Accidentally diagnosed ocular abnormalities identified during close screening for retinopathy of prematurity.

Purpose: To report the variety of ocular findings which have been identified serendipitously during the screening for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in a tertiary referral center during seven-year period.

Methods: The charts of 1568 preterm infants who screened for ROP were reviewed retrospectively. Any ocular lesion except for ROP were noted.

Evaluation of maternal attachment, self-efficacy, levels of depression, and anxiety in mothers who have babies diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the emotional stress and its effects on parental self-efficacy and mother-infant attachment in mothers whose babies were diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

Methods: Study sample was consisted of voluntarily participating 82 mothers whose babies were first diagnosed with ROP, 83 mothers of preterm babies without ROP, and 85 mothers of term babies admitting for their routine visits. Sociodemographic data form maternal attachment scale, state-trait anxiety inventory, Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, and parental self-efficacy scale were applied to study participants, and the overall results of three groups were statistically compared.

Ocular, Neurologic and Systemic Findings of the Cases with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia.

Aim: To describe the associated ocular, neurologic, and systemic findings in a population of children with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) and to evaluate the relationship between ocular signs and neurologic findings.

Method: A retrospective chart review of 53 patients with the diagnosis of ONH seen between December 1998 and September 2012 was performed. All neurodevelopmental anomalies, neuroradiologic findings, endocrinologic and systemic findings were recorded.

Changing trends over the last decade in the aetiology of childhood blindness: a study from a tertiary referral centre.

Aims: To discern treatable and preventable causes of childhood blindness by evaluating the aetiologic factors, and to compare the distribution of the most commonly affected anatomic sites of severe visual impairment (SVI) with our previous published data.

Methods: The charts of 11 871 patients followed between June 2002 and May 2014 were reviewed retrospectively, and 695 patients (5.9%) who had SVI or blindness in accordance with WHO criteria were enrolled.

Ocular disorders in children with spastic subtype of cerebral palsy.

Aim: To document common ocular abnormalities in children with spastic subtype of cerebral palsy (CP) and to find out whether any correlation exists between their occurance and etiologic factors.

Methods: Totally 194 patients with the diagnosis of spastic type CP were enrolled in this retrospective study. Detailed ophthalmic examinations were performed.

Efficacy of occlusion treatment in amblyopia and clinical risk factors affecting the results of treatment.

Purpose: To evaluate the factors influencing visual outcome in strabismic, strabismic-anisometropic and anisometropic amblyopia following occlusion treatment.

Methods: Records of 128 pediatric patients who had been treated for amblyopia by occlusion of the fellow eye between March 1992 and March 2003 were reviewed retrospectively. Age and level of visual acuity at initiation of treatment, occlusion time (full-time, part-time or minimal) and type of amblyopia were analyzed for the effect on visual outcome.

Psychosocial aspects of mothers of children with strabismus.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the psychological profile of mothers of children with strabismus, their attitudes to their children, and their family functioning.

Methods: This study was conducted at Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, from 2000 to 2002 and involved a series of 30 children with strabismus and 31 healthy controls. All mothers were asked to complete Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI), and Family Assessment Device (FAD).

Treatment outcomes in refractive accommodative esotropia.

Purpose: To document and compare the clinical features and functional outcomes in patients with accommodative esotropia. To assess the efficacy of conventional management of accommodative esotropia, to determine functional outcomes of amblyopia and binocular vision, and to analyze possible risk factors involving the development of amblyopia.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 147 patients whose esotropia was corrected to within 10 prism diopters of orthotropia at both distance and near with use of full cycloplegic hyperopic correction.

Ocular and systemic findings associated with optic disc colobomas.

Purpose: To determine the ocular and systemic anomalies associated with optic disc colobomas.

Patients And Methods: The records of patients with a diagnosis of isolated optic disc coloboma and chorioretinal coloboma with optic disc involvement were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: Fifteen patients were included in the study.

Contact lenses in the correction of childhood aphakia.

Purpose: To evaluate the results of extended-wear silicone contact lenses (Silsoft, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY, U.S.A) after congenital cataract extraction.

Axial length and hyperopia in eyes with retinal vein occlusions.

We performed a prospective study in order to elucidate the predisposing role of axial length and hyperopia in retinal vein occlusions. The study group comprised 39 patients with unilateral central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), 50 patients with unilateral branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO), 13 patients with unilateral hemispheric retinal vein occlusion (HRVO) and 45 control eyes. The axial length of affected eyes was compared to fellow eyes and control eyes in each subgroup of patients with retinal vein occlusion.