Purpose: To investigate the factors associated with visual improvement in response to oral carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (CAIs) and the occurrence of microvascular changes in patients...
Hiromi and co-workers aimed to identify risk factors for recurrent retinal detachment after uncomplicated pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in patients with primary rhegmatogenous retinal...
Could you tell the diagnosis by looking these images in a 32-year-old male patient?
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Medical History:
A 60-year-old female patient presented to our clinic for an annual examination.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in the right eye and 10/10 in the...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, determine the diagnosis by looking OCT, IR images in patient with diagnosis of amd was...
Could you tell the diagnosis by looking this image in a patient with diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration ?
OCTCLUB will present the book 'Bosphorus The Ultimate Guide' to one person with correct answer to...
Medical History:
A 60-year-old male patient presented to our clinic with a three-day history of vision loss his right eye.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 6/10 in the...
Perais and co-workers aimed to determine effects of baseline characteristics and laser type performed on outcomes in people with proliferative diabetic retinopathy undergoing panretinal photocoagulation. One hundred and fourteen patients (135 eyes) were included....
Purpose: To evaluate the degenerative findings including cistern formation in the premacular vitreous using optical coherence tomography.
Methods: A novel enhanced vitreous imaging method by which four A-scans at each position were averaged before the...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, determine the diagnosis by looking OCT, FAF and IR images in a 52-year-old male...
Medical History:
A 45-year-old male patient presented with complaint of blurry vision in both eyes for the past 3 years.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 7/10 in the...
Chen and co-workers aimed to evaluate whether prophylactic laser is effective for retinal detachment following acute retinal necrosis. PubMed, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched, and the retrieved records were screened. 14 studies with a...
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling on anatomical and functional results in pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) performed eyes with tractional retinal detachment affecting the macula due to diabetes mellitus (DM).
Methods: Patients...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, determine the diagnosis by looking OCT,IR and FAF images in a 78-year-old...
Medical History:
A 41-year-old male patient presented with complaint of sudden painless loss of vision in the left eye after performing a Valsalva-type maneuver.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual...
Purpose: To review predictive factors of spontaneous vitreomacular traction (VMT) release.
Methods: A systematic literature search was performed on Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Library. Studies comparing spontaneously released VMT to persistent VMT were included....
Stewart and co-workers evaluated the safety and therapeutic effects of orally administered AKST4290 in treatment-naive patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. In this prospective, multicenter, open-label Phase 2a pilot clinical study, 30 patients with...
Dizdar Yigit and co-workers aimed to assesses the effects of transcorneal electrical stimulation on several objective and subjective measures of visual function in retinitis pigmentosa. Transcorneal electrical stimulation was applied monocularly, 30 minutes/week for...
Purpose: To compare enlargement rates over 5 years of follow-up in geographic atrophy (GA) versus macular atrophy (MA) associated with macular neovascularization (MNV).
Design: Retrospective, longitudinal comparative case series of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
Medical History:
A 39-year-old male patient presented with complaint of gradually progressive loss of night vision.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 9/10 in the right eye and...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, determine the diagnosis by looking OCT, IR and OCTA images in a 35-year-old male...
Age-related macular degeneration shares many of the same risk factors with atherosclerosis. There is a postulated role of lipid-lowering agents in preventing age-related macular degeneration. Through this meta-analysis, Eshtiaghi and co-workers demonstrate no significant...
Purpose: Comparing the effect of half-dose photodynamic therapy and high-density subthreshold micropulse laser treatment on retinal pigment epithelial detachments (PEDs) in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy.
Methods: This study included data from the PLACE trial, a...
Medical History:
A 27-year-old female patient presented with complaint of blurry vision in the right eye for the past 3 weeks.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Small yellowish papules coalescing into...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, describe the OCT finding in a patient with disciform scar and cystoid macular degeneration was asked.
The...
The OCT image of a patient who developed posterior uveitis is shown. Could you determine the diagnosis and describe the OCT findings indicated by arrows of this patient?
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Lee and co-workers aimed to estimate the risk of incident age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in patients with central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC). During a recent 5-year study period, 36,053 patients were identified as having incident...
Purpose: To investigate the predictors of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tear development after treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).
Methods: This prospective study included 152 treatment-naïve eyes...
Medical History:
A 75-year-old female patient presented with complaint of gradually progressive blurring of vision in the left eye for the past 3 months.
Diabetes mellitus (+)
Systemic hypertension (+)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected...
Zhu and co-workers aimed to develop a deep learning (DL) model that predicts age from fundus images (retinal age) and to investigate the association between retinal age gap (retinal age predicted by deep learning...
Purpose: To investigate the presence and clinical relevance of hyperreflective foci (HRFs) in retinitis pigmentosa.
Methods: Seventy seven retinitis pigmentosa cases were retrospectively reviewed. The 10-mm wide cross-line macular scans in optical coherence tomography were acquired. Hyperreflective...
The OCT image of a patient who developed cytomegalovirus retinitis is shown. Could you describe the OCT findings indicated by asterisk and arrows of this patient?
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Looking at the optical coherence tomography images and infrared reflectance images, could you tell the diagnosis in this 42-year-old female patient with the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease?
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Medical History:
A 68-year-old female patient presented with complaint of blurry vision in her left eye for 2 months. In her history; 8 years ago she had bilateral cataract surgery.
Diabetes mellitus (+)
Systemic hypertension (+)
Family history...
Sharma and co-workers aimed to analyze the effect of fluid on visual acuity in cases of Type 3 macular neovascularization. This multicentric, retrospective cohort study included eyes with treatment-naïve Type 3 macular neovascularization. Analysis...
Purpose: Available literature on peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome (PPS) is very limited. The purpose of this study is to evaluate features of PPS using multimodal imaging and shed further light on this entity.
Methods: This is...
Stopa and co-workers describe an alternative vitreoretinal technique that allows for the macular hole closure without filling the vitreous cavity with gas. The patients underwent the formation of viscoelastic-assisted temporal internal limiting membrane flap...
Purpose: To evaluate focal choroidal excavation (FCE) in eyes with various diseases using multimodal imaging modalities and to investigate the correlation of FCE and underlying chorioretinal diseases.
Methods: This retrospective observational study included 62 eyes from...
Looking at the optical coherence tomography images and fundus autofluorescence images, could you tell the diagnosis in this 39-year-old male patient?
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month...
Medical History:
A 25-year-old female patient presented with complaint of gradually progressive blurring of vision in both eyes for the past 5 years.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual...
Looking at the optical coherence tomography images, could you tell the diagnosis in this young male patient?
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question....
Purpose: To compare posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) identification rate between clinical examination versus spectral domain optical coherence tomography in patients with retinal detachment (RD).
Methods: Data from the Primary Retinal Detachment Outcomes Study were used for this...
