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What's trending Oct/Nov 2022
A round-up of the eye related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #teammates #warringtonwolves #keratoconus Robbie Mulhern, a professional rugby league player for Warrington Wolves, had never heard of keratoconus prior to...Bovine pericardium scleral patch graft associated scleritis: Ahmed valve implant for pupillary block glaucoma
Processed bovine pericardium is a lyophilised collagen sheet used as a surgical armamentarium. It renders the material antigenically inert with minimal inflammation [1]. Sclera patch pericardium graft (Tutopatch) is a collagenous membrane derived from solvent preserved, irradiated bovine pericardium [2]...
What are the features of facial nerve palsies in children?
The aim if this study was to report ophthalmic related findings and complications in children with facial palsy. Medical records from a tertiary centre were retrospectively searched for children 16 years and under with a diagnosis of facial palsy, over...
Ocular manifestation of Marfan Syndrome
1 August 2019
| Ivan Yip
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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Marfan syndrome, axial length, corneal curvature, ectopia lentis, visual acuity
This repeated cross-sectional study collected data in 2003-2004 and 2014-2015 to investigate changes in ocular features in Marfan syndrome (MFS) fulfilling the Ghent-2 criteria. Ghent-2 is a set of criteria by which MFS are identified and includes aortic root aneurysm...
Repeat corneal collagen cross-linking after failure of primary cross-linking (CXL) in keratoconus
This is a 10-year, retrospective, patients record review from Leeds, UK. Twenty-one eyes had repeated CXL and the mean interval between primary and repeat CXL was 47.1 months. Twenty (95%) eyes stabilised after repeated CXL at a mean follow-up of...Ophthalmology in the Middle East: Reflections from two electives in Jordan and the UAE
3 October 2024
| Sarah Suleyman Omran, Andre Ismail
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EYE - General
In the summer of 2021, I was fortunate enough to embark on two electives in ophthalmology at the Shami Eye Centre in Amman, Jordan, and Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). These eye hospitals serve distinct populations,...
The management of possibly progressive pterygium
1 February 2015
| Amit Patel, Peter McDonnell, M Quinlan
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EYE - Cornea
A 43-year-old Sudanese male patient is referred by his GP with a fleshy lesion encroaching the nasal cornea for the last six months. History Make note of: risk factors, i.e. UV exposure and ocular irritation - history of living in...
The British Association of Black Surgeons (BABS) Conference
15 November 2022
by Evelyn Mensah On Tuesday 15 November 2022, I entered the Royal College of Surgeons of England for the first time in my life. The reason was that this beautiful building was hosting the inaugural British Association of Black Surgeons...
Useful and controversial apps and services
1 October 2018
| David Haider
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EYE - General
These apps and web services are not specifically ophthalmic but hopefully of interest. Office Lens Delegates take pictures of presentation slides at conferences quite frequently. If this is something you do, have a look at the ‘Office Lens’ app. This...
Nurse-led Rapid Corneal Collagen Cross-linking / UKISOP Society Education Day
1 December 2013
| Dan Gore, Lorraine North
Nurse-led Rapid Corneal Collagen Cross-linking By Dan Gore Over the last decade, clinical trial data has accumulated for new interventions in keratoconus that promise to arrest disease progression, significantly reduce transplantation rates and save many patients from long-term reliance on...
Can closing the eyelid during riboflavin induction phase of crosslinking increase corneal thickness?
Corneal crosslinking (CXL) with riboflavin and UVA irradiation is the standard treatment for preventing progression of keratoconus. Thinning of the cornea during the riboflavin loading phase was reported in previous studies which used riboflavin with dextran. A minimum stromal thickness...
