A new experimental burn model with an infrared heater.

Background: This study was undertaken to develop new experimental burn injury model using conventional infrared heaters.

Methods: 21 Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 3 groups. Portion of dorsal area was exposed to infrared radiation from distance of 50 cm to create burn injury.

Objective Determination of Retinal Function in Bietti Crystalline Retinopathy.

A 44-year-old female patient without any known systemic or ocular disease presented with progressive visual loss and night vision disturbance. Visual acuity was 0.6 in the right eye and 0.

Diabetic Macular Edema.

Unlabelled: Diabetic macular edema (DME), one the most prevalent causes of visual loss in industrialized countries, may be diagnosed at any stage of diabetic retinopathy. The diagnosis, treatment, and follow up of DME have become straightforward with recent developments in fundus imaging, such as optical coherence tomography. Laser photocoagulation, intravitreal injections, and pars plana vitrectomy surgery are the current treatment modalities; however, the positive effects of currently available intravitreally injected agents are temporary.

Coexistence of Posterior Staphyloma, Retinitis Pigmentosa and Moderate Myopia.

The authors report a 22-year patient presented with night-blindness and progressive visual loss. Ophthalmologic examination included slit lamp biomicroscopy, best-corrected distance visual acuity, cycloplegic refraction, A-mode and B-mode ultrasonography, and full-field flash electroretinogram (ERG). Cycloplegic refractions were -6.

The prevalence and causes of visual impairment in young Turkish men.

Objective: To explore the causes and prevalence of visual impairment in young Turkish men.

Methods: The health examination data of the candidates that are saved in National Defense Ministry of Turkey was used. The data of the candidates examined between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2011 were evaluated.

Molecular alterations in malignant blue nevi and related blue lesions.

Malignant blue nevi (MBN) are extremely rare dermal melanocytic tumors that arise in association with atypical cellular blue nevi (ACBN), cellular blue nevi (CBN), common blue nevi (BN), or de novo. The frequency of BRAF, NRAS, and KIT mutations in malignant melanoma varies according to histological subtype and localization. These mutations are rarely observed in blue nevi, which have recently been shown to carry activating mutations in GNAQ/GNA11 genes.

Diode laser-assisted transcanalicular dacryocystorhinostomy: the effect of age on the results.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the effect of age on the success of transcanalicular diode laser-assisted dacryocystorhinostomy (TCDCR).

Methods: Seventy patients (70 eyes) who underwent transcanalicular diode laser-assisted dacryocystorhinostomy for the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction as a primary surgery were included in this retrospective, nonrandomized study. The patients were divided into two groups according to age.