Ocular manifestations of late-onset behçet disease.

Purpose: to describe the demographic characteristics and ocular manifestations of patients with late-onset Behçet disease (BD).

Patients And Methods: The patients for this retrospective study were selected using the data obtained from the medical records of 16 patients with late-onset BD between January 2000 and May 2008.

Results: twelve (75%) of the cases were male and 4 (25%) were female.

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.

Laser in situ keratomileusis for treatment of fully or partially refractive accommodative esotropia.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) in partially refractive accommodative esotropia (pRAE) and fully refractive accommodative esotropia (fRAE).

Methods: Forty-two eyes of 21 patients who had LASIK for correcting hyperopic refractive error were evaluated. Refractive errors, uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), ocular alignment, and stereopsis were recorded before and after LASIK.

Ocular findings in childhood-onset Behçet disease.

Purpose: To investigate the demographic characteristics and ocular features of patients with childhood-onset Behçet disease.

Patients And Methods: Patients for this retrospective study were selected using the data obtained from medical records of 34 patients with childhood-onset Behçet disease being followed up in the Uveitis Department of Ankara Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital between January 2003 and May 2008.

Results: Of 34 patients, 24 were boys (70.

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.

Keratometric alterations following the 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless pars plana vitrectomy versus the conventional pars plana vitrectomy.

Purpose: To assess the alterations in keratometric astigmatism following the 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless pars plana vitrectomy versus the conventional pars plana vitrectomy.

Methods: Sixteen consecutive patients were enrolled into the study. Conventional vitrectomy was applied to eight of the cases and 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy was performed in eight patients.

Comparative toxicity of 4 commonly used intravitreal corticosteroids on rat retina.

Objective: To investigate the effects of 4 commonly used steroids (dexamethasone, triamcinolone, betamethasone, and methylprednisolone) on 50 retinas of 25 adult pigmented rats.

Study Design: Experimental animal study.

Participants: Twenty-five pigmented Long-Evans male rats.

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.

Bilateral permanent concentric visual field defect secondary to severe pre-eclampsia.

Purpose: To present a patient with bilateral permanent concentric visual field defect secondary to severe pre-eclampsia.

Case Report: A forty-year-old woman presented to the ophthalmology department with partial visual field defect affecting her both eyes. She gave a history of emergent uterine curettage for severe uncontrolled pre-eclampsia in the 24th week of her second gestation which was 10 years before.

Retinopathy in patients with diabetic ophthalmoplegia.

Purpose: To compare patients with palsy of the 3rd, 4th or 6th cranial nerve due to diabetes mellitus (DM) with controls matched for age, sex and disease duration in terms of the presence and severity of diabetic retinopathy.

Patients And Method: Thirty-three diabetic patients with cranial nerve palsies and 33 age- and sex-matched controls with the same duration of disease were included in this case-control study. Groups were evaluated in terms of the type of DM, presence and level of diabetic retinopathy and coexisting systemic diseases.

Phacoemulsification in pseudoexfoliation syndrome.

Purpose: To compare the incidence of intraoperative and early postoperative complications (IEPC), visual outcomes, and change in intraocular pressure (IOP) between eyes with and without pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX) having cataract extraction by phacoemulsification.

Material And Method: 800 eyes with PEX and 1,600 eyes without PEX having cataract extraction by phacoemulsification were included in this retrospective study. Evaluated parameters were incidence of IEPC, visual outcomes and change in IOP.

A case of bilateral iris mammillations with unusual pupillary appearance and pseudo-hypertension.

Iris mammillations are congenital abnormalities characterised by villiform elevations regularly spaced on the surface of the iris. The aetiology of iris mammillations is unknown. They can be either isolated or associated with melanocytosis involving the uveal tract and the periocular tissue, resulting in a risk for uveal melanoma.

Long-term outcomes of heavy silicone oil tamponade for complicated retinal detachment.

Purpose: To assess the long-term success rates and complications of heavy silicone oil tamponade (Oxane HD) in the management of complicated retinal detachment with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR).

Methods: Twenty-one eyes of 21 patients with complicated retinal detachment and PVR were included in this study. Vitreoretinal surgery with heavy silicone oil (Oxane HD) tamponade was performed in all patients.

Electron microscopic examination of the anterior lens capsule in a case of Alport's syndrome.

Purpose: To report a case of Alport's syndrome and to present electronmicroscopic examination findings of the anterior lens capsule of this patient.

Method: A 21-year-old man was referred for low visual acuity and retinal pigment epithelial changes in the left eye. The patient and his relatives underwent detailed ophthalmological examination, including electrophysiological testing.

Comparison of limbal-conjunctival autograft and intraoperative 0.02% mitomycin-C for treatment of primary pterygium.

Purpose: To compare the outcomes of use of intraoperative 0.02% mitomycin-C (MMC) and limbal-conjunctival autograft (LCAG) for treatment of primary pterygia.

Material And Method: One hundred and twelve eyes of eighty patients with primary pterygia were randomly treated either by intraoperative 0.

Cataract surgery in previously vitrectomized eyes.

Purpose: To evaluate the results of extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification (PHACO) performed in previously vitrectomized eyes.

Material And Method: In this retrospective study, 56 vitrectomized eyes that had ECCE and 60 vitrectomized eyes that had PHACO were included in the study group while 65 eyes that had PHACO in the control group. The evaluated parameters were the incidence of intra-operative and postoperative complications (IPC) and visual outcomes.

Does blunt ocular trauma induce corneal astigmatism?

Purpose: To determine the effect of blunt ocular trauma on refractive astigmatism.

Methods: Eighty-six eyes of 86 patients with known previous refractive status exposed to blunt ocular trauma were included in the study. Trauma-induced astigmatism (TIA) was calculated using vector analysis.

Does diabetic retinopathy increase the incidence of intraoperative complications of phacoemulsification surgery?

Purpose: To evaluate the rates of intraoperative and early postoperative complications (IEPC) and the duration of phacoemulsification (DOP) in the eyes with and without diabetic retinopathy and the effect of oral and topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) on surgically induced miosis (SIM).

Materials And Methods: Phacoemulsification was applied to 50 eyes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), 50 eyes with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), and 50 eyes with no other ocular findings. NSAIDs were used perioperatively.

Traumatic optic nerve avulsion.

A 10-year-old boy presented with optic nerve avulsion associated with ptosis and limitation of elevation and adduction secondary to blunt ocular trauma. At the initial examination the funduscopic view was hazy because of concurrent vitreous hemorrhage. Ultrasonography revealed a posterior ocular wall defect and a hypolucent area in the region of the optic nerve head.

Efficacy and complications of releasable suture trabeculectomy and standard trabeculectomy.

Purpose: To compare the efficacy and complications of releasable suture trabeculectomy and standard trabeculectomy.

Patients And Methods: Sixty-four patients with uncontrolled glaucoma despite maximally tolerated medical therapy were included in a prospective, comparative, randomized clinical study. Standard trabeculectomy was performed on the 32 patients (Group 1) by one ophthalmologist and releasable suture trabeculectomy was also performed on the 32 patients (Group 2) by another ophthalmologist.

Comparative analysis of the effects of brimonidine and dorzolamide on ocular blood flow velocity in patients with newly diagnosed primary open-angle glaucoma.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of brimonidine 0.2% and dorzolamide 2% on the ocular blood flow velocity in patients with newly diagnosed primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). Forty-four (44) patients with newly diagnosed POAG were included in a prospective, comparative, randomized clinical study.

A possible link between the pseudoexfoliation syndrome and coronary artery disease.

Purpose: This is a collaborative case-control study from Ophthalmology and Cardiology departments of a tertiary care hospital, designed to explore the relationship between coronary artery disease (CAD) and pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX).

Method: In all, 50 patients with CAD proven by coronary angiography, and 50 controls with normal coronary angiographic findings were compared in terms of PEX, other vascular diseases, and retinal vascular findings. chi2-test and Student's t-test were used for statistical analysis.

Congenital color blindness in young Turkish men.

We investigated a healthy population of men from different regions of Turkey for the presence of congenital red-green color blindness. Using Ishihara pseudoisochromatic plates, 941 healthy men from the Turkish army were tested for congenital red-green color blindness. The prevalence of red-green color blindness was 7.

Lepromatous iridocyclitis.

A 36-year-old woman with no prior medical history presented with a unilateral decrease in vision and iridocyclitis to our hospital. External examination demonstrated multifocal, firm, elevated, non-tender skin nodules on the patient's face and left hand. In addition, slit-lamp biomicroscopy revealed gray, cheesy-appearing nodules on the iris surface of the affected eye.