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Glaucoma: 30 years on
30 November 2023
| Colm O’Brien
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EYE - Glaucoma
Back in 1993, the late and great Barry Cullen FRCS (Cavan born, Dublin trained), the first editor of Eye News, asked me to write an article about the current treatment of chronic open angle glaucoma (COAG). At the time I...
Lens surgery in patients with lens subluxation misdiagnosed as primary angle-closure glaucoma
1 August 2019
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Glaucoma
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Angle-closure glaucoma, intraocular pressure control, lens subluxation, lens surgery, misdiagnosis
Lens subluxation can be caused by many conditions including Marfan syndrome and other hereditary conditions, and blunt trauma. Lens displacement can cause pupillary block and angle closure. This is commonly misdiagnosed as primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG), which can lead...
Retinoblastoma chemotherapeutic drugs and their toxic effects on RPE cells
1 October 2016
| Bheemanagouda Patil
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
There is reported clinical evidence of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) alterations after intra-arterial (IAC) and intravitreal chemotherapy (IViC) of retinoblastoma. The purpose of this study was to investigate the cellular toxic effects of melphalan, topotecan and carboplatin on the RPE...
Three years of experience with quantiferon-TB Gold Testing in patients with uveitis
1 April 2015
| Nikolaos D Georgakarakos
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Quantiferon-TB Gold is a new alternative to the tuberculin skin test that utilises synthetic peptides representing M. tuberculosis antigens ESAT-6, CFP-10, TB7.7 and upon incubation with whole blood IFN-γ is released from pre-sensitised T cells and can be measured by...
Atropine penalisation for amblyopia in the UK
The authors aimed to determine the current clinical practice of atropine penalisation (AP) in the UK, to identify perceived barriers limiting use of AP as a first line treatment and ascertain whether any of the barriers could be resolved. An...Effective management of dry eye and ocular surface disease
4 August 2021
| Rod McNeil
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EYE - General
Experts recommend a consistent approach to diagnosis, therapeutic targeting by disease subtype and escalation of therapy when tear substitutes are not sufficient. Experts call for a consistent, unified approach to diagnosis of dry eye disease (DED), with a new simple...
Bandage contact lens cultures after corneal collagen cross-linking
1 August 2016
| Saruban Pasu
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EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
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Bacterial contamination, contact lens, corneal collagen cross-linking, keratoconus, photorefractive keratotomy
Corneal collagen cross-linking (CCL) is a treatment modality that has been shown to stop the progression of keratoconus. There have also been reports that CCL acts as an antimicrobiologic agent in treating resistant microbial keratitis. This study aimed to investigate...
The results of the last survey Oct21
This edition’s survey questions moved away from the deep and ethically charged questions of the recent surveys and focussed on simple and straightforward issues. This is really where the surveys began in exploring the minor practice variations which we have...Understanding and confronting bacterial endophthalmitis
Abdus Samad Ansari highlights the importance of early recognition of this condition using an unusual presentation. Endophthalmitis is a medical emergency with devastating consequences. Despite adequate treatment, severe cases frequently result in permanent blindness. Endophthalmitis involves inflammation of both the...
The natural history of treatment naïve choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) in geographic atrophy
1 February 2018
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the characteristics and natural history of quiescent CNV in geographic atrophy (GA) utilising multi-modal imaging. Case notes were reviewed of patients diagnosed with geographic atrophy between January 2010 and December 2016...
Risk calculation variability over time in OHT
1 June 2014
| Lorraine North
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EYE - Glaucoma
In this study the authors aimed to assess the variability of the well documented risk model from the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) that identified higher intraocular pressure (IOP), older age, lower central corneal thickness (CCT), greater vertical cup-to-disc ratio...
The eye without tears
1 June 2016
| Hector Bryson Chawla
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EYE - General
The Art is long and Life is short. So goes the dispiriting tag in Latin and flung from day one and at regular intervals thereafter at idle medical students who, inevitably brainwashed, come by graduation to believe that the only...
