Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410027
Free Flaps Reconstruction after Orbital Exenteration: A Single Centre Case Series
Saul N Rajak, Edwin Figueira, Natasha A Forster, Timothy Greenwell, Guy Rees, Dinesh Selva and Yugesh Caplash
Article Type: Case Series | First Published: June 25, 2015
Orbital exenteration is a disfiguring procedure that leaves a large defect. Free flaps are increasingly widely used to fill this. We report our single centre series of free flap reconstruction, which adds to the literature base on flap choice and potential complications. Methods: A retrospective single centre consecutive case series of twenty patients who has an orbital exenteration and free flap reconstruction....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410026
Orbital Apex Cavernous Hemangioma Causing a Temporal Visual Field Deficit
Ashley A. Campbell, Suzanne K. Freitag, Benjamin S. Bleier, Simmons Lessell and Dean M. Cestari
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 23, 2015
We present a case of compressive optic neuropathy from a small hemangioma in the orbital apex causing a mostly temporal visual field defect with some extension nasally on the pattern deviation plot. Given the visual field defect, the location of this lesion was expected to be in the anterior chiasm or prechiasmal optic nerve. This case supports the hypothesis that the organization of temporal visual field fibers likely occurs at the level of the distal optic nerve prior to entering the anterior ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410025
Supratentorial Anaplastic Ependymoma with Bilateral Papilledema
Meghan Berkenstock, Matthew Keisling, Jinglan Liu, Judy Mae Pascasio, Ayman Samkari, Prithvi Narayan, Melandee Brown, Erica Poletto, Christos D Katsetos and Myron Yanoff
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 01, 2015
Ependymomas constitute the third most common histological type of CNS tumor in children. Compared to classic cellular ependymoma (WHO grade II), anaplastic ependymoma is a more aggressive and less common subtype of ependymal neoplasm. We report a case of a supratentorial anaplastic ependymoma in a child presenting with a right sixth nerve palsy with bilateral papilledema. To our knowledge, the ophthalmic findings presented herein have not been previously reported in the context of this tumor typ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410024
Multimodal Imaging of Retinal Angiomatous Proliferation Showing Finger-Like Lesions of the Outer Retina
Shiraaz I Rahman, Mihai Mititelu and Rukhsana G Mirza
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: May 25, 2015
Retinal Angiomatous Proliferation (RAP) is a process that occurs in patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in which retinal capillaries proliferate and invade posteriorly into the choroid. RAP lesions have a characteristic appearance of finger like projections at the level of the outer retina which can resemble inflammatory neovascularization. This case report describes a patient with RAP who received consecutive intravitreal injections of aflibercept....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410023
Incidence of Ocular Hypertension Following Silicone Oil Use after Vitrectomy Surgery
Ashiyana Nariani, Nitasha Khanna, Arthi Chawla, Rominder Momi, Anna Gabrielian and Seenu M. Hariprasad
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 14, 2015
Background and objective: Silicone oil (SO) is important in vitreoretinal surgery. The incidence of glaucoma after silicone oil tamponade (SOT) was investigated. Study design/patients and methods: A retrospective chart review of patients with SOT at the University of Chicago from 2005 to 2008 was conducted to determine the incidence of Silicone Oil Induced Ocular Hypertension (SOIOH). IOP in the SOIOH and SOIOH free groups was compared with the paired t-test....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410022
Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Complications
Sergio Rojas J MD, Jorge A Sanchez R MD , Adriana Saucedo C MD, Benito Celis S MD, Carla R Perez M MD, Itzel Espinosa S MD, Araceli Rojas D MD, Angeles Hernandez V MD, Arthur Levine B MD, and J Abel Ramirez E MD
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 11, 2015
The use of antiangiogenic drugs (anti-VEGF) has been described in several retinal diseases, so their use has become a common practice in most eye centers around the world. Since its application involves an invasive procedure, several complications have been described associated with their use, including from subconjunctival hemorrhage to devastate endophthalmitis....