Systemic and topical fresh-frozen plasma treatment in a newborn with ligneous conjunctivitis.

Purpose: We report the results of systemic and topical fresh-frozen plasma (FFP) treatment and conjunctival membrane excision of a newborn with ligneous conjunctivitis.

Methods: The newborn, referred because of bilateral membranous conjunctivitis, was hospitalized with the preliminary diagnosis of gonococcic conjunctivitis. The conjunctival membranes were excised on the fourth day of topical antibiotherapy.

[The factors affecting visual outcome in open globe injuries].

Background: To evaluate the factors affecting visual acuity in cases subjected to surgical repair due to open globe injury.

Methods: The records of the patients who have been subjected to emergency surgical repair due to open globe injury were examined retrospectively. From a total of 195 cases, 119 eyes of 119 cases who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were included into the study.

The effect of systemic hypertension on pulsatile ocular blood flow in diabetic patients.

Purpose: To determine the haemodynamics of the ciliary choroidal system in diabetics with or without systemic hypertension.

Methods: 90 eyes of 45 diabetic patients were included into the study. Patients were divided into two groups based on the presence of systemic hypertension.

Ocular pulse amplitude in patients with Graves' disease: a preliminary study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ocular pulse amplitude changes in patients with Graves' disease.

Methods: The pulse amplitudes of 31 patients with Graves' disease were measured with the OBF-Tonograph (OBF Labs UK). All patients were in the euthyroid phase of the disease.

Clinical comparison of the ocular blood flow tonograph and the Goldmann applanation tonometer.

Purpose: To compare the IOP readings of an ocular blood flow (OBF) tonograph (OBF Labs UK Ltd) with Goldmann applanation tonometry.

Methods: 194 patients were studied. In group 1, the software version 8.