The effect of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization in lumbar disc herniation: A randomized controlled trial.

Aim: To investigate the effect of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization technique on pain, joint range of motion, functionality and quality of life in patients with lumbar disc herniation.

Methods: This is a double blinded, randomized controlled trial. A total of 60 patients were randomly allocated to either an experimental group [n = 30, age = 46.

The radioprotective effect of Nigella sativa on nitrosative stress in lens tissue in radiation-induced cataract in rat.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant and radioprotective effects of Nigella sativa oil (NSO) and thymoquinone (TQ) against ionizing radiation-induced cataracts in lens after total cranium irradiation (IR) of rats with a single dose of 5 gray (Gy).

Materials And Methods: Seventy-four Sprague-Dawley rats were used for the experiment. The rats were randomly divided into six groups.

Differences of the anterior segment parameters in children with down syndrome.

Purpose: The study was undertaken to investigate whether anterior segment findings are different in children with Down syndrome (DS) to normal children and to focus on its clinical significance.

Methods: A cross-sectional case control study was conducted in a total of 38 children with DS and 42 healthy children. This is the first report in the literature stating that.

Ocular findings in children with thalassemia major in Eastern Mediterranean.

Aim: To investigate ophthalmologic findings in children with thalassemia major (TM) and compare the findings with healthy controls.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 43 children with thalassemia major from pediatric hematology outpatient clinics from two university hospitals and age/sex matched 47 healthy children were included in the study. After a complete ophthalmic examination, tear function tests including the Schirmer test, fluorescein tear break-up time (BUT), ultrasound pachymetry, and axial length measurement were performed.

Effect of breast feeding on ocular morbidity.

Background: To evaluate the effect of human milk on ocular morbidity in infants who did not breast feed during the first 6 months of life.

Material And Methods: This retrospective randomized study included 154 subjects who were first or second grade elementary school students, 66-84 month of age. These children were randomly selected from 2080 students during health screenings.

Laterality does not affect the depth perception, but interpupillary distance.

In this study, which investigates the relationship between the levels of stereopsis with eye and hand dominance or interpupillary distance, 120 healthy young volunteers were investigated. Eye dominance was determined by modified Miles technique following a complete eye examination. Handedness was assessed with the Edinburgh handedness inventory.

Pain and cooperation in patients having dominant-side or nondominant-side phacoemulsification.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between laterality and perceived pain and cooperation during phacoemulsification under combined topical and intracameral anesthesia.

Setting: University ophthalmology clinic and eye hospital, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.

Design: Cohort study.

Zinc administration modulates radiation-induced oxidative injury in lens of rat.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant role of zinc (Zn) against radiation-induced cataract in the rat lens after total cranial irradiation with a single 5 Gray (Gy) dose of gamma irradiation.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-one Sprague-Dawley rats were used for the experiment. The control group did not receive Zn or irradiation but received 1-ml saline orally plus sham-irradiation.

Horner's syndrome following a subtotal thyroidectomy for a benign nodular goitre.

We present a case of Horner's syndrome occurring as a complication of thyroidectomy. A 42-year-old female patient presented with eyelid drop which developed immediately after thyroidectomy for goitre. Ophthalmic examination revealed eyelid ptosis, miosis and anhidrosis.

Use of topical anesthetic and non-medical alternatives in welding workers regarding ophthalmic problems.

Purpose: Welding workers' ophthalmic problems resulting from their professions are frequently observed in ophthalmic emergencies and can cause severe visual impairment. We aimed to investigate the use of topical anesthetic and non-medical alternatives of this population regarding ophthalmic problems in this study.

Materials And Methods: The study included 204 welding workers randomly selected from a population of 1852 people who had at least one-year experience as a welding worker and who were members of a chamber of welding workers.

Preventable visual impairment in children with nonprofound intellectual disability.

Purpose: To assess the preventable visual impairment in children with nonprofound intellectual disability (ID). 


Methods: A total of 215 children with IDs (90 Down syndrome [DS], 125 nonprofound ID) and 116 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. All participants underwent ophthalmologic examinations including cycloplegic refraction measurements, ocular movement evaluation, screening for strabismus (Hirschberg, Krimsky, or prism cover test), slit-lamp biomicroscopy, funduscopy, and intraocular pressure measurements.

Topical proparacaine abuse resulting in evisceration.

A 72-year-old man was admitted to our clinic because of pain in the right eye. Corneal oedema, peripheral anterior synechiae formation and intraocular lens were determined in the right eye. The left eye was normal except for nuclear sclerosis.

Comparison of wide conjunctival flap and conjunctival autografting techniques in pterygium surgery.

Pterygium is an abnormal fibrovascular tissue extending on the cornea which is a degenerative and hyperplastic disorder. A stromal overgrowth of fibroblast and blood vessels is accompanied by an inflammatory cell infiltrate and abnormal extracellular matrix accumulation. The surgical excision is the main treatment method of pterygium, but recurrence is the most common postoperative complication.

Ophthalmic findings in acute mercury poisoning in adults: A case series study.

The aim of this study is to report ophthalmic findings of acute mercury poisoning in 48 adults referred to emergency department. Full ophthalmologic examination including the best corrected visual acuity, external eye examination, reaction to light, a slit-lamp examination, funduscopy, intraocular pressure measurements, and visual field (VF) and color vision (CV) tests were performed at the presentation and repeated after 6 months. The parametric values of VF test, the mean deviation (MD), and pattern standard deviation (PSD) were recorded in order to compare patients and the 30 healthy controls.

The results of switching between 2 anti-VEGF drugs, bevacizumab and ranibizumab, in the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To report the results of switching from intravitreal bevacizumab to ranibizumab or vice versa in the treatment of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) due to age-related macular degeneration.

Methods: Twenty eyes of 18 patients that underwent switch from intravitreal bevacizumab to ranibizumab and 10 eyes of 8 patients that underwent switch from ranibizumab to bevacizumab were retrospectively analyzed. The results were compared with 41 eyes of 37 patients treated with ranibizumab only.

Lens capsule-related problems in patients undergoing phacoemulsification surgery.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare lens capsule-related problems in mature versus non-mature senile cataracts in patients undergoing phacoemulsification surgery.

Methods: A total of 295 patients with senile cataract were divided into two groups according to lens maturation: 105 patients with mature senile cataract comprised Group 1 (study group) and the remaining 190 with non-mature senile cataract comprised Group 2 (control group). Prior to surgery, ophthalmological examination was undertaken.

The pain experience and cooperation of patients in consecutive cataract surgery.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the pain experience and the cooperation of patients during consecutive cataract surgery.

Methods: In this prospective, randomized study, 60 consecutive adult patients with bilateral senile cataracts were recruited. All operations were performed with clear corneal phacoemulsification (phaco) technique under topical and intracameral anesthesia without sedation.