Evaluar la pérdida celular endotelial en pacientes operados mediante facoemulsificación de catarata no complicada, comparando datos de cirujanos noveles y cirujanos expertos. Método: Se realizó un estudio observacional y prospectivo en el que se evaluaron 50 ojos consecutivos aleatorizados en dos grupos de 25 ojos cada uno. Se realizó a cada ojo recuento de células endoteliales mediante microscopía especular preoperatoriamente y al mes de la cirugía. Los ojos con cataratas complicadas fueron excluidos. Resultados: La mayoría de los pacientes eran mujeres, con una edad media de 75.5 años. La disminución de la densidad celular al mes de la cirugía fue significativa tanto en ojos operados por cirujanos expertos como por cirujanos noveles, con una pérdida del 14.8% y el 15.6%, respectivamente, sin diferencia estadísticamente significativa (p = 0.491). Además, la correlación entre la pérdida de ambos grupos fue de 0.58 (p = 0.0094). La pérdida celular en ojos operados por cirujanos noveles demostró una buena correlación (0.577) con la energía acumulada disipada del ultrasonido durante la facoemulsificación (p = 0.0025), frente a los expertos, en los que no pudo demostrarse esta asociación. El total de energía acumulada disipada empleada por cirujanos noveles fue significativamente mayor (p = 0.045), un 63% más que los expertos. Conclusiones: La diferencia en el recuento endotelial tras cirugía de catarata se demuestra asociada a la propia cirugía, con cifras similares para cirujanos noveles y expertos, y se observa una buena correlación entre ambos grupos. Teniendo en cuenta la pérdida de celularidad endotelial corneal, la seguridad del procedimiento realizado por cirujanos noveles es equivalente a la del realizado por expertos.
Purpose. To analyze patients’ anxiety levels using the Visual Analog Scale for Anxiety (VASA), in regard to intravitreal injection treatment and to determine possible associated risk factors related to the disease and treatment characteristics. Methods. Cross-sectional observational study with consecutive sampling of patients who were going to receive an intravitreal injection. Subjects completed the VASA prior to the procedure, and afterwards, their data were collected from the electronic medical history. Analysis was performed through a linear regression model. Results. Fifty-five men and forty-seven women were enrolled. The mean age was 73.9 ± 12.4 years (mean ± standard deviation (SD)), and the mean ± SD of previous injections was 12.8 ± 12. The most frequent pathologies found were age-related macular degeneration with 46.1% and diabetic macular edema with 36.3%. The median of anxiety levels measured in millimeters (mm) was 16 (interquartile range: 0–48). In univariate models, women presented a mean of 10.8 mm of anxiety more than men ( p = 0.03 ). The adjusted multivariate analysis demonstrated that younger patients declared higher anxiety levels ( p = 0.036 ). No significant association was found between the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) on the day of the injection, the change in BCVA since the beginning of the treatment or the number of injections received, and the registered anxiety levels. Conclusions. Sex and age may have an influence on anxiety levels. BCVA and the number ofinjections received did not seem to have an influence on our patients anxiety levels.
Introduction The differential diagnosis for serous SRF can involve diseases with widely different pathogenic mechanisms that can range from vascular ocular diseases to ocular tumours and paraneoplastic syndromes. Recently, van Dijk et al. have described in three patients a new entity which they have called serous maculopathy with an absence of retinal pigment epithelium (SMARPE). We hereby describe a case of this infrequent macular disease and report its characteristic findings on multimodal imaging. Case description We present the case of a 65-year-old hyperopic woman with a three-year history of visual acuity (VA) loss in her left eye. Prior optical coherence tomography (OCT) had revealed the presence of serous subretinal fluid that had shown no response to treatment with intravitreal injections. On swept source OCT angiography scan, no macular alterations in the retinal vascular plexus structure were noted and there was no evidence of choroidal neovascularization. Ultra-widefield fluorescence angiography of the left eye revealed an early hyperfluorescent macular spot corresponding to the area of absent RPE and late fluorescein pooling. On ultra-widefield indocyanine green angiography there were no central or peripheral abnormalities of choroidal vascularization. Conclusion This recently described entity should be considered as a differential diagnosis in persistent serous subretinal fluid. Multimodal imaging helps differentiate SMARPE from its main differential diagnoses, and care should be taken to identify and differentiate it from similar conditions to avoid unnecessary treatment with its possible side effects and complications.
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