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Patients with clinically significant carotid artery stenosis (CAS) undergoing carotid artery endarterectomy (CEA) were imaged with swept-source OCT angiography (SS-OCTA) imaging protocol to determine if there were changes in choroidal blood flow after surgery.

To investigate the association of nascent geographic atrophy (GA) preceding the development of exudative type 3 macular neovascularization (MNV) in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography imaging of three patients before and after the onset of retinal pigment epithelium tears showed that choriocapillaris flow deficit measurements remained stable within the bed of the retinal pigment epithelium tears for at least 16 months after their onset.

Swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography imaging of undiagnosed relatives in a family with Sorsby macular dystrophy detected reticular pseudodrusen and abnormalities in Bruch membrane thickness, choriocapillaris thickness, and choriocapillaris perfusion only in family members shown to carry the Sorsby macular dystrophy mutation.

In a comparison between the COVID-19 year (2020) and the pre–COVID-19 year (2019), therew was a significant reduction in the injections per patient ratio and increasing intervals between clinic visits in 2020. Nevertheless, there was no significant difference in BCVA change. Multivariable regression demonstrated that patients' age, baseline BCVA, and number of injections were significant predictors for final BCVA.

Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text.In this retrospective single-center study, we found that eyes with recurrent retinal detachment presented with a thicker choroid at baseline, suggesting that increased choroidal thickness may be associated with redetachment after primary retinal detachment surgery.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the results of a sulcus intraocular lens (Sulcoflex) for pseudophakic refractive errors following phacoemulsification cataract surgery.Methods: This retrospective clinical observational cohort study included consecutive eyes in which a Sulcoflex was implanted. Uncorrected distance visual acuity and corrected distance visual acuity as well as refractive outcomes were assessed. The minimum follow-up time required for inclusion was 3 months.Results: In total, 15 eyes (n= 15) were evaluated. The mean follow-up was 14 months (range: 3–18 months). The Sulcoflex aspheric (653L) was implanted in 13 eyes and the Sulcoflex toric (653T) in two eyes. The preoperative mean logMAR (Snellen) uncorrected distance visual acuity and corrected distance visual acuity were 0.88 (20/150) and 0.27 (20/40), respectively. The postoperative mean logMAR (Snellen) corrected distance visual acuity was 0.15 (20/30). The preoperative mean spherical equivalent was −0.22 ± 5.95 D and the postoperative mean spherical equivalent was −1.59 ± 1.45 D. There was a significant and strong correlation (r= 0.64, p< 0.001) between the attempted and the achieved spherical equivalent.Conclusion: The Sulcoflex is a safe and viable option for patients with residual refractive error following cataract surgery.

Swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) scans of eyes with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were used to replace color, autofluorescence, infrared reflectance, and dye-based fundus angiographic imaging for the diagnosis and staging of AMD. Through the use of different algorithms with the SS-OCTA scans, both structural and angiographic information can be viewed and assessed using both cross-sectional and en faceimaging strategies.

Purpose: To analyze the visual and refractive outcome of the bioptics procedure combining multifocal intraocular lens implantation and excimer laser surgery in young patients with high hyperopic eyes not suitable for a single surgical procedure.Methods: This retrospective case series included 10 eyes of five patients (age range 18–30 years) with high hyperopia (spherical equivalent +8.51 ± 0.85 diopters (D)). They had been treated with serial multifocal intraocular lens implantation followed 6 weeks later by laser in situ keratomileusis for residual hyperopia. Uncorrected distance visual acuity, uncorrected near visual acuity, corrected distance visual acuity, corrected near visual acuity, and manifest refraction were evaluated before surgeries, after multifocal intraocular lens implantation, and 3 months post laser in situ keratomileusis.Results: No patients were lost to follow-up (6 months). The mean spherical equivalent decreased to +2.05 ± 1.33 D after multifocal intraocular lens implantation and to −0.10 ± 0.58 D after the laser in situ keratomileusis procedure. Success of the procedures was determined by uncorrected visual acuity. LogMAR uncorrected distance visual acuity improved by a total of more than six lines from 1.05 ± 0.18 LogMAR to 0.46 ± 0.12 LogMAR post multifocal intraocular lens implantation and to 0.15 ± 0.06 LogMAR after both surgeries. The LogMAR uncorrected near visual acuity increased by 0.81 ± 0.82 LogMAR after lens implantation due to loss of accommodation, and all eyes reached a LogMAR of 0 at 1 month postoperatively following laser in situ keratomileusis.Conclusions: A bioptics approach involving multifocal intraocular lens followed 6 weeks later by a laser in situ keratomileusis procedure for the correction of very high hyperopia enabled the resolution of the residual refractive error in young very high hyperopic patients.

The symmetry of major macular fundus features in both eyes of the same patient with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was investigated using swept–source(SS)-OCT.

To describe our experience with monovision excimer laser correction in individuals with myopic presbyopia.

A training exercise was performed to study the ability of graders to reliably identify precursor lesions to geographic atrophy (GA), known as persistent choroidal hypertransmission defects (hyperTDs), using en face OCT images from eyes with nonexudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Background Flap necrosis following facial rhytidectomy constitutes a vexing and grievous complication to the patient and the surgeon. Treatment modalities that can expedite wound healing and re-epithelialization rates are highly desired.Objectives To assess wound healing and re-epithelialization rates of open wounds following postrhytidectomy flap necrosis treated with commercially available charged polystyrene microspheres (Polyheal-1, Polyheal Ltd, Israel).Methods Flap necrosis following rhytidectomy with open wounds in three female patients were treated using dressings soaked with Polyheal-1. Wound closure rates were documented.Results The wounds demonstrated both accelerated granulation tissue formation and rapid re-epithelialization rates. No complications or side effects were encountered.Conclusions Charged polystyrene microspheres may offer a new and efficacious way to treat open wounds due to flap necrosis following facial rhytidectomy. Further research with larger patient numbers is still needed to verify these findings.