Complications in Ophthalmology

Dear Colleagues,

Complications is a novel journal specifically dealing with the causes and management of complications occurring in medicine and surgery. The improvement in the way that we cure our patients relies on a few factors. Good medical practice is something that we start learning at university; it progressively improves thanks to clinical and surgical experience and the insights gained from high-quality literature. Yet, mistakes are an inevitable part of our professional life, and they may be a potential source of amelioration for us and our colleagues if honestly admitted and critically analyzed. While data from clinical trials and critical revisions are largely available, a relatively small space is allocated to report our complications. This is particularly true in ophthalmology.

The recent progress on the management of eye diseases is really surprising. We are now able to fix a very dense cataract, a severe increase in intraocular pressure or a macular pucker in a few minutes; the patient is discharged after a few hours, and the problem is definitively sorted out in most cases. Most corneal grafts performed today will never fail, and the patients have incredibly high expectations even from a refractive viewpoint! The improved technology supports us in making the correct diagnosis and providing the correct treatment for severe conditions. Nonetheless, complications still occur, and their impacts on patients’ quality of life have paradoxically increased together with the increase in patient expectations. Many treatment-related complications are related to politherapy and are potentiated by the progressively increasing age of the population.

In this Special Issue, we will focus on the ophthalmic complications arising from medical treatment, the unpredicted courses of eye diseases or surgery of the anterior and posterior segment, and adnexa and orbit. All contributions (case reports, case series, reviews on medical or surgical management) are welcome, provided that full intellectual honesty is assured in reporting the complications noted, as well as possible prevention strategies, diagnoses, etiologies, management plans, and consequences related to eye complications.

Prof. Dr. Paolo Fogagnolo
Prof. Dr. Diego Strianese
Prof. Dr. Antonio Ferreras
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Complications is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• eye surgery
• iatrogenic damage
• anterior segment of the eye
• posterior segment of the eye
• cataract surgery
• adnexa
• orbital surgery
• ophthalmoplastics