OBJECTIVE To investigate patient's visual experience during vitreous surgery under local anesthesia. METHODS A prospective and randomized study of 76 patients that underwent vitreous surgeries in our hospital between July 2010 and December 2010 was designed. All patients were interviewed half an hour before and within 1 hour after the surgery using a standardized questionnaire. Basic characte...

AIMS To assess the vitreous penetration of oral levofloxacin (a new fluoroquinolone antibiotic with improved Gram positive activity) in uninflamed phakic eyes. METHODS 15 patients for macula hole surgery were recruited to the study. 10 received a single 500 mg dose of levofloxacin by mouth preoperatively. Five acted as controls. Serum and undiluted vitreous samples were obtained at surgery an...

Vitreous opacities, often known as floaters, are a commonly diagnosed disease that appears to be prevalent in retinal surgery. Although most patients' symptoms minor, they can cause severe impairment vision-related quality of life certain people. The awareness the visual handicap caused by well evidence foundation for treating this problem using small-gauge vitrectomy, has grown. Nonetheless, s...

Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is an aggressive lymphoid proliferation associated with the human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I). The intraocular invasion of ATL is a rare event. A 75-year-old man without any systemic disease underwent uneventful cataract surgery of the right eye. On postoperative day 6, the patient presented with blurred vision due to severe vitreous opacity in the right eye...

It is a handbook of vitreoretinal surgery and may be useful for fellows, senior residents, or junior practitioners in a retina care center. There are 14 chapters in the book. The first chapter is on the history of vitreous surgery which explains the evolution of vitreous surgery in terms of instruments and developments of techniques in simple language. In the following chapters, techniques such...

purpose:  to evaluate the significance of the presence of pigment granules in  the anterior  vitreous as a reliable indicator of retinal breaks in patients with acute symptomatic posterior vitreous detachment  (pvd) . methods: this cross sectional study included 209 phakic patients with acute symptomatic pvd. the patients underwent anterior vitreous examination and fundoscopy. patients with dia...