Long-term, Low-Dose Oral Azithromycin Treatment for Chronic Severe Bilateral Blepharokeratoconjunctivitis in Pediatric Patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of oral azithromycin treatment combined with topical antibiotic and anti-inflammatory agents in pediatric patients with chronic severe bilateral blepharokeratoconjunctivitis.

Methods: Patients younger than 14 years with chronic and severe bilateral blepharokeratoconjunctivitis were reviewed retrospectively. Consecutive patients receiving oral azithromycin treatment were included.

Indirect cylopexy in cases with cyclodialysis using flanged prolene cylopexy technique.

This study aims to describe a new technique of indirect cyclopexy in the treatment of cyclodialysis. Cases who had cyclodialysis for more than 3 h of extent and were resistant to medical treatment underwent flanged prolene cyclopexy (FPC) technique. Five cases were included in this study.

RESULTS OF TWO CASES WITH DISTINCT COMPLICATIONS DUE TO INTRAVITREAL BEVACIZUMAB IN RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY.

Purpose: To present the surgical outcome and long-term follow-up of 2 cases who underwent intravitreal bevacizumab injection for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and subsequently developed full thickness macular hole and endophthalmitis.

Methods: Case report.

Patients: The first case is a premature girl who was delivered 650 g at the 27th week of postmenstrual age (PMA) because of preeclampsia and received intravitreal 0.

NONPERFORATING INTRASCLERAL STABBING FOR SUTURELESS 23G SCLEROTOMY CLOSURE.

Purpose: The need for suturing leaking sclerotomies have not been eliminated completely in transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (TSV). This study aims to describe a novel technique for 23-gauge (G) sclerotomy closure in TSV surgery and discuss its effectiveness.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred and thirty cases of 180 patients who underwent 23G TSV with various diagnoses were included to the study.

Challenges in the management of an ignored cause of hyperammonemic encephalopathy: pyruvate carboxylase deficiency.

Pyruvate carboxylase (PC) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disease and provides clinics in three essential phenotypes. Type B PC deficiency is characterized by lactic acidosis and hyperammonemia. We report a Turkish patient who was diagnosed with type B PC deficiency.

Abernethy Malformation Type 2 and Biliary Atresia Coexistence: A Rare Cause of Infantile Liver Transplant.

Introduction: Abernethy malformation is a very rare condition in which mesenteric venous blood is drained into systemic circulation by an extra hepatic portosystemic shunt. Here we present a case of a female in infantile period who is a liver transplant candidate with biliary atresia and ventricular septal defect (VSD) accompanying Abernethy malformation type 2.

Case Report: The patient who underwent Kasai operation at postnatal day 35 was identified as a liver transplant candidate in the postnatal month 6 due to growth retardation in the infantile period, insufficient weight gain and liver failure (portal hypertension and massive gastrointestinal bleeding).

The role of serial measurements of serum insulin-like growth factor 1 levels in the development of retinopathy of prematurity.

Aim: To determine the role of serum insulin-like growth factor-1 levels in the development of retinopathy of prematurity, which is a major cause of childhood blindness worldwide.

Material And Methods: We prospectively studied newborn infants born at a postmenstrual age of <32 weeks and birth weights <1 500 gr, between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2015. A total of 40 infants were enrolled in the study.

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography findings of patients under treatment for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Purpose: To investigate the use of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) findings in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients.

Methods: Children that were diagnosed with precursor B-cell ALL and classified as belonging to the medium-risk group for relapse were selected for this study. Individuals who were in continuous remission and on maintenance therapy were included in the study group.

An Important Cause of Blindness in Children: Open Globe Injuries.

Objective. Our aim was to present and evaluate the predictive factors of visual impairment and blindness according to WHO criteria in pediatric open globe injuries. Methods.

Comparison of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Terms of Birth Weight in Prematurely Born Children.

Purpose: To study the potential effects of both prematurity and the sub-groups of low birth weight on thickness of RNFL.

Methods: Prospective case series of 26 preterm school-aged children with low birth weight whose retinal nerve fiber layer analyses with RTVue-100 Fourier-domain optic coherence tomography were performed in 2013 at the Department of Ophthalmology, Erzurum Region Education and Training Hospital.

Results: The mean retinal nerve fiber layer thicknesses were 100.

Investigation of TNF-alpha gene (G308A) and GSTP1 gene (Ilel05Val) polymorphisms in Turkish patients with retinopathy of prematurity.

Background/aim: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the most frequent causes of blindness in newborn babies. Currently, its etiology is not fully understood.-In this study we aimed to investigate the correlation between a patient group with ROP and a control group in terms of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) (G308A) gene and glutathione-S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) (Ilel05Val) gene polymorphism.

The importance of microalbuminuria in predicting patient outcome in a PICU.

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic significance of microalbuminuria in critically ill children.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: PICU of a teaching hospital.

Sequential anti-cytomegalovirus response monitoring may allow prediction of cytomegalovirus reactivation after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

Background: Reconstitution of cytomegalovirus-specific CD3(+)CD8(+) T cells (CMV-CTLs) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is necessary to bring cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation under control. However, the parameters determining protective CMV-CTL reconstitution remain unclear to date.

Design And Methods: In a prospective tri-center study, CMV-CTL reconstitution was analyzed in the peripheral blood from 278 patients during the year following HSCT using 7 commercially available tetrameric HLA-CMV epitope complexes.

Herpes zoster ophthalmicus and lateral rectus palsy in an elderly patient.

Acquired palsy of the lateral rectus presents with horizontal diplopia and has a broad differential. Herpes zoster ophthalmicus- (HZO) related cranial nerve palsy is a transient and self-limiting condition. Systemic antiviral treatment is administered in order to prevent sight-threatening complications.

Maternal preeclampsia is associated with an increased risk of retinopathy of prematurity.

Objective: To determine the effect of maternal preeclampsia on development and severity of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in preterm infants.

Methods: This prospective study consisted of two groups: the study group, which is composed of preterm infants (≤32 weeks) born to a mother with preeclampsia, and the comparison group, which is composed of preterm infants (≤32 gestational age) born to normotensive mothers. We used the International Classification of Retinopathy of Prematurity Revisited for classifying ROP.

Induction of bilateral ligneous conjunctivitis with the use of a prosthetic eye.

The purpose of this article to report a case of ligneous conjunctivitis in an anophthalmic socket, in respect of a 20-year-old woman. The subject woman had a history of left enucleation surgery presented with bilateral palpebral ligneous conjunctivitis and ligneous gingivitis. The hematologic study revealed a severe plasma plasminogen deficiency.