Publications by authors named "Victor A Martinez-Pacheco"

Aim: To analyze if a relationship between levels of inflammatory serum biomarkers and severity of primary proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) exists.

Methods: A retrospective case-control study. The healthy adult patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and primary PVR were included in the PVR group.

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Introduction And Importance: Complications related to silicone oil tamponade are frequent. There are reports of events related to silicone oil (SO) injection during Pars Plana Vitrectomy (PPV). This case presents the unexpected injection of SO in the suprachoroidal space.

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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Multiple treatment options have been used over time to attempt to modify the natural progression of the disease in both proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and diabetic macular edema (DME). These two retinal complications are the result of microvascular occlusions and vascular hyperpermeability and are considered one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness in patients of working age.

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To assess the relationship and prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) with poor final best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) after surgical repair of open globe injuries (OGI) in adults. Retrospective analysis of data from an ongoing prospective cohort of consecutive patients. In a tertiary university hospital, 197 eyes of 197 patients were included between 2013 and 2017.

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