Clinical Outcomes of Piggybacking a One-Piece IOL With a Three-Piece IOL in Eyes With Nanophthalmos.

Purpose: To compare the nanophthalmic eyes in which a three-piece intraocular lens (IOL) along with a one-piece IOL and two one-piece IOLs were used for piggyback IOL implantation into the capsular bag.

Methods: This retrospective comparative case series included 61 eyes of 31 patients. Group 1 consisted of 31 eyes of 16 patients who underwent piggyback implantation of a one-piece IOL along with a three-piece IOL into the capsular bag.

Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch Syndrome With Bilateral Tarsal Kink: Three Sutures for Correction.

The authors describe a 5-month-old male infant with Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome, which is an extremely rare condition. He had tarsal kink in upper eyelids in both eyes. The authors treated bilateral tarsal kink with an everting suture via a transconjunctival approach under local anesthesia.

Posttraumatic Oculorrhea From the Eyelid.

We report a 21-month-old boy with a sutured laceration of the left upper eyelid with drainage of cerebrospinal fluid. Careful evaluation, including computerized tomography, revealed a penetrating injury of the left orbital wall and a linear bone fracture. The wound was resutured carefully.

Ultrasonic Elastography Evaluation in Optic Neuritis.

Purpose: In the present study, we attempted to determine whether ultrasonic elastography (USE) evaluation can be used in a diagnosis of optic neuritis (ON).

Materials And Methods: Thirteen patients who each had one normal eye and one eye with a diagnosis of ON were included in the study. Ultrasonography (US) and USE examinations were performed on the affected and non-affected eyes of all participants.

Epidemiology of Adult Open Globe Injury.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology and outcomes of adult open globe injuries (OGI) in the eastern part of Turkey.

Methods: The retrospective study included all the patients who were diagnosed with OGI (436 eyes in 425 patients) at our clinic between 1997 and 2015. The OGI patients aged over 16 years were included into the study.

Comparing biometry in normal eyes of children with unilateral cataract/corneal disease to age-matched controls.

Objective: To compare ocular biometry and central corneal thickness of unaffected healthy eyes of pediatric patients with monocular cataracts/corneal opacities and age- matched controls.

Materials And Methods: We studied 329 eyes of 329 children who were between 1 and 12 years old. The study group (n: 164) consisted of healthy fellow eyes of children operated for unilateral congenital/traumatic cataract and corneal laceration.

Ocular biometry and central corneal thickness in children: a hospital-based study.

Purpose: To investigate the distribution of axial length, anterior chamber depth, lens thickness, vitreous chamber depth, and central corneal thickness in children at different age groups.

Methods: We studied 364 eyes in 182 children with ages between 1 and 12 years. Axial length, anterior chamber depth, lens thickness, and vitreous chamber depth were measured by ultrasound biometry.

Assessment of keratocyte density in patients with keratoconus not using contact lenses.

Purpose: To assess the keratocyte density (KD) in the cornea of patients with keratoconus not using contact lenses.

Method: In this pilot study, the eyes (n = 68) of 35 patients with the diagnosis of keratoconus, who did not use contact lenses and the eyes(n = 70) of 35 healthy controls were prospectively examined using the Heidelberg Retinal Tomography Rostock cornea module (HRT3/RCM). The cases with keratoconus and controls were compared with regard to KD in the anteroposterior stromal layers.

Intravitreal bevacizumab for treatment of serous macular detachment in central retinal vein occlusion.

Purpose: To report the long-term effect of intravitreal bevacizumab on serous macular detachment (SMD) in central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).

Methods: Retrospective, interventional, noncomparative case series. Nineteen consecutive patients (19 eyes) with SMD secondary to CRVO were included.

Conjunctival Lymphangiectasis.

The authors report the case of a 41-year-old woman presenting with both intermittent conjunctival swelling and dilated conjunctival vessels on ocular examination in the right eye who was diagnosed as having conjunctival lymphangiectasis. This is a rare disease that occurs as the result of a connection between conjunctival lymphatic and blood vessels.

Persistant Pupillary Membrane Surgery.

A 21-year-old woman presented with bilateral poor visual acuity due to the bilateral remnants of pupillary membrane in June 2007. The patient underwent excisional removal of pupillary membrane remnant in both the eyes, 1 week apart. Postoperatively, the pupillary area was completely free of any membrane remnant, no complication was observed.

MRI-Induced Migration of Retained Metallic Foreign Body in the Eye.

A 50-year-old man presented to the out-patient clinic because of a sudden pain in his left eye just after lumbal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was started. Biomicroscopic examination of the left eye revealed the inferior anterior chamber angle including a foreign body and the superior anterior chamber angle including the iris portion, into which the foreign body had been stuck prior to the MRI examination. His history revealed an accidental penetrating eye trauma of the shotgun pellet of 28 years ago.

Comparison of argon laser photocoagulation-induced cutaneous inflammation and skin pathergy test in Behçet's disease.

Nonspecific increased inflammatory response is an important feature of Behçet's disease (BD). The skin pathergy reaction (SPR) which tests this hyperreactivity in the skin is frequently used as a diagnostic tool. This study aims to investigate the argon laser photocoagulation (ALP)-induced cutaneous inflammation in BD patients and controls and also to compare the results with the skin pathergy test (SPT).

Conjunctival myxoma: a clinicopathologic report.

A conjunctival myxoma was identified in a specimen obtained from a 45-year-old woman via excisional biopsy. The patient presented with a slowly growing painless epibulbar mass. The paucicellular tumor included stellate and spindle-shaped cells, mast cells, and dilated lymphatic channels embedded in a loose collagenous matrix.

The risk factors of pterygium development: a hospital-based study.

We evaluated the risk factors for pterygium development in Eastern Turkey. Mean protrusion value of all eyes with pterygium (all eyes in bilateral pterygium subgroups and only eyes with pterygium in unilateral pterygium subgroup, n = 130) was 16.76 +/- 2.

Brucellosis and uveitis.

A 30-year-old-lady, (Case 1) was found to have brucella uveitis in her left eye. Serum agglutination (SAT) and SAT/Coombs titers were positive at 1:320 and 1:160, respectively. In Case 2, a 12-year-old-girl diagnosis of left brucellosis uveitis was made.

Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy after pediatric and adult cataract surgery.

We evaluated neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser posterior capsulotomy procedure with or without anesthesia in 35 pediatric eyes and 51 adult eyes. We concluded that Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomies in children are similar to adults in general aspects and that Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy can be performed safely and effectively in children under topical or no anesthesia.

Reconstruction of lower eyelid defects using a cross upper eyelid flap composited with ear cartilage.

Background: Basal cell carcinomas (BCC) most frequently involve the lower eyelid and are treated with total excision. Various techniques have been proposed for reconstruction of the excised eyelid.

Objective: Because most flaps used in such techniques are bulky, thinner, and aesthetically more favorable, flaps have been sought recently.

Early and late effects of pterygium surgery on corneal topography.

Background And Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the corneal topographic changes at the early and late postoperative period after pterygium surgery.

Patients And Methods: Sixteen eyes of 15 patients with primary pterygium were included in the study. All of the pterygia were excised primarily.

Nephropathy and retinopathy in type 2 diabetic patients living at moderately high altitude and sea level.

Background: High-altitude-induced hypoxia results in various diseases, such as chronic mountain sickness and high altitude retinal edema, and may affect severity and incidence of some cardiovascular diseases. In order to evaluate the effects of moderately high altitude on diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy, a cross-sectional study was planned.

Material Method: Long-term type II diabetic residents of sea level (n=75, 38 male, 37 female, mean age 51.

Age-related differences in normal corneal topography.

Background And Objective: The aim of this study was to compare age-related differences in the corneal topography of a normal population using a computerized corneal topography system.

Patients And Methods: The randomized comparative study included 240 eyes of 120 subjects with normal corneas. Subjects were divided into six age groups: 5 to 10 years (group 1), 11 to 20 years (group 2), 21 to 30 years (group 3), 31 to 40 years (group 4), 41 to 50 years (group 5), and 51 years or older (group 6).