2002 - Volume C (v.100)

Papers

LONG-TERM RISK OF LOCAL FAILURE AFTER PROTON THERAPY FOR CHOROIDAL/CILIARY BODY MELANOMA
Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD, Anne Marie Lane, MPH (BY INVITATION), John Munzenrider, MD (BY INVITATION), Kathleen M. Egan, ScD (BY INVITATION), and Wenjun Li, MS (BY INVITATION)

SUTURING TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROL OF POSTKERATOPLASTY ASTIGMATISM AND MYOPIA
Dilek Dursun, MD (BY INVITATION), Richard K. Forster, MD, and William J. Feuer, MS (BY INVITATION)

THE DEHISCENT HUGHES FLAP: OUTCOMES AND IMPLICATIONS
George B. Bartley, MD and Marlene M. Messenger (BY INVITATION)

ENDOPHTHALMITIS IN PATIENTS WITH DISSEMINATED FUNGAL DISEASE
Stephen S. Feman, MD, John C. Nichols, MD (BY INVITATION), Sophia M. Chung, MD (BY INVITATION), and Todd A. Theobald, MD (BY INVITATION)

TETRATHIOMOLYBDATE AS AN ANTIANGIOGENESIS THERAPY FOR SUBFOVEAL CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION SECONDARY TO AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION
Andrew K. Vine, MD and George J. Brewer, MD (BY INVITATION)

SURGICAL APPROACHES TO THE MANAGEMENT OF EPITHELIAL CYSTS
Julia A. Haller, MD, Walter J. Stark, MD, Amr Azab, MD (BY INVITATION), Robert W. Thomsen, MD (BY INVITATION), and John D. Gottsch, MD

MULTICENTER PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-MASKED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY OF RHEOPHERESIS TO TREAT NONEXUDATIVE AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION: INTERIM ANALYSIS
The Multicenter Investigation of Rheopheresis for AMD (MIRA-1) Study Group (BY INVITATION), and Jose S. Pulido, MD, MS

PROJECTED IMPACT OF TRAVOPROST VERSUS BOTH TIMOLOL AND LATANOPROST ON VISUAL FIELD DEFICIT PROGRESSION AND COSTS AMONG BLACK GLAUCOMA SUBJECTS
Michael T. Halpern, MD, PhD (BY INVITATION), David W. Covert, MBA (BY INVITATION), and Alan L. Robin, MD

ACTIVATED SATELLITE CELLS ARE PRESENT IN UNINJURED EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLES OF MATURE MICE
Linda K. McLoon, PhD (BY INVITATION) and Jonathan Wirtschafter, MD

TOXICITY AND DOSE-RESPONSE STUDIES OF 1-HYDROXYVITAMIN D 2 IN LH-TAG TRANSGENIC MICE
Daniel G. Dawson, MD (BY INVITATION), Joel Gleiser, MD (BY INVITATION), Michele L. Zimbric, BS (BY INVITATION), Soesiawaiti R. Darjatmoko, MS (BY INVITATION), Jared C. Frisbie (BY INVITATION), Janice M. Lokken (BY INVITATION), Mary J. Lindstrom, PhD (BY INVITATION), Isabelle Audo, MD (BY INVITATION), Stephen A. Strugnell, PhD (BY INVITATION), and Daniel M. Albert, MD, MS

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING BASED ON DATA FROM GDx: ONE-YEAR OBSERVATIONS
James C. Bobrow, MD

BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AFTER SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE TO ANTIBIOTICS
Thomas O. Wood, MD, Harold Dickson, PhD (BY INVITATION), Vickie A. Nix (BY INVITATION), and Danielle Hamilton (BY INVITATION)

LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF LASIK FOR THE CORRECTION OF REFRACTIVE ERRORS AFTER PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY
David R. Hardten, MD (BY INVITATION), Anuwat Chittcharus, MD (BY INVITATION), and Richard L. Lindstrom, MD

VITREOUS PENETRATION OF ORALLY ADMINISTERED GATIFLOXACIN IN HUMANS
Seenu M. Hariprasad, MD (BY INVITATION), William F. Mieler, MD, and Eric R. Holz, MD (BY INVITATION)

ASSESSMENT OF THE RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER OF THE NORMAL AND GLAUCOMATOUS MONKEY WITH SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY
Robert N. Weinreb, MD, Christopher Bowd, PhD (BY INVITATION), and Linda M. Zangwill, PhD (BY INVITATION)

A VERY LARGE BRAZILIAN PEDIGREE WITH 11778 LEBER'S HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY
Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Valerio Carelli, MD, PhD, (BY INVITATION), Solange R. Salomao, PhD, (BY INVITATION), Adriana Berezovsky, PhD, (BY INVITATION), Peter Quiros, MD, (BY INVITATION), Federico Sadun, MD, (BY INVITATION), Anna-Maria DeNegri, MD, (BY INVITATION), Rafael Andrade, MD, (BY INVITATION), Stan Schein, MD, PhD, (BY INVITATION), and Rubens Belfort, MD, PhD, (BY INVITATION)

THE DISC DAMAGE LIKELIHOOD SCALE: REPRODUCIBILITY OF A NEW METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE AMOUNT OF OPTIC NERVE DAMAGE CAUSED BY GLAUCOMA
George L. Spaeth, MD, Jeffrey Henderer, MD (BY INVITATION), Connie Liu, BA (BY INVITATION), Muge Kesen, MD (BY INVITATION), Undraa Altangerel, MD (BY INVITATION), Atilla Bayer, MD (BY INVITATION), L. Jay Katz, MD (BY INVITATION), Jonathan Myers, MD (BY INVITATION), Douglas Rhee, MD (BY INVITATION), and William Steinmann, MD (BY INVITATION)

EVOLUTION OF THE TAPETUM
Ivan R. Schwab, MD, Carlton K. Yuen, BS (BY INVITATION), Nedim C. Buyukmihci, VMD (BY INVITATION), Thomas N. Blankenship, PhD (BY INVITATION), and Paul G. Fitzgerald, PhD (BY INVITATION)

ANGLE CLOSURE IN YOUNGER PATIENTS
Brian M. Chang, MD (BY INVITATION), Jeffrey M. Liebmann, MD (BY INVITATION), and Robert Ritch, MD

DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL (THC) IN THE TREATMENT OF END-STAGE OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA
Allan J. Flach, MD


DIAGNOSTIC TRANSVITREAL FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY OF SMALL MELANOCYTIC CHOROIDAL TUMORS IN NEVUS VERSUS MELANOMA CATEGORY
James J. Augsburger, MD, Zélia M. Corrêa, MD (BY INVITATION), Susan Schneider, MD (BY INVITATION), Rawia S. Yassin, MD (BY INVITATION), Toni Robinson-Smith, MD (BY INVITATION), Hormoz Ehya, MD (BY INVITATION), and Nikolaos Trichopoulos, MD (BY INVITATION)


Theses


THE USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES IN OPHTHALMOLOGY: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN CORNEAL PRESERVATION AND THE MANAGEMENT OF BACTERIAL KERATITIS

Mark J. Mannis, MD, FACS

2-DEOXY-D-GLUCOSE UPTAKE IN THE INNER RETINA: AN IN VIVO STUDY IN THE NORMAL RAT AND FOLLOWING PHOTORECEPTOR DEGENERATION
David J. Wilson, MD

PROGRESSION OF VISUAL FIELD LOSS IN UNTREATED GLAUCOMA PATIENTS AND SUSPECTS IN ST LUCIA, WEST INDIES
M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS

DIABETES-INDUCED DYSFUNCTION OF RETINAL MÜLLER CELLS
Donald G. Puro, MD, PhD

ANALYSIS OF THE KERATOCYTE APOPTOSIS, KERATOCYTE PROLIFERATION, AND MYOFIBROBLAST TRANSFORMATION RESPONSES AFTER PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY AND LASER IN SITU KERATOMILEUSIS
Steven E. Wilson, MD

HUMAN RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL LYSIS OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX: FUNCTIONAL UROKINASE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR RECEPTOR, COLLAGENASE, AND ELASTASE
Susan G. Elner, MD


RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL ACID LIPASE ACTIVITY AND LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTORS: EFFECTS OF DIETARY OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS
Victor M. Elner, MD, PhD


Posters
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OCULAR ADNEXAL LYMPHOID PROLIFERATIONS: CLINICAL, HISTOLOGIC, FLOW CYTOMETRIC, AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF FORTY-THREE CASES
Nariman Sharara, MD (BY INVITATION), Jeannine T. Holden, MD (BY INVITATION), Ted H. Wojno, MD (BY INVITATION), Andrew S. Feinberg, MD (BY INVITATION), and Hans E. Grossniklaus, MD

RECURRENT CAPSULAR OPACITY AND ERYTHROPOIETIN
James S. Kelley, MD

COMBINED CENTRAL RETINAL ARTERY AND VEIN OCCLUSION AND SIMULTANEOUS ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY FROM BEHCET'S DISEASE
Rohit R. Lakhanpal, MD (BY INVITATION), Vinod Lakhanpal, MD, Shalom E. Kelman, MD (BY INVITATION), and Stanley S. Schocket, MD

THE RELATION OF PREOPERATIVE CORNEAL ASTIGMATISM TO SURGICALLY INDUCED ASTIGMATISM AFTER CATARACT SURGERY
John C. Merriam, MD, Lei Zheng (BY INVITATION), Joanna Merriam (BY INVITATION), and Marco Zaider (BY INVITATION)

A NEURO-OPHTHALMIC ILLUSION
Brian R. Younge, MD