[Pediatric orbital cellulitis without sinusitis: report of four cases].

Introduction: Pediatric orbital cellulitis is most often caused by ethmoid sinusitis. We present a description of 4 atypical cases of orbital cellulitis without sinusitis.

Patients And Methods: A 4-day-old girl presented with medical canthal swelling and preseptal cellulitis caused by bilateral congenital dacryocystoceles.

[Anatomical and functional prognosis of secondary retinal detachments after sutureless macular surgery].

Purpose: To evaluate the incidence, characteristics and risk factors for rhegmatogenous complications of transconjunctival sutureless 23-gauge vitrectomy (TSV) in macular surgery. The results were correlated with those reported in the literature.

Methods: Multicentric retrospective study of a cohort of patients undergoing macular surgery by 23-gauge TSV between January 2009 and June 2010.

[Chronic angle-closure glaucoma in a pseudophakic eye with Soemmering's ring and plateau iris: case report].

We present a case of a pseudophakic woman with chronic angle-closure glaucoma. She had undergone uncomplicated bilateral phacoemulsification in 1994 with 21-diopter implants in the capsular bag. Fourteen years later, the right eye developed progressive angle closure with ocular hypertension, disc cupping and visual field defect.

A ciliary body tumor preventing angle closure.

We present a case report of a 60-year-old white woman, found to have advanced angle closure glaucoma in the right eye and appositional closure for about half of the left eye and no glaucoma. The remaining angle of the left eye was open with localized heavy pigmentation of the ciliary body band and trabecular meshwork. Ultrasound biomicroscopy showed a ciliary body tumor displacing the iris root centripetally preventing angle closure.

Hyperreflective dots: a new spectral-domain optical coherence tomography entity for follow-up and prognosis in exudative age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) enables high-resolution analysis of retinal layers and previously unseen hyperreflective dots (HRD). HRD morphological characteristics, evolution, possible origin and prognostic value are discussed.

Methods: We conducted a prospective study of 100 patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD), who were treated and followed up with monthly imaging examinations.

Choroid thickness measurement with RTVue optical coherence tomography in emmetropic eyes, mildly myopic eyes, and highly myopic eyes.

Purpose: To evaluate choroid thickness (CT) with RTVue spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and the effect of age and myopia in eyes without posterior complications.


Methods: In this multicenter cross-sectional study, all enrolled patients were over age 18 and divided them in 3 groups based on refraction: emmetropia (+1 D to -1 D), mild myopia (-1 D to -6 D), and high myopia (-6 D to -20 D) groups. Horizontal scans through the fovea were acquired with RTVue OCT (Optovue Inc.

[Acute angle closure and angle closure glaucoma: Phacoemulsification as first-line treatment].

Angle closure glaucoma is characterized by an optic neuropathy with a glaucomatous visual field defect with a white painless eye and mimics primary open-angle glaucoma. Acute angle closure attack is more symptomatic, with a red painful eye and elevated intraocular pressure. In both cases, iridocorneal angle closure is due to an increase in the thickness of the natural lens, which with age has a tendency to close a narrow angle.

[Accommodating intraocular lenses].

Following cataract extraction, an implant is inserted into the capsular bag of the crystalline lens. Light rays are focused on the retina by the biconvex optical part of the implant. Most implants have monofocal and steady optic so that glasses are mandatory to get a corrected image according to the distance.

[Early optic disc changes in open-angle glaucoma].

Introduction: Early diagnosis of chronic open-angle glaucoma is difficult: early changes in the optic disc often precede troubles in the field of vision, which occur gradually with no typical initial aspect. We report here the results of optic disc observations in normal subjects who became glaucomatous.

Observations And Methods: A study was conducted on 64 eyes of 51 subjects followed on average over 12 years.

Diurnal variations in keratometry and refraction with intracorneal ring segments.

Purpose: To study refraction variations during the day in eyes with intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS) to correct low myopia.

Setting: Monticelli Clinic, Marseille, France.

Methods: Thirteen eyes with ICRS were included in the study; the ICRS was explanted from 3 eyes because of undercorrection.

[Diurnal variations of refraction and keratometry after intracorneal rings].

Unlabelled: Within a European evaluation, we participated in the study of ICRS on low myopia. During the period of observation, subjective refraction variations in the day were underlined. This phenomenon remains to be specified.

[Lamellar autografting in the treatment of small corneal perforations].

Background: The treatment of corneal perforations due to corneal ulceration is a serious challenge in countries where there are no eye banks. The author presents an original surgical procedure for treating these cases: lamellar autografting.

Methods: The corneal transplant was taken at 12 h; size was 2 to 4 mm and thickness 2/3 of the stroma.

Comparison of minus power anterior chamber intraocular lenses and myopic epikeratoplasty in phakic eyes.

We performed a retrospective study of two sequential series of operations designed to correct high myopia in phakic eyes. The first series consisted of 21 eyes with refractive error ranging from -11.00 diopters to -21.

[Follow-up of early diabetic maculopathy by angiography and fluorophotometry].

We evaluated prospectively for 12 months 22 patients with late-onset diabetes mellitus and minimal retinopathy by fluorescein angiography and fluorophotometry. The study showed that early retinopathy changes were not permanent or invariably progressive, but may regress. Microaneurysm gradings worsened in 24%, improved in 14% and remained stabilized in 62%.