Effects of Smoking on Central Corneal Thickness and the Corneal Endothelial Cell Layer in Otherwise Healthy Subjects.

Objectives: The effects of smoking on central corneal thickness (CCT), corneal endothelial cell density (ECD), and morphology were evaluated in otherwise healthy subjects.

Methods: The study included 103 current smokers and 106 healthy nonsmoking subjects without any eye disease apart from refractive errors. Endothelial cell density, percentage of hexagonality, and coefficient of variation (CV) in cell size were measured using noncontact specular microscopy.

Investigation of the association between glaucoma and Helicobacter pylori infection using the 14C-urea breath test.

Purpose: To investigate the association between glaucoma and Helicobacter pylori infection by evaluating for the presence of H. pylori infection in patients with glaucoma using the 14C-urea breath test (14C-UBT).

Methods: Using 14C-UBT, H.

Changes in the cornea related to sickle cell disease: a pilot investigation.

Purpose: To investigate corneal structural changes (central corneal thickness, endothelial cell count, and cellular morphology) in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD).

Methods: This prospective study included 56 patients with SCD and 50 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects without any eye disease aside from refractive errors. Endothelial cell density (ECD), percentage of hexagonality, and the coefficient of variation in cell size (CV) were measured using noncontact specular microscopy, and central corneal thickness (CCT) was measured by pachymetry.

Effect of intravitreal injection of dexamethasone implant on corneal endothelium in macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of dexamethasone (DEX) implant (Ozurdex(®)) on corneal endothelium in patients with retinal vein occlusion complicated with macular edema.

Materials And Methods: Patients (n = 31) received 1-3 intravitreal DEX implants in one eye. Measurements were intraocular pressure (IOP) at baseline and 1, 3, and 6 months after the first intravitreal injection and corneal specular microscopy and central corneal thickness (CCT) at baseline and 1 and 6 months.

Peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layers thickness in ankylosing spondylitis.

Objective: To assess the thickness of the retinal nerve fibril layer (RNFL) in cases with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).

Materials And Methods: The study included 40 AS patients who had no history of acute and/or previous uveitis and 50 healthy controls. After detailed ocular examination, the thickness of the peripapillary RNFL, the macula, and the ganglion cell-inner plexiform layers (GCIPL) were measured by spectral domain optic coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Assessment of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio in Patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration.

Purpose: To investigate the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as an indicator of inflammation in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: Patients were evaluated by a review of records. The study included 81 patients with dry AMD (group 1), 84 patients with wet AMD (group 2), and 80 healthy age- and sex-matched controls (group 3).

Effects of sub-Tenon's anaesthesia on ocular hemodynamics.

Objective: To research the effects of sub-Tenon's anaesthesia (STA) on ocular hemodynamics in patients with cataract using colour Doppler imaging (CDI).

Design: Prospective clinical study.

Participants: Thirty-four eyes of 34 patients with age-related cataract.

Orbital compression syndrome complicated by epidural hematoma and wide cephalohematoma in a patient with sickle cell disease.

Orbital wall infarctions resulting in orbital and epidural hematomas are rare manifestations of sickle cell disease (SCD). We report orbital compression syndrome associated with an epidural hematoma and wide cephalohematoma in a 15-year-old boy with SCD. An infarcted orbital bone was observed on magnetic resonance imaging and three-phase bone scintigraphy with Technetium-99m methylene diphosphonate.

A novel capsulorhexis technique in white cataract surgery.

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy and safety of novel capsulorhexis technique in white cataract surgery using the irrigation-aspiration system of a phaco device.

Materials And Methods: 53 eyes of 50 patients were included in the study. Patients were randomly divided into two groups.

Is there a relationship between pathologic myopia and dry eye syndrome?

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between pathologic myopia and the dry eye syndrome.

Methods: Forty-five patients with a spherical equivalence (SE) greater than -6.0 diopters (D) and an axial length (AL) >26.

Vacuum-assisted continuous circular capsulorhexis using bimanual irrigation and aspiration system of phaco machine in immature cataract.

Seventy-eight eye of 65 patients were enrolled in this retrospective clinical study. Two-side ports are made with a 23-gauge stiletto knife. The irrigation handpiece is introduced into the anterior chamber through one side port and 27-gauge cystotome is introduced through the other one.

Bilateral Abducens Paralysis Secondary to Compression of Abducens Nerve Roots by Vertebrobasilar Dolichoectasia.

Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia is characterized by dilatation, tortuosity, and marked elongation of the vertebral and basilar arteries. Dolichoectatic arteries usually have thin arterial walls secondary to degeneration of the internal elastic lamina, reticular fibre deficiency, and smooth muscle atrophy. This anomaly is relatively uncommon and generally asymptomatic.

The effects of soft contact lens use on cornea and patient's recovery after autograft pterygium surgery.

Purpose: To investigate usage of soft contact lens (SCL) on post-operative pain relief and daily, activity due to pterygium surgery.

Methods: Autograft pterygium surgery was performed to 63 eyes of 63 patients. After surgery in 30, eyes of 30 patients in group-1, SCL was placed on the cornea.

The effect of enoxaparin-containing irrigation fluid used during cataract surgery on postoperative inflammation in patients with diabetes.

Purpose: To investigate effects of enoxaparin on postoperative inflammation in patients with moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) and nuclear cataract.

Design: Prospective masked controlled trial.

Methods: setting: Institutional practice.

Repair of iridodialysis using 8-0 polypropylene.

Purpose: Investigate the effectiveness of repair of iridodialysis with 8-0 polypropylene.

Methods: We present four cases of traumatic iridodialysis that were repaired by 8-0 polypropylene suture.

Results: Better iris reposition and stability were achieved with 8-0 polypropylene suture despite wide degree traumatic iridodialysis in all patients.

The effects of remifentanil and esmolol on increase in intraocular pressure due to laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation: a double-blind, randomized clinical trial.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the effects of remifentanil and esmolol on the elevation of intraocular pressure (IOP) and hemodynamic response.

Methods: After approval of the institutional Ethics Committee and obtaining informed consent, 60 adult patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists I-II status undergoing elective, nonophthalmic surgery were included in the study. Exclusion criteria were preexisting eye disease, neuromuscular disease, esophageal reflux, hiatus hernia, allergy to any of the study drugs, and the use of β-blockers, diuretics, or other antihypertensive agents.

Posterior Hyaloidotomy by Nd:YAG Laser Application in a Patient with Postpartum Depression Caused by Valsalva Retinopathy.

Purpose: The aim of this report is to present a case of premacular hemorrhage in a 37-week pregnant woman with concurrent presence of postpartum depression secondary to her ocular disease.

Methods: A 27-year-old woman in her 37th week of pregnancy presented with Valsalva retinopathy, which occurred in her left eye secondary to severe coughing. Her visual acuity was reduced to perception of hand motions, and she was agitated because of the loss of vision.

Dislocation of a scleral-fixated posterior chamber intraocular lens into the anterior chamber associated with pseudophakic bullous keratopathy.

A 48-year-old patient with a scleral-fixated posterior chamber intraocular lens had dislocation of the intraocular lens into the anterior chamber and associated pseudophakic bullous keratopathy. The patient underwent intraocular lens extraction and partial penetrating keratoplasty. Because an anterior chamber intraocular lens is easier to implant and has fewer complications, surgeons may want to consider this as the first choice for treatment.

Limbal relaxing incisions for primary mixed astigmatism and mixed astigmatism after cataract surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of limbal relaxing incisions (LRIs) in the treatment of primary mixed astigmatism and mixed astigmatism after cataract surgery.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Inönü University, Malatya, Turkey.

Methods: Limbal relaxing incisions were performed to correct astigmatism in 37 eyes of 26 patients with mixed astigmatism.