Intraocular pressure elevation after injection of triamcinolone acetonide: a multicenter retrospective case-control study.

Purpose: To determine the risk factors for intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation after the injection of triamcinolone acetonide (TA).

Design: Retrospective interventional case-control study.

Setting: Multicenter.

Conjunctival nodules associated with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.

Background: To report on conjunctival nodules as an unusual manifestation of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.

Methods: A 24-year-old woman presented with a two-month history of bilateral conjunctival injection and gradually decreased vision. Ophthalmological examinations revealed bilateral granulomatous uveitis and bulbar conjunctival nodules, and a biopsy of the conjunctival nodules was performed.

Recurrence of diabetic macular edema after intravitreous injection of triamcinolone following vitrectomy.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of intravitreous triamcinolone acetonide (TA) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for diabetic macular edema (DME).

Methods: We studied a prospective interventional case series. TA was injected intravitreously after PPV in 28 eyes (PPV+TA group).

Results of visual acuity and foveal thickness in diabetic macular edema after vitrectomy.

Purpose: To report results of an investigation of visual acuity (VA) and foveal thickness in diabetic macular edema (DME) patients after vitrectomy.

Methods: A retrospective study was performed of the records of 47 patients (61 eyes) who received pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for DME. All eyes were followed up for over 6 months (mean, 24.

Nitric oxide synthase and superoxide dismutase gene polymorphisms in Behçet disease.

Objective: To investigate the association of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS), inducible NOS, manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD), and extracellular SOD gene polymorphisms with susceptibility to Behçet disease (BD) in Japan.

Methods: Seventy-eight consecutive Japanese patients with BD and 107 healthy control subjects were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction or polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism methods for endothelial NOS polymorphisms in intron 4, exon 7, and promoter region; inducible NOS polymorphisms in exon 16 and promoter region; manganese SOD Ala16Val polymorphism; and extracellular SOD Arg213Gly polymorphism. HLA-B*51 alleles, which have been found to be associated with BD, were also determined.

[A case of anterior ischemic optic neuropathy associated with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease].

Background: Although optic disc swelling is one of the common findings of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease, severe visual field loss from optic disc involvement is not common. We report a case of severe visual field contraction from optic disc involvement in VKH disease.

Case Report: A 51-year-old woman was diagnosed as having VKH disease and was treated with intravenous pulse methylprednisolone.