Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Background: To determine the effectiveness of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy on visual acuity and visual field in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

Objective: Stem cell treatment in retinitis pigmentosa provides improvement in visual acuity and visual field.

Method: Forty-seven eyes of 27 patients diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa were included in our study.

Early effects of cardiopulmonary bypass surgery on retinal nerve fiber layer and ganglion cell layer.

Purpose: To determine the effects of cardiopulmonary bypass surgery on retinal nerve fiber layer, ganglion cell layer, and macula by optic coherens tomography (OCT).

Method: Sixty-six eyes of 33 patients aged between 44 and 74 who were indicated for cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in the cardiovascular surgery clinic were included in the study. Routine ophthalmologic examinations of all patients were performed before and 1 week after surgery.

Corneal characteristics in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

Background: To evaluate corneal topography and specular microscopic findings in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

Methods: One hundred and two eyes of 51 patients with retinitis pigmentosa and 60 eyes of 30 healty subjects were included in our study. A detailed ophthalmological examination involving best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was performed.

Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy in diabetic macular edema: real-life outcomes from a multicenter study in Turkey over 36 months.

Purpose: This study aimed to report the visual and anatomical outcomes of intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME) in a real-world clinical setting from Turkey over 36 months.

Methods: This is a retrospective, multicenter (7 sites) study. The medical records of 1072 eyes (both previously treated and naive eyes) of 706 consecutive patients with visual impairment due to center-involving DME treated with intravitreal anti-VEGF injections between April 2007 and February 2017 were reviewed.

Macular pigment optical density change analysis in primary open-angle glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma.

Purpose: We aimed to investigate whether macular pigment optical density (MPOD) has a diagnostic value by comparing MPOD and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), ganglion cell layer++ (GCL++) of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and pseudoexfoliation (PEX) glaucoma and normal individuals.

Methods: We included in the study 54 eyes of 34 patients with diagnosis POAG, 40 eyes of 25 patients with PEX glaucoma and 40 eyes of 20 normal individuals. The MPOD measurements of the cases were performed in the MPOD mode of the fundus fluorescein angiography (Carl Zeiss Visucam Meditec, Germany) device while the pupils were in dilated status.