Long-term comparison of horizontal rectus surgery with vertical tendon transposition and combined vertical tendon transposition and inferior oblique-weakening in V-pattern exotropia.

Purpose: To compare the efficacy of bilateral lateral rectus recession with vertical tendon transposition (LRVT) and LRVT combined with inferior oblique (IO) disinsertion for V-pattern exotropia.

Methods: The medical records of patients who had mild-to-moderate (+1 and +2) inferior oblique overaction (IOOA) and underwent half-tendon-width upward LRVT (transposition group), and LRVT with IO disinsertion (combined surgery group) for V-pattern exotropia and who had at least 3 years of postoperative follow-up were reviewed retrospectively.

Results: A total of 45 patients were included: 22 in the transposition group and 23 in the combined surgery group.

Treatment of convergence insufficiency type intermittent exotropia with bupivacaine injection to the medial rectus combined with lateral rectus recession.

Purpose: To evaluate the outcomes of combined bupivacaine HCL (BPX) injection in the medial rectus (MR) muscle with recession of the lateral rectus muscle in the treatment of convergence insufficiency-type intermittent exotropia (CI-IXT).

Methods: The medical records of patients who underwent combined injection-recession treatment from January 2019 to January 2020 for CI-IXT were reviewed retrospectively along with a group of age-matched controls with IXT without CI who underwent only unilateral LR recession during the same period. The following data were extracted from the record: age at surgery, average follow-up period, angle of deviation at distance and near and the difference between them before and after surgical procedure, correction of near and distance deviations, and recession dosage.

Pediatric Uveitis in Turkey: The National Registry Report II.

Purpose: To report demographic and clinical profiles of children with uveitis in theTurkishpopulation.

Methods: The data of the pediatric uveitis cases in the nation wide uveitis database were analyzed.

Results: The study included 697 eyes of 442 patients with a meanage of 10.

A Comparison of Transcanalicular, Endonasal, and External Dacryocystorhinostomy in Functional Epiphora: A Minimum Two-Year Follow-Up Study.

Purpose: To compare the outcomes of transcanalicular diode laser-assisted dacryocystorhinostomy (TCL-DCR), nonendoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (NEN-DCR), and external dacryocystorhinostomy (EXT-DCR) as first-line treatments for functional epiphora.

Methods: This multicenter, retrospective, case-control study included 135 eyes of 135 patients with functional epiphora (86 females and 49 males). Functional epiphora was diagnosed based on a patent lacrimal system with a delay in the fluorescein dye disappearance test (FDDT) or dacryoscintigraphy (DSG) and no ocular surface or eyelid abnormalities.

Efficacy of fitting HydroCone (Toris K) contact lenses for the visual rehabilitation of patients with posterior microphthalmos.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of soft HydroCone silicone hydrogel contact lenses in patients with posterior microphthalmos.

Methods: The charts of 13 patients with posterior microphthalmos (26 eyes) who were fitted with soft HydroCone silicone hydrogel contact lenses were reviewed retrospectively. All the patients underwent assessments of uncorrected and best spectacle-corrected visual acuity and cycloplegic refraction.

Whole tendon disinsertion of superior oblique for the treatment of Brown syndrome: a comparative study with multiple techniques.

Purpose: To evaluate the results of a temporal whole superior oblique (SO) tendon disinsertion technique compared with other SO tendon-weakening procedures.

Methods: The medical records of patients who underwent an SO procedure at University of Health Sciences Beyoğlu Eye Research and Training Hospital from January 2008 to January 2018 for treatment of Brown syndrome were reviewed retrospectively. Patients with follow-up of at least 12 months were included.

Comparison of quantitative measurement of macular vessel density before and after inferior oblique muscle-weakening surgery: An optical coherence tomography angiography study.

Purpose: To investigate hemodynamic changes in retinal and choroidal vasculature after surgical inferior oblique (IO) weakening through optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).

Methods: The medical records of patients who underwent unilateral IO-weakening surgery at a single institution were retrospectively reviewed. Patients who had OCTA measurements before surgery and on postoperative days 7 and 30 were included.

Sliding shape extraocular muscle transposition with plication: Long-term results.

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the long-term results of sliding shape extraocular muscle transposition, which is a novel operation method of delivering both vascular protection and strengthening of the muscles and transposition of the muscles.

Methods: The patients' files were scanned retrospectively. All patients underwent a complete eye examination in addition to motility examination, both preoperatively and postoperatively.

Muscle belly union surgery with or without medial rectus recession for the treatment of high myopic strabismus fixus.

Purpose: To evaluate the results of surgery involving the union of the superior rectus muscle and the lateral rectus muscle with or without medial rectus recession (MRc) for the treatment of high myopic strabismus fixus over a 20-year period.

Methods: The medical records of patients who underwent muscle belly union for the treatment of high myopic strabismus fixus were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were classified according to the timing of MRc.

Short and long term outcomes after small-incision lenticule extraction: A tertiary referral centre experience.

Purpose: The objective of this study is to evaluate the preoperative and short- and long-term postoperative results in terms of visual acuity, refractive error, and corneal wavefront aberrations in patients with myopia and myopic astigmatism undergoing small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE).

Methods: Seventy-nine eyes of 52 myopes with or without astigmatism (41 right and 38 left) were enrolled in this retrospective study. The measurements included uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), spherical equivalent (SE) and wavefront aberrations.

Comparison of different tendon transposition techniques for the treatment of monocular elevation deficiency type 2.

Purpose: To compare results of three different tendon transposition techniques (Knapp procedure and two modified techniques) for the treatment of type 2 monocular elevation deficiency (MED) patients.

Methods: The medical records of patients with MED type 2 operated on at a single institution from 2000 to 2016 were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were divided into three vertical transposition groups: (1) full tendon width, (2) augmented surgery; and (3) partial tendon width.

Cyclic strabismus: what measured angle of strabismus should guide surgery?

: Here we aimed to describe seven pediatric patients with cyclic strabismus and report the outcome of their surgical treatment.: Seven children with acquired esotropia manifesting in a 48-h cycle were included in the study. Four of them were boys, and three of them were girls.

Vertical rectus muscle union combined with lateral rectus plication for complete abducens nerve palsy.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to report our postoperative results concerning the vertical rectus (VR) muscle union combined with lateral rectus (LR) plication for the treatment of large-angle esotropia (ET) in complete abducens nerve palsy.

Methods: Medical records from 36 patients who had undergone the VR union procedure for ET treatment due to sixth-nerve palsy between July 2014 and July 2018 at Beyoglu Eye Research and Training Hospital were reviewed. One week before surgery, all patients underwent a 4-IU botulinum toxin A (btx) injection into the ipsilateral medial rectus (MR).

Long-term Results of Trabeculectomy With Mitomycin-C in Patients With Bilateral Acute Iris Transillumination.

Unlabelled: PRéCIS:: The present study suggests that immediate trabeculectomy with mitomycin C (MMC) may be performed as a safe and effective intervention in the management of refractory ocular hypertension (OHT)/glaucoma in patients with bilateral acute iris transillumination (BAIT).

Purpose: To report the long-term results of trabeculectomy with MMC in the management of OHT/glaucoma in patients with BAIT.

Materials And Methods: In total, 9 eyes of 6 patients with BAIT who underwent trabeculectomy with MMC between 2007 and 2015 were reviewed.

confocal microscopy and anterior segment optical coherence tomography follow-up of cysteamine treatment in corneal cystinosis.

A 36-year-old female presented initially with photophobia and visual deterioration. After examination and laboratory tests, patient was diagnosed with cystinosis. Cysteamine drops 4 × 1 drops/day was given as treatment for 1 year.

Corneal Topographical Changes After Müller's Muscle-conjunctival Resection Surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate corneal refractive and topographical changes after Müller's muscle conjunctival resection surgery on patients with mild ptosis.

Methods: A total of 28 eyes of 28 patients with mild ptosis underwent Müller's muscle conjunctival resection. Visual acuity, margin reflex distance, and cycloplegic refraction were analyzed preoperatively and at first, third, and sixth months postoperatively.

Assessment of the macula and choroid in pediatric keratoconus patients.

Purpose: To present choroidal and macular thickness measurements in pediatric patients with keratoconus and to evaluate a possible correlation between anterior and posterior segment parameters.

Methods: 50 eyes of 50 patients and 50 eyes of 50 age-matched controls were included in this cross-sectional comparative study. The participants underwent ophthalmologic examination including; refraction, visual acuity, biomicroscopy, corneal topography and optical coherence tomography.

The effect of trabeculectomy on serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in primary open-angle glaucoma.

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the effect of trabeculectomy on serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels. Our secondary goal was to compare serum and aqueous humor (AH) BDNF levels in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and control subjects.

Methods: This prospective, cross-sectional study consists of 20 eyes of with advanced-stage POAG who had trabeculectomy and 19 eyes of age- and sex-matched control healthy subjects who had cataract surgery.

Comparison of visual acuity measurements via three different methods in preschool children: Lea symbols, crowded Lea symbols, Snellen E chart.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare three different methods to measure visual acuity (VA) in healthy and amblyopic preschool children: a Snellen E chart (SE), a single Lea symbols (SLS), and a crowded Lea symbols (CLS).

Methods: Seventy-eight eyes of 54 patients (28 females, 26 males) were included in this cross-sectional, comparative study. The control group consisted of 30 healthy cases, and the amblyopic group consisted of 24 patients with amblyopia.

Analysis of clinical features and visual outcomes of pars planitis.

Purpose: To evaluate the demographic characteristics, clinical features, treatment and outcomes of patients with pars planitis in a tertiary referral center in Turkey.

Methods: Medical records of patients with pars planitis were retrospectively reviewed. The data including demographic and ocular features and treatment outcomes were recorded.