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.

Our results showed that limbal conjunctival autografting is an effective surgical technique for the treatment of pterygium, and tissue glue was efficacious in securing the limbal conjunctival autograft in pterygium surgery. The use of tissue glue decreases patient symptoms during the postoperative period after pterygium surgery. Compared with sutures, tissue glue had no adverse effects on ocular tissue.

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.

Deep AC is more common in eyes with extensive vitreous removal during PHACO than ECCE. Decreasing the bottle height is advised in this case. Except for this, the results of ECCE and PHACO are similar in previously vitrectomized eyes. Posterior synechiaes, primary and postoperative PCO and RD are more common in vitrectomized eyes than the controls.

LASIK is a safe and effective method for treating refractive error and creating orthophoria in fRAE. In pRAE, it eliminates the refractive component of deviation safely and effectively.