BACKGROUND The mechanism by which vitrectomy improves macular edema in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion remains unclear, although intraocular levels of vascular endothelial growth factor have been suggested to influence the visual prognosis and macular edema. METHODS A series of 54 consecutive patients (54 eyes) with branch retinal vein occlusion was studied prospectively. All pati...

PURPOSE This study was designed to examine choroidal thickness in patients with diabetes using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. METHODS Forty-nine patients (49 eyes) with diabetes and 24 age-matched normal subjects underwent high-definition raster scanning using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with frame enhancement software. Patients with diabetes were classified in...

Purpose: To determine role of systemic risk factors in focal and diffuse macular edema Methods: Total of 86 patients of type 2 diabetes with retinopathy were studied during Aug12 to Sept 2014. All were evaluated for maculopathy by slit lamp biomicroscopy and fluorescein angiography. Systemic control is evaluated with clinical examination and laboratory investigations Result: of 172 eyes, 62.8% ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of treatment with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection in patients with cystoid macular edema secondary to retinitis pigmentosa. METHODS This prospective, nonrandomized comparative trial included 20 eyes of 20 patients with cystoid macular edema secondary to retinitis pigmentosa (group A) and 20 eyes of 20 control individuals (group B) with the same...

Clinical management of chronic diseases requires periodic evaluations. Subjects transition between various levels of severity of a disease over time, one of which may trigger an intervention that requires treatment. For example, in diabetic retinopathy, patients with type 1 diabetes are evaluated yearly for either the onset of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) or clinically significant m...

INTRODUCTION To evaluate the effect of α-lipoic acid (ALA) on the occurrence of diabetic macular edema. METHODS Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, multinational study. Patients were randomized to the treatment group with 600 mg ALA per day or the placebo group. Every 6 months stereo fundus photographs, HbA1c levels, and an ophthalmological examination were documented. ...

PURPOSE To describe an association between extrafoveal vitreoretinal traction and intractable chronic pseudophakic cystoid macular edema (CME) by the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS In a retrospective case series study, charts and OCT findings of patients who had postoperative recalcitrant pseudophakic CME for at least 6 months and vitreoretinal traction membranes were anal...