Pain Perception in Phacoemulsification with Topical Anesthesia and Evaluation of Factors Related with Pain.

Objectives: Evaluation of pain during and after phacoemulsification with topical anesthesia in patients with senile cataract and investigation of factors related with pain.

Materials And Methods: Ninety-two adult patients scheduled for routine clear corneal phacoemulsification with topical anesthesia who had no previous cataract surgery in their fellow eyes were included in the study. Verbal pain scale and visual analog scale were used to measure pain intensity.

Serum Vitamin D Levels in Patients with Acute Anterior Uveitis.

Purpose: To evaluate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in patients with acute anterior uveitis (AAU).

Methods: This observational case-control study involved 20 patients with AAU, and 20 consecutive, age and sex-matched healthy subjects without any ocular or systemic diseases. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D was quantified with electrochemiluminescence technique.

Comparison of brimonidine-timolol and dorzolamide-timolol in the management of intraocular pressure increase after phacoemulsification.

Aim: To compare the effectiveness of brimonidine/timolol fixed combination (BTFC) and dorzolamide/timolol fixed combination (DTFC) in the management of short-term intraocular pressure (IOP) increase after phacoemulsification surgery.

Methods: Eighty eyes of 80 patients undergoing phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation were randomly assigned into three groups. Group 1 consisted of 28 eyes and represented the control group.

Oxidative stress parameters and serum magnesium levels in patients with seasonal allergic conjunctivitis.

Objective: To evaluate oxidative stress parameters and serum magnesium (Mg) levels in patients with seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC) during the pollen season.

Methods: This observational cross-sectional study involved 35 patients with SAC without any other ocular and systemic diseases, and 38 consecutive, age- and sex-matched healthy subjects. Serum malondialdehyde (MDA), adjusted ischemia modified albumin (IMA), and Mg levels were quantified, and the results were compared between the groups.

Evaluation of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer measurements in patients with iron deficiency anemia with optical coherence tomography.

Objective: To evaluate the thickness of the peripapillary retinal fiber layer (RNFL) and macula ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCL+) using optical coherence tomography (OCT) in patients with iron deficiency (ID) anemia.

Methods: This study included 73 eyes of 39 patients with ID anemia and 68 eyes of 34 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects. The measurements included the peripapillary RNFL thicknesses as average, 4 quadrant and 12 clock-hour (CH) based and macula GCL+ thicknesses as average and 6 quadrant based.

Changes in choroidal thickness during pregnancy detected by enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography.

Aim: To compare the choroidal thickness measurements of healthy pregnant women obtained in the first trimester with measurements obtained in the third trimester using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: 54 eyes of 27 healthy pregnant women and 50 eyes of 25 age matched healthy women were enrolled in this observational, cross-sectional study. The pregnant women underwent two OCT scans, one in the first trimester at gestational weeks 6-8, and the other during the third trimester at gestational weeks 32-37; the control group had OCT scanning during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, using the enhanced depth imaging mode.

Acute central retinal vein occlusion secondary to reactive thrombocytosis after splenectomy.

The diagnosis and treatment of central retinal vein occlusion was reported in a young patient. Central retinal vein occlusion was probably related to secondary to reactive thrombocytosis after splenectomy. The patient was treated with steroids for papilledema and administered coumadin and aspirin.

Plasma vitamin D and serum total immunoglobulin E levels in patients with seasonal allergic conjunctivitis.

Purpose: To evaluate plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and serum total immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels in patients with seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC).

Methods: This observational case-control study involved 49 patients with SAC without any other ocular and systemic diseases, and 44 consecutive, age- and sex-matched healthy subjects. Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and serum total IgE levels of all subjects were quantified with electrochemiluminescence technique.

Enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography of the choroid in migraine patients: implications for the association of migraine and glaucoma.

Aim: To compare the choroidal thickness measurements obtained during the attack period and during the pain-free interval in migraine patients using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: 58 eyes of 29 subjects with a diagnosis of migraine with or without aura were enrolled in this observational, cross-sectional study. Two OCT scans were performed for each patient, one during the peak period of the migraine attack and the other during the headache-free interval, using the enhanced depth imaging mode.

Decreased aortic root elasticity-as a novel systemic manifestation of the pseudoexfoliation syndrome: an observational study.

Objective: To assess the aortic root function in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEXS).

Methods: In this case- controlled observational study, aortic root function in 31 PEXS patients (mean age 71 ± 9 years) and 29 controls of similar ages (mean age 69 ± 9 years) were evaluated by M-mode transthoracic echocardiography. Aortic cross-sectional compliance (CSC), Peterson's elastic modulus (index beta), aortic stiffness index (ASI) and aortic root distensibility (ARD) were calculated by M-mode echocardiography to evaluate the aortic root function.

Successful treatment of necrotizing scleritis after conjunctival autografting for pterygium with amniotic membrane transplantation.

Purpose: To report a case of necrotizing scleritis after pterygium surgery with conjunctival autografting (CA) and intraoperative Mitomycin C (MMC) and its treatment with amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) and systemic steroid.

Methods: A 41-year-old woman who had recurrent nasal pterygium underwent pterygium excision with CA and intraoperative MMC. Two weeks after surgery, graft necrosis and necrotizing scleritis associated with severe pain and irritation were observed on her operated eye.

Impression cytology and ocular surface characteristics in patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical findings, tear film functions and ocular surface changes in patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis.

Methods: This prospective study involved 63 patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis (Group 1) and 65 control subjects (Group 2). Best-corrected visual acuity measurement, slit-lamp examination, Schirmer I test, tear film break-up time (BUT), Rose Bengal staining and conjunctival impression cytology were performed in all patients.

[Function of outer hair cells in patients with pseudoexfoliation].

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to assess whether outer hair cell function in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PES) was affected or not.

Patients And Methods: Thirty-two patients (21 males, 11 females; mean age 69.8+/-9.

Aqueous humor and plasma levels of vascular endothelial growth factor and nitric oxide in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma.

Purpose: To investigate levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and nitric oxide (NO) in the aqueous humor and plasma of patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PXS) and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXG), compared with controls.

Methods: This prospective study involved 37 patients with PXS, 15 with PXG, and 32 control subjects in whom cataract surgery was indicated. Aqueous humor and plasma VEGF and NO levels were measured with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and chemiluminescence methods, respectively.

Induction of apoptosis of rabbit corneal endothelial cells by preservative-free lidocaine hydrochloride 2%, ropivacaine 1%, or levobupivacaine 0.75%.

Purpose: To determine and compare the amount of apoptosis and changes in rabbit corneal endothelial cell morphology after intracameral administration of different anesthetic agents.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Baskent University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey.

Methods: Right eyes of 64 Vienna white rabbits were injected intracamerally with preservative-free lidocaine hydrochloride 2%, ropivacaine 1%, levobupivacaine 0.

Conjunctival impression cytology and tear-film changes in patients with familial Mediterranean fever.

Purpose: To evaluate the ocular surface changes and tear-film functions in patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF).

Methods: This prospective case-control clinical study examined 35 patients with FMF (group 1) and 35 controls (group 2). All patients underwent a full ophthalmological examination.

Conjunctival impression cytology, ocular surface, and tear-film changes in patients treated with systemic isotretinoin.

Purpose: To evaluate the ocular surface changes and tear-film functions in patients treated with systemic isotretinoin.

Methods: Fifty subjects treated with 0.8 mg/kg oral isotretinoin were enrolled in this prospective clinical trial.

Efficacy of olopatadine HCI 0.1%, ketotifen fumarate 0.025%, epinastine HCI 0.05%, emedastine 0.05% and fluorometholone acetate 0.1% ophthalmic solutions for seasonal allergic conjunctivitis: a placebo-controlled environmental trial.

Purpose: We aimed to compare the clinical efficacy and ocular surface variables of olopatadine, ketotifen fumarate, epinastine, emedastine and fluorometholone acetate ophthalmic solutions in preventing the signs and symptoms of seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC).

Methods: This was a prospective, randomized, double-blinded and placebo-controlled study. A total of 100 patients with SAC were randomly assigned to one of five groups, in which they were administered olopatadine, ketotifen fumarate, epinastine, emedastine or fluorometholone acetate, instilled twice daily for 2 weeks.

Intracameral triamcinolone acetonide to control postoperative inflammation following cataract surgery with phacoemulsification.

Purpose: To explore the efficacy, safety and tolerability of 1 mg intracameral triamcinolone acetonide (TA) in controlling ocular inflammation in patients undergoing cataract surgery.

Methods: Sixty eyes of 60 patients undergoing cataract extraction with phacoemulsification at the Department of Ophthalmology, Baskent University School of Medicine were randomized into two groups. After surgery, eyes in group A were injected with 1 mg/0.

Effect of antiglaucoma agents on postoperative intraocular pressure after cataract surgery with Viscoat.

Purpose: To compare the effectiveness of brinzolamide 1%, brimonidine 0.2%, acetazolamide 250 mg, intracameral acetylcholine, and timolol 0.5% in preventing intraocular pressure (IOP) peaks during the early period after phacoemulsification in which sodium chondroitin sulfate 4%-sodium hyaluronate 3% (Viscoat) was used as the ophthalmic viscosurgical device (OVD).

Comparison of a bupivacaine 0.5% and lidocaine 2% mixture with levobupivacaine 0.75% and ropivacaine 1% in peribulbar anaesthesia for cataract surgery with phacoemulsification.

Purpose: To compare a bupivacaine and lidocaine mixture with levobupivacaine and ropivacaine in terms of safety, efficacy and blocking quality in peribulbar anaesthesia for phacoemulsification.

Methods: A total of 105 patients scheduled for cataract surgery with peribulbar anaesthesia were randomly allocated into three groups of 35 patients each, to receive 5 ml of, respectively, a 1 : 1 mixture of bupivacaine 0.5% and lidocaine 2% (group 1), levobupivacaine 0.

The effect of resveratrol in experimental cataract model formed by sodium selenite.

Purpose: To investigate if resveratrol can prevent sodium selenite-induced experimental cataract model in rats.

Methods: Forty-eight Spraque-Dawley rat pups were divided into 3 treatment groups: (1) normal saline-% 5 ethanol injected i.p.

Heparin in the intraocular irrigating solution in pediatric cataract surgery.

Purpose: To investigate the antiinflammatory effects of adding heparin sodium to the irrigating solution to prevent fibrinoid reaction and related long-term complications after pediatric cataract surgery.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Inonu University, Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Malatya, Turkey.

Methods: Thirty eyes of 18 children who had cataract or other ocular surgery were included in the study.