Publications by authors named "Zofia Michalewska"
Purpose: This work presents the effects of vitrectomy with an inverted internal limiting membrane flap in full-thickness macular holes (FTMHs) in eyes with diabetic retinopathy (DR).
Methods: Vitrectomy with the inverted and temporal inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique was performed in all cases. Inclusion criteria were FTMH, diabetes treated with oral drugs or with insulin for at least 5 years, spectral-domain or swept-source optical coherence tomography performed before surgery then 1 week, 1, 3, 6, 12, and 18 to 36 months after surgery.
Purpose: To identify swept-source (SS) OCT and SS OCT angiography (OCTA) patterns predicting outcome in patients with optic disc pit-associated maculopathy and to present the results of a novel surgical technique, stuffing of the optic disc pit.
Design: Prospective, interventional study.
Participants: Fifteen eyes.
Purpose: To present effects of the inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique in full-thickness macular holes coexisting with dry age-related macular degeneration.
Methods: Our database was retrospectively reviewed in order to spot patients with the simultaneous diagnosis of dry age-related macular degeneration and full-thickness macular hole. Vitrectomy with the inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique was performed.
Purpose: To study and compare the efficacy of different therapeutic options for the treatment of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR).
Methods: This is a nonrandomized, international multicentre study on 1719 patients (1861 eyes) diagnosed with CSCR, from 63 centres (24 countries). Reported data included different methods of treatment and both results of diagnostic examinations [fluorescein angiography and/or optical coherent tomography (OCT)] and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) before and after therapy.
Purpose: This article studies visual outcome and frequency of antivascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injections continued in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who had an earlier vitrectomy for postinjection endophthalmitis.
Methods: A retrospective interventional study was conducted reviewing our database for patients with a diagnosis of endophthalmitis in the course of anti-VEGF injections. Endophthalmitis diagnosis was made on clinical examination of pain, rapid decrease in visual acuity (VA), conjunctival hyperemia, hypopyon, and vitritis.
Letter to the editor relating to Lytvynchuk LM, Falkner-Radler CI, Krepler K, Glittenberg CG, Ahmed D et al.: "Dynamic intraoperative optical coherence tomography for inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique in large macular hole surgery" Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2019 May 29; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-019-04364-5 [Epub ahead of print].
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol
November 2019
Purpose: To study the practice patterns for the management of acute postoperative and postinjection endophthalmitis.
Design: Retrospective, interventional, nonrandomized, multicenter study.
Participants: Data on 237 eyes diagnosed with acute endophthalmitis occurring after intraocular surgery or procedures provided by 57 retina specialists from 28 countries.
Objective: To determine the efficacy of vitrectomy in eyes with treatment-naïve diabetic macular edema (DME).
Methods: Consecutive patients with treatment-naïve DME who underwent pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling at a single institution were identified from the electronic medical records. Morphologic and visual acuity changes from baseline were analyzed at both the primary temporal endpoint (6 months) and the final examination with the investigators.
Repeat Surgery in Failed Primary Vitrectomy for Macular Holes Operated With the Inverted ILM Flap Technique.
Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
August 2018
Background And Objective: Effects of repeat surgery in failed primary full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) closure with the inverted internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap technique.
Patients And Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients operated with the inverted ILM flap technique. Optical coherence tomography was performed before initial and secondary surgeries and then at up to 12 months post-surgery.
Purpose: To report a cohort with optic disk pit maculopathy (ODPM) presenting with neurosensory macular detachment that were initially misdiagnosed and mistreated; and to describe structural features on spectral domain optical coherence tomography in misdiagnosed and all other consecutive cases of ODPM.
Methods: Multicenter international retrospective cohort study.
Participants: 59 eyes from 59 patients with ODPM.
Purpose: To describe morphology of retinal and choroidal vessels in swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography before and after vitrectomy with the temporal inverted internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap technique for full-thickness macular holes.
Methods: Prospective, observational study of 36 eyes of 33 patients with full-thickness macular holes swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography was performed in patients before and 1 month after vitrectomy. Vitrectomy with the temporal inverted ILM flap technique was performed.
Swept-Source OCT Angiography of Full-Thickness Macular Holes: Appearance and Artifacts.
Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
February 2018
Background And Objective: To evaluate swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) images in full-thickness macular holes (FTMHs).
Patients And Methods: SS-OCTA of FTMHs was performed before or after surgery. Vitrectomy with the temporal inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique was used.
Purpose: Recent studies described that in approximately 14% to 16% of cases of macular holes treated with the inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique, the hole was closed only by a thin layer of inverted internal limiting membrane-"flap closure." The aim of this article was to describe the functional and anatomical results in flap closure macular holes and also the mechanism of flap closure.
Methods: A retrospective observational study of 149 eyes of 139 patients treated with vitrectomy using the inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique was reviewed to aggregate eyes with flap closure.
The idiopathic uveal effusion syndrome is a rare disease characterized by serous choroidal detachment. The pathogenesis of idiopathic effusion syndrome has not been conclusively determined yet. One hypothesis postulates compression of the vortex veins and abnormal diffusion of extravascular proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the refractive outcome after combined surgery of silicone oil removal with phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation. We calculated ocular lens implantation power with optical low-coherence reflectometry (Lenstar LS900; Haag Streit, Koniz, Switzerland) in silicone oil-filled eyes.
Methods: Prospective, comparative study.
Purpose: To analyze central retinal thickness asymmetry in patients with known and suspected primary open angle glaucoma.
Material And Methods: A prospective analysis of 21 patients with known glaucoma and 53 patients with suspected glaucoma. A control group consisted of 25 healthy volunteers.
Objective: The aim of this article is to report on retinal and choroidal morphology in choroidal nevi documented with Swept Source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT).
Design: This is a retrospective, observational study.
Participants: We included 27 consecutive patients with choroidal nevi.
Purpose: To describe retinal and choroidal morphology before and after surgery for epiretinal membranes (ERM) in swept-source OCT (SS-OCT). Additionally, to evaluate factors responsible for visibility of the suprachoroidal layer (SCL) and suprachoroidal space (SCS).
Design: Prospective consecutive case series.