Retrobulbar hemodynamic parameters in men and women with open angle glaucoma.

Background/aim: Several factors may have influence on systemic circulation. Additionally, peripheral circulation also demonstrates sex differences, in young women presenting significantly lower finger blood flow in comparison to men of the same age, a finding that disappears in women after menopause. The aim of this study was to compare the retrobulbar hemodynamic parameters measured by means of color Doppler imaging in women and men with open-angle glaucoma and elevated intraocular pressure.

Heidelberg Retina Tomography II parameters in evaluating high- and normal-pressure glaucoma progression.

Background/aim: Heidelberg retina tomography II (HRT II) haves been employed to quantitatively assess the topography of optic discs in eyes with high-pressure glaucoma (HPG) and normal-pressure glaucoma (NPG), in order to determine which of global and segmental optic disc parameters will prove to be most suitable for monitoring the progression of these two conditions.

Methods: The results of 73 eyes of 73 patients with HPG and NPG were analyzed in relation to age, refractive error, quality of HRT images and stereometric parameters.

Results: A statistically significant difference (p < 0.

Ocular complications after kidney transplantation: a case report and review of literature.

Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type II (MPGN II), also known as a dense deposit disease, is a chronic progressive kidney disease that often progresses to end-stage renal disease within 10 years. Most patients also have multiple subretinal white spots or drusen-like deposits that are histopathologically identical to the glomerular basement membrane deposits. The purpose is to determine ocular findings in a patient with MPGN II before and after renal transplantation and to correlate them with clinical characteristics related to transplantation and review of literature.

Individual phenotypic variances in a family with Avellino corneal dystrophy.

Background: Avellino corneal dystrophy (ACD) is an autosomal dominant disorder, characterized by the presence of deposits in the anterior stroma, and results from a specific mutation (R124H) in the transforming growth factor beta-induced gene (TGFBI). This report presents corneal dystrophy of the Bowman layer as a rare phenotypic appearance of ACD and a high intra-familial variability of phenotype in patients with ACD.

Case Presentation: A 56 year-old Caucasian woman with recurrent corneal erosions was diagnosed with corneal dystrophy of the Bowman layer after a clinical examination.

The role of confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in stereometric differentiation of eye papilla in ocular hypertension, normal tension glaucoma and primary open-angle glaucoma.

Background/aim: Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal tension glaucoma (NTG) demonstrate the same structural changes in the optic disc along with visual field defects but only POAG includes an abnormal elevation of intraocular pressure. Heidelberg retina tomograph based on confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (HRT) and Moorfields regression analysis (MRA) have been employed to quantitatively assess the topography of eye papilla. We measured stereographic parameters of eye papilla in patients with POAG, NTG, and ocular hypertension (OH) using an HRT in order to determine whether HRT topographic parameters can be used to differentiate those conditions.

Morphometric characteristics of optic disc in patients with myopia and primary open-angle glaucoma.

Background/aim: Primary open-angle glaucoma is a multifactorial and progressive neuropathy, characterised by the acquired loss of ganglion cells of the retina and their axons. One of the risk factors for primary open-angle glaucoma is myopia over 5 diopters (D). The aim of our work was to investigate two groups of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and myopia by using confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, and to find out if the size of refractive error influences optic disk morfometric characteristics.

[Results of asymmetric bilateral medial rectus retroposition in unilateral Duane retraction syndrome type I].

Objective: To describe the results of asymmetric bilateral medial rectus retroposition in unilateral Duane retraction syndrome-this type I.

Method: This is a retrospective study involving 18 patients, mean age 11.2 years (3-37 years) with unilateral Duane retraction syndrome's type who were operated in 2009 up to 2011 year.

Ocular injuries caused by airsoft guns - ten-year experience.

Introduction: The study describes ocular injuries caused by airsoft guns pellets, type of these injuries and their incidence in different age groups.

Methods: This is a retrospective review of medical charts of patients who were hospitalized due to airsoft guns ocular injuries in ten-year period (from 2000 to 2009). Patient's age, gender, duration of hospitalization, type of treatment and initial and final visual acuity were analyzed.

Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy associated with metabolic syndrome.

Purpose: Metabolic syndrome denotes a common cluster of naturally connected risk factors including obesity, elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, proinflammatory state and prothrombotic state. Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is an acute ischaemic disorder of the optic nerve head and may lead to severe visual loss.

Methods: We considered three patients with moderate degree of diabetic retinopathy and anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.

[Binocular vision and vertical strabismus].

Background/aim: Elevation in adduction is the most common pattern of vertical strabismus, and it is mostly treated with surgery. The results of weaking of inferior oblique muscle are very changeable. The aim of this study was to evaluate binocular vision using sensory tests before and one and six months after the surgery.

Long-term outcome of strabismus and ptosis surgery in a mother and daughter with congenital fibrosis of extraocular muscles.

Background: Congenital fibrosis of extraocular muscles (CFEOM) is a very rare congenital condition, characterized by variable amounts of restriction of the extraocular muscles, with or without ptosis. The aim of this report was to describe a severe, atypical, exposure-induced corneal stromal lysis in two patients.

Case Report: A mother and a daughter with a severe CFEOM were presented.

[Changes in the horizontal angle in strabismus after surgery of the vertical ocular muscles].

We have operated 79 children with vertical strabismus. We have treated 52 children with primary overaction of the inferior oblique muscles and 27 of them with DVD and primary overaction of the inferior oblique muscles. In all of them, we have done recession of the inferior oblique muscles (for 4, 6, 8 or 10 mm).

[Treatment of esotropia with a high AC/A ratio].

We have treated 55 children with accommodative esotropia and high AC/A ratio with progressive addition lenses, measured by heterophoria method. All of them wear full hyperopic refraction for distance and addition of +1.00 to 3.

[Effect of surgery of the vertical muscles on refraction and visual acuity].

Background: The aim of this paper was to determine whether the surgery on vertical muscles of the eye influenced the change in refraction and visual acuity.

Methods: This prospective study included testing of 79 children with infantile esotropia who suffered from the vertical strabismus after the surgery on horizontal muscles. Patients were divided into two groups: the first group of 52 children (the test group) had only vertical component (overaction of m.