PURPOSE To report a case of Staphylococcus epidermidis endophthalmitis following 27-gauge pars plana vitrectomy for symptomatic vitreous floaters. METHODS The clinical course and imaging findings, including fundus optomap, and spectral domain optical coherence tomography of a 24-year-old male patient were documented. RESULTS The patient, with a preoperative best-corrected visual acuity (BCV...

PURPOSE To report and describe the clinical course of four pediatric traumatic macular hole (TMH) cases and respective management. CASE REPORT Four pediatric patients with macular hole following blunt ocular trauma underwent early pars plana vitrectomy, with consecutive hole closure. Initial visual acuity was <20/400 or worse in all patients. After surgery, all patients had visual acuity impr...

PURPOSE To describe the treatment of macular oedema secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) with concomitant pars plana vitrectomy/arteriovenous sheathotomy and intraoperative intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide. METHODS Retrospective case series. RESULTS Four eyes of four patients were identified. Patients improved from a mean best-corrected visual acuity of 20/124 at baseline t...

Objective: To evaluate the short-term changes in Schirmer I test (ST) after pars plana vitrectomy and to compare the results between 23 gauge and 20 gauge vitrectomy surgeries. Methods: 42 patients who underwent pars plana vitrectomy for posterior segment diseases were included in this prospective, non-randomized, comparative study. The choice of sclerotomy gauge was at the surgeons' discretion...

We report here three patients who underwent combined Descemet's stripping with endothelial keratoplasty and transconjunctival pars plana vitrectomy for bullous keratopathy and posterior segment pathology. A surgical technique and case histories are described. Anatomic and visual outcomes of combined Descemet's stripping with endothelial keratoplasty and vitrectomy were excellent. Our experience...

We report a rare case of retinal detachment in colobomatous macrophthalmos with microcornea syndrome. A 25-year-old female who had suffered from poor vision in her left eye since early childhood and high myopia in her right eye (-11 D) visited our clinic because of a sudden deterioration of vision. Examination of the anterior segment showed microcornea with coloboma of the inferior pupil margin...

The purpose of the study was to present operative technique and results of a passive hydrodynamic expression of silicone oil through planned posterior capsulorhexis during cataract surgery in patients after pars plana vitrectomy. The retrospective analysis was done on 57 eyes with cataract after a previous pars plana vitrectomy, operated on between 2001 and 2004 at the Clinical hospital "Sestre...

OCTOBER 2010 CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY 39 A rguably, the single most significant complication faced by today’s phaco surgeon continues to be rupture of the posterior capsule.1 When the posterior capsule is breached, vitreous that presents anterior to the plane of the capsule must be removed. Fortunately, in the setting of small-incision surgery, if the ophthalmologist adheres to certa...