July 2012

Interesting case of coronary artery fistula and coronary anomaly resulting in coronary steal with literature review

Coronary artery fistulae are rare and abnormal communications between a coronary artery and a great vessel, which may shunt blood flow away from the myocardial capillary network causing steal phenomenon. We present a 47-year-old man with a unique arteriovenous fistula originating from the proximal portion of the left main coronary artery and entire left anterior descending artery, which then reconstitutes to form a...

Author(s): Jayanth Koneru, Nishant Gupta, Yazan Al-Khouri, Aman Hamdan, Fayez E. Shamoon and Mahesh Bikkina

July 2012

Corneal biomechanical characteristics, intraocular pressure and central corneal thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

To evaluate corneal biomechanical properties, intraocular pressure and central corneal thickness in type 2 diabetic patients by Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA), ORA measurements were performed on the 80 eyes of 40 diabetic patients (group I) and 80 eyes of 40 healthy people who served as the control group (group II). Corneal hysteresis (CH), corneal resistance factor (CRF), intraocular pressure (Goldmann correlated...

Author(s): Cem Cankaya MD, Ercan Gunduz MD, Selim Doganay MD and Ozkan Ulutas