Survey of Retina Specialists' Attitudes and Practice Patterns of Screening and Management of Endophthalmitis.

Purpose: To understand retina specialists' attitudes and practice patterns for screening for and managing endophthalmitis and any impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these practice patterns.

Methods: A survey was developed on Survey Monkey and distributed to ASRS regular members via email in April 2021.

Results: The survey had 231 respondents, of whom 169 (73%) performed inpatient consultations.

Long-Term Follow-Up of Retinal Detachment Repair in Patients With Stickler Syndrome.

Background And Objective: To report the long-term anatomic and visual outcomes of patients with Stickler syndrome undergoing retinal detachment (RD) surgery.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective, interventional, consecutive case series of patients with Stickler syndrome undergoing RD repair from 1999 to 2017 at the Long Island Vitreoretinal Consultants, New York. Retinal attachment status and visual acuity (VA) at 1-year and last follow-up were assessed.

Pars plana vitrectomy in the management of patients diagnosed with endophthalmitis following intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injection.

Purpose: To evaluate the possible benefit of pars plana vitrectomy in the treatment of patients with endophthalmitis following antivascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) injection.

Method: The authors retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all patients in their practice with a diagnosis of endophthalmitis from January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2011. Only those with a clinical presentation consistent with endophthalmitis after intravitreal anti-VEGF injection were included.

Sutureless 25-gauge vitrectomy for retinal detachment repair in a patient with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report the successful repair of retinal detachment in a patient with osteogenesis imperfecta with sutureless 25-gauge vitrectomy.

Methods: This was a single case report.

Results: A patient with osteogenesis imperfecta and a retinal detachment was successfully repaired without complication using 25-gauge vitrectomy with a final visual acuity of 20/20.

Vision-related quality of life in persons with unilateral branch retinal vein occlusion using the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire.

Aim: To evaluate vision-related quality of life in persons with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) using the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25).

Design: Observational, cross-sectional, interviewer-administered study.

Methods: 46 patients with unilateral BRVO were included in this study.

Visual outcome and bacterial sensitivity after methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-associated acute endophthalmitis.

Purpose: To determine the frequency, visual outcome, and bacterial sensitivity in cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-associated acute postoperative endophthalmitis occurring after cataract surgery.

Design: Retrospective, consecutive, observational case series.

Methods: Sixty-four cases of acute endophthalmitis occurring within six weeks after cataract surgery were identified over a three-year interval at a single vitreoretinal practice.

Retinal pigment epithelium tears after intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (avastin) for neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Background: Intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA) treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has become an important part of clinical retinal practice. We describe retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears that were noted after intravitreal injection of bevacizumab.

Visual improvement following intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) in exudative age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To study the visual and anatomic outcome of intravitreal bevacizumab injection in the treatment of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: Retrospective review of patients who received one or more intravitreal bevacizumab injections for exudative AMD. Outcome measures include standardized visual acuity, optical coherence tomography (OCT), macular thickness and volume, intraocular pressure, and blood pressure at 24 or more weeks follow-up.

Acute endophthalmitis in eyes treated prophylactically with gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin.

Purpose: To study the use of prophylactic fourth-generation fluoroquinolone antibiotics, gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin, and bacterial sensitivity in cases of acute postoperative endophthalmitis following cataract surgery.

Design: Retrospective, consecutive, observational case series.

Methods: Forty-two eyes of 42 patients with acute endophthalmitis occurring within six weeks after cataract surgery were identified.

Retinal tears and retinal detachment as factors affecting visual outcome after cataract extraction complicated by posteriorly dislocated lens material.

Purpose: To evaluate the incidence and effect on visual acuity of complicating factors such as retinal tears (RTs) and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in eyes with posteriorly dislocated lens fragments after cataract extraction.

Methods: Retrospective consecutive series of patients presenting at a referral vitreoretinal practice with posteriorly dislocated lens material after cataract extraction over a period of 8 years. The presence of RT, RRD, endophthalmitis, and choroidal hemorrhage was noted, and their effect on visual outcome was studied.

Management of macular holes that develop after retinal detachment repair.

Purpose: To study the characteristics and management of macular holes that develop after prior rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD) repair.

Design: Retrospective, interventional, consecutive case series.

Methods: The setting was a clinical practice.

Vision-related quality of life in people with central retinal vein occlusion using the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire.

Objective: To study visual function and vision-related quality of life in persons with central retinal vein occlusion using the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25).

Methods: Interviewer-administered study of persons with central retinal vein occlusion. Scores on the VFQ-25 were analyzed and converted to a 100-point scale in which 100 represents the best possible score and 0 represents the worst.

Ischemic optic neuropathy as the first manifestation of elevated cholesterol levels in young patients.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between idiopathic nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) and serum lipid levels in patients
Design: Case-control study.

Participants: Thirty-seven consecutive patients with NAION and 74 age- and gender-matched comparison patients.

Recovery of visual function in patients with biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis.

Objective: To assess the visual function of patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) who had visual loss from either anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) or central retinal artery occlusion and had a subsequent improvement in visual acuity after treatment with corticosteroids.

Design: Retrospective, observational case series.

Participants: Thirty-two consecutive patients with biopsy-proven GCA treated at one institution between January 1992 and December 1997.

Intraoperative choroidal hemorrhage in the Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome.

Purpose: To describe a patient with Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome who developed a nonsimultaneous intraoperative choroidal hemorrhage in each eye.

Method: Interventional case report. A 65-year-old Caucasian woman with Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome developed a choroidal hemorrhage in the left eye during vitrectomy for a complicated retinal detachment with a poor visual outcome.