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Belfast briefing: Retina Day roundup from the RCOphth 2024 Annual Congress
2 August 2024
| Rod McNeil
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EYE - General
Belfast hosted this year’s Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ (RCOphth) Annual Congress, a meeting dedicated to sharing advances, knowledge and clinical practice points in ophthalmic care. This article summarises selected talks by medical and surgical retina specialists during the Retina Subspecialty...
Eye Capacity: clinical need should drive ophthalmic service provision
1 February 2014
| Rod McNeil
Almost two million people in the UK suffer sight loss, a number forecast to double over coming decades. Major causes of blindness are age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, cataract and uncorrected refractive error. Prevalence of these sight-threatening conditions...
Headaches in ophthalmology (part 1)
Ophthalmologists see a large number of patients with headaches or facial pain in the ophthalmic outpatient clinics or in emergency clinics. Over two articles, I will discuss several causes of headaches, ocular manifestations and proposed management and referral options. It...21st Century retinal laser treatment in the anti-VEGF era
1 June 2017
| John Awad, Prasad Rao
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In today’s world, macular laser treatment has a vital role in the treatment of diabetic macular oedema (DMO). DMO is one of the most common causes of visual impairment. Despite expensive intravitreal treatment courses of anti-VEGF, many will agree that...
More sensitive visual acuity test for age-related macular degeneration
1 October 2016
| Roger S Anderson (Prof), Nilpa Shah
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. Primarily associated with ageing, genetic factors and lifestyle choices such as smoking also play a contributory role. Patients with early AMD, characterised by the development of...
The role of injection assistant devices in establishing a nurse-led AMD service
1 April 2018
| Hani Hasan
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The author shares his experience of setting up a nurse-led service to deliver anti-VEGF intravitreal injections and how injection assistant devices supported training. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has become a leading cause of irreversible blindness [1]. It is estimated that...
Using optical coherence tomography angiography to detect MoyaMoya vasculopathy
5 April 2022
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Neuro-ophthalmology, moyamoya vasculopathy, optical coherence tomography angiography, retina
Moyamoya (MM) disease is a chronic cerebrovascular disease that can lead to progressive stenosis of the terminal portions of the internal carotid arteries and their proximal branches. The authors carried out a cross-sectional cohort study to investigate vascular changes in...
Pathophysiology of diabetic macular oedema: why combination therapy may be better
1 October 2015
| Winfried MK Amoaku
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The prevalence of diabetes has continued to increase over the years. It is currently estimated that there are 382 million with diabetes worldwide in 2013, and that this figure is expected to rise to 592 million by 2035 [1]. In...
Vascular density evaluated by SS-OCTA and microperimetry in RP
4 August 2025
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The aim of this retrospective, observational cross-sectional one-year study was to evaluate the retinal and choroidal vessel density in the macular area with swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) in patients of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), to compare this data with...
NICE drugs: an update on what’s good to go
Treatment options recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) must be readily available for use in the NHS of England and Wales. This article provides an overview of recent guidance from NICE and summary advice issued...Sickle cell eye disease: an overview of vitreoretinal complications and their surgical management
1 December 2016
| Antonio Berarducci, Tom Williamson
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disorder worldwide and is associated with lifelong anaemia, intermittent pain and multi-organ morbidity. Ocular involvement can be associated with significant visual impairment due to the complications of proliferative sickle retinopathy (PSR). Occasionally...
Assessment of retinal capillary VD and FAZ area in CSC using OCTA
7 April 2021
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
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Central serous chorioretinopathy, Optical coherence tomography, Optical coherence tomography angiography, Visual acuity
The authors aim to report a cross-sectional, case controlled study, the purpose of which was to access the retinal capillary vessel density (VD) and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) area in acute and chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) patients compared to...
