Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Correlations Between Retina and Choroid Before and After Vitrectomy for Epiretinal Membranes.

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.

TEMPORAL INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP TECHNIQUE VERSUS CLASSIC INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP TECHNIQUE: A Comparative Study.

Purpose: To determine if reducing the area of internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling in the inverted ILM flap technique results in satisfactory outcomes for the repair of large Stage IV idiopathic macular holes.

Methods: Prospective comparative interventional study of 87 consecutive eyes. Participants were randomized into two treatment groups.

Strategy for the management of diabetic macular edema: the European vitreo-retinal society macular edema study.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of different therapies in the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME).

Design: Nonrandomized, multicenter clinical study.

Participants: 86 retina specialists from 29 countries provided clinical information on 2,603 patients with macular edema including 870 patients with DME.

The outer choroidoscleral boundary in full-thickness macular holes before and after surgery-a swept-source OCT study.

Purpose: To report on choroidal thickness and the morphology of the outer choroidoscleral boundary in swept-source OCT in patients with full-thickness macular holes (FTMH) before and after surgery.

Methods: Single center matched case-control study of 32 patients with FTMH (group 1), fellow eyes (group 2), and 32 eyes of 32 healthy controls (group 3). All eyes from group 1 had vitrectomy with a minimum follow-up of 3 months.

Choroidal thickness measured with swept source optical coherence tomography before and after vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling for idiopathic epiretinal membranes.

Purpose: In eyes with epiretinal membranes (ERMs), retinal arteries become dilated and tortuous. This may correlate with the hemodynamics of the affected areas and possibly with choroidal thickness. The aim of this study was to estimate choroidal thickness before and after vitrectomy for idiopathic ERM in the operated eye and in the unaffected fellow eye.

Switch to a single dose of aflibercept in bevacizumab nonresponders with AMD.

Objective: This study aimed to report on the efficacy of 1 dose of aflibercept in bevacizumab nonresponders.

Design: This was a retrospective, single-centre, interventional, noncomparative study.

Participants: This study retrospectively analyzed 23 patients with persistent intraretinal or subretinal fluid treated with 6 or more monthly bevacizumab injections.

Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography features preceding new-onset neovascular membrane formation.

Objective: To determine the frequency and characteristic spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) features preceding new-onset choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in the fellow eye of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with SD-OCT.

Design: A prospective, observational study.

Participants: Sixty-eight fellow eyes of patients with unilateral CNV.

Suprachoroidal layer and suprachoroidal space delineating the outer margin of the choroid in swept-source optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To define the morphology of outer choroidal margins in swept-source optical coherence tomography.

Methods: This is a prospective observational study of 180 eyes: 20 eyes of healthy volunteers, 20 eyes of myopic patients, and 20 eyes from each of the following groups: macular hole, lamellar macular hole, epiretinal membranes, drusen, dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), neovascular AMD, and vitreomacular traction. A single 12-mm wide swept-source optical coherence tomography image for each of the examined eyes consisting of 1,024 A-scans has been created.

Correlation of choroidal thickness and volume measurements with axial length and age using swept source optical coherence tomography and optical low-coherence reflectometry.

Purpose: To report choroidal thickness and volume in healthy eyes using swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT).

Methods: A prospective observational study of 122 patients examined with swept source OCT (DRI-OCT, Topcon, Japan). In each eye, we performed 256 horizontal scans, 12 mm in length and centered on the fovea.

Inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique for surgical repair of myopic macular holes.

Purpose: To present the anatomical and functional results of vitrectomy with the "inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique" in myopic macular holes without retinal detachment.

Methods: A prospective interventional study of 19 myopic eyes with a spherical equivalent >-6 diopters with macular holes in 18 consecutive patients. Preoperative and postoperative visual acuity and spectral domain optical coherence tomography images were evaluated.

The role of ILM peeling in vitreous surgery for proliferative diabetic retinopathy complications.

Background And Objective: To evaluate the influence of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with or without internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling on spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in vitreous hemorrhage and tractional retinal detachment as a complication of diabetic retinopathy.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective study of PPV in patients with diabetic retinopathy complications. Group A (53 patients) had PPV with ILM peeling, and group B (59 patients) had PPV without ILM peeling.

Macular hole surgery in a patient who cannot maintain facedown positioning.

Aim: To present macular hole surgery in a patient who had previously undergone thyroid removal surgery.

Material And Methods: During thyroid gland removal surgery, the recurrent laryngeal nerves were cut by the surgeon. Therefore, the patient had to have a tracheotomy and because of this unusual situation, the patient could not breathe if lying 'upside-down'.

Non-full-thickness macular holes: a closer look.

Lamellar macular holes and macular pseudoholes are non-full-thickness defects of retinal tissue involving the anatomic fovea, thereby affecting central visual acuity. Non-full-thickness macular holes have been associated with myriad ocular conditions. Originally, lamellar macular holes were described as secondary to diabetic macular edema and macular pseudoholes as idiopathic.

Spectral optical coherence tomography in a patient with type I sialidosis.

Background: The aim of our study was to analyze spectral optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) findings in a patient with clinical signs of sialidosis.

Case Report: Fluorescein angiography and spectral optical coherence tomography was performed in a 37-year-old woman using a SD-OCT device with axial resolution of 6 µm. Enzyme assay followed.

Long-term decrease of retinal pigment epithelium defects in large stage iv macular holes with borders mechanically joined during surgery.

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) defects in spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and their gradual resolution over time.

Materials And Methods: Observational case series of 3 eyes of 3 patients who were followed for a period of 3-6 years after undergoing surgery to mechanically close the borders of large stage IV macular holes. Photoreceptor defects and RPE defects were measured during this period with SD-OCT.

Surgical treatment of lamellar macular holes.

Background: The aim of this study is to present functional and anatomical results of pars plana vitrectomy without gas tamponade in lamellar macular holes. Additionally, the study determines factors influencing final outcome.

Methods: Twenty-six eyes of 26 patients with lamellar macular hole were diagnosed using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Continuous changes in macular morphology after macular hole closure visualized with spectral optical coherence tomography.

Background: To report on changes in retinal morphology during the 12 months after macular hole surgery.

Methods: Seventy one eyes of 66 patients after pars plana vitrectomy with ILM peeling and air tamponade were evaluated with spectral OCT for 12 months and additionally before surgery. Macular hole size was measured.

Optic Fibre Free Intravitreal Surgical System (OFFISS) in retinal detachment surgery.

Background And Objective: Scleral buckling is widely used for the treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The use of the Optic Fibre Free Intravitreal Surgical System (OFFISS) (Topcon Inc., Paramus, NJ) in scleral buckling performed as a complete microsurgical procedure is described.