Publications by authors named "Valentina De Belvis"
Purpose: To report the effect of subthreshold transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) in treating serous detachment of the neurosensory retina secondary to chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CCSC).
Methods: Seven eyes from five patients with CCSC, persistent serous detachment of the neurosensory retina and a clinical course of between 12 and 60 months were treated. All eyes received large-spot TTT guided by indocyanine green angiography (ICGA).
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of single-session photodynamic therapy (PDT) combined with intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) in the treatment of retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) in age-related macular degeneration.
Methods: In this pilot study, eight patients with RAP underwent indocyanine green angiography (ICGA)-guided single-session verteporfin PDT followed by intravitreal bevacizumab (1.25 mg) within a 0-day +/- 1-day interval.
Purpose: To compare long-term choroidal vascular changes after iodine-125 brachytherapy (IBT) versus transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) used as primary treatment of small choroidal melanoma.
Methods: Ninety-five small choroidal melanomas were randomized: 49 eyes with TTT and 46 eyes with IBT alone. Fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) were performed at 3-month intervals during the first year, and every 6 months thereafter.
Purpose: To describe a case of spontaneous resolution of retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) in a patient with age-related macular degeneration.
Methods: A 67-year-old woman complained about progressive visual loss in the right eye. Visual acuity was 20/50 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye.
Purpose: To evaluate prospectively, on a long-term range, the clinical outcomes of transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) as primary treatment of selected choroidal melanoma.
Methods: Seventy-seven eyes of 77 patients affected by small posterior choroidal melanoma were treated with TTT as a sole treatment, using an infrared diode laser at 810 nm according to a standard procedure. Follow-up was longer than 36 months.
Purpose: To describe a case of acute bilateral intraocular hemorrhages occurring after injection of oxygen-ozone (O(2)O(3)) mixture.
Design: Observational case report.
Methods: A 45-year-old woman complained about acute bilateral visual loss after intradiscal and periganglionic injection of gas mixture (O(2)O(3)) for lumbar disk herniation.
Objective: To evaluate choroidal vascular alterations after transpupillary thermotherapy used as the sole treatment for choroidal melanoma.
Design: Prospective noncomparative interventional case series.
Participants: Forty-five eyes of 45 patients affected by malignant choroidal melanoma treated with transpupillary thermotherapy alone with more than 1 year of follow-up.