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Borkar et al studied whether cytotoxic and invasive Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains differentially influence clinical presentation, outcomes, or therapeutic response in bacterial keratitis. Isolates were subtyped as cytotoxic or invasive, and change in visual acuity was compared at 3 months. See editorial by Jones.

Thompson and coauthors evaluate the efficacy of the 175-mm2 Molteno3 implant in patients with nonneovascular glaucoma.

Noma et al evaluate vitreous fluid levels of 7 inflammatory factors and macular edema in 39 patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) compared with 21 patients with idiopathic macular hole.

In a retrospective data analysis, Fabian et al assess the outcome and risk factors for failure of pneumatic retinopexy in eyes with primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in 276 eyes of 271 patients treated from January 1, 2000, through June 30, 2011, at the Goldschleger Eye Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel.

In a retrospective case series, Watanabe et al determine the relationship between the morphology of the fovea and visual acuity in patients with an untreated idiopathic epiretinal membrane.

McAnany and colleagues evaluated changes in visual acuity (VA) over time in 43 patients with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and mutations in the CEP290 gene.

Dorn and colleagues investigated the ability of 28 blind subjects implanted with a 60-electrode Argus II retinal prosthesis system to detect the direction of a moving object.

Kushner identified patients in whom rectus muscle transposition for pattern strabismus worsened torsion or transposition for torsion worsened pattern strabismus and suggests guidelines for how to avoid such occurrences.