PURPOSE To report the prevalence of retinal detachment (RD) and results of prophylaxis against detachment from a giant retinal tear in a large cohort of patients with type 1 Stickler syndrome. DESIGN Retrospective study. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred four type 1 Stickler syndrome patients. METHOD Pedigrees and individuals with type 1 Stickler syndrome were identified from the vitreous research...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prevalence of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears associated with anti-VEGF therapy and its relation with retinal pigment epithelial detachment (PED). METHODS A total of 226 patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration treated with intravitreal anti-VEGF were included retrospectively in the study. The presence of RPE tears; the effect of the presence, he...

Purpose. To assess the validity of alpha-2-macroglobulin ( 2-MG) activity and endothelin-1 (ET-1) concentration for characterization local metabolic disorders in experimental retinal pigment epithelium atrophy (RPE). Material methods . reproduce RPE atrophy, 22 New Zealand Albino rabbits were given a subretinal injection bevacizumab or saline. Tear fluid was collected before 3 months after it. ...

Computerized segmentation of retinal vessels can help doctors discover diabetic retinopathy, Retinal Tear and Detachment. Because the anatomy is complicated changing, automated vessel still a difficult task. The Expectation-Maximization approach for vascular proposed in this paper, which uses matched filter (MF) that combines Mask based Blood Vessels Extraction with global image threshold to ex...

An 87-year-old Japanese man presented with retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) and a retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) detachment in his right eye. His decimal best-corrected visual acuity was 0.15 in the right eye, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed a vitreomacular adhesion in the right eye as well. After 3 monthly intravitreal injections of ranibizumab, the size and height of th...

Retinal infarction and scalp necrosis are described as unusual but devastating complications of giant-cell arteritis. We report a patient with this rare complication and emphasize the importance of timely diagnosis and treatment of giant-cell arteritis.