Journal Reviews
Clinical features of basic acquired nonaccommodative esotropia requiring surgery
Basic acquired nonaccommodative esotropia (BANAET) is a concomitant esotropia occurring after the age of six months without significant refractive error or accommodative element. Esotropia is similar for both near and distance and children have prior binocular single vision. The purpose...
Comparison of motor and sensory outcomes for nonaccommodative esotropia and partial accommodative esotropia
Motor and sensory outcomes of surgery are compared for partial accommodative refractive esotropia (pARET) and acute nonaccommodative comitant esotropia (ANAET) to evaluate factors affecting their surgical success. This was a retrospective study of 38 ANAET (26 males, 12 females) and...
Ahmed and Baerveldt glaucoma drainage implant outcomes
This study reports the surgical outcomes of both the Ahmed (AGV) and Baerveldt (BGI) glaucoma drainage implants in a cohort of patients with primary congenital glaucoma over a long follow-up in a single tertiary centre. This was a retrospective study...
Occlusion vs. video gaming for treatment of refractive / anisometropic amblyopia
The authors conducted a comparative study of a novel low-cost video game platform – BarronVision (BV) – with standardised occlusion in the treatment of paediatric amblyopia. BarronVision uses a monocular perception learning approach in which the size of optotypes can...
Quality of life scores in strabismic children
In this study the authors used the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (version 4.0) to evaluate impact of strabismus on health-related quality of life in Portuguese children. This was a prospective study of children aged 5–12 years over a nine-month...
Choroid and retinal changes post COVID-19
The authors aimed to evaluate choroid and inner neural layers in people previously recovered from Covid-19 compared to healthy controls using optical coherence tomography (OCT) over a six-month period. They recruited 96 people: 56 with Covid-19 at least three months...
Female participation at the AAO conference
This study sought to understand whether female participation among paediatric ophthalmologists at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting resembles the sex distribution of the field as well as whether the Covid-19 pandemic significantly affected female involvement. From 2018–2022,...
No risk of dry eye disease in concomitant strabismus cases
This preliminary assessment of the ocular surface of patients with concomitant strabismus before surgery was undertaken to determine if the presence of strabismus increases the risk of dry eye disease. This was a cross-sectional study of 204 patients with concomitant...
Types of nystagmus and associations in a large international database for nystagmus
The authors aimed to characterise a large international cohort of children with nystagmus. Data were taken from a prospective database which was started in 2010. Up to 2020, this contained 1774 patients with nystagmus from 38 US states and 30...
MPH treatment effect in ADHD on choroidal vascular index
In this study the authors aimed to investigate the choroidal vascular index (CVI) in treatment-free children with ADHD, children regularly taking methylphenidate (MPH) and healthy controls. This was a prospective cross-sectional study of 52 patients with newly diagnosed ADHD, 46...
Lean concept implementation process to improve clinic efficiency
The authors adopted a Lean concept to improve patient wait times, delays, clinic inefficiencies and patient satisfaction. They report the outcomes of implementation in this paper. Visit time, and patient and staff movements during patient examinations were mapped. Patient examinations...
Use of Leflunomide as a treatment for paediatric chronic uveitis
Leflunomide is a disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug approved for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis in adult patients. This study reports five illustrative case reports of children using Leflunomide as an adjunct treatment with anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) agents...
