Diffuse Corneal Edema after Uneventful Pterygium Surgery: Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome or Toxic Keratopathy?

A 29-year-old woman was referred to our department for corneal edema after uneventful pterygium excision surgery with conjunctival autografting. She was prescribed topical dexamethasone and showed a complete response within 2 weeks of treatment. Specular microscopic examination revealed severe endothelial cell loss in the operated eye.

Evaluation of risk factors for complications after colostomy closure.

Objective: The goal of the study is to describe postoperative complications observed after colostomy reversal and to define possible risk factor(s) for complication.s after colostomy closure PATIENTS-METHODS: Patients who underwent colostomy closure in Department of General Surgery, Dr Lutfi Kirdar Kartal Education and Research Hospital between January 2007 and January 2015 were enrolled. Patients with double-barrel ileo-colostomy, Devine's colostomy and tube cecostomy were excluded from study.

Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty vs. Fixed Combinations with Timolol in Practice: A Replacement Study in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma.

Objectives: To evaluate the potential of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) in two arms (360˚ vs. 180˚) as a replacement for fixed combinations (FCs) with timolol in primary open angle glaucoma over 6 months.

Materials And Methods: Of 40 patients in a prospective, comparative, interventional case series, 18 eyes and 22 eyes were randomized to SLT 180º and SLT 360º groups, respectively, along with 40 fellow-control eyes.

Analysis of the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute expert decisions on recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries due to thyroidectomy between 2008-2012.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the approach of Forensic Medicine Institution for recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries. In addition, parameters that were taken into consideration by Forensic Medicine Institution in the differentiation of complication and malpractice were evaluated.

Material And Methods: The files of 38 patients, with recurrent laryngeal nerve injury following thyroidectomy, that were referred to Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute with request of expert opinion between 2008-2012 were retrospectively investigated.

Approach of forensic medicine to gossypiboma.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the risk factors and preventive measures for gossypibomas and their medico-legal implications in forensic medicine in the Turkish legal system.

Material And Methods: This study involved a retrospective analysis of the records of 39 patients with gossypiboma. Records were available from the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institution and were surveyed for faulty treatment between 2008 and 2012.

The Course of the Changes in Anterior Chamber Parameters After Laser Peripheral Iridotomy: Follow-up for 6 Months With a Scheimpflug-Placido Disc Topographer.

Purpose: To evaluate the course of the changes in anterior chamber (AC) parameters using a Scheimpflug-Placido disc topographer before and through 6 months after laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI).

Materials And Methods: A total of 109 eyes of 56 consecutive patients classified as primary angle closure suspect (PACS), primary angle closure (PAC), and primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) were included in this prospective, interventional, observational case series. Anterior chamber volume (ACV), central anterior chamber depth (CACD), and anterior chamber angle (ACA) were measured by Scheimpflug photography preoperatively and at 1, 3, and 6 months after LPI.

Comparison of two laser capsulotomy techniques: cruciate versus circular.

Purpose: To compare the safety and efficacy of two Nd: YAG laser capsulotomy techniques.

Methods: In this prospective comparative interventional case series, 60 eyes of 57 patients with posterior capsular opacification were enrolled. Thirty eyes were selected to undergo a cruciate capsulotomy (Cross group) and the other 30 eyes were selected to undergo a circular capsulotomy (Circular group).

The retrospective documentation of legal cases with bile duct injury that were submitted for consideration to İstanbul Forensic Medicine Institute by the courts between 2008-2012.

Objective: The aim was to evaluate the parameters that were considered by Forensic Medicine in bile duct injury as well as the issues that the physicians were found to be faulty.

Material And Methods: The following parameters were investigated in 21 files that were referred to Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute with request of expert opinion between 2008-2012; expert decisions, patient's age, gender, written patient consent, diagnosis, type of first surgery, surgical complications, timing of complication diagnosis within the scope of complication management, patient's referral timing, troubleshooting procedures and mortality rate.

Results: Physicians were found to be faulty in all files.

Influence of axial length on peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in children: a study by RTVue spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To evaluate the influence of axial length on peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in myopic, hyperopic and emmetropic children eyes by RTVue optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: One hundred twenty eyes of 120 children including 40 myopic, 40 emmetropic and 40 hyperopic eyes were enrolled in the study. Peripapillary RNFL thickness measurements were performed using spectral-domain RTVue OCT (Optovue, Fremont, CA).

Variability of serum oxidative stress biomarkers relative to biochemical data and clinical parameters of glaucoma patients.

Purpose: The importance of oxidative stress in both the formation and the course of glaucoma has been known. Among the antioxidants, vitamin E possesses the specific effects and regulatory mechanisms of a neurohormone. The serum oxidant/antioxidant profile is reportedly altered in ocular pathologies.

Phacoemulsification in patients with nanophthalmos.

Objective: To evaluate phacoemulsification surgery and its possible risks in patients with nanophthalmos.

Design: The surgical procedure, corneal diameter, keratometry, axial length, visual acuity, and intraoperative and postoperative complications were reviewed. Scleral thickness was determined by echography.