We report a case of complete surgical resolution of Valsalva retinopathy that manifested as a premacular hemorrhage involving a membrane followed by a macular hole (MH) resulting from the first vitrectomy. A 20-year-old female patient was referred to our hospital due to sudden vision loss in the left eye. Her best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in the left eye was hand motion. Fundus photograph...

Endogenous Candida endophthalmitis (ECE) is a rare disease. We present a patient with Candida endophthalmitis after two consecutive procedures of suction dilatation and curettage for elective abortion. A 24-year-old single woman who received a suction dilatation and curettage one week ago developed pain and blurred vision in the right eye. Endogenous Candida endophthalmitis was diagnosed and tr...

PURPOSE To determine if pars plana vitrectomy induces long-term changes in the anterior segment anatomy by means of ultrasound biomicroscopy. METHODS A prospective case series study was undertaken of consecutive patients referred to a tertiary eye care centre for pars plana vitrectomy as the only procedure. Twenty eyes of 20 patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy alone were studied by ultr...

A consecutive series of 114 eyes (112 patients) undergoing pars plana vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment not complicated by severe proliferative vitreoretinopathy is presented (follow up 1 to 4 years; mean 19 months). The indications for vitrectomy fell into two main groups: (1) where the retinal view was poor and vitrectomy was required to clear media opacities to allow identific...

Acute retinal necrosis syndrome (ARNS) is a herpetic infectious eye disease that presents clinicians with difficult decisions to make about the indication and timing of surgical intervention. Here I report 2 patients who underwent prophylactic and early vitrectomy with good visual outcomes. Case 1, a 72-year-old man, had a second recurrence of ARNS in the left eye in 2011 and underwent early vi...

BACKGROUND Since first being reported in the ophthalmology literature in 2010, three cases (one fatal) of suspected venous air embolism (VAE) during vitrectomy have received little notice, and the vitrectomy/VAE connection has been described as unproven. We investigated the ability of air to exit the eye through vortex veins after accidental suprachoroidal air infusion. METHODS Vitrectomy was...

To evaluate the occurrence of late-onset corneal haze (LOCH) after vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in photorefractive keratectomy (PRK)-treated eyes. This observational cohort study comprised 13 eyes of 13 patients who underwent vitrectomy for RRD and who had been subjected to PRK years earlier. The occurrence of LOCH was evaluated together with all the preoperative, intr...

OBJECTIVE To describe the results of lens-sparing vitrectomy in infants with progressive, fovea-threatening, tractional retinal detachments associated with stage 4A retinopathy of prematurity. METHODS In a retrospective, interventional, consecutive clinical case series, the records of patients with stage 4A retinopathy of prematurity who underwent lens-sparing vitrectomy for progressive retin...

PURPOSE To highlight good visual outcome with intravitreal amikacin administered 18 days following trauma-inducing vancomycin resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis treated initially with vitrectomy and oral linezolid. OBSERVATIONS Despite initial vitrectomy, intravitreal vancomycin, ceftazidime and oral linezolid, smoldering vitreous infiltrates prompted treatment with intravitreal amikacin ...

purpose: to evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of surgical management of retinal detachments associated with choroidal colobomas methods: in this retrospective study, 31 eyes of 31 patients with coloboma-related retinal detachments enrolled. all the eyes underwent standard three-port pars plana vitrectomy with internal tamponade with nonheavy silicon oil in 24 (77.4%) or 20% sulfur...