Macular hole surgery follow-up with spectral domain-optical coherence tomography-guided facedown posturing.

Purpose: The main treatment for macular hole (MH) is pars plana vitrectomy, with or without internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling, followed by gas tamponade and face-down positioning (FDP). This study aims to present the anatomical and visual outcomes following MH repair with optical coherence tomography (OCT)-guided FDP.

Methods: Thirty-two patients who underwent surgery for idiopathic MH were enrolled.

Macular vessel densities by optical coherence tomography angiography in patients with intermediate uveitis.

Purpose: To evaluate the macular microvascular changes in patients with intermediate uveitis (IU) using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) and to determine the relationship of OCT-A measurements with disease duration and activity.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed at the uvea department of a tertiary hospital. Patients with IU (8 women, 8 men; mean age: 28.

A novel agent for myeloma causing toxic keratopathy, belantamab mafodotin: a case report and literature review.

A 60-year-old-male with refractory relapsed multiple myeloma presented with redness, pain, foreign body sensation, and blurred vision in both eyes that gradually increased after his third belantamab mafotodin infusion. Biomicroscopy revealed bilateral microcyst-like epithelial changes and epithelial crystal-like deposits, whereas in vivo confocal microscopy revealed intraepithelial and subepithelial hyperreflective deposits in corneal epithelium. Belantamab mafodotin therapy was discontinued for seven weeks due to corneal toxicity, which cleared progressively.

Developing a Measure to Quantify Ocular Pain Postoperatively: The Adaptation of the Ocular Pain Assessment Survey.

Purpose: Since quantification and communication of ocular pain is important for a healthier patient follow-up and postoperative guidance, reliable measures like the Ophthalmic Pain Assessment Survey (OPAS) are needed to assess the outcome and management of different operations. To address that need, we carried out the adaptation of OPAS into Turkish to reach different age groups and backgrounds, widening the use of OPAS on patients who underwent an ophthalmic operation.

Methods: We used back-translation method and achieved cultural adaptation through content validity scoring by 5 independent ophthalmologists.

Mycobacterium abscessus keratitis after LASIK surgery.

A 33-year-old male presented with unilateral subacute infectious keratitis 4 weeks after surgery. Corneal inflammation was resistant to standard topical antibiotic regimens. During diagnostic flap lifting and sampling, the corneal flap melted and separated.

The correlation of atrophy, traction and neovascularization in myopic choroidal neovascularization according to a novel myopic maculopathy classification system (atrophy (A), traction (T), neovascularization (N): ATN).

Purpose: To grade myopic choroidal neovascularization (CNV) patients according to the new myopic maculopathy classification (A: atrophy, T: traction, N: neovascularization-ATN) and analyze the correlation in between atrophy, traction and neovascularization.

Methods: Fifty-one eyes of 41 patients with the diagnosis of pathologic myopia and myopic CNV were included in this clinical practice study. Patients were graded according to the recently described ATN classification.

Heavy Silicone Oil as an Endotamponade in Recurrent or Complicated Retinal Detachment and Macular Hole.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of heavy silicone oil as an endotamponade in patients with recurrent or complicated retinal detachment and macular hole.

Materials And Methods: Nineteen eyes of 19 patients who underwent heavy silicone oil endotamponade for different indications were included in the study and evaluated by retrospective chart review. At each visit, patients underwent detailed ophthalmological examination and anatomical and functional outcomes, silicone oil emulsification, intraocular inflammation, presence of proliferative vitreoretinopathy, preoperative and postoperative visual acuity, and postoperative complications were recorded.

Effect of Mydriatic Administration on Retinal Hemodynamics in Glaucoma: An Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Study.

Prcis: Pupillary dilation with 0.5% tropicamide and 2.5% phenylephrine resulted in a statistically significant decrease in foveal avascular zone (FAZ) metrics in glaucoma eyes.

Choroidal and Macular Thickness in Eyes with Amblyopia.

Objectives: This study was performed to assess and analyze the retinal and choroidal thickness in amblyopic eyes using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography.

Methods: A total of 67 children with amblyopia and 31 age- and gender-matched healthy non-amblyopic control subjects were enrolled in the study. The 67 amblyopic children were divided into 3 groups: hypermetropic amblyopia (Group 1).

NEUROTROPHIC KERATOPATHY AFTER RETINAL DETACHMENT SURGERY COMBINED WITH ENDOLASER PHOTOCOAGULATION.

Purpose: To report neurotrophic keratopathy after vitreoretinal surgery combined with aggressive photocoagulation.

Methods: We report a series of three cases with neurotrophic keratopathy after pars plana vitrectomy combined with endolaser photocoagulation.

Results: Three patients who had pars plana vitrectomy with different indications were identified.

COMPARING FUNDUS FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY AND SWEPT-SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY IN THE EVALUATION OF DIABETIC MACULAR PERFUSION.

Purpose: To compare fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) and swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) in the evaluation of macular perfusion in diabetic patients.

Methods: Forty-one eyes (21 diabetic patients) seen at Moorfields Eye Hospital (London) over a 1-month interval underwent color fundus photography, FFA, and SS-OCTA imaging of the capillary superficial plexus using 2 different protocols: 3 × 3 mm and 4.5 × 4.

Ectopic orbital meningioma: report of two cases and literature review.

Ectopic orbital meningioma is a rare tumor usually affecting the medial orbit. We present two cases that occurred in a 56-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man. The tumors in both patients were subtotally excised via orbitotomy surgery and were located in the superior quadrant in one of our patients and in the temporal quadrant in the other.

Retinoblastoma in Turkey: results from a tertiary care center in Ankara.

Purpose: To evaluate the presentation patterns and results of management of retinoblastoma at a tertiary care center in Ankara, Turkey, with special emphasis on globe conservation rate in unilateral and bilateral intraocular retinoblastoma.

Methods: Patients were grouped according to the International Classification of Retinoblastoma. For intraocular retinoblastoma, group E and some group D eyes underwent primary enucleation.

Orbital schwannoma with fluid-fluid levels on MRI.

A 40-year-old man presented with a progressively growing left orbital mass producing proptosis. Orbital MRI revealed a large bilobed mass that was isointense with respect to the extraocular muscles on T1-weighted images and demonstrated heterogenous contrast enhancement. T2-weighted images revealed a markedly heterogenous internal appearance with fluid-fluid levels.

Ruthenium-106 plaque radiotherapy alone or in combination with transpupillary thermotherapy in the management of choroidal melanoma.

Purpose: To evaluate the results of ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) plaque radiotherapy alone (group A) or in combination with transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) (group B) in the management of choroidal melanoma with tumor thickness (height) <8 mm. The tumors in each group were subclassified as those with thickness 5 and <8 mm.

Methods: In this retrospective review, the main outcome measures were globe conservation rate, the rate of a reduction of at least 50% in tumor thickness, treatment complications, visual acuity (VA) change, and metastasis.

Topical cyclosporine-A in dry eye associated with chronic graft versus host disease.

We evaluated the efficacy and safety of topical cyclosporine-A in dry eye associated with chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) in 8 patients. Visual acuity, fluorescein staining of cornea and conjunctiva, tear break-up time, Schirmer test results and subjective complaints were recorded. Topical cyclosporine-A might be an effective and safe treatment option in dry eye related to chronic GVHD.

Exoresection via partial lamellar sclerouvectomy approach for uveal tumors: A successful performance by a novice surgeon.

Purpose: To evaluate the results and complications of exoresection via a partial lamellar sclerouvectomy (PLSU) procedure for uveal tumors performed by a novice surgeon without help from an experienced surgeon.

Methods: Medical records of 22 patients who underwent exoresection for uveal tumors between February 1999 and January 2009 were evaluated retrospectively. Exoresection was considered for tumors with their epicenter in the iris or in the ciliary body.

Primary chondromesenchymal hamartoma of the orbit.

A 14-year-old girl presented with a 3-month history of proptosis of the left eye. Orbital MRI revealed a superiorly located, well-defined, large mass that was hyperintense on T1-weighted and T2-weighted images with heterogenous internal structure and contrast enhancement. The patient underwent superolateral orbitotomy with bone removal.

Eye-conserving treatment in massive congenital orbital teratoma.

An 8-month-old healthy girl presented with a left orbital mass, which orbital magnetic resonance imaging revealed to be a well-circumscribed, mostly cystic lesion. The patient underwent orbitotomy via inferior fornicial conjunctival approach. Tumour shrinkage was accomplished by aspiration of the intralesional fluid, and the remaining debulked mass was removed by total excisional biopsy.