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Prevalence and incidence of uveitis
Uveitis encompasses a group of diseases characterised by the inflammation of fovea uvea which are potentially vision threatening. However, the frequency of this condition is unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to provide estimates of the frequency of uveitis...
Detailed overview of diplopia causes and outcomes for a single tertiary care centre
The purpose of this study was to study the aetiology, progression and outcome in patients with binocular diplopia presenting to the ophthalmology department of a tertiary care centre in India. The study had a prospective observational design where all patients...
COVID-related mucormycosis
The authors report a retrospective case-control study of 73 patients with COVID-19 associated mucormycosis (CAM) between 1st March and 30th May 2021. They compared various factors between the two groups – patients who survived CAM (47 [64%]) and those that...
Changing operating room practices: the effect on postoperative endophthalmitis rates following cataract surgery
This is a retrospective clinical registry study from India of 85,552 cataract surgery patients; group 1 (56,551 patients from January-March 2020) and group 2 (29,011 patients from May-August 2020). Group 1’s patients were ungowned, surgical gloves were disinfected but not...
Multidrug-resistant keratitis: challenging yet manageable
This is a retrospective review of all patients’ records from a tertiary referral centre in India from January 2018 to December 2019, who had corneal scrapings for direct smear and culture sensitivity. Those cases where the organisms were diagnosed to...Andrew Geddes Becomes Vice President and Head of European Operations at Glaukos
Glaukos announces that Andrew Geddes is to become Vice President and Head of European Operations, recognising his eight years of leadership and contributions to the company’s growth. In this role, Geddes will lead Glaukos’ strategic expansion in Europe, Middle East...
Radiation maculopathy
This is a retrospective non-randomised study of 13 consecutive eyes of 13 patients affected by radiation maculopathy secondary to eye irradiation for primary uveal melanoma (Iodine-125 brachytherapy). All patients were treated with a single intravitreal 0.7mg dexamethasone implant and full...
Factors influencing the outcome of GT and TBT in PCG
This is a retrospective study between 2013 to 2016 of 452 eyes of patients </=12 years with primary congenital glaucoma (PCG), who underwent either goniotomy (GT) (median age: six months, 120 eyes) or trabeculotomy (TBT) (median age: 5.2 months, 332...
Local surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia
This is a retrospective review of a new surgical treatment of intractable periorbital neuropathic pain. Five patients with post-herpetic (three), post-traumatic (one) and idiopathic (one) neuralgia underwent transection of the nerves supplying the dermatomes affected by the neuropathic pain. The...
