Publications by authors named "Scassa C"

Aims: To compare, in relation to the cause of visual impairment, the possibility of rehabilitation, the corrective systems already in use and the finally prescribed optical devices in highly myopic patients with low vision. Some considerations about the rehabilitation of these subjects, especially in relation to their different pathologies, have also been made.

Materials And Methods: 25 highly myopic subjects were enrolled.

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Purpose: To review prevalence, long-term progression, and prognosis of vitreoretinal interface modifications in pathologic myopia with posterior staphyloma and investigate foveal sensitivity and fixation stability.

Methods: Retrospective single-institution series of 214 eyes (116 patients) with pathologic myopia, axial length >30 mm, and posterior staphyloma. Exclusion criteria included follow-up less than five years, incomplete records, and/or less than three optical coherence tomography or microperimetry.

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Purpose And Method: To present a 26-year-old Italian woman affected by genetically ascertained Alport syndrome. The patient underwent a complete ophthalmological examination including: visual acuity, anterior and posterior segment biomicroscopy, MP1-microperimetry, colour fundus retinography, electrofunctional examinations (electrooculogram, electroretinogram, visually evoked potentials), computerized perimetry and Spectral Domain Optical Cohrence Tomography.

Results And Conclusions: Nephritis, haematuria but no hearing impairment was observed.

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Purpose And Method: To present a 60-year-old woman affected by bilateral full thickness macular hole, showing without surgery a spontaneous resolution of the disease in both eyes that remains unchanged during an eleven-year follow-up. To our knowledge, this clinical case is uncommon as no similar reports with such a long follow-up have been published in the scientific literature at this time.

Results And Conclusions: A spontaneous and bilateral closure of full thickness macular holes was detected, as a consequence of a complete posterior vitreous detachment documented by optical coherence tomography images.

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Purpose: To evaluate psychophysical and electrophysiologic responses in eyes with early age-related macular degeneration (AMD) without a decrease in visual acuity and with or without late AMD in the fellow eye.

Methods: Fifteen patients (mean age: 67.9 +/- 7.

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Our study aims to assess nerve fiber layer (NFL) thickness in patients affected by cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy (CADASIL). Six CADASIL patients (mean age 42 +/- 16 years, best corrected visual acuity >20/20 with refractive error between +/-3 diopters, intraocular pressure <18 mmHg) were enrolled. They were compared with 16 age-matched controls.

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Purpose: To evaluate the effects on visual function and choroidal neovascularization (CNV) progression in a case of subretinal CNV due to Candida endophthalmitis treated with a combination of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and drugs.

Methods: A 28-year-old one-eyed woman with CNV in the right eye came to our observation. The CNV developed as a consequence of Candida endophthalmitis.

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Objective: To evaluate possible changes of vitreous status in emmetropic eyes after uneventful phacoemulsification surgery, and possible related complications such as the onset of retinal detachment (RD).

Design: Retrospective case series.

Participants: Four hundred fifty-three emmetropic eyes from 453 patients (mean age, 62.

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Purpose: To evaluate the changes in visual acuity (VA) and in macular sensitivity in myopic eyes subjected to laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) refractive surgery.

Methods: In 38 myopic eyes, VA by Snellen's table and macular sensitivity by scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) microperimetry were assessed before and after 24 weeks after LASIK surgery. The myopic eyes were divided into three age-matched groups: Group A = from -5 diopters (D) to -7 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (15 eyes); Group B = from -8 D to -16 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (9 eyes); and Group C = from -8 D to -16 D and abnormal SLO-macular sensitivity.

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Purpose: To evaluate the changes in visual acuity (VA) and in macular sensitivity in myopic eyes subjected to laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) refractive surgery.

Methods: In 38 myopic eyes, VA by Snellen's table and macular sensitivity by scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) microperimetry were assessed before and after 24 weeks after LASIK surgery. The myopic eyes were divided into three age-matched groups: Group A = from -5 diopters (D) to -7 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (15 eyes); Group B = from -8 D to -16 D and normal SLO-macular sensitivity (9 eyes); and Group C = from -8 D to -16 D and abnormal SLO-macular sensitivity.

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Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of different surgical strategies on the postoperative outcomes of retinal detachments (RDs) associated with macular holes (MHs) in high myopia.

Design: Prospective, noncomparative case series.

Participants: The study included 120 phakic, highly myopic eyes (mean degree of myopia, -22.

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Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of retinal detachment (RD) after cataract surgery performed by phacoemulsification in very highly myopic eyes.

Design: Retrospective, paired-eye, case-control trial.

Participants And Intervention: We assessed the development of RD in 930 eyes from 930 subjects (mean age = 62.

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Purpose: To assess the changes in visual acuity and macular sensitivity and the possible evolution into a full-thickness macular hole in patients with macular pseudoholes during a 3-year follow-up period.

Methods: Twenty-seven eyes (mean age, 61.0 +/- 8.

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In this article, the methodologies and clinical applications of microperimetry performed by scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) are described. This technique provides functional results by direct visualization of the macular area. We present the most interesting data about clinical applications in ocular pathology.

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Background: The purpose of this study was to estimate if and to what extent scanning laser ophthalmoscopy can help in the early diagnosis and follow-up management of the vitreoretinal interface syndrome, which includes disorders such as cellophane maculopathy, pseudomacular hole, macular pucker, and macular hole.

Methods: The 35 fellow eyes of 35 patients with vitreoretinal interface syndromes in the first eye underwent scanning laser ophthalmoscopy microperimetry and argon, helium-neon, and infrared scanning laser ophthalmoscopy. Fellow eyes were defined as clinically positive or negative for vitreoretinal interface syndrome.

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Copper intraocular foreign bodies (IOFB) are relatively common after penetrating eye injuries. Ocular signs and symptoms vary greatly in relation to the copper content, ranging from chronic uveitis and severe visual loss for IOFB containing more than 85% copper, to local copper deposits with no severe ocular damage for less toxic alloys. Reported here is the case of a ten-year-old boy who suffered from recurrent chronic uveitis five months after a perforating eye injury due to copper wire.

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