Nana Theodorou

Specialist Orthoptist and Research Coordinator

BMedSCi (Hons) PhD, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Research Office, 11 Broomfield Road, Sheffield, S10 2SE, UK.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: Ophthalmic Genetics - until March 2014 | Acta Ophtalmolgica | Eye

Latest Contribution

Optical coherence tomography in patients exposed to vigabatrin

1 August 2014 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | anti-epileptic drug, drug toxicity, full-field electroretinography, optical coherence tomography, vigabatrin, visual field defect

Vigabatrin is used to treat epilepsy and can lead to increased levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain and in the retina leading to binasal visual field defects. Although not the first line of treatment for adults it is...

Gender variations in retinopathy

1 August 2014 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, epidemiology, hypertension, microalbuminuria, prevalence, retinopathy, risk factors, urinary albumin excretion

The Tromso Eye Study is a substudy of the Tromso Study; a population based longitudinal study based in Norway. The extensive 5869 participants had no diabetes and were aged between 30-87 years. Retinal images from both eyes were taken using...

Avastin vs. Volon A for diabetic macular oedema

1 June 2014 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

This prospective randomised interventional clinical trial compared 30 diabetic patients with macular oedema treated with either intravitreal injections of bevacizumab (Avastin) or triamcinolone (Volon A). One group initially received three injections of 2.5 mg Avastin in monthly intervals whilst the...