Publications by authors named "Victoria De Rojas"
Purpose: To describe the treatments used in cases of infectious keratitis and determine the risk factors associated with treatment failure, including prolonged infection duration, treatment modifications, and the need for surgical intervention.
Patients And Methods: This retrospective case series includes culture-proven microbial keratitis cases treated in nine hospitals in the region of Galicia, Spain, between 2010 and 2020.
Results: A total of 654 patients were included.
Microbial keratitis in north-western Spain: a review of risk factors, microbiological profile and resistance patterns.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
November 2024
Purpose: To review the risk factors, clinical characteristics, and microbiological profiles of microbial keratitis cases, as well as the antibiotic resistance patterns of bacterial isolates in the region of Galicia, Spain.
Methods: This retrospective case series includes patients with culture-positive non-viral microbial keratitis between 2010 and 2020, treated at nine hospitals within the region of Galicia, North-West Spain. The standard protocol involved Gram staining for bacterial infections and calcofluor white staining for fungal or amoebal infections, identification by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry or microscopy, and antimicrobial susceptibility interpreted according to EUCAST or CLSI guidelines.
Article Synopsis
- This study reviewed fungal keratitis cases in Galicia, Spain, focusing on clinical features, risk factors, and treatment from 2010 to 2020.
- Out of 654 infectious keratitis cases, 77 (9.9%) were fungal, predominantly affecting older adults in rural areas, with most infections caused by dermatophyte species.
- Key risk factors included steroid use, recent eye surgeries, and ocular trauma, with delayed diagnosis leading to poor outcomes, stressing the importance of early detection and treatment improvements.
Purpose: To report on the outcomes of amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for corneal ulceration following infectious keratitis.
Method: In this retrospective cohort study of 654 patients with culture-proven infectious keratitis from 8 hospitals in Galicia (Spain), a total of 43 eyes of 43 patients (6.6%) underwent AMT for postinfectious corneal ulceration.
Purpose: To evaluate the causes of IOL explantation, techniques for secondary IOL implantation, visual outcomes and complications.
Methods: Setting: Department of Ophthalmology Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, Spain.
Design: Retrospective study.
Purpose: To study changes in intraocular pressure (IOP) during the early postoperative period in eyes having implantation of a posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) (Visian Implantable Collamer Lens V4c).
Setting: Clínica Baviera, Instituto Oftalmológico Europeo, Madrid, Spain.
Design: Case series.
Purpose: To present the case of a 28-year-old man with acetazolamide-induced bilateral choroidal effusion after uneventful surgery of the second eye in delayed sequential bilateral insertion of an implantable collamer lens for hyperopia.
Methods: Case report.
Results: Surgery of the left eye was uneventful, and the implantable collamer lens was implanted 3 weeks later in the right eye.
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of intracameral phenylephrine (IPH) administered as prophylaxis against intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) and to analyze the ability of IPH to reverse IFIS.
Design: Prospective, multicenter, randomized, comparative case series of fellow eyes.
Participants: Forty-two patients receiving tamsulosin who underwent cataract surgery between January and April 2011.
Infectious keratitis in 18,651 laser surface ablation procedures.
J Cataract Refract Surg
October 2011
Purpose: To evaluate the incidence, culture results, risk factors, treatment strategies, and visual outcomes of infectious keratitis after surface ablation.
Setting: Multicenter study in Spain.
Design: Case series.
Purpose: To evaluate the characteristics of and risk factors for spontaneous late in-the-bag intraocular lens (IOL) dislocation and to analyze the outcomes of surgical correction.
Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Complejo Hospitalario Orense, Orense, Spain.
Methods: In this retrospective single-surgeon interventional case series, the surgical database of a referral center was searched for cases of late spontaneous in-the-bag IOL dislocation between 2005 and 2009.
Purpose: To investigate the incidence, culture results, risk factors, and visual outcomes of infectious keratitis after LASIK, and examine treatment strategies.
Design: Retrospective study.
Participants: We included 107 613 patients who underwent LASIK at Clínica Baviera (Instituto Oftalmológico Europeo, Spain) from September 2002 to May 2008.
Objective: To characterize patterns of chronic ocular disease in patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and its variant toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), and to describe their response to treatment.
Methods: Retrospective case series. A review of hospital records of 30 patients (60 eyes) with ocular manifestations of SJS or TEN was carried out.
Objective: To report epithelial perilenticular opacity as a new complication of intracorneal inlay implantation for the correction of hyperopia.
Design: Prospective observational case series.
Participants: Eleven eyes of 7 patients underwent intracorneal inlay implantation for the correction of hyperopia.
Purpose: To study the quality of the cut created by 3 microkeratomes from 2 different generations using corneal confocal microscopy.
Setting: Department of Refractive Surgery, Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Methods: Two different studies were conducted: Study 1 and Study 2.
Purpose: To assess the clinical efficacy of topical mitomycin C (MMC) 0.04% for the treatment of patients with pigmented conjunctival lesions. Clinical efficacy was evaluated on the basis of reduction in lesion size and degree of pigmentation and histologic study.
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