Neurofibromatosis type-2-related schwannomatosis presenting as peripapillary hamartoma: report on a novel mutation.

Background: Neurofibromatosis type-2-related schwannomatosis (-SWN, formerly neurofibromatosis type 2) is a rare genetic disorder marked by the development of multiple nervous system tumors.

Case Presentation: We report a 21-month-old female patient who presented for left eye deviation. Upon examination, intermittent exotropia and a fundus mass were detected.

Optical coherence tomography findings in autoimmune retinopathy.

Purpose: To report optical coherence tomography (OCT) features of patients with autoimmune retinopathy.

Design: Consecutive case series.

Method: Eight patients who presented with unexplained loss of central vision, visual field defects, and/or photopsia were diagnosed with autoimmune retinopathy based on clinical features, electroretinogram (ERG) findings, and serum antiretinal antibody analysis.

Quantification of error in optical coherence tomography central macular thickness measurement in wet age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To assess error indicators encountered during optical coherence tomography (OCT) automated retinal thickness measurement (RTM) in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (NVAMD) before and after bevacizumab (Avastin; Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA) treatment.

Design: Retrospective observational cross-sectional study.

Methods: Each of the 6 radial lines of a single Stratus fast macular OCT study before and 3 months following initiation of treatment in 46 eyes with NVAMD, for a total of 552 scans, was evaluated.

Intravitreal triamcinolone for the management of macular edema due to nonischemic central retinal vein occlusion.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide in the management of persistent macular edema secondary to nonischemic central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).

Methods: Twenty consecutive patients were selected with a 3- to 4-month history of nonischemic CRVO and persistent macular edema. These patients received a single intravitreal injection of 4 mg of triamcinolone acetonide (40 mg/mL).

Intermittent exotropia with high AC/A ratio: is it a bane to surgical cure? Some facts and fictions of the two clinical tests: occlusion of one eye and the use of +3.00 spherical lenses.

Background And Purpose: To review the multiple factors in intermittent exotropia (X(T)) responsible for the discrepancy between the distance and near deviations; to challenge the classification of X(T) into types according to the two standard clinical tests of occlusion of one eye and the use of +3.00 D spherical lenses at near by demonstrating the pitfalls of these two tests, as in X(T), masquerading as high AC/A ratio at times or as strong proximal fusional convergence at other times.

Methods Of Study: Fifteen patients demonstrating findings characteristic of X(T) with so-called high AC/A ratio are reported.