Purpose To compare the microbiological outcomes of membrane filter system and blood culture bottle techniques in culturing diluted vitrectomy cassette vitreous. Design Retrospective comparative case series. Methods Diluted vitrectomy cassette…
Purpose To compare the effectiveness of pars plana vitrectomy endoresection with iodine-125 brachytherapy in the treatment of choroidal melanoma. Design A nested case-control study (1:2) from a surgical cohort. Methods…
Purpose To report the efficacy and safety of outpatient fluid-gas exchange for open macular hole after primary vitrectomy. Design Retrospective interventional case series. Methods setting : Institutional. patients : Thirty-six…
Purpose To evaluate the outcomes of epiretinal membrane (ERM) surgery in highly myopic eyes without traction maculopathy, and to compare them with those from non–highly myopic eyes. Design Retrospective nested…
Purpose To assess eye-specific epiretinal membrane (ERM) incidence 3 years after phacoemulsification surgery, and ERM detection bias attributable to cataract. Design Cohort study. Methods We recruited 1932 cataract surgical patients…
Purpose To evaluate the effect of uncomplicated cataract phacoemulsification on the measurements of visual evoked potentials (VEP), pattern electroretinogram (PERG), and macular and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) using 2…
Purpose To address the misrepresentation of the eye in retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images and to examine the effect of this misrepresentation on retinal thickness measurements. Design Prospective case…
Purpose To evaluate optic disc drusen, extracellular protein deposits known to contain numerous aggregates of mitochondria, using multimodal modalities featuring optical coherence tomography (OCT) and autofluorescence imaging. Design Retrospective observational…
Purpose To evaluate the safety and effect on visual function of ciliary neurotrophic factor delivered via an intraocular encapsulated cell implant for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Design Ciliary…
Purpose To compare outcomes of big-bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) and penetrating keratoplasty (PK) for macular corneal dystrophy. Design Prospective, randomized, interventional case series. Methods setting : Single hospital….
