Prcis: Large Canadian full-scope, shared-care teleglaucoma facilitates efficient management and diversion of medically stable patients away from overburdened subspecialty clinics while allowing patients the convenience of shorter travel, shorter wait time, and continuity with one provider. This report shares Care1 protocol, early patient characteristics, and quality data.
Purpose: This paper describes early experience with Care1, a large full-scope, shared-care teleglaucoma program.
Background/aims: To report a case of a 65-year-old female who presented with bilateral anterior granulomatous uveitis, which led to the diagnosis of Rosai-Dorfman Disease (RDD) and the discovery of an associated pancreatic mass.
Methods: This is a retrospective case report of a single patient.
Results: A 65-year-old African American Female received a full workup for bilateral anterior granulomatous uveitis and was found to have a pancreatic mass on imaging.
Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg
January 2020
Purpose: To describe risk factors, clinical parameters, treatment, and prognosis for patients with septic cavernous sinus thrombosis presenting with orbital cellulitis.
Methods: Retrospective case series of 6 patients identified with septic cavernous sinus thrombosis and orbital cellulitis confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging at a tertiary care center from January 1980 to December 2016. Medical records were reviewed for demographics, risk factors, symptoms, etiology, radiographic diagnosis, complications, treatments, and outcomes.
J Ocul Pharmacol Ther
May 2017
Purpose: Macular pathology, including macular holes (MHs), epiretinal membranes (ERMs), and macular edema, is a cause of irreversible vision loss in the setting of uveitis. Medical management involves corticosteroids, immunomodulatory medications, and biologics to control inflammation. Pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) has been suggested as a therapy for uveitis, with reports of reduced inflammation and decreased dependence on medication postoperatively.
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September 2017
Purpose: To explore the clinical features, management, and prognosis of metastatic basal cell carcinoma originating in the orbitofacial region.
Methods: Ten cases of orbitofacial metastatic basal cell carcinoma were identified by searching databases at 2 institutions from 1995 to 2015. A retrospective chart review was performed.
Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
February 2016
Usher syndrome is an autosomal recessive condition characterized by retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and congenital hearing loss, with or without vestibular dysfunction. Allelic variants of CDH23 cause both Usher syndrome type 1D (USH1D) and a form of nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNB12). The authors describe here a 34-year-old patient with congenital hearing loss and a new diagnosis of sector RP who was found to have two novel compound heterozygous mutations in CDH23, including one missense (c.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 41-year-old woman with adenoid cystic carcinoma of the left lacrimal gland underwent extended left orbital exenteration and postoperative external beam radiation therapy. She presented 1 year postoperatively with contralateral right orbital involvement. The authors report a rare case of adenocystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland with bilateral orbital involvement.
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