Journal Reviews

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Patient reported outcomes in adolescents with inherited retinal diseases

4 October 2023 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal | PROM, Patient-reported outcomes, clinical trial, gene therapy, inherited retinal disease, pediatrics, retinal dystrophy

This was a two-centre validation study of two sets of patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) for adolescents (13-17- years-old) with inherited retinal diseases. The measures were the Michigan Retinal Degeneration Questionnaire (MRDQ) and the Michigan Vision-Related Anxiety Questionnaire (MVAQ). Both...

Does paediatric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) obey Lincoff’s rule (LR)?

3 February 2023 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal | Lincoff‘s rule, pediatric, retinal break, rhegmatogenous retinal detachment

This was a retrospective study where 98 paediatric patients with RRD were identified through surgery records. Forty case sheets with complete record of ocular examination and surgical findings were analysed. Visible or suspected preoperative retinal break identified using the LR...

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Paediatric enucleation in a tertiary eye centre in North China, 2001-2015

2 December 2019 | | Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus | Enucleation, evisceration, ocular trauma, pediatric, retinoblastoma

The authors review the demography and aetiology of paediatric enucleation over a 15-year period. A total of 9307 paediatric ophthalmic inpatients ranging from 0 to 14 years who underwent surgery at Shandong Eye Institute over the past 15 years were...