Purpose To determine the correlation between the recovery of foveal microstructure and the visual acuity or the foveal sensitivity after idiopathic macular hole (MH) closure. Design Prospective, consecutive, observational case…
Purpose To compare pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with combined PPV and scleral buckle (SB) for the repair of noncomplex primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD). Design Retrospective, nonrandomized, interventional case series….
Purpose To compare the incidence, prevalence, and hazard of nonexudative and exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) among different races throughout the United States. Design Retrospective longitudinal cohort study. Methods Billing…
Purpose To determine longitudinal rates of ocular complications after anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a nationally representative longitudinal sample. Design Retrospective, longitudinal…
Purpose To identify the characteristics that are associated significantly with visual field (VF) defects in highly myopic eyes. Design Retrospective, observational series. Methods The medical records of 492 eyes of…
Purpose To describe 4 patients who sustained facial nerve injury during temporal artery biopsy. Design Retrospective, observational case series. Methods The medical records were reviewed of 4 patients (2 men,…
Purpose To determine the minimal clinically important difference and the patient acceptable symptom state for visual acuity and visual function, 2 key visual outcomes for patients undergoing cataract extraction, as…
Purpose To characterize the clinical course of cataract wound dehiscence. Design Retrospective, comparative case series. Methods Charts of open globe injuries (848 injuries in 846 patients) treated surgically at the…
The AJO encourages authors to report the visual acuity in the manuscript using the same nomenclature that was used in gathering the data provided they were recorded in one of…
Purpose To investigate risk factors for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and pseudoexfoliative glaucoma (PEXG) in the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Design Cross-sectional, population-based study. Methods Randomly selected subjects 60 years of…
