primary three-port lens-sparing vitrectomy in stage 5 retinopathy of prematurity.

Purpose: To assess the anatomical success rate after three-port lens-sparing vitrectomy (LSV) in stage 5 (total) retinal detachments secondary to retinopathy of prematurity.

Methods: In a retrospective, interventional, single-surgeon, consecutive case series, the records of 33 eyes of 21 patients presenting with stage 5 retinal detachment secondary to retinopathy of prematurity who underwent primary three-port LSV from February 1998 to January 2004 were evaluated. Twenty-one eyes (63.

Visual outcomes after 3-port lens-sparing vitrectomy in stage 4 retinopathy of prematurity.

Objective: To assess the visual acuity of eyes successfully treated with 3-port lens-sparing vitrectomy for stage 4 retinopathy of prematurity.

Methods: Of 102 consecutive eyes achieving at least posterior pole reattachment, 30 eyes of 26 patients were tested by Teller or Allen acuity measurements and were subsequently converted to logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR). Visual outcomes were also examined as either favorable or unfavorable (Snellen equivalent >20/200).

Lens clarity after 3-port lens-sparing vitrectomy in stage 4A and 4B retinal detachments secondary to retinopathy of prematurity.

Objective: To assess lens clarity after 3-port lens-sparing vitrectomy for stages 4A and 4B tractional retinal detachment secondary to retinopathy of prematurity.

Methods: In a retrospective, interventional, consecutive clinical case series, 108 eyes of 102 patients who underwent lens-sparing vitrectomy for stages 4A and 4B tractional retinal detachment from February 1, 1998, through January 31, 2004, were reviewed. All procedures and follow-up examinations were performed by a single surgeon.

Anatomic success rate after 3-port lens-sparing vitrectomy in stage 4A or 4B retinopathy of prematurity.

Purpose: To assess the anatomic success rate after 3-port lens-sparing vitrectomy (LSV) in stage 4A and 4B tractional retinal detachments (TRDs) due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

Design: A chart review and data evaluation of 108 eyes of 102 consecutive patients presenting with stage 4A (32 eyes) or 4B (76 eyes) TRDs that underwent primary LSV from February 1998 to January 2004 were performed.

Intervention: Three-port LSV was performed on all eyes by the same surgeon (ERH).