PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of intravitreal triamcinolone injection on the course of diabetic macular edema. METHODS Forty-eight eyes of 48 diabetic patients were treated with 8 mg of intravitreal triamcinolone injection as the primary therapy for diabetic macular edema. The main outcome measures included best-corrected visual acuity, fundus fluorescein angiography, macular edema ma...

IMPORTANCE Intracameral injection of cefuroxime sodium (1 mg/0.1 mL) has been reported to reduce the risk of endophthalmitis following cataract surgery. In the United States it must be compounded, which is subject to dilution error. We describe a series of 13 eyes that received intracameral injection of cefuroxime sodium, 9 mg/0.1 mL, intraoperatively. OBSERVATIONS On postoperative day 1, 6 o...

PURPOSE Leber's miliary aneurysm is a variant of Coats' disease and similar to type 1 idiopathic macular telangiectasia. A recent report showed that an intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (IVB) was effective in an adult patient with type 1 idiopathic macular telangiectasia. We describe our experience with an adult patient with a macular edema caused by Leber's miliary aneurysm, which had not ...

To assess the efficacy of subthreshold micropulse diode laser photocoagulation (SMDLP) for persistent macular edema secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO), including best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) > 20/40, thirty-two patients (32 eyes) with macular edema secondary to BRVO were treated by SMDLP. After disease onset, all patients had been followed for at least 6 months prior to tr...

PURPOSE More than ten years after ETDRS, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) greatly enhanced our ability to detect macular thickening and has brought new insights on the morphology of edema and on the presence of vitreal traction. In this study we propose a new classification of macular edema based on OCT findings to better catalogue and follow this complex clinical entity. METHODS Since Janu...

BACKGROUND The association of inflammatory factors and the aqueous flare value with macular edema in central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) patients remains unclear. We investigated the relations between the aqueous flare value and vitreous levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in patients with CRVO and ...

Purpose To report the efficacy and safety of interferon alpha 2b in the treatment of pseudophakic cystoid macular edema resistant to conventional therapy. Observations A 64-year-old patient presented with pseudophakic cystoid macular edema in her left eye, which developed two months after an uncomplicated cataract surgery and was resistant to multiple topical NSAIDs and multiple intravitreal ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between vitreous fluid levels of inflammatory factors and macular edema in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). METHODS In 39 patients with BRVO and macular edema and 21 individuals with idiopathic macular hole (MH) serving as controls, vitreous fluid samples were obtained during vitreoretinal surgery, and the levels of vascular endothelial...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of macular grid photocoagulation in preserving or improving central visual acuity in eyes with macular edema due to central vein occlusion (CVO) and best-corrected visual acuity of 20/50 or poorer. METHODS Patients with angiographically documented macular edema due to CVO were entered into a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial supported by the Nat...

An 18-year-old woman complaining of visual disturbance in her left eye was referred to our hospital. The bestcorrected visual acuity (BCVA) in the left eye was 0.6. Fundus examination revealed tortuous retinal veins and macular edema with stellate figure. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed that the macular thickness was increased to 539 μm. In addition, hyper-reflective substances were d...