Compare of optic coherence tomography parameters in recreational synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol use and healthy control.

Purpose: To evaluate retinal thickness (RT), retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT), and choroidal thickness (CT) changes in synthetic cannabinoid (SC) users.

Methods: This prospective study evaluated the RT, RNFLT, and CT values of 56 SC users and 58 healthy controls. The individuals using SCs were referred to us by our hospital's forensic medicine department.

The Effects of Long-term Growth Hormone Treatment on Ocular Findings.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the long-term changes in anterior chamber depth (ACD), central corneal thickness (CCT), axial length (AxL), peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (RNFLT), peripapillary ganglion cell layer - inner plexiform layer (GCL-IPL) thickness, and peripapillary choroidal thickness (ChT) after rhGH replacement treatment in paediatric patients with IGHD, compared to healthy controls.

Methods: Twenty-two children with IGHD including 12 girls and 10 boys were enrolled in the study group, and 30 (16 girls, 14 boys) healthy children composed the control group. A detailed ophthalmological examination was performed for each participant.

Visual evoked potential changes following Botox administration in patients with blepharospasm.

Purpose: To examine visual evoked potential (VEP) changes following botulinum toxin type A (BTA) administration in patients with blepharospasm.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with blepharospasm receiving BTA administration were included in the study. Three groups, a control group and two study groups (patients examined 14 days after BTA administration-Study Group 1, and patients examined 28 days after BTA administration-Study Group 2) were evaluated.

The effects of subconjunctival bevacizumab, ranibizumab, and aflibercept on corneal neovascularization.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of subconjunctival bevacizumab, ranibizumab, and aflibercept in an experimental corneal neovascularization model.

Materials And Methods: The eyes of 24 rats were chemically cauterized and randomly divided into four groups: bevacizumab group (0.05 mL/1.

Comparison of central corneal thickness and intraocular pressure measured with two different tono/pachymeter devices in non-glaucomatouse children.

Purpose: The goal of this research is to compare the intraocular pressure (IOP) and the mean central corneal thickness (CCT) values obtained from the measurements with Nidek NT-530P and Canon TX-20P devices with the values obtained by ultrasound pachymetry (UP) and Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) in children.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted with 119 healthy children. The measurements were repeated three times for each eye.

The effects of non-invasive mechanic ventilator modes on intraocular pressure in COPD patients with hypercapnic respiratory failure.

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not fully reversible disease that is characterized by progressive restricting airflow. Non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV) treatment can be used in COPD patients who had type 2 respiratory failure. This study aimed to determine the effect of BPAP S/T and AVAPS modes on intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal thickness (CCT) in 40 type 2 respiratory failure patients with COPD.

Evaluation of ocular findings in patients with lichen planus.

Introduction: Lichen planus (LP) is a chronic, inflammatory disease of unknown etiology.

Aim: To evaluate the tear functions and the retinal and choroidal thickness (CT) in patients with LP.

Material And Methods: In total, 33 patients and 30 healthy controls were enrolled.

The Effect of Smoking on Macular, Choroidal, and Retina Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness.

Objectives: This study aimed to compare the thickness of the macula, choroid, and peripapillary retina nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in smokers with those of healthy, nonsmoking individuals using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Materials And Methods: Sixty-eight healthy smokers with an average of 19.75 pack-years and 71 nonsmoker subjects (control group) were included in the study.

Effects of topical azithromycin, moxifloxacin, and povidone iodine on conjunctival bacterial flora in patients undergoing intravitreal injection.

Purpose: To compare effects of 5% topical povidone iodine with prophylactic topical azithromycin and moxifloxacin on bacterial flora in patients undergoing intravitreal injection.

Methods: A total of 132 patients were randomly assigned to receive treatment with azithromycin or moxifloxacin, or no treatment (control group). In total, 528 specimens were obtained at the time of admission, 4 days before intravitreal injection, 4 days after intravitreal injection, and 8 days after intravitreal injection.

Ocular abnormalities in morbid obesity.

Purpose: Obesity is associated with eye diseases, but the underlying structural changes and pathogenic mechanisms have not been examined in detail. Here, we assessed the effects of morbid obesity on the morphometric indices of eye disease.

Methods: Morbidly obese volunteers (n=101, body mass index [BMI] ³40) and healthy individuals (n=95, BMI: 18.

Evaluation of Intraocular pressure, Corneal thickness, and Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome.

Objective: To evaluate the intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal thickness (CCT), and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome.

Methods: In this prospective study, 103 patients with OSAS (study group) and 37 healthy subjects were enrolled. All participants underwent comprehensive ophthalmic examinations.

Association of ABO blood groups and Rh factor with retinal and choroidal thickness.

Purpose:: To evaluate if ABO blood group and Rh factor have an effect on retinal and choroidal thickness.

Methods:: This study was designed prospectively. Retinal nerve fiber layer, retinal, and choroidal thicknesses were measured with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

A Comparison of Three Different Photoscreeners in Children.

Purpose: To compare the results obtained from three non-cycloplegic handheld photorefractometers with cycloplegic autorefractometry (Topcon KR-8100; Topcon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) measurement in children.

Methods: The refractive status of 238 eyes in 119 healthy children was assessed. The values acquired using photorefraction with the non-cycloplegic PlusoptiX A12 (Plusoptix GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany), Retinomax K-plus 3 (Righton, Tokyo, Japan), and Spot Vision Screener (Welch Allyn, Skaneateles Falls, NY) devices were compared with those obtained from the cycloplegic Topcon KR-8100.

Retinal and Choroidal Thickness in Patients with High Myopia without Maculopathy.

Objective: To evaluate macular choroidal thickness (CT) and retinal thickness in Turkish patients with high myopia without maculopathy and in normal subjects and to examine the association with age, axial length (AL), best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), cycloplegic refraction, and spherical equivalent (SE).

Methods: This prospective study was performed between January 2015 and June 2016 in the Department of Ophthalmology, Duzce University Medical Faculty. It had 65 individuals (30 patients with high myopia, 35 healthy subjects).

Comparison of central corneal thickness with four different optical devices.

Background: To compare the consistency between the average scores of the contact central corneal thickness measurements from ultrasound pachymetry devices still gold standard, such as iPac and Echoscan US-500, and noncontact measurements via Pentacam HR and Sirius topography.

Methods: This prospective study, subsequently admitted to the ophthalmology department, 76 healthy individuals were performed. The measurements were repeated three times for each eye, and average scores were statistically analyzed on the same day and almost at the same time.

Surgical Removal of an Unrecognized Tapestry Needle from the Urethra.

The variety of intraurethral foreign bodies has been reported in literature. Most of them tend to be self-inserted because of sexual or erotic reasons. We report a 23-year old male patient who had tapestry needle into his urethra, which was not self-inserted.

Ischemic hepatitis after percutaneous nephrolitotomy: A case report.

Introduction: Ischemic hepatitis (IH) is the necrosis of the centrilobular hepatocytes of liver and is secondary to liver hypoperfusion in most of the cases. The diagnosis is usually based on biochemical findings due to the absence of symptoms and signs. Although the disease course is often mild, and sometimes is even not diagnosed, the outcome is poor if the etiology of hypotension and liver anoxia is not promptly corrected.

Frog saliva-induced toxic keratopathy: a case report.

Corneal toxicity due to exposure to many chemicals and medications have been described in the literature. We present a case of toxic keratopathy by corneal exposure to salivary secretion of a frog. A 40-year-old male patient reported a sudden splash of frog saliva in his right eye while he was examining it at a close distance.

Unilateral exudative retinal detachment as the sole presentation of relapsing acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Ocular findings are rarely the initial symptom of leukemia, although up to 90% of all leukemia patients have fundus changes during the course of the disease. Herein we report a relapsing acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient with thesole presentation of sudden visual loss and exudative retinal detachment. An 8-year-old boy with acute lymphoblasticleukemia developed sudden visual loss during his first remission period.

The use of the QuantiFERON-tuberculosis gold test in the diagnosis of ocular tuberculosis.

Ocular tuberculosis without systemic manifestations may rarely occur. The diagnosis of ocular tuberculosis is important because it has a wide spectrum of presentations and requires a multidisciplinary approach. The QuantiFERON-tuberculosis gold test is a new diagnostic test that may be useful in making a suitable diagnosis.

Basic parameters of thrombophilia in ocular Behçet disease with posterior segment involvement.

Aim: To assess basic thrombophilic parameters in both active and inactive periods of the ocular Behçet disease (BD) with posterior segment involvement in comparison with those in healthy adults as controls.

Method: Thirty patients within the active period of the ocular BD with posterior segment involvement, 30 patients within the inactive period of the ocular BD with posterior segment involvement and 30 age-and sex-matched healthy controls were included in the study. Plasma protein C, free protein S, antithrombin III and activated protein C resistance were measured in the studied groups.

Effect of topical netilmicin on the reduction of bacterial flora on the human conjunctiva.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of topical netilmicin on human conjunctival bacterial flora.

Methods: Fifty-six patients' eyes with cataract were treated three times a day with netilmicin 1 day before the surgery. The fellow eyes of the patients were not treated.