Abnormal quantitative pupillary light responses following COVID-19.

Purpose: To characterize alterations in pupillary light reflex responses in subjects following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), especially those with long-COVID.

Methods: Thirty-five subjects with previous COVID-19 and 30 healthy control participants were enrolled in this cross-sectional comparative study. An infrared dynamic pupillometry system (MonPack One; Metrovision, France) was used to quantify pupillary light responses.

The outcomes of intravitreal CF gas tamponade combined with laser photocoagulation treatment for optic disc pit maculopathy.

Purpose: To share the anatomical results and visual outcomes of intravitreal gas tamponade combined with laser photocoagulation treatment for optic disc pit maculopathy (ODPM).

Methods: Intravitreal gas tamponade combined with laser photocoagulation treatment was performed on six consecutive patients with ODPM. A 0.

Normative data assessment of age-related changes in macular and optic nerve head vessel density using optical coherence tomography angiography.

Objective: To investigate macular and optic nerve head vessel density in healthy individuals using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), and determine their relationship with age.

Method: This retrospective study included 153 eyes of 153 individuals aged between 20 and 80 years, who had no systemic diseases, optic disk, or retinal pathologies. The retinal (6 × 6 mm) and optic disk (4.

Assessment of pupillary light reflex using dynamic pupillometry in laser-treated eyes with retinal vein occlusion.

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the pupillary light reflex measured with dynamic pupillometry in patients who underwent retinal laser photocoagulation due to unilateral retinal vein occlusion (RVO).

Methods: A total of 48 patients with unilateral RVO were included in the study. Thirty-four patients had undergone retinal laser photocoagulation while the remaining 14 patients that did not undergo laser treatment were observed for control purposes.

Subclinical inner retinal layer thickness changes in the fellow eyes of patients with unilateral central retinal artery occlusion: a pilot study.

Purpose: To investigate microstructural changes in the macular inner retinal layers over time in the fellow eyes of patients with unilateral central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO).

Methods: Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography scans of 16 patients with CRAO were performed at initial examination (1st day), at 1st month, at 3rd month, at 6th month, and the central macular thickness (CMT) and inner retinal layer thicknesses in the fellow eyes of the patients were compared between each visit. The thicknesses of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), ganglion cell layer (GCL), inner plexiform layer (IPL), and inner nuclear layer (INL) were calculated in 9 quadrants according to the definition by the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study.

Assessment of Monocyte/HDL Ratio in Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion.

: The purpose of this article was to evaluate monocyte count and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and their ratio (monocyte/HDL ratio [MHR]) in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO).: A total of 50 participants were included in the study. Participants were divided into two groups: Twenty-five patients diagnosed with BRVO and 25 participants as the control group.

Subfoveal choroidal thickness change following pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil endotamponade for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

Purpose: To report changes in subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography following pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with silicone oil (SiO) endotamponade injection and subsequent removal.

Methods: In this prospective study, 24 eyes of 24 patients with macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD) were included. These patients underwent PPV with SiO injection removal.

Effects of panretinal laser photocoagulation on the corneal nerve plexus and retinal nerve fiber layer in retinal vein occlusion.

Purpose: To determine the effects of panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) on corneal sub-basal nerve plexus (SBNP) and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in patients with unilateral central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) who had previously undergone PRP treatment.

Methods: Sixty-four eyes of 32 patients (19 male, 13 female) with unilateral ischemic type CRVO who had undergone PRP treatment at least 6 months previously were included in this cross-sectional study. The laser scanning in vivo corneal confocal microscope was used to determine corneal SBNP parameters.

Assessment of Corneal Sensation, Innervation and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Patients Treated with Multiple Intravitreal Ranibizumab Injections.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of repeated intravitreal ranibizumab injections on corneal sensitivity, corneal sub-basal nerve plexus (SBNP) and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: Sixty-six eyes of 33 patients who had received unilateral repeated intravitreal ranibizumab injections (0.5 mg/0.

Unilateral Recurrent Anterior Uveitis as the Presenting Sign of Bladder Carcinoma.

A 79-year-old male patient was followed for unilateral uveitis with 3 attacks in 10 months, despite initial improvement with steroid therapy. The patient had visual acuity (VA) of counting fingers in right eye, hypopyon and vitritis with no chorioretinal lesions. The left eye was normal.

Six-month outcomes of corneal crosslinking with dextran-free isotonic riboflavin solution.

Purpose: To analyze the short-term clinical and topographic outcomes in patients with keratoconus after corneal collagen cross-linking treatment (CXL) with dextran-free isotonic riboflavin solution.

Methods: In this retrospective case series, 26 eyes from 26 patients with keratoconus were studied. The best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and refractive and topographic findings were analyzed at a 6-month follow-up.

Intraocular lens explantation or exchange: indications, postoperative interventions, and outcomes.

Purpose: To analyze the indications for explantation or exchange of intraocular lenses (IOLs), which were originally implanted for the correction of aphakia during cataract extraction.

Methods: All cases that involved intraocular lens explantation or exchange in one institution between January 2008 and December 2014 were analyzed retrospectively.

Results: In total, 93 eyes of 93 patients were analyzed.

Intraoperative corneal thickness monitoring during corneal collagen cross-linking with isotonic riboflavin solution with and without dextran.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze and compare corneal thickness changes during corneal collagen cross-linking procedures performed with isoosmolar riboflavin solution with 20% dextran and without dextran in corneal ectatic diseases.

Methods: The patients in this study were analyzed in 2 groups: group 1 receiving riboflavin solution containing 20% dextran and group 2 receiving dextran-free riboflavin solution. Corneal thickness measurements were obtained with ultrasonic pachymetry at 6 different time points: preoperatively and at 0, 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes after epithelial removal and initiation of ultraviolet A irradiation.

Influence of cyclopentolate hydrochloride on corneal biomechanical properties in healthy individuals.

Objective: This observational study aims to investigate the effects of cyclopentolate hydrochloride (1%) on corneal biomechanical properties, with the ocular response analyzer (ORA), in healthy individuals.

Methods: Corneal hysteresis (CH), corneal resistance factor (CRF), Goldmann-correlated intraocular pressure (IOPg), and corneal-compensated intraocular pressure (IOPcc) measurements of 36 (15 female and 21 male) healthy individuals, before and after 45 min of 1% cyclopentolate hydrochloride instillation, were performed by the ORA.

Results: The mean CH and IOPcc measurements of the eyes were 10.

The evaluation of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

Aim. To evaluate the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) by optical coherence tomography (OCT). Materials and Method.

Comparison of intravitreal bevacizumab and ranibizumab treatment for diabetic macular edema.

Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of bevacizumab and ranibizumab on visual function and macular thickness in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME).

Methods: The data of diabetic patients who had been treated with bevacizumab for DME were reviewed. Those patients who received 1 injection of intravitreal bevacizumab and ranibizumab with at least 6-month interval were considered for enrollment.

Glucose regulation influences treatment outcome in ranibizumab treatment for diabetic macular edema.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of glucose regulation on intravitreal ranibizumab injection for clinically significant diabetic macular edema (DME).

Methods: This retrospective study enrolled 65 eyes of 65 patients with persistent DME treated with intravitreal ranibizumab injection. The main outcome measures were the change in best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), the central subfield macular thickness (CSMT) recorded with optical coherence tomography (OCT), and its correlation with the serum hemoglobin A(1c) values (HbA(1c)).

Control of steroid-induced glaucoma with surgical excision of sub-Tenon triamcinolone acetonide deposits: a clinical and biochemical approach.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of surgical excision of sub-Tenon triamcinolone acetonide (TA) deposits in the control of steroid-induced glaucoma.

Design: Prospective, nonrandomized, interventional case series.

Participants: Eighteen eyes of 14 subjects with increased IOP within 6 months of sub-Tenon TA injection who did not respond to medical antiglaucomatous treatment were included in the study.

In vivo confocal microscopic findings of 2 patients with Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy.

Purpose: To describe the clinical and in vivo confocal microscopic findings of the cornea in 2 patients with Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy using Heidelberg Retina Tomograph II Rostock Cornea Module.

Methods: Two women 25 and 33 years of age underwent ophthalmologic assessment, including fundus photography, optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography, electroretinography, and in vivo confocal microscopy.

Results: Slit-lamp examination revealed crystalline deposits at the superior limbus of the cornea in both of the subjects.

Ocular changes in primary hypothyroidism.

Background: To determine the ocular changes related to hypothyrodism in newly diagnosed patients without orbitopathy.

Findings: Thirty-three patients diagnosed to have primary overt hypothyroidism were enrolled in the study. All subjects were assigned to underwent central corneal thickness (CCT), anterior chamber volume, depth and angle measurements with the Scheimpflug camera (Pentacam, Oculus) and cup to disc ratio (C/D), mean retinal thickness and mean retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements with optical coherence tomography (OCT) in addition to ophthalmological examination preceeding the replacement therapy and at the 1(st), 3(rd )and 6(th )months of treatment.

Behcet's disease presenting with cerebral vasculitis: a case report.

Introduction: Behcet's disease encompasses a group of multisystemic complications secondary to occlusive vasculitis. It presents usually with oral or genital ulcers however, other system involvements may be the first sign as well.

Case Presentation: A 26-years-old man admitted to our clinic for his decreased visual acuity.

Does lens status affect the course of early intraocular pressure and anterior chamber changes after intravitreal injection?

Purpose: This study aimed to observe changes in anterior chamber parameters and the course of intraocular pressure (IOP) after injection of 0.1 ml intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (TA) and to determine differences between phakic and pseudophakic eyes without vitreous reflux.

Methods: A prospective observational clinical trial was conducted with 89 patients who received an intravitreal injection of TA and did not display vitreous reflux.

Effect of serum cytokines and VEGF levels on diabetic retinopathy and macular thickness.

Purpose: To investigate the role of serum inflammatory cytokines and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in diabetic retinopathy (DR) and evaluate their relationship with macular thickness measurements obtained with optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: The study enrolled 28 healthy subjects (Group 1), 31 patients without DR (Group 2), 49 patients with nonproliferative DR (Group 3), and 46 patients with proliferative DR (Group 4). Macular profile was assessed with Stratus OCT-3 and the serum concentrations of VEGF and interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), interleukin-10 (IL-10), macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP-1 alpha), monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP-1), and epidermal growth factor (EGF) were measured using multiplex bead immunoassay.