Clinical Outcome of Retinal Vasculitis and Predictors for Prognosis of Ischemic Retinal Vasculitis.

Purpose: To determine factors affecting the visual outcome in eyes with retinal vasculitis and the rate of neovascularization relapse in ischemic vasculitis.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Methods: We reviewed 1169 uveitis patients from Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.

Risk Factors for the Development of Cataract in Children with Uveitis.

Purpose: To determine the risk factors for the development of cataract in children with uveitis of any etiology.

Design: Cohort study.

Methods: Two hundred forty-seven eyes of 140 children with uveitis were evaluated for the development of vision-affecting cataract.

Persistent epithelial defects and ulcers in repeated corneal transplantation: incidence, causative agents, predisposing factors and treatment outcomes.

Purpose: To evaluate the occurrence, predisposing factors and outcome of persistent epithelial defects and ulcers complicating repeated corneal transplants.

Methods: The charts of all the patients that underwent repeated corneal transplantation between 1985 and 1998 were retrospectively reviewed for the presence of persistent epithelial defects and ulcers. The repeated corneal transplantation group included 122 regrafts performed in 80 patients.

Devastating endophthalmitis following penetrating ocular injury during night sleep from orthodontic headgear: case report and literature review.

Background: Complications associated with the use of extra-oral traction devices (orthodontic headgear or facebow) including facial and ocular injuries, are considered infrequent.

Methods: We describe the case of a 12-year-old boy who was inadvertently injured by the metallic bow of orthodontic headgear during sleep and developed blinding intra-ocular infection (endophthalmitis).

Results: The injury resulted in corneal perforation.