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Objective: To evaluate the intraocular pressure (IOP) lowering efficacy and safety of travoprost 0.004% in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension, poorly controlled with or intolerance to beta-blockers. To record the short-term effect on diastolic ocular perfusion pressure (DOPP)., Research Design and Methods: One hundred and three patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension were treated with travoprost 0.004% once daily for 90 days in an open-label, non-controlled study. Efficacy and safety were assessed at baseline, after 45 and 90 days. Clinical registry number IT0301., Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome measure, IOP, was recorded at 10 am, 12 pm, and 4 pm at each visit. DOPP was evaluated at 10 am, at baseline and visit 3. Safety measures included adverse events, biomicroscopy, visual acuity, heart rate, and blood pressure., Results: Mean IOP was reduced from 22.2 +/- 1.7 mmHg to 16.5 +/- 2.1 after 45 days (p < 0.0001), and to 16.1 +/- 2.2 after 90 days (p < 0.0001). The DOPP increased by 5.3 +/- 6.3 mmHg after 90 days of treatment (p < 0.0001). No drug related serious adverse events were reported during the study., Conclusions: The open-label and non-comparative nature of the study represented its principal limitations. The study confirmed the efficacy and tolerability of travoprost in the treatment of open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension, in a subset of patients unsuccessfully treated with beta-blockers. In this study, travoprost significantly increased DOPP at short-term follow-up. Further studies to assess the effect of travoprost on DOPP are warranted.

The purpose of this article is to describe a case of bilateral neovascularization complicating Best Disease. A 12-year-old patient with bilateral neovascularization was managed with observation in the right eye and surgical removal in the other eye. Visual acuity, biomicroscopy and fluorangiography were carried out from 1997 to 2005. The right eye did not experience any change in visual acuity from baseline (20/50) while left eye varied from 20/200 to 20/32. Macular exudative-hemorrhagic manifestations resolved bilaterally. Eight years later, VA and retinal findings were unchanged. In this case, although VA was reasonably good in both eyes, it is difficult to assess the prognosis of surgically excised neovascularization vs natural history, also considering that nowadays photodynamic therapy and antiangiogenetic drugs are considered the therapy of choice in subfoveal neovascularization.

Fluorescein angiography allows visualization of blood flow in retinal and choroidal tissues, permitting diagnostic support in many ocular diseases. Particularly, fluorescein angiography has become a very important tool in the study and treatment of chorioretinal diseases. Because of the limitations of fluorescein angiography in imaging the choroidal circulation and associated pathologies, investigators have searched for alternative dyes to improve choroidal angiography, the most promising of which has been indocyanine green dye. The usefulness of indocyanine green angiography to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of chorioretinal diseases was reported during the last years. The goal of this article is to make an overview on the most frequent Fluorescein and ICGA patterns of vascular diseases of the chorioretina.