To explore the treatment efficacy of combination preoperative intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) and postoperative triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) in patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). A retrospective comparative study was performed on 128 eyes who had PDR underwent PPV. Patients received a single PPV were assigned to Group A. Those with IVR...

Background: Crystalline retinopathy has many disparate etiologies with varying potentials in visual outcome. Due to the potential severity of these outcomes, differentiation etiology is critical guide both follow up and treatment regimen. Diagnosis can be facilitated a thorough medical history, clinical presentation, imaging such as optical coherence tomography (OCT). Case Report: This case dem...

Based on experimental and clinical studies performed by Machemer and coworkers and other researchers, intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) has been used as an alternative for the treatment of several diseases of the retina and uvea, such as chronic cystoid macular edema, age-related macular degeneration, and retinal vascular occlusion. However, it is an invasive procedure, w...

PURPOSE To describe the incidence of retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) reactivation after combined treatment with a high-dose intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) at 1-year follow-up. METHODS All patients had undergone a full ophthalmic examination. High-dose IVTA (20 mg) was injected via pars plana. Four to 7 days later, PDT was delivered. RESULT...

PURPOSE To evaluate therapeutic effects and usefulness of a combination treatment of intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) and panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) in patients with clinically significant macular edema secondary to proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). METHODS Visual acuity test, fundoscopy, fluorescein angiography, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) we...

background: cystoid macular edema (cme) is one of the most common and sight threatening complications of uveitis. intravitreal injection of corticosteroids and anti-vegf antibody are two routine options for treatment. objective: to compare the effects of intravitreal injections of bevacizumab and triamcinolone acetonide for the treatment of persistent macular edema in non-infectious uveitis. me...

BACKGROUND Diabetic macular oedema is the leading causes of blindness. Laser photocoagulation reduces the risk of visual loss. However recurrences are common and despite laser treatment, patients with diabetic macular oedema experienced progressive loss of vision. Stabilization of the blood retinal barrier introduces a rationale for intravitreal triamcinolone treatment in diabetic macular oedem...

PURPOSE To report the three-year outcomes of macular laser photocoagulation following intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) for diffuse diabetic macular edema (DME). METHODS A prospective, randomized controlled study was completed. Eighty-six eyes of 74 patients with diffuse DME were randomized into two groups. Eyes assigned to the combination group (n = 48) were subjected ...

To report a case of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis after intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA). A 77-year-old woman with macular edema due to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) developed peripheral retinitis 4 months after IVTA. A diagnostic anterior chamber paracentesis was performed to obtain DNA for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for viral retinitis. The PCR te...

A 73-year-old woman underwent vitrectomy and intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) of the right eye and cataract surgery with IVTA of the left eye, for bilateral diabetic macular edema. The patient presented with visual loss in both eyes three-months postoperatively. The fundoscopic examination revealed white-yellow, necrotic peripheral lesions in the superotemporal quadrant of both eyes....