Prevalence of Ocular Surface Disease and Associated Risk Factors in Glaucoma Patients: A Survey Study of Ophthalmologists.

Objectives: This survey study of ophthalmologists investigated the prevalence and clinical manifestations of ocular surface disease (OSD) in glaucoma patients, assessment methods used, risk factors, glaucoma drugs considered responsible, and treatment approaches.

Materials And Methods: A questionnaire prepared jointly by the Turkish Ophthalmological Association Cornea and Ocular Surface Society and Glaucoma Society using SurveyMonkey was sent to ophthalmologists via e-mail. The distribution of parameters was compared with chi-square test and p<0.

Foveolar choroidal blood flow in idiopathic macular hole.

Purpose: To measure choroidal blood flow from foveal region in the eyes with idiopathic macular hole.

Methods: Thirteen patients with macular hole and 20 age-matched healthy subjects were included into the study. While group 1 consisted of 13 eyes of idiopathic stage 4 macular hole, seven fellow eyes of the same patients with stage 1a macular hole formed the group 2.

Diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation for the treatment of refractory glaucoma after penetrating keratoplasty.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect and safety of diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (TSCPC) in eyes with refractory glaucoma after penetrating keratoplasty (PK).

Methods: Diode laser TSCPC was performed on 32 eyes of 32 patients with secondary glaucoma after penetrating keratoplasty. The mean follow-up period was 11.

Microvascular blood flow of the optic nerve head and peripapillary retina in unilateral exfoliation syndrome.

Purpose: To measure microvascular blood flow in patients with unilateral exfoliation syndrome (XFS) without glaucoma or ocular hypertension and to compare the values in the eyes with clinically detected exfoliation, their nonexfoliative fellow eyes of the same patients and control eyes.

Methods: Twenty-two patients with clinically detected unilateral XFS and 30 age-matched healthy subjects were included in this study. Group 1 consisted of 22 eyes with clinical XFS, and the nonexfoliative fellow eyes of the same patients formed Group 2.

Optic nerve head blood flow using scanning laser Doppler flowmetry after laser in situ keratomileusis.

Purpose: To investigate ocular blood flow changes following laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) in myopic eyes.

Methods: Seventeen eyes of ten myopic patients were included in the study. Mean age of the seven men and three women was 29.

Long term follow-up of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in eyes with optic nerve head drusen.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of optic nerve head drusen (ONHD) on the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness during follow-up period.

Methods: Twenty-three non-glaucomatous eyes having clinically visible ONHD confirmed by colored disc photos were studied. RNFL thickness was determined with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT).

The capillary blood flow in ischaemic type central retinal vein occlusion: the effect of laser photocoagulation.

Purpose: To determine the effect of photocoagulation on retinal blood flow (RBF) in eyes with ischaemic type central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).

Patients And Methods: Retinal blood flow was measured in 12 eyes with CRVO, 12 fellow eyes and 12 eyes of 12 age-matched healthy subjects using the Heidelberg retinal flowmeter (HRF). Microvascular blood flow values (volume, flow, velocity) were recorded from the upper temporal retina and macula.

Repair of Descemet's membrane detachment after viscocanalostomy.

We report an alternative descemetopexy technique in a case of Descemet's membrane detachment after viscocanalostomy, possibly caused by high-molecular-weight viscoelastic material.