Epidemiological Surveillance of Eye Disease and People Awareness in the Abruzzo Region, Italy.

: Vision impairments and related blindness are major public health problems. The prevalence of eye disease and barriers to optimal care markedly vary among different geographic areas. In the Abruzzo region (central Italy), an epidemiological surveillance on the state of ocular health in the population aged over 50 years was performed in 2019.

Morphology and Function over a One-Year Follow Up Period after Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant (Ozurdex) in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema.

Background: To investigate changes in macular morphology and function after an intravitreal dexamethasone implant for diabetic macular edema (DME).

Methods: Twenty-seven eyes in 27 treatment-naive patients affected by DME were treated with intravitreal Ozurdex® injections (IVOI) and followed up 12 months to evaluate morphological and functional changes by means of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), microperimetry (MP1), multifocal electroretinography (mfERG), pattern electroretinography (PERG) and spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Results: Both BCVA and retinal sensitivity improved significantly at one month after the IVOI (p = 0.

Assessment of retinal function before and after idiopathic macular hole surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate preoperative and postoperative retinal function in patients who underwent macular surgery for idiopathic macular hole.

Design: Prospective, comparative, interventional case series.

Methods: Thirty eyes of 30 patients with idiopathic macular hole were included in the study.

SD-OCT imaging of idiopathic macular holes with spontaneous closure.

Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography serial changes in three cases of spontaneous closure of idiopathic macular hole at stages II, III, and IV are described. Initial and serial spectral-domain optical coherence tomography images document the progressive closure. Macular holes apparently resolved spontaneously through two different mechanisms: posterior hyaloid detachment in case 1 and a contraction of epiretinal macular membrane in cases 2 and 3.

Mydriasis induced by sub-Tenon's ropivacaine injection in patients undergoing strabismus surgery.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of sub-Tenon's capsule ropivacaine injection on pupillary diameter in strabismus surgery.

Methods: A total of 16 patients were randomly assigned to 2 groups. The ropivacaine group (R) received sub-Tenon's ropivacaine 1% (2.

Macular functional changes evaluated with MP-1 microperimetry after intravitreal bevacizumab for subfoveal myopic choroidal neovascularization: one-year results.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate 1-year functional and structural effects of intravitreal bevacizumab for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to pathologic myopia (myopic choroidal neovascularization).

Methods: Fifteen eyes with myopic choroidal neovascularization participated in this prospective interventional, noncomparative case series. All patients were treated with one intravitreal injection of 1.