Purpose. To determine the efficacy and safety of preoperative intravitreal conbercept (IVC) injection before vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). Methods. 107 eyes of 88 patients that underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for active PDR were enrolled. All patients were assigned randomly to either preoperative IVC group or control group. Follow-up examinations were performed ...

PURPOSE To report the anatomical and functional outcomes of surgery for retinal detachment associated with chorioretinal colobomas. METHODS In this retrospective interventional case series, 28 eyes of 28 patients (including 18 male subjects) who had undergone surgery for retinal detachment associated with chorioretinal colobomas were evaluated regarding the type of intervention, final visual ...

Postoperative endophthalmitis is one of the most serious complications after cataract surgery though its frequency may be low. We report a case with post-cataract extraction bacterial endophthalmitis treated favorably by core vitrectomy through pars plana with anterior vitrectomy cutter (A-vit). The patient, a 72-year-old woman, presented with blurred vision 7 days after phacoemulsification and...

MAY/JUNE 2008 I RETINA TODAY I 85 S utureless surgery is a relatively new modality for vitreoretinal surgeons. Wounds that accommodated traditional 20-gauge vitrectomy instrumentation required suture closure. With the introduction of 25-gauge instrumentation, vitreoretinal surgeons gained the ability to leave the smaller incisions unsutured after vitrectomy, reducing intraoperative trauma and p...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of early vitrectomy for aggressive posterior retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) to stop progression of retinal detachment. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series. METHODS Twenty-two eyes (15 patients) with aggressive posterior ROP underwent vitrectomy with or without lens sparing, because retinal photocoagulation failed to stop progression...

Purpose To describe a patient with acute central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) during vitrectomy surgery and the possible role of vitrectomy in acute CRAO management. Observations An 84-year-old man presented with broad vitreomacular traction and epiretinal membrane in the right eye. Preoperative assessment clearly showed normal retinal vasculature. On starting vitrectomy, complete CRAO wit...

1. Castiblanco CP, Adelman RA. Sympathetic ophthalmia. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2009;247:289-302. 2. Cha DM, Woo SJ, Ahn J, Park KH. A case of sympathetic ophthalmia presenting with extraocular symptoms and conjunctival pigmentation after repeated 23-gauge vitrectomy. Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2010;18:265-7. 3. Haruta M, Mukuno H, Nishijima K, et al. Sympathetic ophthalmia after 23-gauge tra...

PURPOSE To determine adherence to face-down positioning (FDP) among patients who underwent vitrectomy and gas tamponade for macular hole (MH) repair. METHOD A total of 69 patients (37 females and 32 males) who underwent primary vitrectomy for MH repair were studied. Nurses recorded whether the patient complied with FDP each time they examined the patient. FDP score was obtained from the nursi...

AIMS To compare anatomical and functional outcomes for 546 phakic and pseudophakic primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RDs) treated by pars plana vitrectomy or scleral buckling. METHODS Prospective, non-randomised, interventional study in 15 centres in Spain and Portugal, with data from RDs consecutively treated from January 2005 to May 2007. Cases with preoperative proliferative vitr...

BACKGROUND Retinal detachment (RD) following ocular trauma often results in guarded visual prognosis and sometimes leads to loss of the eye. With the advent of microincisional vitrectomy surgery and the development of surgical techniques, the management of ocular trauma has been transformed. CASE PRESENTATION A 34-year-old man sustained an open globe injury from fragmented glass at work. He r...