Improvement in Gait Speed Affects Short-term Improvement in Activities of Daily Living in Patients with Moderate and Severe Knee Osteoarthritis.

Objectives: It is unclear whether improvements in knee pain or physical function lead to improvements in activities of daily living (ADL) and quality of life (QOL) in patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis (KOA). This study aimed to investigate whether improvements in knee pain and physical function, achieved through exercise therapy, lead to improvements in ADL and QOL in patients with moderate to severe KOA.

Methods: This case-control study included 18 patients with KOA.

Vitreous surgery with and without internal limiting membrane peeling for macular hole repair.

Purpose: To compare surgical results for idiopathic macular holes with and without internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling in a series of consecutive patients during an 8-year period.

Methods: A retrospective, nonrandomized, comparative trial. Four hundred seventeen eyes with macular holes without ILM peeling were compared with 175 eyes with ILM peeling.

[The efficacy of arteriovenous adventitial sheathotomy for macular edema in branch retinal vein occlusion].

Purpose: To examine the efficacy of arteriovenous adventitial sheathotomy (or arteriovenous decompression) for macular edema (ME) in branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).

Patients And Methods: Eighty-three patients (83 eyes) who had ME in BRVO for 26 weeks or less underwent pars plana vitrectomy and internal limiting membrane dissection and were followed post-operatively for more than one year. The eighty-three eyes were divided into 38 eyes with sheathotomy(sheathotomy group) and 45 eyes without sheathotomy(non-shesthotomy group).

[The influence of hard exudates on the results of vitrectomy for macular edema due to diabetic retinopathy].

Purpose: To demonstrate surgical results of diabetic macular edema from the distribution of hard exudates.

Methods: We reviewed 485 eyes of 325 patients followed up more than 1 year who underwent vitreous surgery for diabetic macular edema. Four groups were identified from the distribution of hard exudates in the macular region: no hard exudate type, 179 eyes; hard exudate type, 211 eyes; macular deposit type, 73 eyes; and waxy type, 22 eyes.

[Subretinal washout for subtle subfoveal hard exudates in diabetic macular edema].

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of subretinal washout for subtle subfoveal hard exudates in diabetic macular edema.

Methods: This study was done retrospectively on a series of patients with diffuse diabetic macular edema accompanied with subtle subfoveal hard exudates and operated on by one surgeon(NO). Patients ranged in age from 30 to 76 years(mean, 59 years).

[Vitreous surgery for macular edema in branch retinal vein occlusion].

Purpose: To examine the efficacy of vitreous surgery for macular edema in branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).

Patients And Methods: This study included 183 patients (183 eyes) that underwent vitreous surgery for macular edema in BRVO. They were 77 males and 106 females.

[Surgical removal of subfoveal hard exudates in diabetic maculopathy].

Purpose: To examine the efficacy of surgical removal of subfoveal hard exudates during surgery in diabetic maculopathy.

Patients And Methods: This study was done on 60 patients (66 eyes) that all underwent surgical removal of subfoveal hard exudates under the same surgeon. Thirty-two men (37 eyes) and 28 women (29 eyes) were included in this study.

[Internal limiting membrane peeling in vitreous surgery for diabetic macular edema].

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling in vitreous surgery for diabetic macular edema.

Methods: This study was done on 135 eyes of 103 patients who all underwent diabetic macular edema surgery under the same surgeon. The subjects were 74 eyes of 55 males and 61 eyes of 48 females, aged 35-81 years, with an average of 62 years.

[Vitrectomy for pseudophakic cystoid macular edema].

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of vitrectomy for pseudophakic cystoid macular edema(CME).

Patients And Methods: This study included 34 eyes of 31 patients that underwent vitrectomy for CME after intraocular lens(IOL) surgery without complications. CME was diagnosed by slit-lamp biomicroscopy with contact lens.