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Comparison of changes in ECD and CCT between CPS and FLACS
5 June 2020
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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ECD, FLACS, corneal thickness, endothelial cell density, femtosecond laser, phacoemulsification
This is an intraindividual randomised clinical trial of 134 eyes from 67 patients, one eye was treated with femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) (including pretreatment of main incision, side port, capsulotomy and lens fragmentation) and the fellow eye received conventional...
A novel approach to suprachoroidal haemorrhage drainage
1 February 2022
| Su Young
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EYE - Glaucoma
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Active aspiration, butterfly needle, extrusion mode, suprachoroidal hemorrhage
The authors describe a novel surgical technique for external drainage of choroidal detachment / suprachoroidal haemorrhage with a butterfly needle. Six eyes with serous and / or haemorrhagic choroidal detachments (five from complicated cataract surgery with vitreous loss, one globe...
The ophthalmologist’s elbow: a potentially painful point of contact
1 February 2015
| Ben While
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EYE - General
Three months ago I leant, in the customary manner, on the box of my indirect lens at the slit lamp to examine a patient’s fundus. An acute and severe pain in the tip of my elbow immediately interrupted me. I...
Specialty doctor interviews
1 February 2019
| Gwyn Samuel Williams
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EYE - General
I started my training as an ophthalmologist in the Wild West of Carmarthenshire where I did my first laser procedure, first phacoemulsification and first slit-lamp examination. All of these firsts were done under the tutelage of very skilled staff grade...
RCOphth 2024 Report
28 May 2024
| Samuel Verdin
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EyeConUK, RCOphth2024, Royal College of Ophthalmology, events, meetings, reports, previews, Eye News
A comprehensive tapestry of all our RCOphth Annual Congress content captured between 20–23 May 2024.
American Academy of Ophthalmology – Updated textbooks Basic and Clinical Science Course 2018-2019
The American Academy of Ophthalmology publish a series of books entitled Basic and Clinical Science Course every year. It’s a highly regarded series and has often been quoted to me as a good reference set of books. Indeed, I invested...Survey of current undergraduate ophthalmology teaching in the United Kingdom
1 October 2019
| Farihah Tariq, Mohamad Loutfi, Nazim Ghouri, Mark Watts
Is there a crisis in ophthalmic education? The British Undergraduate Ophthalmology Society surveyed medical students and junior doctors to evaluate current ophthalmology teaching across medical schools in the UK. British medicals schools are currently not obligated to include ophthalmology within...
Doctor prints cornea on demand!
Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are based on facts and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: Doctor prints cornea on demand! Dr Hideo Kodama from the Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute first...Phacogeddon
A trainee shortly to rotate to my firm was unhappy at the fact that she had only one phaco list in her timetable. She was a final year trainee with more than five hundred cataract extractions to her name so...‘The biggest jump in confidence’: SpaMedica officially launches STEPS development programme for NHS trainee ophthalmologists
STEPS aims to provide registrars with experience of treating all types of cataracts.
Van Herick Plus
2 December 2019
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Glaucoma
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angle, diagnostic tests/investigation, glaucoma incidence
This a consecutive cross-sectional study of 95 phakic patients over the age of 40-years-old. By applying a short, vertical slit beam, the inferior angle at the scleral-limbal junction at 6 o’clock position was evaluated, photographed and assessed by a ratio...
The ghost of Christmas present
1 December 2022
| Peter Cackett
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EYE - General
“Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.” Some will recognise this as one of the many brilliant quotes from what is considered to be the best Christmas movie ever – Frank Capra’s tear-jerker It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), although...
