SUBRETINAL FLUID ASSOCIATED WITH DRUSENOID PIGMENT EPITHELIAL DETACHMENT.

Purpose: To analyze the clinical characteristics of drusenoid pigment epithelial detachment (PED) with subretinal fluid (SRF) and to evaluate the impact of SRF on the long-term visual and anatomical outcomes.

Methods: Forty-seven eyes with drusenoid PED (47 patients) who completed >24 months of follow-up were retrospectively analyzed. Intergroup comparisons of the visual and anatomical outcomes with and without SRF were made.

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration without exudative recurrence over 24 months after initial remission.

We investigated the characteristics of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which rarely recurs after initial remission. This study retrospectively analyzed 392 neovascular AMD patients treated with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). All patients received three monthly loading doses of anti-VEGF injections, followed by a pro re nata (as needed) regimen for 24 months.

Anterior segment characteristics in normal and keratoconus eyes evaluated with a new type of swept-source optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate and compare the discriminating ability of corneal elevation maps generated using a swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) (SS-OCT ANTERION, Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany), which was estimated with different reference surfaces, to distinguish normal corneas from those with keratoconus and keratoconus suspect.

Methods: A total of 126 eyes of patients, which comprised 43, 37, and 46 keratoconus, keratoconus suspects, and normal controls, respectively, were included in this study. The anterior and posterior elevations at the thinnest point under the best-fit sphere (BFS) and toric-ellipsoid (BFT), respectively, and other corneal parameters were measured using the SS-OCT.

Short-Term Outcomes of Switching to Ranibizumab in Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Resistant to Aflibercept Therapy.

Background: To evaluate the short-term outcomes of switching to ranibizumab in aflibercept-resistant polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV).

Methods: This retrospective study included 18 eyes diagnosed with aflibercept-resistant PCV. All patients were treated with two to four consecutive ranibizumab injections at 4-5-week intervals.

Comparison Between an Intraocular Lens With Extended Depth of Focus (Tecnis Symfony ZXR00) and a New Monofocal Intraocular Lens With Enhanced Intermediate Vision (Tecnis Eyhance ICB00).

Purpose: This study compared the extended depth of focus (EDOF) intraocular lens (IOL) (ZXR00; Tecnis Symfony, Johnson & Johnson Vision, Santa Ana, CA, US) to a novel, higher-order aspheric monofocal IOL (ICB00; Tecnis Eyhance, Johnson & Johnson Vision, Santa Ana, CA, US) which uses the same platform and material.

Methods: Medical records of patients undergoing cataract surgery with ZXR00 or ICB00 implantation between March 2020 and January 2021 and with the data available for the 3-month visit were reviewed. The uncorrected near, intermediate, and distance visual acuity (VA); corrected distance VA; and optical quality parameters were the main outcome measures.

Relationship between the partial blink rate and ocular surface parameters.

Purpose: To elucidate the relationship between partial blink rate (PBR) and ocular surface parameters.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of the patients who visited the Kim's Eye Hospital between March 2020 and July 2020. Blinking dynamics, tear film lipid layer thickness (LLT), non-invasive tear film break- up time (NITBUT), tear meniscus height (TMH), and meibomian gland (MG) dropout rate were assessed using the IDRA Ocular surface analyzer (SBM SISTEMI, Inc.

Optical properties and C ages of stream DOM from agricultural and forest watersheds during storms.

Forest and agricultural land use affects the concentration and composition of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in streams and rivers. To elucidate the impacts of forest and agricultural land use on stream DOC during storm events, we investigated DOC concentration ([DOC]), optical properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM), and ΔC-DOC in both forest- and agriculture-dominated headwater streams in South Korea in the summer of 2012. One forested and five agricultural streams were investigated.

Ocular surface analysis: A comparison between the LipiView II and IDRA.

Purpose: To compare the lipid layer thickness (LLT), meibomian gland (MG) dropouts, and blinking pattern determined by the analysis of images acquired from the LipiView II (LVII) and the IDRA Ocular surface analyzer.

Methods: A cross-sectional single-visit observational study was conducted. The LLT (minimum, maximum, and average), percentages of MG dropouts, and partial blink rates (PBR) were taken from both eyes of 47 participants using LVII and IDRA.