Large spectrums of ophthalmic manifestations from the anterior to the posterior segment have been so far reported in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is caused by acute ischemic infarction of the optic nerve head and is distinguished in two different types, non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuroparhy (NAION) which is the most frequent type and ar...

OBJECTIVE To describe the autofluorescence (AF) characteristics of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in patients with age-related macular degeneration. METHODS Autofluorescence images of 65 consecutive eyes with CNV at various stages of evolution were analyzed. Twenty images were of recent-onset CNV (group 1), 8 were of eyes 1 to 6 months after CNV diagnosis (group 2), and 37 were late-stage...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE To report a case of atypical sympathetic ophthalmia after limbal corneal laceration. METHODS AND RESULTS An 11-year-old child had a successful left eye corneal laceration repair at the temporal limbus with excision of exposed nonnecrotic iris tissue, resulting in good visual acuity of 20/80 and 20/25 on postoperative Days 1 and 7, respectively. The patient was prescribed 1 ...

PURPOSE To report an eye with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) and a choroidal nevus. METHODS This is an observational case report. RESULTS A healthy 69-year-old woman was referred to the Osaka University Hospital with a diagnosis of a macular tumor. She complained of having distorted vision in her left eye. The medical history of the patient was unremarkable. At the initial examinat...

PURPOSE To report the effect of subthreshold transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) in treating serous detachment of the neurosensory retina secondary to chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CCSC). METHODS Seven eyes from five patients with CCSC, persistent serous detachment of the neurosensory retina and a clinical course of between 12 and 60 months were treated. All eyes received large-spo...

Twenty patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus were selected on the basis of morphological signs of blood-retinal barrier leakage--namely, hard exudates seen on fundus photographs and/or localised leakage of fluorescein seen on fluorescein angiograms. Computerised perimetry was carried out in visual field areas that corresponded to the morphological lesions, and the visual field data ...

OBJECTIVE To report the clinical features and differential diagnosis of an unusual entity termed presumed solitary circumscribed retinal astrocytic proliferation (PSCRAP). METHODS Retrospective review of medical records. RESULTS All patients with PSCRAP were asymptomatic, and the lesion was found during routine examination. There were 5 men and 2 women with a median age of 53 years. No pati...

A 48-year-old woman presented with floaters, photopsia, blurred vision and ocular pain in both eyes of a few days’ duration prior to referral. She had a history of diabetes mellitus for 10 years and was being treated with glibenclamide and metformin. On examination, visual acuity was 20/160 and 20/50 in the right and left eyes, respectively with no significant refractive error. Both pupils were...

We report a case of intraocular gnathostomiasis diagnosed by western blot assay in a patient with subretinal tracks. A 15-year-old male patient complained of blurred vision in the right eye, lasting for 2 weeks. Eight months earlier, he had traveled to Vietnam for 1 week and ate raw wild boar meat and lobster. His best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in both eyes and anterior chamber examinat...

Purpose To report a case of idiopathic retinal vasculitis, aneurysms and neuroretinitis (IRVAN) in a young woman. Observations A 21-year-old white female patient was referred to retina clinic with decreased vision in the left eye. On examination, best corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and counting fingers in the left eye. Fundus examination revealed bilateral optic disc edema...