Short-term Effect of Strabismus Surgery on Choroidal Vasculature.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of strabismus surgery on choroidal structure using the binarization method.

Methods: Forty-two eyes of 27 patients who had surgery for horizontal strabismus were included in the study. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the patients before the operation and at 1 day and 1 week after the operation were binarized.

Communicating bad news to patients and families in African oncology settings.

Aims: To assess clinicians' self-reported knowledge of current policies in African oncology settings, of their personal communication practices around sharing bad news with patients, and to identify barriers to the sharing of serious news in these settings.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of cancer care providers in African oncology settings (N = 125) was conducted. Factor analysis was used to assess cross-cultural adaptation and uptake of an evidence-based protocol for disclosing bad news to patients with cancer and of providers' perceived barriers to disclosing bad news to patients with cancer.

Evaluation of peripapillary and subfoveal choroidal vascularity index in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Purpose: To evaluate the changes in the peripapillary choroidal vascularity index (PCVI) and subfoveal choroidal vascularity index (SFCVI) in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and healthy subjects.

Methods: A total of 145 eyes of 73 patients were investigated in this cross-sectional study. 78 eyes of 39 MS patients (Group 1) and 67 eyes of 34 healthy subjects (Group 2) were evaluated.

Features of the Choroidal Structure in Children With Anisometropic Amblyopia.

Purpose: To examine the choroidal structure in children with anisometropic amblyopia using the binarization method.

Methods: Thirty children with unilateral anisometropic amblyopia and 30 healthy age- and sex-matched controls were included in the study. Choroidal thickness was measured with optical coherence tomography.

Photoscreener results with and without cycloplegia and their reliability according to biometric parameters.

Purpose: Our goal in this study is to compare the results of a photoscreener (Plusoptix A12C) with and without cycloplegia and to investigate its reliability as a function of biometric parameters.

Methods: In total, 250 eyes of 125 children with a mean age of 6.77±1.

The effect of branch retinal vein occlusion on the vascular structure of the choroid.

Objective: Our aim is to examine choroidal structural changes in eyes with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).

Material And Method: This retrospective, comparative study included 34 newly diagnosed unilateral BRVO patients and 40 healthy controls. Subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) measurement was performed with enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT).

How do the amblyopic and fellow eyes differ in adults?

Objective: To investigate the differences between the amblyopic eye and the fellow eye in adults with anisometropic amblyopia.

Materials And Methods: Measurements of the central macular thickness [CMT], subfoveal choroidal thickness [SFCT], and retinal nerve fiber layer [RNFL] in patients with anisometropic amblyopia were obtained using optical coherence tomography [OCT]. Axial length [AL], anterior chamber depth [ACD], and central corneal thickness [CCT] were measured with optical biometry.

Long-term effect of intravitreal aflibercept treatment on choroidal vascularity index in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Background: Our aim is to examine the effect of intravitreal aflibercept treatment on the choroidal vascularity index in eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nARMD) using the binarization method.

Methods: Included in the study were the 38 eyes of 38 patients diagnosed with nARMD and treated with intravitreal aflibercept at our clinic. The patients' 12-month records were reviewed retrospectively.

Choroidal vascularity index in adults with different refractive status.

Aim: We aimed to perform structural analysis of the choroid in adults with different refractive status.

Materials And Methods: A prospective, comparative study of 100 right eyes of 100 patients ages 18-40 years was conducted. The patients were divided into four groups according to spherical equivalent (SE): Group 1: -0.

Compatibility of Pupil Size Measured with Nidek ARK-1a Table Top Autorefractometer and Plusoptix A12C Photoscreener.

To evaluate the differences in pupil size measured with and without cycloplegia by a table top autorefractometer, ARK-1a Auto Ref/Keratometer, Nidek, Japan, 2014 release, compared to handheld photoscreener, Plusoptix A12C, software 6.1.12, under monocular and binocular conditions.

Influence of one or two horizontal muscle surgeries on OCT findings.

We investigate the effects of differences between one or two horizontal rectus muscle surgeries (recession ± resection) on the central macular thickness (CMT), subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT), and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL). Measurements of the CMT, SFCT, and RNFL in patients who underwent horizontal rectus muscle surgery were obtained using optical coherence tomography (OCT). Patients were grouped as those who had undergone rectus muscle recession surgery (Group 1) and those who had undergone rectus muscle recession + resection surgery (Group 2).

Does exotropia surgery have a long-term effect on choroidal vasculature?

Objective: To investigate the long-term effect of exotropia surgery on the choroidal structure.

Material And Method: The study included 18 patients treated with medial rectus resection and lateral rectus recession for exotropia and 18 healthy patients as a control group. Demographic and clinical characteristics as well as enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) scans were collected retrospectively.

Projection of Gut Microbiome Pre- and Post-Bariatric Surgery To Predict Surgery Outcome.

Bariatric surgery is often the preferred method to resolve obesity and diabetes, with ∼800,000 cases worldwide yearly and high outcome variability. The ability to predict the long-term body mass index (BMI) change following surgery has important implications for individuals and the health care system in general. Given the tight connection between eating habits, sugar consumption, BMI, and the gut microbiome, we tested whether the microbiome before any treatment is associated with different treatment outcomes, as well as other intakes (high-density lipoproteins [HDL], triglycerides, etc.

Transient Retinal Artery Occlusion After Uncomplicated Rhinoplasty.

Purpose: Loss of vision is an extremely rare and unexpected complication following a routine uncomplicated nasal surgery. In majority of patients, visual loss has attributed to retinal emboli which occur with retrograde flow of the intra-arterially injected agents into the nasal cavity or direct trauma to the optic nerve. In this report, the authors present a patient with unilateral decreased vision due to branch retinal artery occlusion soon after a routine nasal surgery.

Surgically induced astigmatism following medial rectus recession: short-term and long-term outcomes.

Purpose: The current study aimed to investigate short- and long-term postoperative ocular refractive effects of medial rectus recession on the involved eye and to describe the detectable effects in detail by the results of vector analysis.

Methods: Data of patients in whom medial rectus recession was performed between 2010 and 2012 were retrospectively evaluated. The study included 52 eyes of 32 patients.