Heavy Silicone Oil as an Endotamponade in Recurrent or Complicated Retinal Detachment and Macular Hole.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of heavy silicone oil as an endotamponade in patients with recurrent or complicated retinal detachment and macular hole.

Materials And Methods: Nineteen eyes of 19 patients who underwent heavy silicone oil endotamponade for different indications were included in the study and evaluated by retrospective chart review. At each visit, patients underwent detailed ophthalmological examination and anatomical and functional outcomes, silicone oil emulsification, intraocular inflammation, presence of proliferative vitreoretinopathy, preoperative and postoperative visual acuity, and postoperative complications were recorded.

Evaluation of Factors Affecting Epiretinal Membrane Surgery Outcomes.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate several factors affecting the outcome of epiretinal membrane (ERM) surgery.

Methods: The data of a total of 41 eyes of 40 patients (20 female, 20 male) who underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) and epiretinal membrane (ERM) peeling with/without internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling between November 2001 and October 2005 at Beyoğlu Eye Training and Research Hospital with a minimum follow-up of 6 months were included in this retrospective study. The patients' best corrected visual acuity (BCVA; Snellen) and the biomicroscopic, funduscopic, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings measured preoperatively and at month 1,3,6, and a final visit were recorded.

NEUROTROPHIC KERATOPATHY AFTER RETINAL DETACHMENT SURGERY COMBINED WITH ENDOLASER PHOTOCOAGULATION.

Purpose: To report neurotrophic keratopathy after vitreoretinal surgery combined with aggressive photocoagulation.

Methods: We report a series of three cases with neurotrophic keratopathy after pars plana vitrectomy combined with endolaser photocoagulation.

Results: Three patients who had pars plana vitrectomy with different indications were identified.

Multicenter study of pars plana vitrectomy for optic disc pit maculopathy: MACPIT study.

PurposeTo evaluate surgical intervention with pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for correction of optic disc pit maculopathy (ODP-M).Patients and methodsRetrospective chart review from 13 centres of 51 eyes of 50 patients with ODP-M who underwent PPV between 2002-2014. Anatomic and final best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) outcomes were evaluated for all cases with different adjuvant techniques.

Wide-Field Landers Keratoprothesis in Various Combined Corneal and Vitreoretinal Problems: Twelve-Month Results.

Background And Objective: To investigate the outcomes of combined pars plana vitrectomy (PPV), transient keratoprosthesis (TKP), and penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) in patients with coexisting corneal and vitreoretinal diseases.

Patients And Methods: Patients who underwent PPV, TKP, and PKP were included. The main outcome measures were change in visual acuity (VA), clarity of the graft, and retinal attachment.

Results of Peripheral Vitrectomy Under Air in Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment.

Background And Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of peripheral vitrectomy under air in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Patients And Methods: Consecutive patients who underwent 23-gauge pars plana vitrectomy for RRD were included. After removal of core vitreous and drainage of subretinal fluid, peripheral vitreous was removed under air infusion without scleral indentation.

Helvacioglu reproducibility index: a new algorithm to evaluate the effects of misalignments on the measurements of retinal nerve fiber layer by spectral-domain OCT.

Aim: To evaluate the effect of misalignment on the measurements of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: A total of 42 eyes from 21 healthy young subjects underwent RNFL measurements with RTVue spectral-domain OCT (Optovue Inc., Fremont, California, USA).

Optical coherence tomography of bilateral nanophthalmos with macular folds and high hyperopia.

Importance. There is a conflict about the content of the macular folds in nanophthalmic eyes in the literature. Our study clearly demonstrated that papillomacular folds seen in nanophthalmos or posterior microphthalmos were only composed of neurosensory retina without involvement of retinal pigment epithelium and choroid.

Hemorrhagic age-related macular degeneration managed with vitrectomy, subretinal injection of tissue plasminogen activator, gas tamponade, and upright positioning.

Background And Objective: To investigate the outcomes of vitrectomy, subretinal tissue plasminogen (tPA) injection, gas tamponade, and upright positioning in patients with hemorrhagic neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Patients And Methods: Retrospective, noncomparative case series. Records of patients who were diagnosed with submacular hemorrhage secondary to neovascular AMD and underwent treatment with the combined method between 2004 and 2010 were reviewed.

Quantitative analysis of subfoveal choroidal thickness using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography in normal eyes.

To evaluate subfoveal choroidal thickness of normal eyes with the use of the enhanced depth imaging technique of optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) and correlation of choroidal thickness with patient age. A retrospective analysis of 123 healthy eyes was performed. Age, gender, refractive state and spheric equivalencies were noted.

Outcome of photodynamic therapy in choroidal neovascularization due to pathologic myopia and related factors.

To evaluate the outcome of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and the factors influencing its outcome in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) due to pathologic myopia. Twenty-three eyes of 21 consecutive patients who received PDT for subfoveal CNV due to pathologic myopia and who were followed for >12 months were included in the study. The relationship between the factors that might affect the treatment outcome were evaluated.

Pars plana vitrectomy with and without triamcinolone acetonide assistance in pseudophakic retinal detachment complicated with proliferative vitreoretinopathy.

Purpose: To evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in pseudophakic retinal detachment (RD) complicated with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) without previous scleral buckling (SB) or vitrectomy, both with and without triamcinolone acetonide (TA) assistance.

Methods: In this retrospective, interventional, comparative case series, 72 pseudophakic eyes with RD with PVR grade C1 or greater underwent PPV either with (group 1, n = 40) or without (group 2, n = 32) TA assistance. Eyes with a minimum of 6 months of follow-up were evaluated.

Comparative outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy in acute postoperative endophthalmitis with 25-gauge and 20-gauge techniques.

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and outcomes of 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in the treatment of postoperative endophthalmitis and compare it with 20-gauge PPV.

Methods: The medical records of all patients diagnosed with acute endophthalmitis following cataract surgery who underwent PPV between December 2000 and December 2007 were reviewed. Main outcome measures included final visual acuity (VA), additional interventions, and both intraoperative and postoperative complications.

Secondary iris claw intraocular lens implantation for the correction of aphakia after pars plana vitrectomy.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of iris claw intraocular lens implantation for correction of aphakia in vitrectomized eyes without capsular support.

Methods: This was a prospective interventional case series. Twelve aphakic vitrectomized eyes without capsular support underwent iris claw intraocular lens implantation.

Removal of large subretinal foreign bodies with bimanual vitrectomy and use of a suture loop.

Purpose: To describe removal of large subretinal foreign bodies with bimanual pars plana vitrectomy and use of a suture loop.

Methods: In a retrospective interventional case series, 2 eyes of 2 patients referred 1 month after primary wound suturation, both with posttraumatic retinal detachment and 1 with endophthalmitis, underwent pars plana vitrectomy. Intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) were grasped using a 6-0 polypropylene suture loop.

25-Gauge sutureless vitrectomy with oblique sclerotomies for the management of retinal detachment in pseudophakic and phakic eyes.

Purpose: To evaluate the anatomic and functional outcomes of 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy in primary treatment of noncomplex retinal detachments (RD) in pseudophakic and phakic eyes.

Methods: In this interventional clinical case series, 23 pseudophakic and 13 phakic eyes with total RDs with proliferative vitreoretinopathy grade A/B underwent primary 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy with oblique sclerotomies and gas endotamponade. Eyes with minimum follow-up of 6 months were evaluated.

25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy in osteogenesis imperfecta type I.

Purpose: To report a case with type I osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) with intravitreal opacities who underwent 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy.

Methods: A 2.5-year-old girl with OI type I who presented with intravitreal opacities underwent 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy.

Prognostic factors in severely traumatized eyes with posterior segment involvement.

Background: To determine the prognostic indicators of functional outcome in eyes with severe posterior segment trauma managed with pars plana vitrectomy.

Methods: One hundred and six eyes of 101 patients were retrospectively reviewed to determine the accuracy of a number of factors in predicting functional outcome after surgery. These potential prognostic indicators included initial visual acuity (VA), retinal detachment (RD), type of trauma, presence of intraocular foreign body (IOFB), type of IOFB, posttraumatic endophthalmitis, hyphema, choroidal detachment, initial hypotonia, accompanying lens subluxation/dislocation, and severe vitreous hemorrhage.

Ocular trauma score in open-globe injuries.

Background: To determine the value of calculating an ocular trauma score (OTS) for patients with open-globe injuries. OTS evaluating system can provide valuable prognostic information, and its use may be an asset in counseling patients with open-globe injuries.

Methods: This study was conducted as a retrospective review of 114 eyes of 114 patients who presented with open-globe injuries between January 2001 and July 2006.

Twelve-month safety and visual acuity results from a feasibility study of intraocular, epiretinal radiation therapy for the treatment of subfoveal CNV secondary to AMD.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the short-term safety and feasibility of intraocular, epiretinal delivery of beta radiation for the treatment of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration for 12 months. A 3-year follow-up period is planned to assess the long-term safety of the procedure.

Methods: In this nonrandomized, multicenter feasibility study, 34 treatment-naïve patients with predominantly classic, minimally classic, or occult lesions due to subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration received a single treatment with either 15 Gray (Gy) (8 patients) or 24 Gy (26 patients) beta radiation (strontium-90) using a novel intraocular delivery device.

Acute-onset endophthalmitis after cataract surgery: success of initial therapy, visual outcomes, and related factors.

Purpose: To evaluate the success of initial treatment and the factors influencing the outcome in acute-onset endophthalmitis after cataract surgery.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all patients with acute postoperative endophthalmitis between 2000 and 2007. We performed pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) to all eyes with initial visual acuity of light perception.

Mitomycin protection of peridural fibrosis in lumbar disc surgery.

Object: In this prospective, randomized clinical study the authors sought to evaluate the effects of locally applied mitomycin C on peridural fibrosis during lumbar microdiscectomy.

Methods: Patients undergoing lumbar disc surgery were randomly divided into 2 groups. Thirty patients had 1 mg/ml mitomycin C applied at the site of discectomy for 5 minutes, and 30 age- and sex-matched patients underwent lumbar microdiscectomy without mitomycin C application as the control group.

Primary 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy with oblique sclerotomies in pseudophakic retinal detachment.

Purpose: To evaluate the anatomic and functional outcomes of 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy in primary treatment of noncomplex pseudophakic rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRD).

Methods: Prospective interventional institutional case series. Twenty-two eyes with pseudophakic RRD with proliferative vitreoretinopathy grade A or B underwent primary 25-gauge vitrectomy with oblique sclerotomies and gas endotamponade.

Transconjunctival 25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy and silicone oil injection in diabetic tractional retinal detachment.

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to evaluate the outcomes and complications of transconjunctival sutureless 25-gauge vitrectomy using silicone oil tamponade in diabetic tractional retinal detachment.

Materials And Methods: Patients were retrospectively evaluated. Main outcome measure was the feasibility of pars plana vitrectomy and silicone oil injection with 25-gauge system in eyes with diabetic tractional retinal detachment.