Chronic intraocular inflammation such as chronic uveitis can lead to cystoid macular oedema, papilloedema, and vitreous opacities temporarily or permanently reducing visual acuity. Chronic uveitis has usually been treated by topical or systemic application of steroids. Topical treatment, however, often has not been sufficiently effective to suppress intraocular inflammation and to reduce cystoi...

The condition: Macular edema occurs when the blood vessels leak plasma into the surrounding retina. Among people with type 2 diabetes, it can be found in 15% of those who use insulin and 4% of those who do not. Risk factors for macular edema and its symptoms are listed in Box 1. Cases of rosiglitazone-related macular edema were first described in September 2005. The manufacturer of the drug, Gl...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab treatment in type 2 idiopathic macular telangiectasia (IMT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Six eyes of 5 patients with type 2 IMT who received intravitreal bevacizumab between 2009 and 2014 were included in this study. All the patients had an ophthalmological examination including best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), dilated fundus exami...

Chronic intraocular inflammation such as chronic uveitis can lead to cystoid macular oedema, papilloedema, and vitreous opacities temporarily or permanently reducing visual acuity. Chronic uveitis has usually been treated by topical or systemic application of steroids. Topical treatment, however, often has not been sufficiently effective to suppress intraocular inflammation and to reduce cystoi...

PURPOSE The goal of the present research was to study post-treatment changes in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) shown by optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS The study included 12 patients with naive PCV. Photodynamic therapy and 3 consecutive intravitreal bevacizumab injections at 6-week intervals were given. Best corrected visual acuity, subretinal fluid (SRF), pigment epithe...

Aims—To develop a more reproducible method of macular volumetric analysis in order to facilitate serial monitoring of changes in retinal oedema with time. Methods—The Heidelberg retinal tomography (HRT) machine was used to scan the macula of 20 normal subjects and 40 diabetics with macular oedema. The volume above reference plane (VARP) within a 2 mm diameter and 3 mm diameter circle was measur...