Choroidal tuberculoma in a patient with ocular Behçet disease.

Behçet disease is a chronic relapsing inflammatory disease affecting many different organs. Ocular involvement is quite common in the course of Behçet disease and is frequently manifested by bilateral panuveitis and retinal vasculitis. Medications such as corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents are used to reduce inflammation in patients with posterior or panuveitis.

Behçet disease in children.

Purpose: To investigate the incidence and clinical characteristics of Behçet disease in children.

Methods: The authors retrospectively reviewed the charts of 3382 patients with Behçet disease from October 1986 to December 2005 at Ankara University Medical School Behçet Unit and/or Atmaca private clinic.

Results: 110 children were diagnosed with Behçet disease.

One-year outcomes of less frequent bevacizumab in age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To evaluate whether a less frequent bevacizumab dosing schedule after repeated doses in short intervals would be effective in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

Methods: Twenty-seven treatment-naive eyes of patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration participated in this prospective, noncomparative, and interventional study at the Ulucanlar Eye Training and Research Hospital retina clinic. All lesion types were included.

Laser treatment in 341 patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration.

Aim: To document the prognosis of laser treatment in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: Efficacy of the intervention was evaluated using a before-after method.

Results: A total of 392 eyes of 341 patients with exudative AMD were examined.

Ocular involvement in sarcoidosis.

Purpose: To evaluate ocular involvement in patients with sarcoidosis.

Methods: The prevalence of ocular manifestations was studied in 139 Turkish patients with sarcoidosis as a cross section. Color photography and fluorescein angiography were performed on patients suspected of having ocular involvement.

Evaluation of the optic nerve head with the heidelberg retina tomograph in diabetes mellitus.

Background: To evaluate the optic nerve head by means of the Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: The study group consisted of 47 patients with DM [group 1; 29 patients without diabetic retinopathy (DR) and 18 patients with non-proliferative DR] and 50 normal subjects (group 2). All patients and controls underwent a complete ophthalmological examination, and the optic nerve head topography of both eyes was evaluated by using HRT-I.

Intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide in the management of cystoid macular edema in Behçet's disease.

Purpose: To determine the efficacy of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (ivTA) injection in the management of cystoid macular edema (CME) due to uveitis in patients with Behçet's disease.

Methods: Ten eyes of seven patients with CME associated with Behçet's disease were included in the study. A quantity of 4 mg of triamcinolone acetonide was injected intravitreally in all of the eyes.

Fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography in ocular toxoplasmosis.

Purpose: To document fluorescein and indocyanine green angiographic findings in patients with ocular toxoplasmosis.

Methods: Charts of patients with ocular toxoplasmosis who were evaluated with fluorescein and indocyanine green angiograpy were reviewed.

Results: In this study, eight (38%) females and 13 (62%) males with a mean age of 20.

Vitreoretinal surgery of retinal detachment and macular hole associated with optic nerve pit: an optical coherence tomography study.

Purpose: To describe the course of a case of macular elevation and a full-thickness macular hole associated with optic nerve pit.

Methods: Case report. A 28-year-old woman who had laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis surgery 2.

Clinical features and prognosis in ocular toxoplasmosis.

Purpose: To evaluate retrospectively the clinical characteristics, complications, and prognosis in patients with ocular toxoplasmosis.

Patients And Methods: We reviewed the records of 189 patients (243 eyes) with ocular toxoplasmosis who were examined between 1972 and 1999. Color fundus photography and, in some patients, fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography were performed.

Vitreoretinal surgery of retinal detachment and macular hole associated with optic nerve pit: an optical coherence tomography study.

Purpose: To describe the course of a case of macular elevation and a full-thickness macular hole associated with optic nerve pit.

Case Report: A 28-year-old woman who had laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis surgery 2.5 years ago presented with decreased vision, full-thickness macular hole, and macular detachment in association with optic nerve pit.

Fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography findings in Behçet's disease.

Aim: To evaluate and compare the fluorescein (FA) and indocyanine green angiographic (ICGA) findings, and to investigate the choroidal involvement in Behçet's disease.

Methods: FA and ICGA were performed on 112 eyes of 62 patients with Behçet's disease, between November 1993 and July 2002, using Topcon IMAGEnet Digital System. Patients were aged 16-50 years; 48 (77.

A long-term follow-up of Eales' disease.

Purpose: To provide long-term follow-up information on Eales' patients.

Methods: Eales' patients, who had been examined at varying periods between the years 1970 and 1991 with a minimum five-year follow-up, were included in the study.

Results: A total of 130 patients were followed up for a minimum of five and a maximum of 26.

Factor V Leiden and prothrombin gene G20210A mutations in ocular Behçet disease.

Purpose: To investigate genetic prothrombotic factors (factor V Leiden and prothrombin gene G20210A mutations) and their relation with retinal vascular occlusions in ocular Behçet disease.

Methods: Thirty Behçet patients were prospectively recruited into the study. Their mean age was 34.

Inflammatory pigmented paravenous retinochoroidal atrophy.

Purpose: To describe an active inflammatory cause of pigmented paravenous retinochoroidal atrophy.

Methods: A 54-year-old female patient presented with complaints of worsening visual acuity and poor night vision was examined. Fundus examination was performed and color fundus photographs were taken.

Bilateral glaucomatous optic neuropathy in Takayasu's disease without cervical arterial stenosis.

Purpose: Although significant decrease in retinal perfusion is usually not observed before all of the cervical arteries became markedly narrowed in patients with Takayasu's disease (TD), we present bilateral glaucomatous optic neuropathy in a patient with TD without any cervical arterial stenosis.

Methods: Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed glaucomatous optic neuropathy in both eyes with 7/10-cup/disc ratio in the right eye and 9/10 in the left eye. Left subclavian selective arteriographic examination demonstrated segmental high-grade stenosis, namely 90 percent stenosis in the mid portion of the left subclavian artery.

Indocyanine green videoangiography and color Doppler imaging in Behçet's disease.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the status of the retina and the choroid, and to evaluate blood flow velocity in the central retinal (CRA) and ophthalmic artery in Behçet's disease.

Methods: Digital fluorescein and indocyanine green (ICG) videoangiography were performed in 53 eyes and color Doppler ultrasonography in 61 eyes of 31 Behçet patients, between December 1993-January 1996.

Results: Fluorescein angiography revealed no vascular leakage in 7, and diffuse retinal and/or disc leakage due to vasculitis in 46 eyes.

Bilateral abortive cryptophthalmos associated with oculocutaneous albinism.

Purpose: To document a case of bilateral abortive cryptophthalmos associated with oculocutaneous albinism.

Methods: We describe a 13-year-old female patient with blond skin and hair who had anomalous face and eyes first noted at birth.

Results: The patient had fair hair and complexion, bilateral anomalous wedge of scalp hair, upper eyebrow and eyelid deformities, cup-shaped ears, broad based nose with depressed bridge and midline groove, iris transillumination and diffuse hypopigmentation and foveal hypoplasia in fundus examination.

Fluorescein and indocyanine green videoangiography of choroidal melanomas.

Purpose: This study was performed to determine what role indocyanine green video angiography might play in the evaluation of choroidal melanomas, and to compare this role with that of fluorescein angiography.

Methods: Six patients with posterior segment uveal melanoma underwent digital fluorescein and indocyanine green videoangiography. All patients were women and their mean age was 50.

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum: a rare cause of hypertension in children.

We describe an 11-year-old girl with severe renin-dependent hypertension. She had characteristic cutaneous, ocular, and vascular signs of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), and the diagnosis was confirmed histologically. Because PXE is a heterogeneous heritable disorder, the family was evaluated for this condition.

Indocyanine green videoangiography of angioid streaks.

Purpose: This study was performed to define the indocyanine green angiographic features of angioid streaks and associated posterior pole lesions and to compare them with fluorescein angiography.

Methods: Digital fluorescein and indocyanine green videoangiography was performed on 16 eyes of 8 patients with angioid streaks.

Results: Streaks were hyperfluorescent in 15, hypo- and hyperfluorescent in 1 of the 16 eyes with fluorescein angiography.

ICG videoangiography of occult choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration.

Digital indocyanine green videoangiography has recently been reported to improve the imaging of occult choroidal neovascularization. In this study, 44 eyes with occult choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration were studied with fluorescein and indocyanine green videoangiography. On indocyanine green videoangiographic examination, 6 of the 44 eyes (13.