BACKGROUND To evaluate the surgical results of patients with persistent fetal vasculature (PFV), also known as persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPV). METHODS From 1991 to 2001, a retrospective, noncomparative study of 7 eyes of 7 patients diagnosed with PFV was conducted. In each case, type of anterior and/or posterior PHPV findings, preoperative testing, surgical procedures, and vi...

OBJECTIVE To observe how the treatment of retinal conditions changed over the preceding decade. METHODS Medicare fee-for-service data claims filed between 1997 and 2007 were analyzed. RESULTS Fewer than 5000 intravitreal injections of a pharmacological agent were performed annually between 1997 and 2001. Thereafter, the annual number of intravitreal injections more than doubled every year t...

Background To compare the primary anatomical outcome of pars plana vitrectomy, 360° peripheral endolaser, and 15% octafluoropropane C3F8 gas tamponade in patients with uncomplicated rhegmatogenous detachment and inferior retinal breaks, after 24-h postoperative prone positioning to similar patients with 1 week postoperative prone positioning. Methods Records of 5500 patients who underwent par...

BACKGROUND One of the most challenging problems in vitro-retinal surgery is the recurrence of retinal detachment in the context of high-grade proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). The aim of our retrospective study was to assess the surgical outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy, 180° inferior retinotomy and silicone oil tamponade combined with phacoemulsification and IOL implantation for recurren...

The results of treating 72 severely injured eyes by primary vitrectomy combined with anterior and posterior segment reconstruction are presented. This approach aims at improving the visual prognosis by allowing fundus examination and immediate retinal surgery where indicated, and by preventing the more severe complications associated with vitreous and anterior segment disorganisation. The prosp...

The authors report a case of anophthalmia, congenital cataract and systemic malformations. Male patient, 6 months old, left anophthalmia and congenital posterior polar cataract in the right eye. The patient was treated with manual aspiration of the crystalline lens, with no intraocular lens implantation with primary posterior capsulorhexis and anterior vitrectomy through a small incision. The a...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report the intraoperative surgical complications that occurred during vitrectomy surgery associated with clear corneal incisions from previous cataract surgery. METHODS Retrospective, multicenter, case series, and chart review of five patients. RESULTS Five patients, 3 men and 2 women, with a median age of 75 years (range, 59-78 years), were followed...

After Sir Harold Ridley’s invention of the intraocular lens (IOL) in 1949, Dr. Edward Epstein implanted an IOL in a 12-year-old aphakic child in 1952. However, implantation in pediatric eyes was slow to catch on as many early attempts at IOL implantation in children resulted in complications. These results have been attributed to a lack of awareness of the need for primary posterior capsulectom...

INTRODUCTION Severe ocular trauma requires emergency surgery, and a fresh corneal graft may not always be available. We describe a case of perforating eye injury with corneal opacity, suspected endophthalmitis, and an intraocular foreign body. The patient was successfully treated with a two-step procedure comprising endoscopy-guided vitrectomy followed by corneal transplantation. This surgical ...