Emergency Management and Nursing Considerations of Carotid Blowout Syndrome.

Introduction: Carotid blowout syndrome is a rare but fatal complication often witnessed secondary to treating patients with head and neck cancer. It occurs when damage and necrosis lead to the carotid artery wall rupture. The symptoms encountered in these patients range from asymptomatic to cardiac arrest.

Targeted Temperature Management Experience of an Academic Emergency Department: A 5-Year Retrospective Study.

Targeted temperature management (TTM) for postcardiac arrest syndrome patients is a cornerstone therapy to reduce mortality and neurological morbidity. The care of critical patients is provided in the emergency department (ED) when intensive care units (ICUs) are unavailable. This study aimed to determine the characteristics and mortality outcomes of postcardiac arrest patients who underwent TTM in an academic ED.

Idiopathic bilateral bloody tearing.

Bloody tear is a rare and distinct clinic phenomenon. We report a case presenting with the complaint of recurrent episodes of bilateral bloody tearing. A 16-year-old girl presented to our clinic with complaint of bloody tearing in both eyes for 3 months.

A rare ocular complication after a heart transplant: toxoplasma retinitis.

Ocular infections after a heart transplant are rare; but when present, they generally appear during the first year after surgery. Ocular infections may cause significant loss of vision and morbidity if not diagnosed early. For that reason, heart transplant patients should undergo a routine visual examination during follow-up.

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease: clinical and demographic characteristics of patients in a specialized eye hospital in Turkey.

Purpose: To evaluate clinical and demographic features of Vogt-Kayanagi-Harada disease (VKH) disease in Turkish patients and compare them with previously published data.

Methods: Demographic and clinical features of 32 patients diagnosed as VKH in a tertiary referral center were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: The mean age at presentation was 33.

Changes of total antioxidant capacity and total oxidant status of aqueous humor in diabetes patients and correlations with diabetic retinopathy.

Aim: To measure changes of total oxidant status (TOS) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) of aqueous humor (AH) in diabetic retinopathy (DR) patients, and to determine if there were any differences in TOS and TAC of AH in diabetic patients without retinopathy compared with non-diabetic patients.

Methods: One hundred and three eyes of 103 patients who were enrolled for cataract surgery were included in this study. Patients were grouped according to presence of diabetes and stage of DR.

Impact of panretinal photocoagulation on optic nerve head parameters.

Background: To investigate the impact of panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) on quantitative optic nerve head (ONH) assessment in patients with diabetic retinopathy.

Methods: Eighty eyes of 80 diabetic patients who did not undergo PRP and 45 eyes of 45 subjects with diabetes who underwent PRP were enrolled in the prospective, cross-sectional study. Participants were evaluated by confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (CSLO).

Usher syndrome associated with a variant of Dandy-Walker malformation.

Three cases of Usher syndrome associated with a variant of Dandy-Walker malformation in three siblings from consanguineous Turkish parents are described. The siblings had retinitis pigmentosa and hearing loss. Two of the siblings also had mental retardation, which is not a constant finding in Usher syndrome.

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.

Is there a change of corneal thickness in uveitis with Behçet disease?

Purpose: To report the measurements of central corneal thickness (CCT) in uveitic eyes with Behçet disease (BD) and compare it with age- and sex-matched healthy controls.

Materials And Methods: This study included 69 eyes with ocular BD with no history of corneal disease, glaucoma, or ocular surgery and 50 eyes of healthy controls. Eyes with ocular BD were subdivided into active and inactive groups.

Mammalian telomeric DNA suppresses endotoxin-induced uveitis.

Telomeric regions of mammalian chromosomes contain suppressive TTAGGG motifs that inhibit several proinflammatory and Th1-biased immune responses. Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) expressing suppressive motifs can reproduce the down-regulatory activity of mammalian telomeric repeats and have proven effective in the prevention and treatment of several autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases. Endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU) is an established animal model of acute ocular inflammation induced by LPS administration.

Aneurysmal bone cyst of the ethmoid presenting with proptosis and epiphora.

An aneurysmal bone cyst of ethmoid is a rare and distinct clinicopathologic entity. The diagnosis is important in this localization because it requires multidisciplinary approach in its management. We report a case of a 14-year-old woman presenting to our clinic with the complaint of epiphora and proptosis in the right eye, which were the symptomatic findings of aneurysmal bone cyst of ethmoid.

Short-term effects of subconjunctival injections of 5-fluorouracil on conjunctival epithelium.

Purpose: To assess the changes in the conjunctival cytology of patients given a subconjunctival injection of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) to treat failed filtering blebs.

Methods: The patients were classified into 3 groups. The first group included 15 eyes in 15 patients who were given subconjunctival injections of 5-FU after unsuccessful glaucoma surgery.

Combined cilioretinal artery and partial central retinal vein occlusion in the postpartum period.

Purpose: To report a combined cilioretinal artery and partial central retinal vein occlusion shortly after delivery in a twin-pregnant woman.

Methods: A 25-year-old woman presented to our clinic with the complaint of blurred vision in the right eye 1 week after delivery. She underwent detailed ophthalmic and systemic investigations.

Localized Cystic Enlargement of the Distal Optic Nerve Sheath after Decompression Surgery.

Cystic formation of the optic meninges may occur after optic nerve sheath decompression surgery for the management of pseudotumor cerebri. A case with a cyst-like structure of the distal optic nerve sheath at the operation site in the late surgical period after nerve sheath decompression surgery is reported.

The relation between bevacizumab injection and the formation of subretinal fibrosis in diabetic patients with panretinal photocoagulation.

Background And Objective: To report the development of subretinal fibrosis after the injection of intravitreal bevacizumab in eyes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) refractory to panretinal laser photocoagulation (PRP).

Patients And Methods: Twenty-one eyes of 15 patients treated with PRP and intravitreal injection of bevacizumab were included in this study. The clinical outcomes of 21 eyes having subretinal fibrosis after intravitreal bevacizumab injection were reviewed.

Is there a correlation between diabetes mellitus and central corneal thickness?

Purpose: To evaluate the association of central corneal thickness (CCT) with diabetes mellitus and compare it with age and sex-matched healthy controls.

Materials And Methods: This study included 245 eyes of 245 subjects (one eye per subject). One hundred diabetic patients constituted the study group and 145 were healthy controls.

Inflammatory mediators and posterior segment involvement in ocular Behcet disease.

Purpose: To assess the serum level of mediators and their relation with posterior ocular involvement in patients with Behcet disease (BD).

Methods: This study was a prospective, institutional clinical trial including 43 patients with ocular BD. Patients were divided into two subgroups: those with active posterior segment involvement (Group A) and those with inactive ocular BD (Group B).

Vitreoretinal surgery in advanced coats disease.

Purpose: To report the outcomes of vitreoretinal surgery for a patient with total retinal detachment and a subretinal nodule associated with Coats disease (CD).

Methods: A 20-year-old woman stage 3B CD underwent vitreoretinal surgery with triamcinolone acetonide-assisted pars plana vitrectomy, limited retinotomy, removal of the subretinal nodule and membrane, endolaser photocoagulation, and silicone oil tamponade. The surgical outcomes were observed.

A comparative study of tissue glue and vicryl suture for closing limbal-conjunctival autografts and histologic evaluation after pterygium excision.

Purpose: To compare clinical and histopathologic outcomes of tissue glue and vicryl suture to attach limbal conjunctival autografts in pterygium surgery.

Methods: Twenty-four eyes of 24 patients were included in this study. All eyes had primary pterygia and were treated with limbal conjunctival autograft transplantation after pterygium resection.

A case report: zoledronic acid-induced anterior uveitis.

Background: Bisphosphonates prevent bone loss by binding on active sites of bone remodeling and inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption. Zoledronic acid is recommended for patients with bone metastases from breast, prostate, and lung cancers.

Objective: To report a case of anterior uveitis after the infusion of zoledronic acid.