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. v 2 -test and Student's t-test were used for statistical analysis. Results The number of patients with PEX among CAD ( þ ) patients was substantially larger than controls. In all, 28 of 50 CAD ( þ ) patients and only 12 of 50 CAD (À) patients had PEX. PEX was significantly associated with CAD (P ¼ 0.001). When all patients were regrouped according to the presence of PEX, patients with PEX did not differ from patients without PEX in terms of age (P ¼ 0.360) and sex (P ¼ 0.507), but the prevalence of CAD was higher (P ¼ 0.001) and fundoscopic findings of vascular diseases were significantly more prominent (P ¼ 0.0001) in PEX ( þ ) patients. Discussion We demonstrated statistically significant difference in the prevalence of PEX in CAD patients, and also in the prevalence of CAD in PEX ( þ ) individuals. These were striking differences. We should consider the possibility of the presence of PEX in CAD patients; and the predisposition of PEX ( þ ) persons for CAD, which necessitates a fundus examination for findings of systemic vascular diseases.

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Retinal detachment etiology, inadequate vitreous base shaving, lack of intraoperative scleral buckling, and vitreous hemorrhage at the first postoperative week after SO removal were significant risk factors for retinal redetachment after SO removal, but preoperative visual acuity, SO viscosity, and duration of SO had no significant effect on redetachment.

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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 7.33 +/- 0.98% (5.10% protans and 2.23% deutans). These ratios were higher than other reported samples from Mediterranean Europe. Higher percentages of color blindness were found in regions with a lower education level and more consanguineous marriages.

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PurposeThis was a collaborative study from the Ophthalmology and Gastroenterology departments of a tertiary care hospital, designed to investigate the local ocular surface parameters in patients with celiac disease (CD).MethodsFifty-six eyes of 28 patients with CD and 58 eyes of 29 healthy adult subjects serving as controls were evaluated. The Schirmer test, tear-film break-up time, and conjunctival impression cytology were performed in addition to a complete ophthalmological examination. Impression cytology specimens of each group were graded and scored in the range 0-3.ResultsThe 28 patients with CD consisted of 24 females (86%) and 4 males (14%). The mean age was 34.4±11.3 years (22-55 years). Tear-film break-up time and Schirmer test results were significantly lower in the study group than in the controls (P<0.05). Also, there was a significant difference between the groups for impression cytology grading scores (P=0.001).ConclusionsThe CD group showed a marked preponderance of females with an F/M ratio of six females per male, as reported in the literature. Tear-film functions and conjunctival surface epithelial morphology were significantly altered in patients with CD.

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