The effect of epilepsy and anti-epileptic drugs on the anterior and posterior segment of the eye.

Clinical Relevance: Understanding the causes of visual symptoms in epilepsy patients is important for early diagnosis and taking precautions.

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the anterior and posterior segment parameters in patients with generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy (GTCE).

Methods: This retrospective study included 50 eyes of 50 patients with GTCE and 55 eyes of 55 healthy controls.

Evaluation of Long-term Posterior Segment Parameters in Children Who Had Recovered From Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome.

Background And Objective: To evaluate long-term posterior segment findings in children recovering from multisystemic inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

Patients And Methods: Our study included 22 patients who were admitted to an intensive care unit with a diagnosis of MIS-C between November 2021 and March 2022, and 25 healthy controls. The study included pediatric patients who had an eye examination an average of 12.

Clinical features, management, and outcomes of patients with sterile endophthalmitis associated with intravitreal bevacizumab injection: retrospective case series.

Purpose: To evaluate clinical features, treatment protocol, outcomes, and complications that developed in this case series of 24 patients who had consecutive sterile endophthalmitis after intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) injection.

Methods: In this retrospective case series, IVB was repackaged in individual aliquots from the three batches that were used on the same day. IVB was injected into 26 eyes of 26 patients due to diabetic macular edema, age-related macular degeneration, and branch retinal vein occlusion.

Comparison of posterior segment ocular parameters of Familial mediterranean fever with homozygous M694V mutation and carriers with heterozygous M694V mutation in children.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to comparatively evaluate the posterior segment ocular parameters of Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) patients, asymptomatic FMF carriers, and the healthy controls in the pediatric age group.

Methods: The study included 30 FMF patients with homozygous M694V mutation in remission under colchicine therapy, 12 asymptomatic FMF carriers with heterozygous M694V mutation, and 41 age-sex-matched healthy controls. All patients underwent detailed eye examination, and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness, central macular thickness (CMT), subfoveal choroidal thickness (SCT), macular vascular densities, and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) areas were measured using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography.

Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer and Ganglion Cell Complex Thickness in Adult Children of Patients With Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma.

Prcis: The adult children of patients with pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXG) had universally lower retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and ganglion cell complex (GCC) thickness values compared with individuals with a negative family history of PXG.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate RNFL and GCC thicknesses in the adult children of individuals with PXG compared with people without a parental history of PXG.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional observational study included 40 eyes of 40 adults with confirmed parental history of PXG and 40 eyes of 40 healthy adults with no parental history of PXG.

Quantitative assessment of left atrial functions by speckle tracking echocardiography in hypertensive patients with and without retinopathy.

Purpose: The association between hypertensive retinopathy and left atrial (LA) impairment is unknown. Accordingly, it was aimed to investigate the possible relationship between hypertensive retinopathy and LA phasic functions by means of two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE).

Methods: A total of 124 hypertensive patients and 27 control subjects were included in the study.

Effects of Dexamethasone Implant on Multifocal Electroretinography in Central Retinal Vein Occlusion.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of Ozurdex (dexamethasone intravitreal implant) on multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) findings during the treatment of macular edema secondary to the central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).

Methods: Fifteen eyes of 15 patients who were treated with Ozurdex implant due to CRVO-related macular edema were included in this study. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), central macular thickness (CMT), and mfERG evaluations were performed for all patients before injection of Ozurdex.

Evaluation of Peripapillary Nerve Fiber Layer after Dexamethasone Implantation (Ozurdex) in Branch Retinal Vein Occlusions.

To evaluate the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thicknesses of patients treated with intravitreal Ozurdex implant due to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) related macular edema (ME). Thirty-three eyes of 33 patients treated with Ozurdex implant due to ME associated with BRVO were included in the study. Ophthalmic examinations including determination of best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP), and central macular thickness (CMT) and peripapillary RNFL assessment with optical coherence tomography (OCT) were performed before the injection of Ozurdex implant and during the 6-month follow-up period after the injection.