Posterior segment parameters after uveitic cataract surgery: A prospective study with 1-year results.

Purpose: To evaluate the changes in posterior segment after uncomplicated cataract surgery in uveitic patients.

Methods: Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT), ganglion cell layer thickness (GCLT), central macular thickness (CMT), and choroidal thickness (CT) of 38 eyes of 28 patients were measured pre- and postoperatively on day 1, week 1, and month 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12.

Results: The RNFLT increased after surgery.

Effects of the Presence of Pseudoexfoliation on Intraocular Pressure and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Patients with Macular Degeneration Receiving Intravitreal Ranibizumab.

Aims: In the present study, we aimed to compare the effect of intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) treatment on intraocular pressure (IOP) and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with and without pseudoexfoliation (PEX).

Materials And Methods: A total of 24 patients, 12 with PEX (12 eyes) and 12 without PEX (12 eyes), receiving IVR treatment for neovascular AMD between June 2017 and June 2019, were included in the study. Exclusion criteria were composed of the history of glaucoma, uveitis, intravitreal steroid administration, pars plana vitrectomy surgery, and less than three IVR injections.

Anterior segment parameters after uveitic cataract surgery: A prospective study with 1-year results.

Purpose: To determine the changes in anterior segment parameters in uveitic patients undergoing uncomplicated cataract surgery.

Methods: The best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal thickness (CCT), anterior chamber angle (ACA), anterior chamber depth (ACD), and axial length (AXL) of the 38 eyes of 28 well-controlled uveitic patients who underwent cataract surgery were monitored for 12 months.

Results: Mean BCVA improved significantly at the postoperative visits when compared to the baseline (all P<0.

The Effect of Ranibizumab Loading Treatment on Vision-Related Quality of Life in Diabetic Macular Edema.

Aims: To investigate the changes in vision-related quality of life after a loading dose of three consecutive intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) injections in patients with unilateral diabetic macular edema (DME).

Materials And Methods: Fifty-two eyes of 52 patients who received IVR injections in only one eye with DME were included in our study. The following characteristics of the patients were recorded: gender, education status, marital status, work status, presence of chronic disease.

May ganglion cell complex analysis be a marker for glaucoma susceptibility in unilateral Fuchs' uveitis syndrome?

Purpose: To compare retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness (GCIPLT) in the affected eyes to fellow unaffected eyes of patients with unilateral Fuchs' uveitis syndrome (FUS) and analyze their change over time.

Methods: Twenty seven unilateral FUS patients who did not have concomitant systemic or ocular disease were retrospectively enrolled. Central macular thickness (CMT), RNFL thickness, and GCIPLT measurements were evaluated.

Rapid response to systemic steroid in macular alexandrite laser exposure: Multimodal imaging.

Purpose: To report the management of accidental macular photocoagulation during a 750-nm Alexandrite laser hair removal procedure.

Methods: Single case report with images.

Results: A 23-year-old girl presented with an immediate visual field defect in her right eye after direct inadvertent exposure to a single discharge from a 750-nm Alexandrite laser used for laser hair removal.

Analysis of central macular thickness and choroidal thickness changes in patients with cardiovascular risk factors.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate central macular thickness (CMT) and choroidal thickness (CT) in the eyes of patients with cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF).

Methods: A cross-sectional, prospective observational study of 92 patients with CVRF and 21 healthy individuals was conducted. Patients were divided into four groups according to the SCORE system.

Central Serous Chorioretinopathy: A Complication Associated with Behçet’s Disease Treatment.

Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) is characterized by a well-defined serous choroidal detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium with one or more focal lesions of the neurosensory retina. Risk factors for CSCR are psychosocial stress, increased endogenous catecholamine, and increased endogenous cortisol. Systemic steroids can cause ocular side effects such as cataract development, increased intraocular pressure, and less frequently the development of CSCR, which can resolve spontaneously with close follow-up and simple treatment modification.

Corneal Biomechanical Properties and Central Corneal Thickness in Pediatric Noninfectious Uveitis: A Controlled Study.

Objective: To compare the corneal biomechanics, intraocular pressure (IOP), and central corneal thickness (CCT) of 37 patients with pediatric noninfectious uveitis with 36 healthy children.

Methods: Corneal hysteresis (CH), corneal resistance factor (CRF), Goldmann-correlated and corneal-compensated IOP (IOPg and IOPcc, respectively), and CCT were measured.

Results: The mean CRF was significantly lower in the pediatric uveitic eyes than controls (9.

A Rare Patient With Orbital Apex Syndrome, Anterior Uveitis, and Necrotizing Scleritis Due to Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus.

The purpose of this study was to describe a patient of orbital apex syndrome, anterior uveitis, secondary glaucoma, corneal dellen, and necrotizing scleritis following an attack of herpes zoster ophthalmicus, and the placement of a pericardial patch graft. A 64-year-old male patient with blepharoptosis of his right eye and multiple vesicles on the forehead, nose and cheeks, limitation on all gazes, blepharoptosis, and exophthalmia was eventually diagnosed with ophthalmic zona with orbital apex syndrome. After the treatment with systemic antiviral and steroid, there was complete recovery of the unilateral vesicular eruption, ophthalmoplegia, and ptosis at the third month follow-up.

Choroidal and central foveal thickness in patients with scleroderma and its systemic associations.

Background: The aim was to investigate the morphological changes in the fovea and choroid in patients with scleroderma and its systemic associations.

Methods: Thirty-four scleroderma patients and 31 healthy controls were enrolled. Choroidal thickness (CT) at five defined points (subfoveal [sfCT] and 1.

Canaliculitis Awareness.

Objectives: To evaluate the demographic characteristics, treatment, and results of patients with canaliculitis.

Materials And Methods: Medical records including the demographic characteristics, clinical findings, and treatment outcomes of patients diagnosed and treated for canaliculitis between September 2009 and March 2014 were analyzed retrospectively.

Results: The median age of the 7 canaliculitis patients consisting of 4 women and 3 men was 49 (range 8-58) years.

Bacteriological profile in conjunctival, lacrimal sac, and nasal specimens and conjunctival normalization time following external, endoscopic, and transcanalicular multidiode laser dacryocystorhinostomy.

Purpose: To compare the conjunctival, lacrimal sac, and nasal flora cultures and conjunctival normalization time following external (EX-), endoscopic (EN-), and transcanalicular multidiode laser (TC-) dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) and to evaluate the relationship between culture positivity and surgical success. We further performed antibiotic sensitivity analyses for lacrimal sac culture samples.

Methods: A total of 90 patients with primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction were recruited and divided into EX-DCR (n=32), EN-DCR (n=28), and TC-DCR (n=30) groups.

Are There Any Changes in Corneal Biomechanics and Central Corneal Thickness in Fuchs' Uveitis?

Purpose: To compare corneal biomechanics, intraocular pressure (IOP) and central corneal thickness (CCT) of 38 patients with unilateral Fuchs' uveitis (FU) with 42 healthy controls.

Methods: Corneal hysteresis (CH), corneal resistance factor (CRF), Goldmann-correlated and corneal-compensated IOP (IOPg and IOPcc, respectively) and CCT were measured.

Results: The mean CH, CRF, and IOPg of the involved FU eyes were significantly lower (9.

Comparing acromegalic patients to healthy controls with respect to intraocular pressure, central corneal thickness, and optic disc topography findings.

Aims: The aim was to compare the intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal thickness (CCT), and optic disc topography findings of biochemically controlled acromegalic patients and the control group and to evaluate the effect of the duration of acromegaly and serum growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels on these ocular parameters.

Materials And Methods: IOP measurement with Goldmann applanation tonometry, CCT measurement with ultrasonic pachymetry, and topographic analysis with Heidelberg retinal tomograph III were performed on 35 biochemically controlled acromegalic patients and 36 age- and gender-matched controls.

Results: Mean IOP and CCT were 14.

Surgical outcomes and incidence of retinal redetachment in cases with complicated retinal detachment after silicone oil removal: univariate and multiple risk factors analysis.

Purpose: To analyze the surgical outcomes and retinal redetachment frequency after silicone oil (SO) removal for complex retinal detachment.

Methods: This institutional-based study included 894 consecutive patients who underwent pars plana vitrectomy with SO endotamponade for complicated retinal detachment. The effects of preoperative best-corrected visual acuity, vitreous base shaving, intraoperative scleral buckling, retinectomy, SO viscosity, duration of SO, and vitreous hemorrhage at the first postoperative week on the risk of redetachment were investigated.

Comparison of scanning electron microscopy findings regarding biofilm colonization with microbiological results in nasolacrimal stents for external, endoscopic and transcanalicular dacryocystorhinostomy.

Aim: To compare bacterial biofilm colonization in lacrimal stents following external dacryocystorhinostomy (EX-DCR), endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (EN-DCR), and transcanalicular dacryocystorhinostomy (TC-DCR) with multidiode laser.

Methods: This prospective study included 30 consecutive patients with nasolacrimal duct obstruction who underwent EXT-, EN-, or TC-DCR. Thirty removed lacrimal stent fragments and conjunctival samples were cultured.

Prospective comparison of 3 dacryocystorhinostomy surgeries: external versus endoscopic versus transcanalicular multidiode laser.

Purpose: To analyze the clinical outcomes of external (EX-), endoscopic (EN-), and transcanalicular multidiode laser (TC-) with dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR).

Methods: Ninety-two patients with primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction were enrolled (divided into EX-DCR [n = 33], EN-DCR [n = 30], and TC-DCR groups [n = 29]) in this prospective study. Primary outcome measures were the anatomical and functional success of operations at the last control examination.

Corneal biomechanical properties measured by the ocular response analyzer in acromegalic patients.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of acromegaly on corneal biomechanical parameters.

Methods: This cross-sectional, comparative clinical study included 34 acromegalic patients and 30 age-matched and sex-matched healthy controls. Corneal hysteresis (CH), corneal resistance factor (CRF), Goldmann-correlated and corneal-compensated intraocular pressure (IOPg and IOPcc, respectively) were measured using the Ocular Response Analyzer.

Thirteen-year vitreoretinal surgical outcomes of 5,097 cases from a tertiary referral center in Turkey.

A 13-year retrospective chart review of 5,097 consecutive cases that underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in a tertiary referral center in Turkey was performed. Age at onset, sex, laterality, associated systemic disease, pre- and postoperative visual acuities (VA), indications, type of surgery and outcomes of surgery were analyzed. The most common indications for vitreoretinal surgery (VRS) were rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (n = 1,802, 35.

Optic disc pit with sectorial retinitis pigmentosa.

Sectorial retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and optic disc pit (ODP) are rare clinical conditions. We present a 40-year-old woman with a history of mild night blindness and decreased vision in the right eye for about 5 years. Fundus examination revealed retinal pigmentary changes in the superior and inferotemporal sectors covering the macula and reduced arterial calibre and ODP at the temporal edge of the optic disc.

Comparison of aerobic conjunctival bacterial flora in pregnant, reproductive-aged and postmenopausal women.

Aim: To evaluate the effect of hormonal status on aerobic conjunctival flora in women.

Methods: One hundred fifty-eight women [reproductive-aged (n=55), pregnant (n=51), and postmenopausal (n=52)] who admitted to outpatient clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Denizli State Hospital were enrolled. Age, body-mass index (BMI), obstetric history, cigarette smoking, drug usage, presence of systemic disease, and intraocular pressure (IOP) were recorded for each patient.

Pasteurella canis and Granulicatella adiacens conjunctivitis outbreak resistant to empirical treatment in a child welfare agency.

Purpose: To investigate pathogens associated with bacterial conjunctivitis resistant to the empirical treatment and their antibiotic resistance in a child welfare agency.

Methods: Twenty-eight eyes in 14 children with a median age of 3 months with conjunctivitis resistant to the empirical treatment were included in this study. Samples were taken three times from the inferior fornix in both eyes using cotton swabs, cultured onto chocolate and blood agar, and prepared for Gram staining.

Effect of doxycycline on postoperative scarring after trabeculectomy in an experimental rabbit model.

Purpose: To investigate effectiveness of doxycycline after trabeculectomy in rabbits by evaluating bleb appearance, intraocular pressure, and levels of matrix metalloproteinase-1, -2, -3, and -9 and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 and -2 in the subconjunctival (sc) area.

Methods: Twenty-nine New Zealand White rabbits were assigned into 1 of 6 groups as follows: topical doxycycline (0.1%), postoperative sc injection of doxycycline (100 mg/2 mL), and intraoperative mitomycin-C (MMC) (0.

Effect of chronic topical glaucoma medications on aerobic conjunctival bacterial flora.

Purpose: To investigate whether the chronic topical medications affect aerobic conjunctival bacterial flora of patients with glaucoma and to compare their findings with the findings of the controls.

Methods: Eighty-one patients and 67 healthy control subjects participated in this case-control study. Duplicate conjunctival swab specimens were collected from each patient at the microbiology laboratory and were investigated for the presence of aerobic bacteria.