Correlation between optical coherence tomography results and the Scoring Tool for Assessing Risk (STAR) score in patients with ocular hypertension.

Purpose: To correlate retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFL) and optic nerve head (ONH) parameters measured with optical coherence tomography (OCT) with the Scoring Tool for Assessing Risk (STAR) threshold in patients with ocular hypertension (OH).

Methods: The study included 92 patients with OH. They were divided into low-risk (n=32), moderate-risk (n=36), and high-risk (n=24) groups according to STAR criteria.

Quantitative assessment of anterior chamber parameters in pigmentary glaucoma using slit-lamp optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To quantitatively assess the parameters of anterior chamber and angle dimensions by slit-lamp optical coherence tomography (SL-OCT) in eyes with pigmentary glaucoma (PG).

Methods: A total of 18 eyes of 11 patients with PG and 18 eyes of 11 healthy volunteers were included in the study. Anterior chamber depth (ACD), anterior chamber volume (ACV), spur distance (internal horizontal anterior chamber diameter), central corneal thickness (CCT), angle opening distance at 500 microm from the scleral spur (AOD 500), and trabecular iris space area at 500 microm from the scleral spur (TISA 500) parameters were detected by SL-OCT.

Effect of photodynamic therapy with posterior sub-tenon triamcinolone acetonide on predominantly classic choroidal neovascularization: one-year results.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the results of monotherapy (photodynamic therapy) and combined therapy (photo-dynamic therapy with posterior sub-Tenon triamcinolone acetonide) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Materials And Methods: Forty eyes from forty patients with diagnosed neovascular AMD were enrolled in this study during March-2005 - October-2008. All patients were grouped in either the study or the control group.

Corneal biomechanical properties and intraocular pressure changes after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation.

Purpose: To evaluate corneal viscoelastic and intraocular pressure (IOP) changes measured by an ocular response analyzer (ORA) after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Setting: Yeditepe University Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Methods: Fifty-one eyes scheduled for cataract surgery were included in the study.

Anterior segment optical coherence tomography measurement of anterior chamber depth and angle changes after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation.

Purpose: To use anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) to evaluate anterior chamber depth (ACD) and angle after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Methods: Forty-seven eyes (37 patients) had uneventful phacoemulsification and IOL implantation through a clear corneal incision.

Increased serum levels of leptin in retinal vein occlusion.

Retinal vein occlusion is an important cause of visual loss. Several ocular and systemic conditions have been reported for retinal vein occlusion. The pathogenesis of thrombus formation in the retinal vein, which results in retinal vein occlusion, is unclear.

Alterations of fatty acid composition of erythrocyte membrane in type 2 diabetes patients with diabetic retinopathy.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between the erythrocyte membrane fatty acid components and diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Methods: The study was performed in 40 patients. Thirty of the 40 were type 2 diabetic patients classified into three groups according to Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study Group (ETDRS) criteria: 10 with mild-moderate nonproliferative retinopathy (group 1), 10 with moderate-severe nonproliferative retinopathy (group 2), and 10 with proliferative retinopathy (group 3).