The incidence and rate of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment seven years after cataract surgery in patients with high myopia.

Background: Cataract extraction is the most commonly performed surgery in the National Health Service. Myopia increases the risk of postoperative rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD). The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and rate of RRD seven years after cataract extraction in highly myopic eyes.

P63 expression in conjunctival proliferative diseases: pterygium and laryngo-onycho-cutaneous (LOC) syndrome.

Purpose: Compare expression of p63 in pterygium and laryngo-onycho-cutaneous (LOC) syndrome with normal conjunctiva.

Methods: P63 immunohistochemical detection was carried out in normal, pterygium, and LOC conjunctival tissue. In vitro, growth of normal conjunctival biopsy specimens, pterygium, and LOC in growth tissue was compared.

Retrobulbar hemorrhage after sub-Tenon's anesthesia.

We present a case of retrobulbar hemorrhage complicating sub-Tenon's anesthesia in a patient receiving oral anticoagulants. To our knowledge, this has been described only once in the literature.

Surgical removal of subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes in older patients without age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To assess visual and anatomical outcomes following the surgical removal of subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes (CNVMs) in older patients without clinical evidence of diffuse disease of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed records of consecutive patients aged 50 years or older who underwent surgical removal of subfoveal CNVMs. Patients with clinical evidence for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) (>5 small drusen), angioid streaks, and myopic degeneration were excluded.

An in vitro study of human lens epithelial cell adhesion to intraocular lenses with and without a fibronectin coating.

Purpose: To demonstrate differences in human lens epithelial cell adhesion to different intraocular lens biomaterials in vitro and to determine whether these differences can be influenced by coating the intraocular lens surface with commercially available fibronectin.

Methods: A prospective laboratory-based study comparing human lens epithelial cell adhesion to silicone (n=18), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA; n=18), and acrylic (n=18) intraocular lenses in vitro. The three types of intraocular lenses were then coated with fibronectin: silicone (n=6), PMMA (n=6), and acrylic (n=6).

Diagnosis and treatment of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis.

Endogenous infectious endophthalmitis is rare, and a primary source is usually identified. A case of primary fungal endophthalmitis successfully treated with vitrectomy and systemic antifungal therapy is presented. The aetiology and treatment of the condition are discussed.

Suprachoroidal haemorrhage following Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy.

Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy is the commonest procedure for posterior capsule thickening following cataract surgery. Complications following this laser surgery are relatively few, and this is ordinarily a safe and effective procedure. Herein a case is described of suprachoroidal haemorrhage following Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy.