Evaluation of the lacrimal punctum parameters in Turkish population with anterior segment optic coherence tomography.

Purpose: To determine the anatomical parameters of puncta in Turkish population without any complaint of epiphora, using anterior segment optic coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Materials And Methods: The healthy participants between 26 and 83 years old who applied to our outpatient clinic from May 2022 to June 2022 for spectacle prescription or the accompanying person of the patients were included in the study. All participants underwent AS-OCT (Revo 60, OPTOPOL Technology, Zawiercie, Poland).

Long-term Results of Punctoplasty With Canalicular Triangular Flap in Punctal Stenosis.

Purpose: The aim was to describe the punctoplasty technique with canalicular triangular flap, and present the long-term results of the technique in patients with inferior punctal stenosis.

Methods: The files of the patients who were diagnosed with punctal stenosis grade 0, 1, and 2 and underwent a canalicular triangular flap were evaluated retrospectively. The study was approved by the local ethical committee of the University of Health Sciences, Prof.

Silicone perforated punctal plugs for the treatment of punctal stenosis.

Purpose: Punctal stenosis can result in symptoms such as epiphora and can significantly reduce the quality of life of patients. Perforated punctal plug insertion is an easy procedure that is commonly used as the first step of treatment for punctal stenosis.

Methods: Clinical, demographic, and outcome data were retrospectively collected for 54 eyes of 21 males and 11 females who consecutively presented to our Oculoplastic Clinic and underwent silicone Micro Flow perforated punctal plug insertion.

Retina and Optic Disc Characteristics in Amblyopic and Non-amblyopic Eyes of Patients with Myopic or Hyperopic Anisometropia.

Objectives: To compare retinal and optic disc characteristics between amblyopic and non-amblyopic eyes in patients with myopic and hyperopic anisometropia measured with optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Materials And Methods: Patients with myopic (25 patients: 17 female, 8 male; median age 27 years, range 16-40 years) and hyperopic (31 patients: 19 female, 12 male; median age 20 years, range 13-41 years) anisometropic amblyopia were included. Eye examination included determination of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) with a Snellen chart, measurement of manifest and cycloplegic refraction after pupillary dilation, alternate cover testing, globe movement evaluation, A-scan biometry for axial length, biomicroscopy, fundus examination, and OCT scanning.

Repeatability of contrast sensitivity testing in patients with age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract.

Purpose:: To analyze the intrasession and intersession repeatability of contrast sensitivity (CS) measurements in patients with glaucoma, cataract, or age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and healthy controls.

Methods:: CS measurements were performed using the OPTEC-Functional Vision Analyzer (FVA), which uses a standardized and closed (view-in) system. Measurements for patients with glaucoma, cataract, or AMD and healthy controls were repeated within 30 minutes (intrasession) and during two sessions (intersession), separated by one week to one month.

Effect of Topically Applied Azithromycin on Corneal Epithelial and Endothelial Apoptosis in a Rat Model of Corneal Alkali Burn.

Purpose: To investigate the antiapoptotic effect of topically administered azithromycin (AZM) on corneal epithelial and endothelial cells in a rat model of corneal alkali burn.

Methods: Twenty-four Wistar albino rats were divided into 4 equal groups as pseudovehicle (group 1), control (group 2), alkali burned (group 3), and treatment (group 4) groups. Alkali injury was induced only in the right corneas of rats belonging to groups 3 and 4 using 1N NaOH.

Evaluation of possible factors affecting contrast sensitivity function in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome.

Purpose: The contrast sensitivity (CS) function in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) may be impaired either frequently as a result of dry eye diseases or rarely as a result of optic neuropathy. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the CS function in pSS patients as well as to assess corneal aberrations and thickness of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL).

Methods: Fourteen eyes of 14 pSS patients (pSS group) and 14 eyes of 14 healthy participants (control group) were subjected to assessment of CS at the spatial frequencies of 1.

[Changes in retinal nerve fiber layer thickness after spinal surgery in the prone position: a prospective study].

Background And Objectives: Changes in ocular perfusion play an important role in the pathogenesis of ischemic optic neuropathy. Ocular perfusion pressure is equal to mean arterial pressure minus intraocular pressure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in the intraocular pressure and the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in patients undergoing spinal surgery in the prone position.

Simplified technique for sealing corneal perforations using a fibrin glue-assisted amniotic membrane transplant-plug.

Purpose. To describe a surgical technique using amniotic membrane transplant (AMT) with fibrin glue (FG) for treating smaller corneal perforations more practically and appropriately filling the defect. Method.

Relationship between raised intraocular pressure and ischemia-modified albumin in serum and humor aqueous: a pilot study in rabbits.

Aim: We evaluated the relationship between increased intraocular pressure (IOP), ischemia-modified albumin levels in serum (IMA-s) and in humor aqueous (IMA-HA) in rabbits.

Methods: Twenty-five albino New Zealand rabbits weighing between 2.0 and 2.

Chronic dacryocystitis secondary to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Staphylococcus aureus mixed infection.

A 40-year-old woman with a history of recurrent attacks of dacryocystitis for 2 years developed a lacrimal sac abscess. β-Lactam antibiotics, considered the first-line treatment for dacryocystitis, were ineffective. She underwent dacryocystorhinostomy.

Schwannoma in the anterior orbita.

A schwannoma is a rare benign tumour of peripheral nerve origin. We present a case of a 65-year-old woman with a 1-year history of a slowly enlarging, painless and movable mass, palpable by fingers in her right lower eyelid, adjacent to the inferior orbital rim. No apparent mass was present by macroscopic examination.

Comparison of transcanalicular diode laser dacryocystorhinostomy and external dacryocystorhinostomy in patients with primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Background And Objective: To compare the success, complication, and patient discomfort rates of transcanalicular diode laser dacryocystorhinostomy (TCDL-DCR) and external dacryocystorhinostomy (EX-DCR) surgeries performed in patients with primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Materials And Methods: Eighty consecutive patients were included in the study, and groups were assigned according to DCR technique. Thirty-four (42.

Recurrent dacryocystitis and lacrimocutaneous fistula caused by a retained Griffiths' collar button stent.

A 42-year-old man presented with a white plastic-like material exposed in the left medial canthal area, with a fistula and purulent discharge. He had undergone endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy 7 years earlier for left eye epiphora; he had persistent postoperative epiphora and recurrent dacryocystitis despite multiple drainage attempts and antibiotics elsewhere. Computed tomography showed bilateral enlarged cystic lacrimal sacs, with a well-defined contoured tunnel-like hole at the center of the left sac.

Effects of lubricating agents with different osmolalities on tear osmolarity and other tear function tests in patients with dry eye.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of different artificial tear eye drops on Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), tear osmolarity, Schirmer's I test, and tear break-up time (TBUT) in patients with dry eye disease.

Materials And Methods: This 12-week, single-institution, single-masked, randomized, pilot study was conducted in Turkey between March and July 2012 in patients with dry eye. Patients were randomly assigned to receive Systane® for their right eye and Eyestil® for their left eye or to receive Tears Naturale II® for their right eye and Refresh Tears® for their left eyes.

Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: a case report.

We report the first case, in Medline-based literature, of conjunctivitis caused by gram negative diplococcus, Neisseria sicca. Although it is not widely accepted as such, isolation from cultures of repeated eye swab samples suggests that N. sicca may be a pathogen in conjunctival infections.

Alterations in iris structure and pupil size related to alpha-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists use: implications for floppy iris syndrome.

Purpose: To evaluate structural alterations of iris and pupil diameters (PDs) in patients using systemic α-1-adrenergic receptor antagonists (α-1ARAs), which are associated with intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS).

Methods: Eighty-eight eyes of 49 male were evaluated prospectively. Patients were assigned to 2 different groups.

Serum cortisol and testosterone levels in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy.

Purpose: To investigate the potential role of serum cortisol and testosterone levels in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC).

Material And Methods: Serum cortisol and testosterone levels of six male patients with chronic CSC were evaluated by chemiluminescent immunassay. Hormone levels were compared with the normal reference values of healthy people.

Ocular aspergillosis: Obtaining a specimen is crucial for diagnosis. A report of three cases.

Aspergillus species have been implicated in a wide variety of primary ocular conditions, characterized by either slow and asymptomatic infection, or rapid, uncontrollable progression and sometimes death. The study design is a case series including chronic asymptomatic dacryocystitis, dacryocystitis with dacryoliths and endogenous endophthalmitis. Due to this variable clinical presentation of aspergillosis a high level of suspicion must be maintained as fulminant aspergillosis may lead to a rapidly progressive infection which may result in death.

Phakic anterior chamber lenses in very high myopia: an 18-month follow up.

Background: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerance of two different foldable anterior chamber phakic intraocular lenses for high myopia.

Design: A prospective interventional case series at the Eye Clinic, Kartal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Participants: Sixty-two eyes of 31 patients received iris-claw lens (group 1) (Artiflex AC 401, Ophtec), and 43 eyes of 22 patients received angle-supported lens (group 2) (I-Care, Corneal).