A cavernous pulmonary telangiectasis is a wide peripheral communication between a dilated, tortuous, thin-walled pulmonary artery and the corresponding pulmonary veins. It is part of a more or less generalized condition of telangiectasia in which small telangiectases are scattered in variable distribution and numbers in the lungs and elsewhere in the body. The striking appearance and obvious cl...

Pregnancy leads to significant changes in the body, which potentially affect the retina. Pregnancy can induce disease, such as that seen in hypertensive retinopathy and choroidopathy. It can cause exudative retinal detachments in the HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), ...

Background: Coats-like retinal vasculopathy in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is rare. This study describes its clinical spectrum, management outcomes and genetic associations patients with autosomal recessive RP (arRP).Materials methods: Retrospective review of ophthalmic, multimodal imaging, findings treatment arRP who developed features. Identification included searching a dystrophy registry 798 ...

Primitive retinal vascular abnormalities are benign conditions of the retinal circulation that comprise vascular tumors and telangiectasias. The principal vascular tumors of the retina include retinal capillary hemangioma, cavernous hemangioma of the retina, racemose hemangiomatosis of the retina and retinal vasoproliferative tumor, while primary retinal telangiectasias include Coats' disease, ...

AIMS To determine whether patients with idiopathic retinal vasculitis have altered production of cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEA-S), and whether differences in these variables occur between those who are sensitive (SS) and resistant (SR) to steroids. METHODS 20 patients with retinal vasculitis (off treatment) and 10 control subjects were prospectively recruited. Morning cor...

PURPOSE To evaluate reconstructive foveal anatomical change in surgically closed macular hole (MH) by pars plana vitrectomy with inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique. METHODS Spectral domain optical coherence tomography was used to evaluate foveal microstructures in 20 eyes of 19 patients who underwent pars plana vitrectomy with inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique...

Immunochemical analysis of human and bovine vitreous has shown that these structures contain many serum proteins. One of the alpha glolmlins appears to he present in human vitreous in concentrations higher than the serum itself. Pooled human vitreous revealed a precipitating antibody to an extracellular streptococcal antigen. With the most potent antisera available, human vitreous was shown to ...

AIM To report on eight patients with severe idiopathic intermediate uveitis (IU) and granuloma annulare (GA), a self limiting cutaneous condition of unknown aetiology. METHODS Retrospective case series. Clinical ophthalmic and dermatological data were studied and fluorescein angiography and skin biopsies were reviewed. RESULTS All patients with idiopathic IU had similar ocular features (eig...

Aim: To report on eight patients with severe idiopathic intermediate uveitis (IU) and granuloma annulare (GA), a self limiting cutaneous condition of unknown aetiology. Methods: Retrospective case series. Clinical ophthalmic and dermatological data were studied and fluorescein angiography and skin biopsies were reviewed. Results: All patients with idiopathic IU had similar ocular features (eigh...

Eales disease, first described by Henry in 1880, constitutes an idiopathic occlusive retinal vasculopathy apparently multifactorial, and with a likely immunologic origin, which mainly affects the peripheral retina bilaterally young patients predominantly males. Most cases are asymptomatic early stages of disease however, course floaters blurry vision arise hemorrhages lead to significant visual...