Optic Capture Without Anterior Vitrectomy in Pediatric Cataract Surgery.

Purpose: To compare outcomes of 2 surgical techniques in children undergoing cataract surgery with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation: optic capture of IOL without anterior vitrectomy (AV) or in-the-bag IOL with AV.

Design: Prospective randomized controlled trial.

Methods: Patients were randomized to 2 groups: optic capture without AV (group 1) or in-the-bag implantation with AV (group 2).

Evaluation of Choroidal Vascular Index in Amblyopic Patients.

Objectives: To compare subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) and choroidal vascular index (CVI) in patients with hyperopic refractive and strabismic amblyopia and healthy subjects.

Materials And Methods: The study included 17 patients with strabismic amblyopia (Group 1), 29 patients with hyperopic refractive amblyopia (Group 2), and 16 eyes of 16 healthy volunteers (Group 3). Best corrected visual acuity was noted in all patients and volunteers.

Stereoacuity, Fusional Vergence Amplitudes, and Refractive Errors Prior to Treatment in Patients with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Objectives: To evaluate stereoacuity, fusional vergence amplitudes, and refractive errors in patients with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Materials And Methods: Twenty-three patients who were newly diagnosed as having ADHD and had not started medication, and 48 children without ADHD were included. Retrospective data analysis of comprehensive eye examination, stereoacuity, and fusional vergence amplitudes of the patients were performed.

and polymorphisms in children with high myopia.

Objective: To investigate and gene polymorphisms in children with high myopia in order to determine the genetic basis of large myopic shifts causing severe visual impairment and complications.

Methods: Seventy-four children with high myopia (≥6 diopters [D]; study group) and 77 emmetropic children (±0.5D; control group) were included.

Functional and morphological assessment of ocular structures and follow-up of patients with early-stage Parkinson's disease.

Purpose: To evaluate and follow-up of functional and morphological changes of the optic nerve and ocular structures prospectively in patients with early-stage Parkinson's disease.

Materials And Methods: Nineteen patients with a diagnosis of early-stage Parkinson's disease and 19 age-matched healthy controls were included in the study. All participants were examined minimum three times at the intervals of at least 6 month following initial examination.

Long-term Results in Pediatric Developmental Cataract Surgery with Primary Intraocular Lens Implantation.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of pediatric developmental cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Materials And Methods: Patients between 2 and 16 years old who underwent cataract surgery with primary IOL implantation were retrospectively evaluated. Age at time of surgery, pre- and postoperative best corrected visual acuities, postoperative ocular complications, and any accompanying ocular pathologies were obtained from the patients' charts.

Treatment results in aphakic patients with glaucoma following congenital cataract surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical findings and possible risk factors of patients with aphakic glaucoma following congenital cataract surgery and identify the factors affecting response to glaucoma treatment.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of 173 patients was performed who underwent congenital cataract surgery before the age of 12 months and 40 eyes of 25 patients with aphakic glaucoma were enrolled. Age of the patients at the time of the cataract surgery, postoperative complications, additional ocular pathologies and the type of glaucoma treatment needed were investigated.

CHN1 gene mutation analysis in patients with Duane retraction syndrome.

Purpose: To investigate CHN1 (chimerin 1) gene mutations in patients with isolated nonsyndromic Duane syndrome and accompanying positive familial history, bilaterality, or various systemic disorders.

Methods: Patients with Duane retraction syndrome (DRS) and a positive family history of congenital ocular motility disturbance or bilateral involvement or accompanying any congenital disorder(s) seen consecutively at a single center from 2013 to 2016 were enrolled. All subjects underwent full ophthalmologic examination, including refraction, best-corrected visual acuity, ocular alignment and motility, globe retraction, and biomicroscopic or fundus evaluation.

Multiple Pathological Ocular Findings in a Patient With PHACE Syndrome.

The authors describe a 2-year-old girl diagnosed as having posterior fossa malformations, hemangiomas, arterial anomalies, cardiac anomalies, and eye abnormalities (PHACE) syndrome that presented with a large facial hemangioma of the forehead and eyelid, ptosis, microphthalmia, persistent pupillary membrane and pupillary ectopia, congenital oculomotor nerve palsy of the affected eye, and bilateral optic disc dysplasia. [J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2016;53:e72-e74.

Massive iatrogenic orbital cysts following glaucoma drainage implant and strabismus surgery.

We describe 2 paediatric patients who developed large orbital conjunctival epithelium-lined inclusion cysts postsurgery. Case 1 underwent Ahmed glaucoma valve implant surgery 8 months ago and case 2 underwent strabismus surgery 7 years ago. Both cases had either symptomatic strabismus or a mass causing some degree of proptosis or incomitance due to lesions in the intraorbital space.

The effect of convergence and divergence stress on near stereoacuity.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of convergence and divergence stress on near stereoacuity in healthy individuals. In this experimental study, 38 subjects with fine stereoacuity (≤30 arcsec in TNO test, 17th edition) were enrolled. Near fusional convergence and divergence amplitudes were measured.

Unilateral phthiriasis palpebrarum infestation in a child during occlusion therapy for amblyopia: Case report.

An 8-year-old mentally retarded boy is brought to the hospital because of itching and burning at his right eye for 10 days. He was on full time right eye occlusion therapy for left amblyopia. Slit lamp examination revealed nits and adult lice anchored to the eyelashes in his occluded eye.

Evaluation of the anatomic and refractive differences in hyperopic anisometropia.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the interocular symmetry of ultrasonic biometric characteristics and anterior segment measurements between the fellow eyes of hyperopic anisometropes. Forty-two healthy hyperopic anisometropic cases (1 D mean spherical equivalent difference between eyes) without strabismus were recruited. A range of refractive and ultrasonic biometric parameters were measured in both eyes of each subject including keratometry, mean spherical equivalent, anterior chamber depth (ACD), lens thickness, vitreous depth (VD), axial length (AL), and anterior segment parameters (central corneal thickness (CCT), ACD, anterior chamber volume (ACV)) with Pentacam.

Strabismus in infants following congenital cataract surgery.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the incidence and characteristics of strabismus following congenital cataract surgery in infants.

Materials And Methods: Patients aged <12 months who underwent surgery for congenital cataract and were followed-up for ≥1 years were included. Patients that had strabismus prior to surgery were excluded.

The impact of prism adaptation test on surgical outcomes in patients with primary exotropia.

Background: We aimed to determine the impact of the preoperative prism adaptation test (PAT) on surgical outcomes in patients with primary exotropia.

Methods: Thirty-eight consecutive patients with primary exotropia were enrolled. Pre-operative PAT was performed in 18 randomly selected patients (Group 1).

Transient subretinal hemorrhage after photodynamic therapy of subfoveal choroidal osteoma.

Purpose: To report a case of choroidal osteoma that developed subretinal hemorrhage after photodynamic therapy (PDT).

Methods: Interventional case report.

Results: An 8-year-old boy was brought to our attention because of mild visual loss in his left eye.

Accuracy of Plusoptix S04 in children and teens.

Objective: To compare refraction measurements of young patients obtained using Plusoptix S04 with those obtained using cycloplegic retinoscopy.

Design: Cohort study.

Participants: Data were collected from 64 patients (128 eyes), aged 2-19 years.

Influences of cyclopentolate hydrochloride on anterior segment parameters with Pentacam in children.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of cyclopentolate hydrochloride 1% on the main numerical parameters of anterior segment with Pentacam rotating Scheimpflug camera in children.

Setting: Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology.

Methods: Pentacam measurements of 50 (23 boys and 27 girls) children before and after 45 min of cyclopentolate hydrochloride 1% instillation were performed and compared with 31 (17 boys and 14 girls) no medication instilled control group.

The effect of optical correction on refractive development in children with accommodative esotropia.

Purpose: To compare the effects of partial or full hyperopic optical correction on refractive development in children with accommodative esotropia.

Methods: Children with accommodative esotropia and hyperopia >3 D were enrolled in this prospective, nonrandomized study. All children underwent an ophthalmologic examination, including refraction, keratometry, and axial length.

Accommodative esotropia following surgical treatment of infantile esotropia: frequency and risk factors.

Purpose: We aimed to examine the frequency of and risk factors for the development of accommodative esotropia following surgical treatment for infantile esotropia.

Methods: A total of 29 children were recruited. Potential risk factors for the development of accommodative esotropia included: sex; angle of deviation at initial and final visits; cycloplegic refractive error at initial and final visits; increase in hyperopia; amblyopia; amblyopia treatment; age at surgical treatment; pre- and postoperative latent nystagmus; dissociated vertical deviation or inferior oblique muscle overaction; additional surgical procedures; unstable alignment, and binocular sensory status.

Factors influencing stereoacuity in refractive accommodative esotropia.

Background: We aimed to investigate factors that promote binocular sensory function in patients with refractive accommodative esotropia (RAE) who have successful optical alignment.

Methods: Charts of 64 patients with RAE were retrospectively reviewed. Clinical factors examined included onset age of RAE, duration of misalignment, history of misalignment in family members, amblyopia, amblyopia treatment, refractive error, anisometropia, ocular movement disorders, visual acuity level, and the presence of intermittent or constant misalignment after optical correction of the hyperopic refractive error.

Orbital cellulitis after strabismus surgery.

Serious infection is uncommon after eye muscle surgery. Orbital cellulitis is a rarely reported but is potentially vision- and life-threatening complication after strabismus surgery. In this report, we describe a case of unilateral orbital cellulitis after strabismus surgery for sensory exotropia in a healthy adolescent boy.

Could personality traits modify the response to uncorrected high hyperopia?

Purpose: We aimed to measure temperament and investigate personality in children with high hyperopia considering that these could modify the individual response to uncorrected high hyperopia.

Methods: Fifteen children (age range, 5 to 12 years) with orthotropia and ametropic amblyopia in the presence of uncorrected high hyperopia were identified (group 1). Among the children with refractive accommodative esotropia, 15 children (age range, 5 to 12 years) were enrolled to form group 2.