Acute and chronic effects of soccer game on the retinal vessel diameters in middle-aged adults.

Background: Although changes in retinal vessel diameter is a new biomarker for the evaluation of cardiovascular risk factors, limited information is available regarding the effects of endurance exercises on retinal microcirculation. Thus, we aimed to evaluate both chronic and acute effects of soccer game on the diameters of retinal vessels in middle-aged players.

Methods: Retinal vessel diameters were measured in 12 middle-aged amateur players (44.

Morphometric parameters of the optic disc in normal and glaucomatous eyes based on time-domain optical coherence tomography image analysis.

Background And Objective: Assessment of optic disc morphology is essential in diagnosis and management of visual impairment. The aim of this study was to evaluate associations between optic disc morphometric parameters, i.e.

Coats' retinitis or retinoblastoma in a 3-year-old girl: a case report.

Coats' disease is an idiopathic disorder defined by an abnormal development of retinal vessels with a progressive deposition of intraretinal or subretinal exudates, leading to exudative retinal detachment. The most difficult task is to differentiate Coats' disease from retinoblastoma. We present a rare case of Coats' disease diagnosed in a 3-year-old girl.

Algorithms and results of eye tissues differentiation based on RF ultrasound.

Algorithms and software were developed for analysis of B-scan ultrasonic signals acquired from commercial diagnostic ultrasound system. The algorithms process raw ultrasonic signals in backscattered spectrum domain, which is obtained using two time-frequency methods: short-time Fourier and Hilbert-Huang transformations. The signals from selected regions of eye tissues are characterized by parameters: B-scan envelope amplitude, approximated spectral slope, approximated spectral intercept, mean instantaneous frequency, mean instantaneous bandwidth, and parameters of Nakagami distribution characterizing Hilbert-Huang transformation output.

Correlations between digital planimetry and optical coherence tomography, confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in assessment of optic disc parameters.

Objective And Aim: In routine clinical practice, laser methods for the evaluation of optic disc parameters are expensive and not accessible for all ophthalmologists; therefore, there is a need for less expensive technique. The aim of this study was to assess correlations between the parameters of the optic disc measured by digital planimetry (DP), optical coherence tomography (OCT), and confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (CSLO) in healthy and glaucoma patients with the normal biometric parameters of the eye.

Material And Methods: This case-control study enrolled 40 patients with glaucoma and 32 healthy patients with the normal biometric parameters of the eye.