Exophthalmometry values of Turkish adult population and the effect of age, sex, refractive status, and Hertel base values on Hertel readings.

Purpose: To establish normal exophthalmometry values in the adult Turkish population, and the impact of age, gender, interpupillary distance, Hertel base selection, and refractive status on globe position.

Methods: Exophthalmometry measurements and refractive status of 2477 subjects were conducted in one tertiary and five primary health care centers. Change of globe position by age, intersex differences in terms of globe position, correlations of Hertel base with exophthalmometry results, and interpupillary distance (IPD) were evaluated.

Ocular blood flow in healthy and primary open-angle glaucomatous eyes.

Purpose: To evaluate blood flow parameters in the ophthalmic artery, in the posterior ciliary arteries and in the central retinal artery in eyes with primary open-angle glaucoma.

Methods: Hemodynamic parameters were evaluated by color Doppler imaging in 48 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and 42 age-matched normal control subjects. Peak systolic velocity (Pv), end-diastolic velocity (Ev), and resistive index (RI) were calculated in the central retinal artery, short posterior ciliary arteries and the ophthalmic artery.

Diabetic retinopathy and HLA antigens in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus. No single predisposing factor has been identified, and genetic factors may play a role in the development of severe retinopathy. In this study, we investigated the association between diabetic retinopathy and HLA antigens in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Lincoff temporary balloon buckle in retinal detachment surgery.

Purpose: To assess the long-term anatomical and functional results of balloon buckle surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-five selected detachments with a single break or a group of breaks close together were treated with a temporary parabulbar balloon. Adhesion was obtained with transconjunctival cryopexy and argon laser photocoagulation.

Does surgical technique influence cataract surgery contamination?

Purpose: To compare cataract surgery contamination rates in large-incision extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification (PE), we studied 65 cases prospectively.

Methods: Thirty-five cases were operated by large-incision ECCE (Group I) and 30 by PE (Group II). Conjunctival swab cultures were taken immediately before surgery and anterior chamber aspirate was taken for culture upon completion of surgery for each case.

The results of cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation in patients with Behçet's disease.

Purpose: To evaluate the results of extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in patients with Behçet's disease.

Methods: Retrospective study was based on 19 uveitic eyes of 12 patients with Behçet's disease who underwent classic ECCE with IOL implantation in 5 eyes and phacoemulsification with IOL implantation in 14 eyes between 1993-1999.

Results: In eyes with Behçet's uveitis 0.

The evaluation of ocular trauma in children between ages 0-12.

Ocular trauma is the leading cause of noncongenital unilateral blindness in children under 20 years old. In this study, 138 patients (36 female, 102 male) with ocular trauma between November 1983 and October 1996 were reviewed retrospectively at the Department of Ophthalmology, Ondokuz Mayis University Faculty of Medicine. Twenty-four of these patients were blunt trauma and 114 were perforating eye injury.

Secondary glaucoma after congenital cataract surgery.

Purpose: Glaucoma has been recognized as an infrequent but serious complication following surgery for congenital cataract in childhood. We conducted a retrospective review of patients in whom glaucoma had developed after surgery for congenital cataract.

Methods: We reviewed the records of 87 eyes of 53 patients on whom cataract surgery had been performed between February 1982 and March 1995 at Ondokuz Mayis University Hospital, Samsun.

Effect of intraocular lens and anterior capsule opening type on posterior capsule opacification.

Purpose: To determine the effect of intraocular lens (IOL) type and anterior capsulectomy technique on the incidence of posterior capsule opacification.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty, University of Ondokuz Mayis, Samsun, Turkey.

Methods: Three hundred two eyes of 294 patients were examined retrospectively after IOL implantation in the capsular bag performed between February 1991 and November 1996.

Cyclosporin-A therapy in severe uveitis of Behçet's disease.

Purpose: Cyclosporine-A (CSA) combined with corticosteroid therapy was administered to 12 patients with severe Behçet's uveitis who were resistant to colchicine or cytotoxic therapy.

Methods: Previous colchicine or cytotoxic therapies were tapered off one month before CSA therapy. All patients were started on an initial oral dose of 5 mg/kg/day of CSA.

The effects of nasolacrimal canal blockage on topical medications for glaucoma.

Twenty patients with primary open angle glaucoma who have been treated with identical antiglaucoma eye drops in both eyes were examined. Silicone punctal plugs were used to occlude the inferior punctum of one eye, in order to block the nasolacrimal canal. The intraocular pressures and effects of the medical therapy before and after punctal occlusion were compared.

The effects of antiglaucomatous agents on conjunctiva used for various durations.

Purpose: The effect of antiglaucomatous agents on conjunctiva used for various durations evaluated histopathologically.

Methods: Conjunctiva biopsies were taken in 19 Mayis University Faculty of Medicine Ophthalmology Department from 31 eyes of 30 patients who underwent filtration surgery after a period of antiglaucomatous agent use and examined under light microscope. The results were compared with the results of conjunctival biopsies from 10 similar aged patients undergoing retinal detachment of cataract surgery and with no other ocular pathology.