Evaluating the Effect of Intravitreal Ranibizumab on Retrobulbar Hemodynamics by Color Doppler Ultrasonography in Neovascular AMD.

Background And Objective: To evaluate changes in retrobulbar blood flow by using color Doppler ultrasonography (CDUS) after intravitreal ranibizumab injection in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Patients And Methods: Eighteen patients who had undergone intravitreal ranibizumab (0.05 mg/0.

Short-term effects of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection on ocular blood flow evaluated with color Doppler ultrasonography.

Aim: To evaluate the changes in ocular blood flow with color Doppler ultrasonography (CDU) after intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) injection.

Methods: A total of 46 patients who underwent IVTA (4 mg/0.1 mL) injection for diabetic macular edema (DME) (n=22), central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) (n=12) and choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) (n=12) were included in the study.

Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy: clinical characteristics of surgical and nonsurgical patients.

Purpose: To review the patient and clinical characteristics of patients with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD).

Methods: Review of records for every patient who presented to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute between 2003 and 2009 whose visit was coded for endothelial corneal dystrophy (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision [ICD9] 371.57), bullous keratopathy (ICD9 371.

The effect of intravitreal bevacizumab as a pretreatment of vitrectomy for diabetic vitreous hemorrhage on recurrent hemorrhage.

Purpose: This study was constructed to compare the rate of rehemorrhage in patients with diabetic vitreous hemorrhage (VH) undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with versus without preoperative intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) injection.

Methods: It is a retrospective chart review of all patients who had undergone PPV for diabetic VH from January 2008 to January 2011. Patients who had undergone IVB injection before PPV were assigned to Group 1; the others were assigned to Group 2.

Free-floating vitreous cyst in an adult male.

A 50 year-old male patient was referred to our clinic due to a floating mass in the right eye. The uncorrected visual aquity was 10 / 10 in both eyes.The patient did not have any systemic disorder and trauma history.

Corneal white-to-white distance and mesopic pupil diameter.

Aim: To study the relationship between corneal white-to-white (WTW) distance and mesopic pupil diameter.

Methods: This study is composed of 30 cases that underwent photorefractive keratotomy (PRK). Pupil size measurements were performed with Schwind ORK wavefront analyzer in mesopic conditions.

Evaluation of efficacy of topical povidone-iodine and different types of fluoroquinolones in the sterilization of bacterial flora on the conjunctiva.

Purpose: To compare the sterilization effectivity of topical povidone-iodine, ciprofloxacin, and ofloxacin on the conjunctival bacterial flora.

Methods: One hundred sixty-four eyes of 164 patients scheduled for cataract surgery were prospectively analyzed. Conjunctival cultures were obtained 1 day before the surgery without any topical application in all patients.

Short-term effects of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin(®)) on retrobulbar hemodynamics in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To evaluate the short-term effects of intravitreal bevacizumab on retrobulbar hemodynamics in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: This study was carried out at Ataturk Training and Research Hospital 1st Ophthalmology Clinic, Ankara. Fourteen patients with neovascular AMD, who were treated with intravitreal injection of bevacizumab, were included in this study.