PREsENT thinking about the relations between central retinal vein occlusion and glaucoma derives mainly from the pioneer work of Verhoeff (1913), Salzmann (1933), and Duke-Elder (1940, 1957, 1959). Since their papers on this subject many reports have been added to the literature. Recently, Landolt (1958) has published his work on histology and Dobree (1957) clinical studies on the incidence of ...

Retinal vein occlusions may decrease visual acuity. There is no known therapy to treat ocular thrombosis. The authors used fondaparinux, an ultra-low-molecular-weight heparin, to treat 13 consecutive cases of recent-onset retinal vein occlusions. Two patients with renal insufficiency were not included. Eight central retinal vein occlusions and 5 branch retinal vein occlusions in 13 patients wer...

Macular edema is a common cause of visual loss in patients with retinal vein occlusions. Ozurdex(®), a dexamethasone intravitreal implant, has been shown in randomized controlled trials to reduce macular edema and improve visual acuity in patients with either branch retinal vein occlusions or central retinal vein occlusions. It was approved in the United States in 2009. Since then, new therapeu...

Branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO) and branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) rarely cause neovascular glaucoma (NVG). A 58-year-old woman with hypertension and type 2 diabetic mellitus complained of progressive visual loss in her right eye for the previous 3 months. At initial examination, visual acuity was 20 / 63 in the right eye. Angle neovascularization was observed and the intraocular p...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at localizing and quantifying retinal defects in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion by means of scanning laser perimetry and analyzing the mechanism involved in the functional recovery after laser therapy. DESIGN Prospective nonrandomized clinical trial with concurrent comparison group. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-eight patients with isolated branch retinal ve...

lar thickness using optical coherence tomography (OCT) in macular edema associated with various retinal vascular disorders. ME T H O D S. This prospective nonrandomized clinical interventional study included 81 eyes (76 patients) comprised of Group I, 57 eyes (51 patients) with diabetic macular edema; Group II, 10 eyes (10 patients) with branch retinal vein occlusion; and Group III, 13 eyes (13...