The etiology of uveitis and its associated systemic findings may vary depending on the geographic distribution of patients and local factors. These results represent those of patients with uveitis referred to hospitals in central Anatolia.

Purpose To evaluate ganglion cell complex (GCC) thickness with spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in eyes with nonexudative age-related macular degeneration (NEAMD). Methods Forty-seven eyes of 28 patients with nonexudative age-related macular degeneration (NEAMD) and 54 eyes of 28 age-matched healthy subjects were enrolled. Each subject underwent a complete ophthalmic examination before SD-OCT were obtained. Macular scans were taken with software version 6.0 of the ganglion cell analysis (GCA) algorithm. GCC thickness was evaluated automatically as the average, minimum, temporal superior, superior, nasal superior, nasal inferior, inferior, and temporal-inferior segments by SD-OCT and parameters were compared between groups. Results The mean age was 68.7 ± 8.73 years in patient group, and 61.51 ± 5.66 years in control group. There were no significant differences in mean age, gender distribution, intraocular pressure, and sferic equivalent at imaging between the groups (P40.05). The mean (± SD) GCC thicknesses were as follows; average 71.53 ±16.53 μm, minumum 62.36 ± 21.51 μm, temporal superior 72.23 ± 14.60 μm, superior 72.76 ± 20.40 μm, nasal superior 72.31 ± 20.13 μm, nasal inferior 69.74 ± 20.51 μm, inferior 69.38 ± 19.03 μm, and temporal-inferior 73.12 ± 15.44 μm in patient group. Corresponding values in control group were 81.46 ± 4.90 μm, 78.66 ± 6.00 μm, 81.51 ± 4.66 μm, 82.94 ± 5.14 μm, 81.79 ± 5.86 μm, 80.94 ± 6.18 μm, 80.14 ± 6.30 μm, and 81.75 ± 5.26 μm, respectively. There were significant differences between two groups in each segments (Mann-Whitney U-test, Po0.05). Conclusion The average GCC thickness values (in all segments) of NEAMD patients were lower than control group. NEAMD, which is considered as a disease of outer layers of retina, may be accompanied with a decrease of ganglion cell thickness, so inner layers of retina may be affected.

S. maltophilia should be considered a pathogenic organism possibly causing endophthalmitis after PHACO+IOL implantation. The clinical picture resembles acute bacterial endophthalmitis. When the pathogen has settled in the capsular bag, the infection may persist and become refractory to medical treatment.

Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) is characterized by neurosensory retinal detachment. Because the retina pigment epithelium and choroidal pathology is the current mechanism in CSCR, many studies in the literature focused on the outer retinal layers. There is little information about the functional or histological structure of the detached retina. In this study, we assess the ganglion cell complex (GCC) thickness using optical coherence tomography (OCT) in patients with acute and chronic CSCR. The medical records of 16 acute and 19 chronic CSCR patients which have no other disorders that cause a serous macula detachment were analyzed. Chronic cases were also divided into two subgroups: chronic active and chronic nonactive CSCR. The eyes with extramacular involvement or cystoid degeneration and cases which developed choroidal neovascularization were excluded from the study. The mean, minimum, superior-nasal, superior, superior-temporal, inferior-nasal, inferior, and inferior-temporal GCC values obtained using OCT were used for analysis. The duration from the onset was 7.8 ± 4.5 weeks and the mean age was 45.0 ± 10.7 years in acute CSCR, and in chronic cases the values were 36.0 ± 6.2 weeks and 52.9 ± 10.5 years, respectively. There were no significant differences in sex distribution. The chronic cases were statistically significantly older than acute cases (p = 0.02). While there was no difference between the acute and chronic cases, there were statistically significant differences between the chronic CSCR and control group in all values of GCC. Additionally, there were statistically significant differences between the acute CSCR and control group in mean, minimum, and superior-temporal GCC thicknesses. Although choroid and outer retinal layers play an important role in the pathogenesis of CSCR, there is scant information about the functional or histological structure of the detached retina in CSCR. Our results showed that GCC was significantly reduced in both acute and chronic CSCR compared to healthy subjects. Analysis of ganglion cell helps us understand the etiology of the patients which healed anatomically but had limited visual improvement in CSCR.

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