Anterior segment inflammation and hypotony after posterior segment surgery.

Recent advances in the instrumentation and surgical techniques for posterior segment surgery permit better anatomic and functional outcomes. Nevertheless, these procedures may be associated with complications involving the anterior segment, including postoperative inflammation and hypotony. One must differentiate infectious from noninfectious inflammation to initiate appropriate therapy promptly.

Retinal complications after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Purpose Of Review: This paper reviews the retinal complications that may occur after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Recent Findings: During the review period (1 year), several nonrandomized retrospective studies and case reports/series were published. One study was performed to determine the efficacy and safety of prophylactic laser photocoagulation for retinal breaks in patients with myopia undergoing LASIK.

Photodynamic therapy with verteporfin for subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes in highly myopic eyes after laser in situ keratomileusis.

The authors describe the management of subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes in highly myopic eyes after laser in situ keratomileusis with photodynamic therapy. Five cases of choroidal neovascular membrane after laser in situ keratomileusis for the correction of myopia (mean, 13.3 diopters; range, -8.

Immune recovery uveitis in AIDS patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy in Venezuela.

Purpose: To determine the characteristics of immune recovery uveitis (IRU) in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients with inactive cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis who responded to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in a Venezuelan population.

Methods: We examined 34 patients (50 eyes) with AIDS (HAART responders) and healed CMV retinitis. Patients were observed for a median of 19.

Retinal detachment in myopic eyes after laser in situ keratomileusis.

Purpose: To report the characteristics and surgical outcomes of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in myopic eyes after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Methods: Clinical charts of patients that developed rhegmatogenous retinal detachment after LASIK were reviewed. Surgery to repair rhegmatogenous retinal detachment was performed in 31 eyes (mean follow-up of 14 months after vitreoretinal surgery).

Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in myopic eyes after laser in situ keratomileusis. Frequency, characteristics, and mechanism.

Purpose: To report the characteristics and frequency of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) for the correction of myopia in a large case series.

Setting: Private practices, Caracas, Venezuela.

Methods: Five refractive surgeons and 31 739 myopic eyes that had surgical correction of a mean myopia of -6.

Corneal topography changes after vitreoretinal surgery.

The authors report the results of a prospective study to assess corneal topography changes after vitreoretinal surgery procedures. Computer-assisted videokeratography using a Topographic Modeling System-1 (TMS-1) were prospectively performed before and after vitreoretinal surgery (vitrectomy with or without scleral buckling) in 12 eyes (patients) with varied vitreoretinal pathology, including cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, CMV-related retinal detachment, retinal detachment with and without proliferative vitreoretinopathy, trauma, acute retinal necrosis, and macular hole. Preoperative and postoperative surface regularity index (SRI), surface asymmetry index (SAI), and induced astigmatism were determined.

Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) for the correction of myopia.

Purpose: To report a case series of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) and its incidence at a mean of 24 months.

Methods: The clinical charts of patients who experienced RRD after LASIK were reviewed. Five refractive surgeons and 24,890 myopic eyes that underwent surgical correction of myopia ranging from -0.

Topical anesthesia in posterior vitrectomy.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of topical anesthesia as an alternative to peribulbar or retrobulbar anesthesia in posterior vitrectomy procedures.

Methods: Posterior vitrectomy using topical anesthesia (4% lidocaine drops) was performed prospectively in 134 eyes (134 patients) with various vitreoretinal diseases, including severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy (n = 69), vitreous hemorrhage (n = 12), rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (n = 11), epiretinal membranes (n = 10), macular holes (n = 7), dislocated crystalline lens or intraocular lens (n = 6), giant retinal tears (n = 5), intraocular foreign bodies (n = 3), trauma (n = 3), endophthalmitis (n = 3), subfoveal choroidal neovascular membrane (n = 3), and neovascular glaucoma (n = 2). In 26 (19.

Incidence of vitreoretinal pathologic conditions within 24 months after laser in situ keratomileusis.

Objective: To report for the first time a case series of vitreoretinal pathologic conditions after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) and to determine its incidence.

Design: Case series.

Participants: Five refractive surgeons and 29,916 eyes that underwent surgical correction of ametropia (83.