Emerging Disease of the Desert: Rise of West Nile Virus Chorioretinitis in Arizona.

To present 7 cases of West Nile virus (WNV)-related chorioretinitis in Arizona. Retina clinic charts with the terms "chorioretinitis" and "West Nile" were selected from April 1, 2012, to February 1, 2023. Seven patients with initial visits between August 2019 and February 2023 were included.

Hunting for Pearls: A Qualitative Analysis of the Reflections of Students Creating Psychiatric Podcasts.

Purpose: This paper aims to explore medical student experiences of creating a peer-to-peer psychiatry educational podcast.

Methods: During psychiatry placement, ten year-4 University of Bristol medical students created peer-educational multi-episode podcasts on psychiatric topics. Following completion, they submitted reflective essays on their experiences.

Meals and movies: making our microbiota merry.

Objective: To investigate the impact of festive cinematic diets on the gut microbiota.

Design: Observational (watching films) and creative review. Sadly, we couldn't incorporate any snowball sampling.

Recurrent bilateral chorioretinitis with positive Lyme serology: a case report.

Background: It has been disputed whether Lyme is a true causative agent in posterior uveitis or an incidental finding.

Case Presentation: This report presents a case of a 33-year-old Caucasian female with a remote history of Lyme disease who presented with blurry vision in the right eye. Exam and imaging revealed a right active chorioretinitis and positive Lyme serology.

Treatment with the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) apixaban and rivaroxaban associated with significant worsening of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).

We report the cases of two patients who developed worsening behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), coinciding with starting the factor Xa inhibitor direct oral anticoagulant medications apixaban and rivaroxaban, respectively. Both patients required detaining under the Mental Health Act. Their symptoms improved significantly, within 2 weeks, on switching to alternative anticoagulant therapies and they were both discharged from the acute psychiatric ward.

Presumed Choroidal Metastasis From Oncocytic Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report.

Purpose: This article reports a case of presumed choroidal metastasis from an oncocytic carcinoma of the parotid gland.

Methods: A 70-year-old man with history of an oncocytic carcinoma of the parotid gland presented owing to a 1-month history of progressive blurred central vision shortly after metastatic surveillance workup revealed liver, lung, and spine metastases. Fundus examination of the right eye showed a yellow choroidal mass surrounding the optic nerve and extending inferonasally, which is associated with subretinal fluid involving the foveal center.

Amyloid-Beta-Related Angiitis with Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmologic Features.

Amyloid beta-related angiitis (ABRA) is a subtype of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation, with distinctive pathology and prognosis compared with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). On a spectrum of increasing severity, ABRA is considered to be in-between the less aggressive inflammatory-CAA and the more severe primary central nervous system (CNS) angiitis. Whereas retinal pathological changes were described in subjects with primary or secondary CNS angiitis, and non-inflammatory CAA, bilateral posterior pole superficial and peripapillary retinal hemorrhages have not been reported as initial signs in patients with pathology-confirmed ABRA, accompanying neurological spells and characteristic neuroimaging findings.

Silicone oil microbubble found in failed full-thickness macular hole closure.

Purpose: To describe a case of failed macular hole closure after vitrectomy with silicone oil tamponade because of a silicone oil microbubble.

Methods: This is a retrospective case review of a single patient's clinical course.

Results: Because of the inability of the patient to assume a prone position after vitrectomy for full-thickness macular hole, 1000-centistoke silicone oil tamponade was used at the initial repair.

Comparative evaluation of no dye assistance, indocyanine green and triamcinolone acetonide for internal limiting membrane peeling during macular hole surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the anatomical closure rate and visual outcome in patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling without dye enhancement and with indocyanine green or triamcinolone acetonide assistance.

Methods: This is a retrospective, comparative interventional case series. The electronic charts of 435 eyes of 415 patients with idiopathic macular holes who underwent macula hole surgery were reviewed from January 2003 to April 2010.

Intravitreal implant migration into anterior chamber in a post-vitrectomy eye with central retinal vein occlusion and persistent macular edema.

The authors report the case of a 76-year-old man with a history of central retinal vein occlusion with persistent macular edema in the pseudophakic left eye, which was vitrectomized after complicated retinal detachment surgery. Two weeks after treatment with an intravitreal dexamethasone implant, the implant migrated into the anterior chamber. Visual acuity was hand motion in the right eye and 20/40 in the left eye with corneal edema.

Vitreoretinal lymphoma: changing trends in diagnosis and local treatment modalities at a single institution.

Unlabelled: In this retrospective study on vitreoretinal lymphoma, there was significant change in diagnosis and treatment trends over 17 years at a single institution. Fine needle aspiration biopsy had replaced vitrectomy to collect vitreous sample and external beam radiotherapy in combination with systemic chemotherapy was replaced by intravitreal methotrexate and rituximab, which regressed vitreoretinal lymphoma (VRL) with no relapses or major ocular complications.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to report the changing trends in treatment (external beam radiotherapy [EBRT] and intravitreal chemotherapy) of VRL and treatment outcomes at a single institution.