Successful Treatment of Central Retinal Artery Occlusion With Tissue Plasminogen Activator Followed by Recurrent Retinal Ischemia.

To describe the use of intra-arterial tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to treat central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO). A case and its findings were analyzed. A 45-year-old man diagnosed with a CRAO and had cerebral angiography and treatment with intra-arterial tPA.

A Remote Consult Retinal Artery Occlusion Diagnostic Protocol.

Purpose: To report a novel protocol for diagnosis of retinal artery occlusions at the point of care using OCT and a remote consult model.

Design: Retrospective case series and evaluation of a diagnostic test or technology.

Participants: Adult patients who presented with painless monocular vision loss and were diagnosed with a nonarteritic retinal artery occlusion.

Creating ophthalmology experiences in undergraduate medical education: pilot of a cased-based learning ophthalmology tool.

Purpose: To evaluate medical student perceptions of a novel ophthalmology resource delivered through facilitated workshops in the core clerkship curriculum.

Methods: We created www.2020sim.

Rapidly progressive corneal ulceration associated with erlotinib use in stage IV lung cancer.

Purpose: To present a unique case of keratitis with progression to corneal perforation and endophthalmitis, in the setting of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor (erlotinib) therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Observations: An 89-year-old female with non-small cell lung cancer on erlotinib presented with corneal perforation due to infectious keratitis. Microbial cultures grew a virulent pathogen known to affect immunocompromised patients that has not been previously described to cause infectious keratitis.

Congenital corneal blood staining secondary to hemorrhagic persistent fetal vasculature.

An African American girl born at 37 weeks via spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 33-year-old woman was noted on delivery to have a unilateral absent red reflex in the right eye, which was enlarged. Intraocular pressure was elevated, and the cornea had a straw-colored opacity. B-scan ultrasonography of the right eye showed diffuse hyperechoic vitreous opacities and a retrolental mass, with a hyperechoic band stretching from the optic disk to the posterior lens.

Importance of birth weight as a risk factor for severe retinopathy of prematurity when gestational age is 30 or more weeks.

Purpose: To determine whether birth weight less than 1500 g is a relevant guideline indicating the need for examination for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) when gestational age at birth is 30 or more completed weeks.

Design: A retrospective observational cohort study.

Methods: A total of 266 infants in a single institutional neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), whose gestational age at birth was 30 or more weeks but whose birth weight was less than 1500 g, were examined according to published guidelines.