Purpose:
Investigate the effective performance and safety of a new hypersonic vitrector technology.
Methods:
Postapproval, prospective, single-arm, noncomparative, open-label study at one clinical site in India. Indications: macular hole (9/20), vitreous hemorrhage (7/20), vitreomacular traction (3/20), and vitreomacular traction with pseudomacular hole (1/20). Safety endpoints included intraoperative and postoperative adverse events. Effective performance endpoints were surgeon-rated effectiveness, range of surgical time, and device settings. Other performance measures were preoperative and postoperative best-corrected visual acuity, slit-lamp and indirect ophthalmoscopy, applanation tonometry, color fundus photography, fundus fluorescein angiography, and spectral domain optical coherence tomography.
Results:
Core vitreous removal (20/20 subjects), peripheral vitreous removal (18/20), and posterior vitreous detachment induction (13/15) surgeries were successfully completed. Total surgical time was 22.5 minutes to 106 minutes. Serious adverse events through 3 months were 2 device-associated retinal tears and detachment (one intraoperative) and one unrelated postoperative enlargement of macular hole with subretinal fluid.
Conclusion:
This first-in-human study suggests that this new hypersonic vitrector technology is a promising alternative to commercially available guillotine vitrectors. The hypersonic vitrector was effective in core vitreous removal in all cases. Larger-scale studies are required to expand on our initial findings for induction of a posterior vitreous detachment or peripheral vitrectomy.
A 14-year-old girl presenting with visual loss in both eyes was diagnosed to have healed toxoplasma retinochoroiditis in the right eye with active choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to toxoplasmosis in the left. She underwent combination photodynamic therapy (PDT) and intravitreal bevacizumab as primary treatment. PDT was performed as per the ‘Treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration by Photodynamic therapy’ study protocol and was followed by intravitreal bevacizumab after 2 days. CNV regressed at 8 weeks of follow-up and remained stable at 8 months of follow-up. The initial visual acuity improved from 20/120 to 20/30. Combination therapy with PDT and intravitreal bevacizumab appears to be effective in the treatment of CNV secondary to toxoplasma retinochoroiditis.
Purpose:To compare the safety, efficacy, and dosing regimen of intravitreal ranibizumab as an adjunct to laser therapy for the treatment of macular edema secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).Materials and Methods:Thirty eyes of 30 patients of BRVO of at least 6 weeks duration were randomized into three groups: Group 1 received grid laser treatment alone, Group 2 received a single dose of intravitreal injection of ranibizumab (0.5 mg / 0.05 ml) followed by grid laser treatment on 7th day following injection, while Group 3 received three loading doses of intravitreal ranibizumab at monthly interval (i.e. 0, 1, & 2 months) + standard laser treatment 7 days after the 1st injection. Outcome measure noted at 6 months follow-up were the improvement in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central macular thickness (CMT).Results:At 6 months follow-up, there was an average gain of 12 letters (P=0.05), 17.5 letters (P=0.05) and 19 letters (P=0.05) in groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively, with the decrease in CMT being 208.7 μm (P=0.05), 312.9 μm (P= 0.05) and 326.8 μm (P=0.05), respectively, in these groups. Gain in BCVA of more than 3 lines was noted in 1/10 patients in Group 1(10%) as compared to 3/10 (30%) and 4/10 (40%) patients in groups 2 and 3, respectively.Conclusion:The gain in BCVA and reduction in CMT were better with combination therapy (single- and triple- dose regimen) compared to grid laser alone. Single dose of intravitreal ranibizumab with grid laser seems to be an effective therapy.
We report a rare association of Adie's tonic pupil in a patient with systemic sclerosis who was otherwise systemically stable. This paper is an effort to unravel whether the tonic pupil and systemic sclerosis are an association by chance (which may be the case) or systemic sclerosis is the source of the tonic pupil.
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