Journal Reviews

Steroid implants in the treatment of post-epiretinal membrane peel macular oedema

1 February 2018 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | Central retinal thickness, Dexamethasone implant, Fluocinolone acetonide implant, Intravitreal steroid implants, Long-term outcome, Macular pucker surgery, Membrane peeling, Pars plana vitrectomy, Persistent macular edema

This is a retrospective review of 39 eyes of 37 patients treated with Ozurdex® (intravitreal dexamethasone implant) for persistent post-operative cystoid macular oedema (CMO) following vitrectomy and idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM) peeling. The 0.7mg implant was injected in each eye...

Nicotine accelerates diabetes induced retinal changes

1 June 2015 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | Diabetes, SD-OCT, SLO, neurons, nicotine, retinal thickness

This study investigated the influence of nicotine in an experimentally induced diabetic rat model. They used non-invasive high-resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) imaging to provide quantitative information on the temporal alterations of retinal structures at the micrometer resolution...