Articles

Evaluation of molecular diagnosis in fungal keratitis. Ten years of experience

The aims of this study were to assess the utility of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in diagnosing fungal keratitis in the last decade in our center and to review the molecular diagnosis of mycotic keratitis.

Authors: Consuelo Ferrer and Jorge L. Alió

A retrospective review of oral low-dose sirolimus (rapamycin) for the treatment of active uveitis

The purpose of this study is to elicit the role of oral low-dose sirolimus as a corticosteriod-sparing agent for active uveitis.

Authors: Brandon N. Phillips and Keith J. Wroblewski

Surgical outcomes of uveitic glaucoma

Secondary glaucoma is a difficult and frequent complication of uveitis. The aim of this study is to describe the results of surgery in uveitic glaucoma and to identify situations linked to a high risk of failu...

Authors: Ester Carreño, Sonia Villarón, Alejandro Portero, José M. Herreras, José A. Maquet and Margarita Calonge

Vascular co-option in lung cancer metastatic to the eye after treatment with bevacizumab

Chemotherapy with bevacizumab alters the angiogenic environment, and therefore, the growth and spread of metastases. We present a patient with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma to the eye with findings suggestive...

Authors: Efrem D. Mandelcorn, Alan G. Palestine, Sandor Dubovy and Janet L. Davis

Remembering Professor David BenEzra, M.D., Ph.D., 1942–2008

Authors: Igal Gery and Jorge L. Alio

Diagnosis of tubercular uveitis by quantitative polymerase chain reaction

To report the use of real-time or quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) in confirming the diagnosis of tubercular uveitis.

Authors: Pooja Sharma, Reema Bansal, Vishali Gupta and Amod Gupta

Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection: why a new journal on ocular inflammation?

Authors: Narsing A. Rao

Dark hypopyon in Streptococcus bovis endogenous endophthalmitis: clinicopathologic correlations

The aim of this report is to present a previously unreported causative organism associated with brown-pigmented hypopyon in a patient with endophthalmitis.

Authors: Adam Hauch, Dean Eliott, Narsing A. Rao, Daniel V. Vasconcelos-Santos, Thomas O’Hearn and Amani A. Fawzi

Oxidative photoreceptor cell damage in autoimmune uveitis

Uveitis comprises an extensive array of intraocular inflammatory diseases and often results in irreversible visual loss. Experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) is an animal model used to study human uveitis. Bo...

Authors: Angeline M. Nguyen and Narsing A. Rao