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BVI to donate PPE to healthcare workers
30 March 2020
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COVID-19
Ophthalmic device manufacturer BVI has redirected its efforts and supply toward the COVID-19 response.
Is pre-eclampsia / eclampsia a risk factor for non-infective uveitis?
1 April 2019
| Tasmin Berman
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This population based retrospective matched cohort study was the first of its kind to suggest an association between preeclampsia / eclampsia (PEE) and non-infective uveitis (NIU). They used the Longitudinal National Health Insurance database in Taiwan to assess 2073 post-delivery...
IOL power calculation accuracy in childhood cataract surgery
Refractive outcomes in eyes after vitrectomy vary as the timing of cataract surgery may influence the outcome when done as staged surgery after vitreoretinal (VR) surgery or at the same time as VR surgery. The authors aimed to determine the...Review evaluates efficacy of eye protection equipment to protect against Covid-19
4 April 2020
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COVID-19
Researchers from the University of Oxford have concluded that there is "no direct evidence from randomised trials that eye protection equipment alone prevents transmission of COVID-19."
Are social media promoting ocular protection in the community?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries worldwide introduced lockdown measures to control infection, causing people to spend more time at home. This resulted in reports of increasing incidences of do-it-yourself (DIY)-related trauma. When the Covid-19 pandemic started in December 2019,...COVID-19 and Ophthalmology: RCOphth, ICEH and COECSA joint webinar
13 August 2020
| Elanor Watts, Victor Hu, Will Dean, John Buchan, John Nkurikiye, Mike Burdon, Josiah Onyango, Marcia Zondervan
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EYE - General
The Royal College of Ophthalmology of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (COECSA) and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (the Royal College) have had a successful VISION 2020 LINK partnership for over 12 years. The partnership was established by the VISION...
Effect of minor trauma in eyes with previously undiagnosed angioid streaks
1 April 2014
| Balini Balasubramaniam
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Angioid streaks (AS) may be associated with pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), Paget’s disease, haemoglobulinopathies, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or abetalipoproteinaemia. Histopathology showed retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and choriocapillaris loss, elastic fibre degeneration, calcium deposition, active choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) and vascular endothelial growth...
Easter Weekend sees the start of Innovia Face Visor production
15 April 2020
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COVID-19
Innovia Medical Group has announced that production of its Innovia Face Visor is now underway.
Vitrectomy after ocriplasmin for VVMT adhesion of MH study
1 April 2017
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This is a multicentre retrospective study of 51 eyes that received intravitreal ocriplasmin between January 2013 to January 2014 for symptomatic vitreomacular (VMT) +/- macular hole (MH), and then went on to PPV for persistent pathology, comparing a control group...
RPE use similar pathway to regulatory T cells to inhibit immune response
1 December 2014
| Graham Wallace
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells form an important part of the blood-retinal barrier that protects the neuronal cells responsible for sight. RPE cells are involved in innate and adaptive immune responses via expression of surface molecules and release of cytokines....
Retinal pigment epithelium tears
1 June 2016
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this paper the authors review the current knowledge of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears. Although rare these can cause loss of visual acuity. They can occur spontaneously in pigment epithelial detachment (PED) due to occult choroidal neovascularisation (CNV), retinal...
