*Department of Ophthalmology, Gazi University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey;
†Department of Ophthalmology, Ahi Evran University, Training and Research Hospital, Kırşehir, Turkey;
‡John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah;
§Department of Ophthalmology, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University Faculty of Medicine, Afyon, Turkey;
¶Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India;
**Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
††Istanbul Retina Institute, Istanbul, Turkey;
‡‡Langone Eye Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York;
§§Eyecare Clinic, Brescia, Italy;
¶¶Thind Eye Hospital in Model Town, Jalandhar, India;
***Banker's Retina Clinic and Laser Centre, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India;
†††Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Cairo, Egypt;
‡‡‡Memorial Institute of Ophthalmological Research, Giza, Egypt;
§§§Department of Ophthalmology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; and
¶¶¶Department of Ophthalmology, Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Reprint requests: Sengul Ozdek, MD, FEBO, FASRS, Ophthalmology Department, Gazi University School of Medicine, Besevler, 06500 Ankara, Turkey; e-mail: [email protected]
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health EY014800 and an Unrestricted Grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc, New York, NY, to the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Utah; and the National Institutes of Health R01EY015130 and R01EY017011 to M.E.H.
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