{"title":"[Patient-reported Outcomes after Laser In Situ Keratomileusis Surgery].","authors":"Osamu Hieda, Yo Nakamura, Koichi Wakimasu, Kiyoshi Yamamura, Yoshimi Suzukamo, Shigeru Kinoshita","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To evaluate patient-reported quality of vision before and after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery.</p><p><strong>Subjects and methods: </strong>This study involved 140 patients who underwent LASIK surgery at Baptist Eye Clinic, Kyoto, Japan. Each patient was asked to respond to the Refractive Status and Vision Profile (RSVP) questionnaire prior to surgery and at 6-months and 5.5-years postoperative. In each patient, we defined the eye with better uncorrected visual acuity (VA) or with less refractive error as the better eye, and the other eye as the worse eye.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Even in the worse eyes, the percentage of eyes with an uncorrected VA of decimal 0.5 or greater was 93.5% at 6-months and 88.6% at 5.5-ears postoperative. The mean preoperative total RSVP score was 37.1, yet that score significantly improved at 6-months postoperative (p< 0 .001) and remained the same throughout the 5.5-year follow-up period. CCONCLUSION The patient-reported quality of vi-ion post LASIK surgery was improved and remained improved throughout the 5.5-year follow-up period.</p>","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 5","pages":"390-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34585040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Long-term Outcomes in Eyes Receiving of Bevacizumab Early in the Course of Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion].","authors":"Masanori Setta, Shiro Ozaki, Akio Tabuchi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To evaluate the effects of intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) injections early in the course of branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).</p><p><strong>Patients and methods: </strong>We conducted a retrospective review of 30 patients (30 eyes) with macular edema (ME) secondary to BRVO. The mean duration from the onset to the first IVB injection was 5 weeks. The mean observation period was 30 months. All patients were followed monthly, with administration of additional IVB injections if there was persistent or recurrent ME within 6 months after the first injection. The main outcome parameter was best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at 12 and 24 months. Rescue therapy including laser photocoagulation was done as needed.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>Mean BCVA improved significantly from logMAR 0.59 ± 0.24 at baseline to 0.04 ± 0.15 (p < 0.001)at 12 month, 0.06 ± 0.19(p < 0.001)at 24 month.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>IVB injections given shortly after onset of branch retinal vein occlusion may result in a significant increase in vision in some patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 5","pages":"396-402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34585042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The 39th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Ophthalmic Surgery].","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 5","pages":"403-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34585041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuki Katabami, Rei Sakata, Megumi Honjo, Jiro Numaga
{"title":"[Foreign Body in the Anterior Chamber 10 Months after Uneventful Cataract Surgery].","authors":"Yuki Katabami, Rei Sakata, Megumi Honjo, Jiro Numaga","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>A foreign body detected in the anterior chamber 10 months after uneventful sutureless cataract surgery.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>Clear corneal phacoemulsification and intraocular lens placement (PEA + IOL) were performed on a 74-year-old man suffering from vision loss caused by senile cataracts. After uneventful surgery, the postoperative course appeared to be problem-free.</p><p><strong>Observation: </strong>However, 10 months after the operation, the patient reported blurred vision. Slit-lamp examination revealed an oil droplet, reminiscent of a foreign body, about 1 mm in diameter, on the IOL surface. The visual acuity problem did not become exacerbated and the anterior segment of the eye remained intact. Although we removed the foreign body, qualitative testing was impossible because the body disintegrated.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A rare case of a foreign body in the anterior chamber 10 months after uneventful PEA + IOL. We are of the view that the body may have been composed of ophthalmic ointment delivered from the conjunctival sac at the end of surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 4","pages":"310-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34414621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Indication and Efficacy of Amniotic Membrane Transplantation Performed under Advanced Medical Healthcare].","authors":"Keisuke Morikawa, Chie Sotozono, Tsutomu Inatomi, Takahiro Nakamura, Norihiko Yokoi, Yasutoshi Matsuo, Shigeru Kinoshita","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To survey indications and outcomes of amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) performed under Advanced Medical Healthcare (AMH) in Japan.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Questionnaires were sent to 21 facilities performing AMT under AMH from 2010-2012. Diagnosis, effectiveness, and final outcomes were surveyed. Moreover, we retrospectively examined the diagnosis, treatment effectiveness, and final outcomes in all AMTs performed under AMH at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (KPUM) from April 2009 through June 2013.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Clinical data of 311 eyes that underwent AMT under AMH was obtained. Of those, diagnoses included pterygium (n = 148), corneal ulcer/epithelial defect (n = 60), corneal perforation (n = 28), intractable glaucoma (n = 24), and others (n = 51). The surgical outcome was completely or partially successful in 287 eyes (92.3%). The final outcome was effective in 281 eyes (90.4%). A total of 45 eyes of 37 patients underwent AMT under AMH at KPUM. Of those, diagnoses included pterygium (n = 15), recurrence of pterygium (n = 27), and symblepharon (n = 3). The surgical outcome was completely successful in 98% and partially successful in 2%. The final outcome was effective in all cases.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>AMT performed under AMH in Japan was most common in eyes with pterygium, and was highly effective in these cases, as well as corneal ulcer/epithelial defect, corneal perforation, and intractable glaucoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 4","pages":"291-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34414618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Stereoacuity in Glaucoma Patients].","authors":"Tomoko Yoshikawa, Yoshitaka Nakao, Yoshiaki Kiuchi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Studies report that glaucoma significantly affects stereoacuity. We investigated the stereoacuity in glaucoma and preperimetric glaucoma patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The near stereoacuity in glaucoma patients and preperimetric glaucoma patients was evaluated using Titmus stereo test, and distance stereoacuity was evaluated using Distance Randot stereotest.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found a significant reduction both in near and in distance stereoacuity in the glaucoma group compared with the control group, but the difference between the preperimetric glaucoma group and the control group were not significant. We observed a trend of decrease in near stereoacuity with increase in age and increased number of central scotoma cases, as well as a trend of decrease in distance stereoacuity with increased age.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The near and distance stereoacuity in glaucoma patients was significantly impaired. Our results suggest that visual field damage within the central 5 degrees may affect the near stereoacuity in glaucoma patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 4","pages":"303-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34414620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Epidemiological Study of Poor Visual Acuity among Schoolchildren in Bonin Islands].","authors":"Misae Ito, Kimiya Shimizu, Takushi Kawamorita, Nobuyuki Shoji","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To investigate the change in uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) among schoolchildren in Bonin Islands.</p><p><strong>Subjects and methods: </strong>UCVA of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14 years, was collected from reports of School Health Examination Surveys conducted from 1981 to 2012. The proportion of schoolchildren with poor UCVA in the Bonin Islands was compared with those in metropolitan Tokyo. The results in Bonin Islands were also divided into two groups, before- and after-1996 when terrestrial television broadcasting service has been started, and the data of those two groups were compared.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The proportion of schoolchildren with poor UCVA in Bonin Islands was lower than that in Tokyo. Among the residents of Bonin Islands, the proportion of schoolchildren with UCVA of < 1.0 was higher in the after-1996 group than in the before- 1996 group, with a clear increase in schoolchildren with poor UCVA after 1996 (p < 0.01, Fisher's exact test), examined among the 4th grade of elementary school or above. After 1996, 26.6% of first graders at a public junior high school had poor UCVA of < 0.7, whereas before 1996 no such case could be detected.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present study revealed that the proportions of schoolchildren with poor UCVA in Bonin Islands was lower than that in Tokyo; but in the residents of Bonin Islands after 1996, the proportion of the schoolchildren with poor UCVA increased.</p>","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 4","pages":"296-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34414619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Advanced Medical Healthcare in Ophthalmic Medical Care].","authors":"Akito Hirakata","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19670,"journal":{"name":"Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi","volume":"120 4","pages":"289-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34414617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}