Purpose To investigate whether sleep-disordered breathing is a risk factor for iris and/or angle neovascularization in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). Design Cross-sectional comparative case series. Subjects and Methods…
Purpose To investigate the association of intraocular concentrations of inflammatory factors and improvement of macular edema after vitrectomy for patients with macular edema in branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). Design…
The first suggestion that the two optic nerves partially crossed in the chiasm was made by Isaac Newton in a 1682 private letter to William Briggs, a physician who had…
Purpose To evaluate the morphologic retinal and choroidal changes after verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT) with and without ranibizumab for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. Design Retrospective, comparative…
Purpose To describe the spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) features of choroidal tumors imaged using enhanced depth imaging (EDI) technique. Design Prospective observational case series. Methods One tumor each from…
Purpose To demonstrate the correlation of ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) features of iris melanoma with histopathology. Design Retrospective analysis of medical records. Methods The medical records of patients that underwent surgery…
The randomized clinical trial is the gold standard for evaluating a therapy, providing the highest evidence for the practice of evidence-based medicine. However, not all randomized clinical trials are informative…
Predicting how health reform may affect the training of future ophthalmologists has never been more difficult. To better understand the factors that will affect tomorrow’s residents, it is critical to…
“What’s in a name?” —William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet , Act 2, scene 2, lines 1–2 “Then you should say what you mean” —Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland A…
The main abnormality leading to outflow impairment in angle-closure glaucoma is mechanical obstruction of the trabecular meshwork by the peripheral iris. In most cases, this angle-closure process precedes a rise…
