Evaluation of Long-term Posterior Segment Parameters in Children Who Had Recovered From Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome.

Background And Objective: To evaluate long-term posterior segment findings in children recovering from multisystemic inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

Patients And Methods: Our study included 22 patients who were admitted to an intensive care unit with a diagnosis of MIS-C between November 2021 and March 2022, and 25 healthy controls. The study included pediatric patients who had an eye examination an average of 12.

Clinical features, management, and outcomes of patients with sterile endophthalmitis associated with intravitreal bevacizumab injection: retrospective case series.

Purpose: To evaluate clinical features, treatment protocol, outcomes, and complications that developed in this case series of 24 patients who had consecutive sterile endophthalmitis after intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) injection.

Methods: In this retrospective case series, IVB was repackaged in individual aliquots from the three batches that were used on the same day. IVB was injected into 26 eyes of 26 patients due to diabetic macular edema, age-related macular degeneration, and branch retinal vein occlusion.

Efficacy of custom-made soft keratoconus lenses on corneal aberrations and photic phenomena in patients with keratoconus: a corneal topography imaging based study.

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of custom-made soft keratoconus (KC) lenses on corneal aberrations and photic phenomena in two different optical zones in patients with KC.

Methods: Sixty eyes of 42 patients with KC were examined at baseline and after fitting HydroCone (Toris K) soft silicone hydrogel lenses. Best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) and contact lens-corrected visual acuity (CLCVA) were recorded.

The impact of delayed anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment for retinal diseases during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Purpose: To assess the clinical status of treatment-naive patients who had to delay 3-dose loading anti-VEGF (anti-vascular endothelial growth factor) injections during the COVID-19 lockdown, and to evaluate the effect of the delayed visual acuity treatment on spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) parameters.

Method: A total of 55 eyes of 46 patients who were received in the study period participated in this retrospective study, including 28 patients (37 eyes) with diabetic macular edema (DME), 11 patients (11 eyes) with retinal vein occlusion (RVO), and 7 patients (7 eyes) with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet-AMD). The patients were diagnosed with DME, RVO, or wet-AMD in February 2020 and had planned 3-dose loading injections in March, April, and May 2020, but could not be injected due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comparison of subfoveal choroidal thickness and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in patients with coronary slow flow phenomenon and microvascular angina: Optical coherence tomography based study.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (pRNFLT) in patients with microvascular angina (MA), coronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP) and healthy controls.

Methods: Thirty-two consecutive patients with MA, 35 consecutive patients with CSFP and 40 age and sex-matched controls were enrolled. SFCT, average pRNFLT and four quadrants of pRNFLT were measured by spectral domain- optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Effectiveness and Safety of Coadministration of Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant and Silicone Oil Endotamponade for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy with Tractional Diabetic Macular Edema.

To investigate the efficacy and safety of coadministered intravitreal dexamethasone (IVD) implant and silicone oil endotamponade during pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for the treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) with tractional diabetic macular edema (DME). In this prospective, controlled, and randomized clinical study, the eyes with PDR and vitreomacular traction syndrome that underwent PPV with silicone oil endotamponade were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 was defined as the control group, and no other procedures were performed.

Can ocular OCT findings be as a predictor for end-organ damage in systemic hypertension?

Purpose: Detection of end-organ damage (EOD) in systemic hypertension is essential for the management of systemic hypertension. We aimed to evaluate subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) and retinal layers' thicknesses by using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD‑OCT) in patients with systemic hypertension and to assess the relationship between EOD and SD-OCT parameters.

Methods: A total of 189 consecutive patients with systemic hypertension and 100 controls were included.

Can subthreshold micropulse yellow laser treatment change the anti-vascular endothelial growth factor algorithm in diabetic macular edema? A randomized clinical trial.

Purpose: To compare the efficacy of subthreshold micropulse yellow laser (SMYL) and intravitreal aflibercept injection (IAI) combination therapy with IAI monotherapy in the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME) and to evaluate the number of injections and SMYL sessions required.

Methods: This prospective study compared a group of 28 patients treated with a combination of SMYL and IAI with a group of 28 patients treated only with IAI. All patients initially received 3 monthly IAIs, and the monotherapy group was given additional injections as needed.

Short-term and long-term positive outcomes of the multidisciplinary care implemented by the French health networks for the prevention and care of paediatric overweight and obesity.

Background: The nine French regional health networks for the prevention and care of paediatric obesity offer a 2-year program of multidisciplinary primary care (medical, dietetical, psychological, adapted physical activity) based on multicomponent lifestyle interventions.

Objectives: To assess the short-term and long-term impact of care management.

Methods: The impact of the multidisciplinary care was assessed by changes in the body mass index (BMI) Z score during the period of the care, and at least 2 years after the end.

Neuro-Behcet's disease in a case with papilledema and intracranial hypertension as the initial presentation.

A 27-year-old female presented to the Clinic of Ophthalmology with the complaints of photophobia, headache, and diplopia. An ophthalmological examination indicated that her best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in both eyes with decreased contrast sensitivity. Fundoscopic examination revealed bilateral papilledema.

Effect of oral Colchicine on Peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in patients with familial Mediterranean fever.

Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether oral colchicine has an effect on peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) patients.

Methods: We conducted a cross sectional study by comparing pRNFL thickness of FMF patients on colchicine (treated group), newly diagnosed colchicine naïve FMF patients (untreated group) and healthy controls. The study included 66 FMF patients and 32 healthy control subjects.

Visual outcomes and anatomic changes after sub-threshold micropulse yellow laser (577-nm) treatment for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy: long-term follow-up.

PurposeTo analyze the long-term efficacy of 577 nm sub-threshold micropulse yellow laser (SMYL) in the treatment of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CCSC) and to evaluate the anatomic outcome, visual results and safety profile of the treatment.Patients and methodsThis prospective study assessed 39 eyes of 39 patients with non-resolving CCSC lasting more than three months. All eyes were treated by using 577 nm SMYL system with 5% duty cycle (DC) and each patients was monitored monthly.

Left atrial volume changes are an early marker of end-organ damage in essential hypertension: A multidisciplinary approach to an old problem.

Purpose: Left atrial (LA) volume has been shown to be a predictor of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relation between LA phasic volumes and hypertensive end-organ damage (EOD), by using real time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) in patients with essential hypertension (HT).

Methods: The study included 95 essential hypertensive patients (60 ± 10 years, 37 males).

A comparison of different autorefractors with retinoscopy in children.

Purpose: To compare the results of different refractive error measurement devices including table-mounted and hand-held autorefractors and videoretinoscopy with cycloplegic retinoscopy (CR) in children to evaluate the usability and reliability of these devices in measuring refractive errors.

Methods: Two hundred eyes of 100 children underwent autorefraction using table-mounted autorefractor with and without cycloplegia and videoretinoscopy after cycloplegia. All results were compared statistically.

Role of the vitreous in age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: The condition of the vitreous was examined by slit-lamp funduscopy and ultrasonography in 93 eyes of 50 patients with AMD (exudative or dry) and 100 eyes of 50 controls.

Results: There was complete PVD in 31 of the 93 eyes (33.

Evaluation of conjunctival morphology in thyroid associated eye disease by use of impression cytology.

Thirty-one patients with the diagnosis of thyroid associated eye disease were included in the study. Samples were obtained from upper and temporal bulbar conjunctiva of both eyes by cellulose acetate filter paper. Control group included 20 healthy individuals.

The results of surgical treatment in Duane's retraction syndrome.

In an attempt to evaluate the response to surgical treatment, the surgical outcome of 16 patients with Duane's retraction syndrome (DRS) was investigated. Single horizontal rectus muscle recession, transposition of vertical recti and recession of both horizontal recti were carried out. In one of the four patients with significant globe retraction, Y splitting of the lateral rectus muscle was added to the procedure to overcome the cosmetically unacceptable upshoot.

Chemodenervation in treatment of upper eyelid retraction.

Upper-eyelid retraction is a common sign of thyroid-associated eye disease (TAED), and these patients are highly bothered by the appearance of their eyes. In this study, botulinum toxin A (BTA) was injected into the levator palpebrae superioris muscle in 8 eyes of 4 patients in an attempt to control the abnormal elevation of the upper eyelid. BTA provided control of the upper-eyelid retraction, and the cosmetically acceptable effect lasted for 3-4 months.

Acute endophthalmitis outbreak after cataract surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the source of organisms causing an epidemic of postoperative endophthalmitis and to emphasize the importance of prompt intervention with an early diagnosis.

Setting: S.B.

Corynebacterium minutissimum endophthalmitis: management with antibiotic irrigation of the capsular bag.

Chronic endophthalmitis, due to Corynebacterium minutissimum, developed in a patient following uncomplicated extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC-IOL) implantation. In this case, which to our knowledge is the first reported case of Corynebacterium minutissimum endophthalmitis, chronic inflammation persisted for 8 months with fluctuations in the inflammation. The specimens from the capsular bag yielded positive culture, but the vitreous culture was negative.

[Clinical evaluation of 70 pediatric renal transplants after 10 to 17 years].

Among 149 kidneys transplanted in 141 children and teenagers aged 4 1/2 to 20 years, from November 1972 through December 1979, 70 (47%) were still functioning after ten years (67/145 cadaver donor grafts and 3/4 living related donor grafts). Medical and social status at the last follow-up visit (10 to 16 1/2 years after transplantation; m = 12 years) was analyzed. Patients were divided into five groups on the basis of glomerular filtration rate (GFR; ml/min/1.