The challenges of diagnosing glaucoma in myopic cases and the important role of Bruch's membrane opening-minimum rim width in the diagnosis of myopic glaucoma.

Background: Glaucoma is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can lead to blindness; furthermore, axial myopia is associated with retinal and optic nerve changes that mimic glaucoma. Diagnosing glaucoma in myopic eyes is challenging due to anatomical variations, emphasizing the need for precise OCT-based evaluations.

Objective: To evaluate the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and Bruch's Membrane Opening-Minimum Rim Width (BMO-MRW) parameters in myopic patients with and without glaucoma by using Spectralis® optical coherence tomography (OCT), in order to reveal the relationship between axial length (AL) and OCT parameters and also to determine the OCT parameters that should be considered when diagnosing glaucoma in myopic cases.

Assessment of cataract forming effect of diabetes in young adults by lens densitometer.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of the diabetes on cataract formation by Pentacam Scheimpflug topography system.

Materials And Methods: Thirty diabetic patients and thirty-five healthy control subjects were included in the study. Exclusion criteria were smoking, high refractive error, any systemic disease or drug usage associated with cataract formation and to have diabetic retinopathy.

Examination of retinal vascular density changes via optical coherence tomography angiography in patients with glaucoma.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in vessel density (VD) in glaucoma patients and to investigate the relationship between VD and structural parameters using optical coherence tomography angiography.

Methods: Our study included 25 primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients, 25 pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXG) patients and 25 healthy individuals. All patients underwent 6 × 6 mm retinal angiography (upper limit: internal limitan membrane [ILM], lower limit: 10 µm inferior to inner plexiform layer) and 4.

The effect of deep sclerectomy on ocular blood flow: a 6-month clinical trial.

Background/aim: To investigate the effect of deep sclerectomy on retrobulbar blood flow.

Materials And Methods: This prospective study included 20 eyes of 20 patients with open angle glaucoma. Color Doppler imaging (CDI) examinations were performed before and 2, 12, and 24 weeks after deep sclerectomy.

Analysis of multiple sclerosis patients with electrophysiological and structural tests.

We aimed to analyze the effects of progressive myelin loss and neurodegeneration seen in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) on visual tract with electrophysiological and structural tests. Fifty-one patients diagnosed with MS in the Neurology Department were followed up in neuro-ophthalmology outpatient clinic irrespective of their visual symptoms, and were included in our study. The patients were classified as the ones with the history of optic neuritis (group II) and ones without the history (group I) of optic neuritis.

Geleophysic dysplasia associated with bilateral angle closure glaucoma.

In this case report, we present occurrence of bilateral angle closure glaucoma in a 9-year-old girl with geleophysic dysplasia. Bilateral YAG laser iridotomy was applied, but intraocular pressure (IOP) remained at high levels, necessitating bilateral trabeculectomy with mitomycin C. On her follow-up examinations for 3 years, IOP remained in the mid-20s with no need for further intervention or antiglaucoma medication.

Decompression retinopathy and possible risk factors.

Purpose: To discuss the underlying mechanisms in decompression retinopathy.

Methods: Report of two cases.

Results: Retinal hemorrhages secondary to decompression retinopathy occurred following combined trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy with mitomycine-C (MMC) in one eye of a case of congenital glaucoma and pars plana vitrectomy-lensectomy in a case of vitreous condensation secondary to pars planitis.