Intraoperative Ketorolac and Outcomes after Ovarian Cancer Surgery.

Introduction: Surgery is the cornerstone of ovarian cancer treatment. However, surgery and perioperative inflammation have been described as potentially pro-metastagenic. In various animal models and other human cancers, intraoperative administration of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) appears to have a positive impact on patient outcomes.

Diving-related visual loss in the setting of angioid streaks: report of two cases.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report diving-related visual loss in the setting of angioid streaks.

Methods: Observational case reports of two patients with angioid streaks suffering sudden visual loss immediately after diving.

Results: Two young adult male patients presented with visual loss after diving headfirst.

Endogenous endophthalmitis complicating Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess in Europe: case report.

Purpose: To report the first European case of endogenous endophthalmitis secondary to a liver abscess due to Klebsiella pneumoniae expressing MagA gene.

Methods: A 33-year-old diabetic patient was admitted for fever and right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Abdominal computed tomography and laboratory studies were performed.

Photodynamic therapy for subfoveal classic choroidal neovascularization related to punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) or presumed ocular histoplasmosis-like syndrome (POHS-like).

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of photodynamic therapy with verteporfin (PDT) for subfoveal classic choroidal neovascularization (CNV) related to punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) or presumed ocular histoplasmosis-like syndrome (POHS-like).

Methods: Retrospective review of 16 eyes from 14 patients with subfoveal classic CNV associated with PIC or POHS-like and treated with PDT.

Results: The mean visual acuity increased from 4.

[Lyme disease from an ophthalmological point of view].

The first case of Lyme disease was described more than 25 years ago in the city of Lyme, Connecticut (USA) and although the responsible pathogenic organism is known (Borrelia Burgdorferi) as well as its vector (a tick from the Ixode genus), it is still underdiagnosed and often poorly known by practitioners. The symptomatology is classically divided into three phases depending on the time between the tick bite and the first symptoms. However, in a number of cases this clinical division of the disease is not easily applied.

Severe pigment epithelial alterations in the treatment area following photodynamic therapy for classic choroidal neovascularization in young females.

Purpose: Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an established treatment for choroidal neovascularization (CNV), the mechanisms are still not completely elucidated. Damage to the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) was observed following uncomplicated PDT in young patients.

Design: Observational case series.

Photodynamic therapy of subfoveal neovascular membrane in type 2A idiopathic juxtafoveolar retinal telangiectasis.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of photodynamic therapy on subfoveal neovascular membrane related to type 2A idiopathic juxtafoveolar retinal telangiectasia.

Design: Interventional case series.

Methods: Retrospective review of four eyes of four patients who underwent photodynamic therapy for subfoveal neovascular membrane secondary to idiopathic juxtafoveolar retinal telangiectasia.

Successful photodynamic therapy combined with laser photocoagulation in three eyes with classic subfoveal choroidal neovascularisation affecting two patients with multifocal choroiditis: case reports.

Multifocal choroiditis (MC) is an idiopathic choroidal inflammatory disease affecting young subjects. Secondary choroidal--and often central--neovascularisation is a frequent complication leading to a poor visual prognosis. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has now proven to be successful to treat classic subfoveal choroidal neovascularisation in age-related macular degeneration and in pathologic myopia.

[Ocular Behcet's disease: procedural aspects].

The diagnosis of ocular Behçet is clinical. This affection is characterised by a bilateral anterior and/or posterior recurrent non granulomatous intraocular inflammation. The treatment consists in the use of one or several associated immunomodulators and immunosuppressors.

White spots syndromes.

The different types of white spots occurring in the fundus are analysed. A. Acute white spots, vanishing later on.

Multiple arterial ectasias in patients with sarcoidosis and uveitis.

Purpose: To describe and evaluate the cause of a clinical entity characterized by bilateral intraocular inflammation, multiple arterial ectasias including beading, macroaneurysms, comma-like ectasias and kinking, with vasculitis, staining of the optic disk and multiple peripheral round punched-out hypopigmented chorioretinal scars in elderly patients. The formation and the course of the arterial ectasias is analyzed.

Methods: Seven patients with this syndrome were evaluated by clinical examination, fluorescein angiography, and systemic investigations.

Familial primary pulmonary hypertension and associated ocular findings.

Background: Familial primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a rare, fatal, autosomal dominant disease that results in right heart failure from idiopathic obliteration of the pulmonary arteries. Patients develop stagnation of venous blood flow and elevated venous pressure.

Methods: The authors retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of three patients diagnosed with PPH that was confirmed on the basis of physical examination, chest X-ray, electrocardiogram, and echocardiogram.

Familial spastic paraplegia and maculopathy with juxtafoveolar retinal telangiectasis and subretinal neovascularization.

Purpose: To describe a previously unreported condition involving familial spastic paraplegia and a peculiar type of maculopathy.

Methods: Two pairs of siblings were studied. All four cases underwent serial clinical examinations, fundus photography, and fluorescein angiography.

[Evaluation and utilization of home visual aids prescribed to the satisfaction of the patients for age-related macular degeneration].

We evaluated the subjective advantage given by optical visual aids to patients affected by Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD). A total of 51 patients with ARMD having magnifying visual aids were retrospectively analysed. The 51 patients have been splitted up in 2 groups according to the final macular aspect and 7 subgroups according to their treatment, and have been questioned about the subjective advantage of their optical aids.

Subfoveal choroidal neovascularization: radiotherapy or perifoveal photocoagulation? A fellow eye study.

Perifoveolar photocoagulation is advised for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization responding to the MPS eligibility criteria. Recently, radiation therapy has been proposed but has not yet proved its efficacy. We compared these two treatments.

Late side-effects of radiotherapy for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization.

Radiation therapy for subfoveal neovascularization has not yet proved its efficiency, but, to our knowledge, no exudative complication of this treatment has been reported. We describe a late side effect observed in 16 eyes after a mean follow up of 33 months, characterized by major extension and exudation of the choroidal new vessels. In several cases, development of elongated, club like new vessels was observed at the border of the neovascular membrane.

[Laser treatment of detachments of the retinal pigment epithelium associated with sub-retinal neovascularization in the context of age-related macular degeneration: retrospective study].

Pigment Epithelial Detachment (PED) associated with subretinal new vessels (SRNV) is a particular aspect of Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD). We retrospectively analysed the results of dye laser photocoagulation in 63 eyes of 56 patients with vascularised PED. We photocoagulated in a confluent manner the presumed zones of SRNV, detected by fluorescein angiography and three-mirrors-lens examination.

[Intravenous corticosteroid megadose treatment in ocular Behçet disease].

Ocular Behçet's disease is characterized by a very poor visual prognosis. Twelve patients which had a maintenance treatment with immunosuppressors received 30 intravenous i.v.