Relationship between anterior capsule opening and direction of intraocular lens decentration.

Purpose: To compare intraocular lens (IOL) decentration between patients in whom the continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC) completely covers the IOL optic and those in whom it incompletely covers the IOL optic and determine how an incompletely covered CCC affects the IOL position.

Setting: Tertiary hospital in Japan.

Design: Single-center retrospective study.

Intrascleral fixation of intraocular lens haptics: histological advantages in a comparison with scleral suture fixation in rabbits.

Purpose: To disclose histological advantages of intrascleral fixation of intraocular lens haptics, in comparison with scleral suture fixation, in a study with rabbits.

Methods: Ten white rabbits, 10 weeks of age, were used in this experimental histopathological study. After unilateral lensectomy and anterior vitrectomy, an intraocular lens haptic was inserted into one eye of each rabbit.

The impact of different anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment regimens on reducing burden for caregivers and patients with wet age-related macular degeneration in a single-center real-world Japanese setting.

Objective: To describe the burden associated with different anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatment strategies for wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD) in a real-word setting in Japan.

Methods: Single-center, cross-sectional survey of caregivers of patients with wAMD performed in a hospital in Mito-City, a rural area in Japan. Caregiver burden was evaluated using the Burden Index of Caregivers (BIC-11), and depressive symptoms were assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale.

Exposure of haptic of posterior chamber intraocular lens after sutureless intrascleral fixation.

Background: A technique of sutureless intrascleral fixation of an intraocular lens (IOL) in an eye that lacks a posterior capsular support has been reported. The advantage of this technique was that the suture-related complications did not develop. However, the long-term complications of a sutureless IOL implantation have not been reported.

[Phase III open-label study of nepafenac ophthalmic suspension 0.1% for inflammation and ocular pain following ophthalmic surgery].

Purpose: To examine the efficacy and safety of nepafenac ophthalmic suspension 0.1% on postoperative inflammation and eye pain with intraocular surgery, other than cataract surgery.

Patients And Methods: Patients scheduled to undergo vitreous surgery, trabeculectomy, laser iridotomy, laser trabeculoplasty and laser posterior capsulotomy were investigated in a multicenter, open-label study.

Comparison of the outcomes of limbal-based trabeculectomy with and without anchor sutures.

Background And Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of limbal-based trabeculectomy with anchor sutures compared to standard limbal-based trabeculectomy. Limbal-based trabeculectomy was performed with a new technique using anchor sutures, which involved tying the conjunctiva to the sclera at a deep fornix incision to prevent bleb localization induced by slippage of the conjunctival suture scar toward the scleral flap.

Patients And Methods: In this retrospective, comparative, interventional case series, 45 eyes that underwent limbal-based trabeculectomy with anchor sutures and 27 eyes that underwent standard limbal-based trabeculectomy were analyzed (primary surgery).

Retinal protection using a viscoadaptive viscoelastic agent during removal of a luxated crystalline lens by intravitreal phacoemulsification.

Purpose: To report a method of retinal protection using a viscoadaptive viscoelastic agent during removal of a luxated crystalline lens by intravitreal phacoemulsification.

Design: Interventional case report.

Methods: A 65-year-old man presented with a totally luxated crystalline lens in the vitreous cavity of the left eye.

Suture fixation of an intraocular lens combined with pars plana vitrectomy and gas tamponade.

We describe suturing an intraocular lens (IOL) after pars plana lensectomy and vitrectomy combined with gas tamponade in 4 patients with vitreoretinal disease and subluxated lenses that could not be managed with capsular tension rings. The IOL haptics were sutured before the fluid-gas exchange in a horizontal (case 1), oblique (cases 2 and 4), and vertical (case 3) manner. In a case of unavoidable horizontal fixation due to limited scleral space, the upper part of the IOL tilted anteriorly postoperatively because of the enhanced effect of the gas bubble.

Luxated intraocular lens fixation using intravitreal cow hitch (girth) knot.

Objective: To describe a technique for suturing a luxated intraocular lens (IOL) in the vitreous cavity to the ciliary sulcus using intraocular cow hitch (girth) knots without IOL extraction.

Design: Non-comparative interventional case series.

Participants: Five patients with a luxated IOL in the vitreous cavity.