Early spontaneous closure after reopening of a previously repaired macular hole.

Purpose: To describe a case of early spontaneous closure of macular hole after reopening after previous successful surgical repair.

Methods: A 72-year-old female patient was treated for stage 2 idiopathic macular hole in the right eye. The hole remained anatomically closed for 2 months postoperatively, before reopening 1 month later.

Keratectasia as a presentation of surgically induced necrotizing sclerokeratitis (SINS).

Purpose: A case of keratectasia is reported as a severe presentation of surgically induced necrotizing sclerokeratitis (SINS).

Methods: A 72-year-old white woman had a painful, raised lesion on the superior cornea of her right eye 3 years after uncomplicated extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation. Examination showed a large ectatic area of the superior cornea with inflamed sclera adjacent to the surgical wound, which was diagnosed as SINS.

Chronic postoperative endophthalmitis caused by Actinomyces neuii.

Uneventful phacoemulsification with implantation of a foldable, acrylic posterior chamber intraocular lens was performed in the right eye of a 73-year-old white man. Postoperatively, the patient developed a chronic, low-grade intraocular inflammation. Cultures from the aqueous specimen grew Actinomyces neuii, an unusual gram-positive bacillus.