Ocular surface and dry eye in Graves' disease.

Purpose: To evaluate the tear function tests and the ocular surface damage in Graves' disease (GD) patients either with or without thyroid associated orbitopathy (TAO).

Methods: Forty-two eyes of 21 randomly selected patients with GD, and 30 eyes of 15 healthy subjects were included in this prospective study. The presence of TAO was evaluated clinically.

Incidence, etiology and risk factors associated with mortality of nosocomial candidemia in a tertiary care hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence, etiology and risk factors for mortality of patients with nosocomial candidemia.

Subjects And Methods: This observational study was performed at Haydarpasa Numune Training and Research Hospital, a tertiary care hospital with 750 beds, between the years 2004 and 2007. Fifty defined cases with a nosocomial bloodstream infection caused by Candida species were included in the study.

Topical cyclosporine in thyroid orbitopathy-related dry eye: clinical findings, conjunctival epithelial apoptosis, and MMP-9 expression.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of topical cyclosporine A (CsA) 0.05% (Restasis) on the signs and symptoms of dry eye, on apoptosis, and on MMP-9 expression in conjunctiva epithelial cells in thyroid orbitopathy (TO)-related dry eye patients.

Methods: Prospective, clinical study.

Half-moon supracapsular nucleofractis phacoemulsification technique.

Many nucleofractis techniques introduced to date have both advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, the search for the most effective, functional, and safest technique continues. The half-moon supracapsular phacoemulsification technique, which the authors define as a new method, is a hybrid technique derived from both chopping and supracapsular techniques.

Half-moon supracapsular nucleofractis phacoemulsification: safety, efficacy, and functionality.

Purpose: To compare the safety, efficacy, and functionality of half-moon supracapsular phacoemulsification, a variation of the nucleofractis technique, with those of the stop-and-chop technique.

Setting: Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, 2nd Ophthalmology Department, Ankara, Turkey.

Methods: This prospective randomized study comprised 100 eyes having phacoemulsification with the half-moon supracapsular (Group 1, 50 eyes) or stop-and-chop (Group 2, 50 eyes) technique.

Ocular wavefront analysis and contrast sensitivity in eyes implanted with AcrySof IQ or AcrySof Natural intraocular lenses.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare ocular wavefront aberrations for pupil diameters of 4 mm and 6 mm, and contrast sensitivity, in eyes with AcrySof IQ and AcrySof Natural intraocular lenses (IOLs).

Methods: Sixty eyes of 60 patients were enrolled in this prospective randomized study. After phacoemulsification the eyes received either AcrySof IQ SN60WF or AcrySof Natural SN60AT IOLs.