Clinical outcomes of femtosecond laser-assisted corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segment (CAIRS) in the treatment of keratoconus.

Background: To evaluate the results of corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segment (CAIRS) implantation in keratoconus.

Methods: The medical records of patients with keratoconus who underwent CAIRS implantation were reviewed. The CAIRS, prepared by trephination from the donor cornea, was implanted into a tunnel created using the femtosecond laser.

Blood Whispers: Exploring Hematologic Indicators for Diagnosing and Predicting Severity of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome.

Purpose: To investigate the association of clinical findings and indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) score with inflammatory markers derived from complete blood count (CBC) parameters in patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) to determine the diagnostic and predictive role.

Methods: Demographic characteristics, presenting complaints, ocular findings, optical coherence tomography findings, ICGA scores and best corrected visual acuity were recorded in treatment-naive VKH patients at presentation. Patients were divided into two groups as acute stage and chronic recurrent stage.

Optical coherence tomography angiography findings in optic disc drusen and idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Purpose: To evaluate the changes in peripapillary microvascularity in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and optic disc drusen (ODD) patients, by comparing them with those in healthy individuals, via optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).

Methods: Sixty-two eyes of 33 patients with ODD, 58 eyes of 30 patients with IIH, and 70 eyes of 70 healthy people were imaged for 6 × 6-mm optic disc scans on a spectral-domain OCTA. Vascular densities in superficial capillary plexus (SCP), deep capillary plexus (DCP), and choriocapillaris (CC) of ODD, IIH, and healthy eyes were compared with a one-way analysis of variance.

Erdheim-Chester disease with chorioretinal and orbital involvement: a case report.

A 42-year-old woman presented with bilateral proptosis, chemosis, leg pain, and vision loss. Orbital, chorioretinal, and multi-organ involvement of Erdheim-Chester disease, a rare non-Langerhans histiocytosis, with a negative BRAF mutation was diagnosed based on clinical, radiological, and pathological findings. Interferon-alpha-2a (IFNα-2a) was started, and her clinical condition improved.

Erdheim-Chester disease with chorioretinal and orbital involvement: a case report.

A 42-year-old woman presented with bilateral proptosis, chemosis, leg pain, and vision loss. Orbital, chorioretinal, and multi-organ involvement of Erdheim-Chester disease, a rare non-Langerhans histiocytosis, with a negative BRAF mutation was diagnosed based on clinical, radiological, and pathological findings. Interferon-alpha-2a (IFNα-2a) was started, and her clinical condition improved.

Assessment of Choroidal Vascularity in Inactive Thyroid Associated Orbitopathy.

Objectives: The objectives of the study were to evaluate the vascular and stromal structure of the choroid in patients with inactive thyroid associated orbitopathy (TAO) by measuring choroidal vascularity index (CVI) and choroidal thickness (CT) using enhanced depth imaging (EDI) optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: The choroidal image was taken with EDI mode spectral domain (SD)-OCT. All scans were taken between 9.

Optic disc tilt and rotation effects on positions of superotemporal and inferotemporal retinal nerve fibre layer peaks in myopic Caucasians.

Clinical Relevance: In myopic eyes, the optic disc may become tilted and rotated, making glaucoma diagnosis more difficult.

Background: To determine the presence of tilted optic disc, the degree of optic disc rotation, and their effects on the angular location of superotemporal and inferotemporal retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) peaks in healthy myopic Caucasians.

Methods: Non-glaucomatous healthy myopic Caucasian eyes with an axial length > 24 mm were evaluated.

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Ophthalmology Residency Education.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the theoretical, practical, and academic effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on ophthalmology residents.

Methods: The web-based survey consisting of 28 questions was sent through Email to 37 educators who provides resident training. We divided the pandemic period into three, according to the severity of the pandemic and the measures, compared with pre-pandemic period (PreP), separately.

Comparison of Long-Term Visual and Refractive Results of Transepithelial and Mechanical Photorefractive Keratectomy.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to present and compare 2 years results of mechanical photorefractive keratectomy (M-PRK) and transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy (T-PRK) for myopia.

Methods: One hundred and nine eyes of 55 patients were included in this retrospective study. The mean age of the patients was 26.

The Effect of Lower Eyelid Malposition Repair on Palpebral Fissure Size Changes.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of changes in the horizontal and vertical palpebral fissure dimensions on surgical success performed due to entropion and ectropion of the lower eyelid.

Methods: The present research was conducted as a retrospective and interventional case series who had undergone involutional lower eyelid malposition repair with a lateral tarsal strip (LTS) alone, LTS with a medial spindle, and LTS with the advancement of the lower eyelid retractors. The subjects' medical records, including demographic and clinic characteristics, pre-operative assessment of horizontal eyelid laxity, and surgical outcomes, were reviewed.

Evaluation of post phacoemulsification inflammation in eyes with and without pseudoexfoliation syndrome according to phaco parameters via laser flare photometry.

Background: To compare the changes in anterior chamber laser flare after phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation according to phaco parameters in eyes with and without pseudoexfoliation syndrome.

Methods: Patients (39 without pseudoexfoliation (PEX), 28 with pseudoexfoliation) who underwent the surgery with the same device (Centurion System, Alcon Laboratories, USA) and same experienced surgeon were divided according to the presence of PEX. Anterior chamber laser flare was assessed using a laser flare meter (Kowa-FM700, Kowa Company, Japan) by the same blinded researcher.

Anterior Segment Surgery Performed During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objectives: This study evaluated anterior segment surgeries performed during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Prevention of virus transmission is a critical consideration for surgeons, and includes assessment of etiology, the referral region, demographic characteristics, and the surgery to be performed.

Methods: The data of 144 patients who underwent anterior segment surgery between March 19, 2020 and June 1, 2020 were retrospectively reviewed.

2D Analysis of Gold Weight Implantation Surgery Results in Paralytic Lagophthalmos.

Objectives: Gold weight implantation in the upper eyelid is a frequently performed treatment for paralytic lagophthalmos to prevent corneal exposure. A margin reflex distance of -1 and -2 (MRD1, MRD2), the palpebral fissure height (PFH), and the vertical lagophthalmos (LV) are 1-dimensional (1D) measurements used in follow-up. Because the exposure area is 2-dimensional (2D), this study was designed to investigate the results using both 1D and 2D analysis.

Muller muscle conjunctival resection or external levator advancement; a quantitative comparison of symmetry in unilateral ptosis.

Purpose: To compare muller muscle conjunctival resection (MMCR) and external levator advancement (ELA) in terms of objective and subjective symmetry in unilateral ptosis.

Methods: The patients who underwent unilateral MMCR (group1,  = 25) and ELA (group2,  = 25) were reviewed retrospectively. With the written algorithm, margin reflex distance-1 (MRD1), localization of the contour peak, and the percentage of overlapping curvatures (POC) of both upper eyelid curves were calculated.

Predictive Factors for Corneal Scarring in Progressive Keratoconus Patients after Corneal Collagen Cross-linking.

: To evaluate predictive factors for corneal scar formation following corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL).: The medical records of 295 progressive keratoconus patients who had undergone accelerated CXL were reviewed retrospectively in this comparative cohort study. Thirty-two eyes of 32 patients who still had a corneal scar in the first year (scar group) and 75 eyes of 75 patients without any scar (control group) were included.

Prognostic Factors Affecting Graft Survival in Patients Undergoing Penetrating Keratoplasty for Infectious Keratitis.

Objectives: To evaluate the prognostic factors affecting graft survival in patients undergoing penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) for infectious keratitis.

Materials And Methods: Patients who underwent PKP for keratitis in our hospital between 2013 and 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients who underwent therapeutic PKP at the inflammatory stage and were followed for at least 12 months were included in the study.

Comparing the outcome of Muller's muscle conjunctival resection for mild/moderate versus severe involutional aponeurotic ptosis.

Aims: To compare predictability of the outcomes of Muller's muscle conjunctiva resection (MMCR) in patients with severe versus mild/moderate involutional aponeurotic ptosis.

Methods: This was a retrospective case-control study. All cases were recruited into the groups in terms of preoperative marginal reflex distance of upper eyelid (MRD-1).

An algorithm for Botulinum toxin A injection for upper eyelid retraction associated with thyroid eye disease: long-term results.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and complications of transconjunctival Botulinum toxin A injections performed according to an algorithm, for the management of upper eyelid retraction associated with thyroid eye disease.

Methods: Seventy one eyes of 60 patients at the inactive stage, who had undergone Botulinum toxin A injection were reviewed retrospectively. Botulinum toxin A was injected transconjunctivally, just above the superior tarsal border of the upper eyelid in doses between 2-15 units according to an algorithm, depending on the amount of retraction.

Correction: Choroidal vascularity index as an indicator of vascular status of choroid, in eyes with nanophthalmos.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Choroidal vascularity index as an indicator of vascular status of choroid, in eyes with nanophthalmos.

Purpose: To investigate choroidal vascular index (CVI) in eyes with nanophthalmos (NO) with the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: Macular enhanced depth imaging OCT scans of 25 eyes of 25 patients with NO and age-gender-matched 25 eyes of 25 control subjects were analysed. Images were binarized using the ImageJ software, and total choroid area (TCA), luminal area (LA) and stromal area (SA) were acquired.

Serum calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and vitamin D in benign essential blepharospasm.

Purpose: This study aims to compare serum calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and 25-hydroxy (OH)-vitamin D levels in patients with benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) and healthy subjects and to determine their association with disease severity and frequency.

Methods: This is a prospective study conducted in a tertiary care hospital. Fifty patients (female, 39; male, 11) with BEB and 22 healthy subjects (female, 15; male, 7) included in the study.

Ultrasound Biomicroscopic Evaluation of Anterior Segment Parameters and Surgical Area Following Trabeculectomy Surgery.

Objectives: This study used ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) imaging to evaluate the anterior segment structure and surgical area of patients with open angle glaucoma following a trabeculectomy procedure.

Methods: Consecutive patients with primary open angle or pseudoexfoliative glaucoma who underwent a trabeculectomy were included. UBM was used to examine the anatomical parameters of anterior chamber depth, anterior chamber angle, angle opening distance at 500 µm (AOD500), trabecular ciliary process distance (TCPD), iris ciliary process distance, scleral ciliary process angle (SCPA), and ciliary process thickness, as well as the internal ostium opening, ostium-iris distance, and scleral flap dimensions.

Müller Muscle Conjunctiva Resection for Revision of Residual Ptosis After External Levator Advancement Surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate surgical outcomes of Müller muscle conjunctival resection surgery for reoperation of residual ptosis after external levator advancement in patients with aponeurotic ptosis.

Methods: A total of 23 eyes of 23 patients who had undergone Müller muscle conjunctival resection for residual ptosis between January 2016 and July 2018 were reviewed retrospectively. Margin reflex distance (MRD), interlid crease, and show distance measurements were performed with a ruler in millimeters during the office examination, and the photographs of patients were taken before the procedure and on the 10th day, at the first, third, and sixth months after the procedure.

Anterior-Approach Versus Posterior-Approach Levator Advancement Surgery in Aponeurotic Ptosis.

Purpose: To compare the effectiveness and complications of levator reinsertion in aponeurotic ptosis surgery using anterior and posterior approaches.

Methods: Seventy-eight (36 females, 42 males) patients with acquired aponeurotic ptosis were evaluated. Pre- and postoperative margin reflex distance, symmetry of height, contour and skin crease, corneal problems, and lagophthalmus were evaluated and compared between the 2 groups.