A 62-year-old female presented to our institution with dimness of vision in her right eye. On examination, her best corrected visual acuity was 20/100 in the right eye. The intraocular pressures were 14 mmHg in both eyes. Slit-lamp examination revealed nuclear sclerotic cataracts bilaterally and iridodialysis in her right eye. Seven days after the first visit, cataract surgery was performed wit...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects and safety of intravitreal injections of autologous plasmin enzyme (APE), without vitrectomy, as a treatment for macular edema secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion. DESIGN Prospective, comparative, interventional case series. METHODS Patients were recruited and enrolled consecutively from February 1 through October 31, 2008, at the Retina Unit of the...

PURPOSE To evaluate the midterm anatomical and functional outcomes of intravitreal injection of low-dose triamcinolone acetonide in silicone oil-filled eyes as an adjunctive treatment for proliferative vitreoretinopathy. METHODS This is a retrospective interventional case series. Patients with proliferative vitreoretinopathy grade C or D received pars plana vitrectomy combined with silicone o...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and tolerability of besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension 0.6% compared with moxifloxacin ophthalmic solution 0.5%, when used for infection prophylaxis following uncomplicated phacoemulsification clear cornea surgery using sutureless corneal incision. METHODS This prospective, two-site, parallel-group, investigator-masked clinical s...

The aim of the study was to assess the role of inverted internal limiting membrane flap as a treatment option for large traumatic macular holes.This is a prospective noncomparative study in which 12 eyes with large traumatic macular holes (basal diameter of 1300-2800 μm) since 3 to 6 months were subjected to standard 23-gauge vitrectomy with removal of the posterior hyaloid, brilliant blue G (B...

PURPOSE To report the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment and the contribution of uncorrected refractive error to visual loss, in a population-based sample of Mexican Americans aged 40 and older. METHODS Proyecto VER is a population-based study of blindness and visual impairment in Mexican Americans in Arizona. Block groups in Tucson and Nogales were randomly selected with probabili...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcomes of phacoemulsification with binocular implantation of SA-40N multifocal intraocular lens at the "Hospital de Olhos de Minas Gerais". METHODS The charts of 58 patients (116 eyes) who were submitted to phacoemulsification with binocular implantation of SA-40N multifocal intraocular lens were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS The mean preoperative spherical equ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate outcomes of limbal allograft transplantation from living-related donors to treat partial limbal deficiency secondary to ocular chemical burns. METHODS Retrospective noncomparative case series comprising 17 patients (17 eyes) with partial limbal deficiency (≤50%) secondary to ocular alkali burns (11 eyes) or acid burns (6 eyes). Recipient eyes were treated by removing the...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of 2% ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) for the treatment of band-shaped keratopathy. METHODS We studied 24 eyes of 16 patients with band-shaped keratopathy who underwent EDTA chelation treatment from April 1, 2011 to December 31, 2012. We compared preoperative and 1 month postoperative logarithm of the minimum angle of...

Purpose To compare visual acuity improvement between continuous and split part-time occlusion for the treatment of moderate and severe anisometropic amblyopia. Methods Randomised clinical trials in 6 - 13 y.o children with moderate and severe anisometropic amblyopia. Each patient was consecutively selected with continuous or split part-time occlusion. Best corrected visual acuity's improvemen...