Journal Reviews
Opening the AI ‘black box’ for glaucoma
Artificial intelligence (AI) models show great promise for glaucoma detection using retinal images, but their ‘black box’ nature is a major barrier to clinical adoption. Clinicians are often hesitant to trust a diagnosis without understanding its reasoning. This paper provides...
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ophthalmology conferences
The Covid-19 pandemic encouraged the transition to telehealth and virtual platforms in ophthalmology conferences. This cross-sectional study analysed data from five US-based ophthalmology conference organisations. Conference meetings were categorised as in-person, virtual or hybrid. Data included total attendance, trainee participation,...
Low-dose bimatoprost/timolol gel: a new fixed-combination option
This phase III international randomised trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of a new low concentration bimatoprost/timolol eye gel (bimatoprost 0.01%/timolol 0.1%). It was compared with the conventional higher-strength fixed combination eye drops (bimatoprost 0.03%/timolol 0.5%) in patients with open-angle...
Selective laser trabeculoplasty after medical treatment
Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) is a well-established treatment for open-angle glaucoma (OAG) and ocular hypertension (OHT). This post-hoc secondary analysis of the LiGHT trial extension examined SLT as a secondary intervention after 3 years of protocolised medical therapy in patients...
Risk of fractures with glaucoma
In this systematic review and meta-analysis, 7 articles were analysed, with 570,694 subjects and a reported total of 45,957 fractures. The study protocol (CRD42024527785) was registered prospectively. PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science were searched from their inception to April...
Ocular sequalae of spinal muscular atrophy
The authors present a retrospective single-centre cohort study of patients with spinal muscular atrophy – a neurodegenerative disorder presenting between infancy and early adulthood. Forty-eight patients were included in total, with roughly equal numbers of types 1, 2 and 3...
Quality of Instagram posts about amblyopia
The purpose of this study was to better understand the availability, accuracy and extent of information available on Instagram about amblyopia. The authors evaluated content of the top 200 publicly available Instagram posts about amblyopia from October–December 2022. Posts were...
Visual acuity improvement in amblyopic eyes following fellow eye vision loss
The authors present a systematic review with the aim of reporting how frequently and to what extent amblyopia recovers following the loss of vision in the fellow eye and identify any potential clinical predictors. Studies including adults with amblyopia and...
Three-year results of 0.01% and 0.1% loading dose atropine treatment including washout in Danish children with myopia: a placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial
This was a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised clinical trial of 97 children to examine the safety and efficacy of low-dose atropine (0.1% and 0.01% loading dose) after 2-year treatment and 1-year washout in 6–12-year-old Danish children with myopia. Ninety-one children were...
Current and emerging strategies for myopia control
This is a review of the current literature and strategies for myopia control. It discusses the epidemiology of myopia, the classification of myopia and the current treatment strategies. It presents data from landmark papers while discussing treatment strategies which they...
Science maps to outline emerging topics in strabismus
Science maps show the current status of research in a specific field – a form of scientometrics. Co-word analysis is an example of graphic modelling in which keywords are used to study the conceptual structure of a research field. In...
Surgical outcomes of primary recess/resection vs readvancement/recession surgery for exotropia
This study compared the surgical yield of primary lateral rectus and medial rectus recession/resection (RR) surgery for basic exotropia, convergence insufficiency type exotropia (CIXT) and divergence excess (DXS) vs. patients undergoing medial rectus readvancement (MRR) +/- lateral rectus recession for...
