Publications by authors named "Bilge Araz-Ersan"
Purposes: To assess the efficacy of botulinum toxin A injection in the treatment of strabismus in patients with neurological impairment and evaluate the factors associated with treatment success.
Methods: The study included 50 patients with strabismus and neurological impairment. In all children, botulinum toxin injection was performed into the appropriate extraocular muscle.
Background: Recombinant human (rh) interferon alpha2a (IFN-α2a) therapy is successfully used for the treatment of Behçet's disease (BD) uveitis refractory to conventional immunosuppressive treatment.
Purpose: Our aim in this study was to investigate the frequency and clinical significance of anti-IFN-α antibodies and autoantibodies during recombinant human rhIFN-α2a therapy in patients with BD uveitis.
Methods: This comparative, cross-sectional, serological screening study included 30 BD patients treated with rhIFN-α2a (Group 1), 29 BD patients treated with conventional immunosuppressive agents (Group 2), 29 BD patients who received only colchicine (Group 3), and 30 healthy subjects (Group 4).
Purpose: To evaluate the two-year follow-up of patients with type 1 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) who received intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) as adjunctive treatment.
Materials And Methods: We conducted a longitudinal follow-up study of premature infants who received 0.625 mg IVB therapy in addition to standard laser photocoagulation therapy.
Purpose: To assess structural or functional differences of the retina among subjects with persistent and resolved amblyopia.
Methods: Fourteen eyes with persistent amblyopia that did not reach normal visual acuity (VA) levels (≤0.1 LogMAR) despite amblyopia treatment, 18 eyes with resolved amblyopia, and 16 eyes of 16 normal subjects were included.
Purpose: To investigate the morphological or functional differences of retina in amblyopia.
Materials And Methods: Forty-one patients with unilateral strabismic, anisometropic or combined amblyopia were included in the study. A control group was composed of 16 normal children.
Purpose: To collect data towards the establishment of a guideline to predict the population under risk for the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in Turkey.
Methods: Medical reports of 2950 preterm infants who underwent screening examinations for ROP between 1996 and 2010 at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology were reviewed. The study population was classified as inpatient infants and referred infants.