purpose: to evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection for management of chronic refractory uveitis in terms of inflammation, visual acuity and macular thickness. methods: this interventional case series was conducted on uveitic eyes with no remission despite proper administration of periocular and/or systemic steroids. after systemic and rheumatologic evaluations and...

purpose: to assess the effectiveness of intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide on macular edema associated with branch retinal vein occlusion (brvo). design: a prospective noncomparative interventional case series. patients & methods: fourteen eyes of 14 patients with macular edema associated with brvo were enrolled. in all patients after thorough ophthalmic examination, 4 mg triamci...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the success of masking study participants to treatment allocation using sham intravitreal injections. METHODS Eyes were randomized to receive sham injections plus prompt laser, intravitreal ranibizumab injections plus prompt laser, intravitreal ranibizumab injections plus deferred laser, or intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injections plus prompt laser up to every 16 ...

Seventeen subjects with chronic severe asthma completed a 48 week prospective, double blind study with crossover of treatment at 24 weeks, in which triamcinolone acetonide 80 mg intramuscularly every four weeks was compared with oral prednisolone 10 mg daily. Spirometry, twice daily measurements of peak expiratory flow rate, and self assessment of asthma symptom scores showed significant improv...

The Kiliani reaction on 1-de-oxy-(N,N-dimethyl-amino)-d-fructose, itself readily available from reaction of dimethyl-amine and d-glucose, proceeded to give access to the title β-sugar amino acid, C(15)H(27)NO(7). X-ray crystallography determined the stereochemistry at the newly formed chiral center. There are two mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit; they are related by a pseudo-twofold rotation a...

The pharmacokinetic properties and tolerability of a triamcinolone acetonide poloxamer 407 hydrogel for intratympanic application were investigated in a guinea pig model. Evaluation of in vivo release kinetics showed very high initial perilymph drug levels, with clinically relevant levels present for a minimum of 10 days. Assessment of auditory brainstem response thresholds showed a minimal, de...

Diabetic macular edema (DME) remains an important cause of visual loss. Although anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agents are generally used as first-line treatments for patients with center-involving DME, there is an important role for corticosteroids as well. Corticosteroids may be especially useful in pseudophakic patients poorly responsive to anti-VEGF therapies, in patients wi...