The effects of bevacizumab treatment in a rat model of retinal ischemia and perfusion injury.

Purpose: To create a model of an ischemic retina with temporary ischemia and reperfusion (IR) and to examine the possible antiapoptotic and neurodegenerative effects of a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antagonist.

Methods: Three groups were formed. Rats were subjected to continued ischemia for 45 min, and then reperfusion was allowed for 2 days.

Cataract surgery in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a case report.

We report a cataract operation with complications in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The patient had a grade 4 mature brown cataract. Phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation was planned; however, due to unexpected complications occurring during surgery, the operating technique was revised to an intracapsular cataract extraction.

Corneal biomechanical properties and intraocular pressure changes after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation.

Purpose: To evaluate corneal viscoelastic and intraocular pressure (IOP) changes measured by an ocular response analyzer (ORA) after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Setting: Yeditepe University Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Methods: Fifty-one eyes scheduled for cataract surgery were included in the study.