One-year outcomes of less frequent bevacizumab in age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To evaluate whether a less frequent bevacizumab dosing schedule after repeated doses in short intervals would be effective in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

Methods: Twenty-seven treatment-naive eyes of patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration participated in this prospective, noncomparative, and interventional study at the Ulucanlar Eye Training and Research Hospital retina clinic. All lesion types were included.

Ocular involvement in sarcoidosis.

Purpose: To evaluate ocular involvement in patients with sarcoidosis.

Methods: The prevalence of ocular manifestations was studied in 139 Turkish patients with sarcoidosis as a cross section. Color photography and fluorescein angiography were performed on patients suspected of having ocular involvement.

Evaluation of the optic nerve head with the heidelberg retina tomograph in diabetes mellitus.

Background: To evaluate the optic nerve head by means of the Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: The study group consisted of 47 patients with DM [group 1; 29 patients without diabetic retinopathy (DR) and 18 patients with non-proliferative DR] and 50 normal subjects (group 2). All patients and controls underwent a complete ophthalmological examination, and the optic nerve head topography of both eyes was evaluated by using HRT-I.

Intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide in the management of cystoid macular edema in Behçet's disease.

Purpose: To determine the efficacy of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (ivTA) injection in the management of cystoid macular edema (CME) due to uveitis in patients with Behçet's disease.

Methods: Ten eyes of seven patients with CME associated with Behçet's disease were included in the study. A quantity of 4 mg of triamcinolone acetonide was injected intravitreally in all of the eyes.

Fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography in ocular toxoplasmosis.

Purpose: To document fluorescein and indocyanine green angiographic findings in patients with ocular toxoplasmosis.

Methods: Charts of patients with ocular toxoplasmosis who were evaluated with fluorescein and indocyanine green angiograpy were reviewed.

Results: In this study, eight (38%) females and 13 (62%) males with a mean age of 20.

Clinical features and prognosis in ocular toxoplasmosis.

Purpose: To evaluate retrospectively the clinical characteristics, complications, and prognosis in patients with ocular toxoplasmosis.

Patients And Methods: We reviewed the records of 189 patients (243 eyes) with ocular toxoplasmosis who were examined between 1972 and 1999. Color fundus photography and, in some patients, fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography were performed.

A long-term follow-up of Eales' disease.

Purpose: To provide long-term follow-up information on Eales' patients.

Methods: Eales' patients, who had been examined at varying periods between the years 1970 and 1991 with a minimum five-year follow-up, were included in the study.

Results: A total of 130 patients were followed up for a minimum of five and a maximum of 26.

Factor V Leiden and prothrombin gene G20210A mutations in ocular Behçet disease.

Purpose: To investigate genetic prothrombotic factors (factor V Leiden and prothrombin gene G20210A mutations) and their relation with retinal vascular occlusions in ocular Behçet disease.

Methods: Thirty Behçet patients were prospectively recruited into the study. Their mean age was 34.