Short-term efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab for the treatment of macular edema due to diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion.

Purpose: To evaluate the short-term efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab injection for the management of macular edema due to diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion.

Methods: Patients with macular edema due to diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vein occlusion were treated with intravitreal bevacizumab and evaluated retrospectively. Standardized ophthalmic evaluation, ETDRS visual acuity measurement, and central macular thickness were performed at baseline and 1 month intervals after injection.

Conjunctival flora in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) are prone to infection because glucose in the skin, urine, mucous membranes, and tears promotes growth of microorganisms. Conjunctival flora develops soon after birth, and some saprophytic conjunctival flora play a pathogenic role when immune function is compromised, which can lead to serious infection. DM is one condition that may compromise immune status.

Rapid improvement of retinal and iris neovascularization after a single intravitreal bevacizumab injection in a patient with central retinal vein occlusion and neovascular glaucoma.

Background: Intravitreal injections of bevacizumab have been reported to have anatomical and functional success in treating choroidal neovascularization, macular edema and neovascular glaucoma. We report a case with neovascular glaucoma due to central retinal vein occlusion who demonstrates rapid resolution of anterior and posterior segment neovascularization after a single intravitreal bevacizumab injection.

Case: A 46-year old man with a 6-month history of central retinal vein occlusion presented with neovascular glaucoma.

Chromosome and sister chromatid exchange studies in Behcet's patients.

Behcet's disease is a chronic multisystemic disease of unknown pathogenesis characterized by four major symptoms: oral aphthous ulcers, skin lesions, ocular symptoms and genital ulcerations. The disease is spread throughout the world, but it is most frequent in Turkey, Japan, Korea and China. Although HLA-Bw51 has been found to predominate in Behcet's cases, the genetic etiology has not yet been clarified.

Corneal degeneration following bicanalicular silicone intubation.

Purpose: A case of bilateral arcus-like corneal degeneration in the medial limbal regions following bilateral bicanalicular silicone intubation is reported.

Methods: Case report.

Results: Bilateral arcus-like corneal opacifications were observed in the medial limbal regions of a 33-year-old woman 3 months after the bilateral silicone intubation with dacryocystorhinostomy.