Publications by authors named "Elif Damar Gungor"
: To perform clinical and optical coherence tomography analysis of intraretinal microcysts (IRM) in patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for primary epiretinal membrane (ERM) treatment. The files of 137 patients who were operated on by a single surgeon for primary epiretinal membrane treatment in our clinic between September 2017 and January 2020 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients with ERM due to secondary pathology were excluded from the study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the blood lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) levels in age related macular degeneration (AMD) in a turkish urban population.
Methods: Blood Pb and Cd levels of 31 AMD patients and 24 age and gender matched controls with no sign of AMD were measured using dual atomic absorption spectrophotometer system (AAS). History of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, myocardial infarction and stroke were obtained from all subjects.
Background: To evaluate the effects of topical 0.5% ketorolac treatment combined with topical steroids on macular thickness in cases who had uneventful phacoemulsification surgery.
Methods: 58 eyes of 58 consecutive cases were included.
Aim: To compare the long-term effectivity of intraoperative adjustable suture technique with traditional non-adjustable strabismus surgery.
Methods: Two hundred and thirty-three patients, who underwent strabismus surgery either with traditional procedures or one-stage intraoperative adjustable suture technique, were included in our long-term follow-up study. One hundred and eighteen patients were evaluated in traditional surgery group (TSG) and 115 who underwent adjustable suture were in the one-stage intraoperative adjustable surgery group (ASG).