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Patients use their own blood to treat dry eye symptoms
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: Patients use their own blood to treat dry eye symptoms Grossman first described the technique of...
Risk stratification to reduce intraoperative cataract surgical complications
The authors prospectively collected data on 1135 consecutive patients undergoing cataract surgery. They were risk stratified according to categories – A (no additional risk factors, 0 points), B (vitrectomy, corneal scarring, small pupil less than 3mm, shallow anterior chamber less...
Evisceration in India: demographic and clinical trends from a large multicentre cohort study
In this multicentre cohort study, the authors investigated a total of 2071 patients who underwent evisceration with primary implant placement over a six-year period at four tertiary eyecare centres in India. Out of 1,345,480 new ophthalmic presentations during the study...Vitreous loss fire drills – ophthalmic simulation improves trainee surgical competence and confidence with posterior capsule rupture scenarios
Ophthalmic trainees have reported limited exposure and low confidence regarding the management of cataract complications such as posterior capsule rupture (PCR) / vitreous loss (VL). This report evaluates the impact of a simulation-based educational training event on these concerns. Introduction...
Practical Emergency Ophthalmology Handbook: An Algorithm Based Approach to Ophthalmic Emergencies
This book is extremely helpful for a new starter / clinician in ophthalmology emergency services. However, to understand the algorithms and the explanations, the clinician would need a good knowledge and understanding of anatomy and physiology of the eye and...
Is pre-eclampsia / eclampsia a risk factor for non-infective uveitis?
This population based retrospective matched cohort study was the first of its kind to suggest an association between preeclampsia / eclampsia (PEE) and non-infective uveitis (NIU). They used the Longitudinal National Health Insurance database in Taiwan to assess 2073 post-delivery...
Screening for ROP using wide-angle digital retinal photography by non-ophthalmologists
This is a systematic review article to evaluate the accuracy of digital retinal photography (DRP) performed by trained personnel (non-ophthalmologists) in diagnosing clinically significant retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The authors used search engines including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane databases....
Outcomes following repair of early-onset versus delayed-onset rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RD) after acute posterior vitreous detachment (PVD)
This is a retrospective single centre comparative interventional study of 210 patients in total, between 2015 to 2020, presenting with delayed RD (diagnosed >42 days after initial acute PVD presentation) compared with a 2:1 age and gender-matched acute RD cohort...
Myectomy with or without proximal end tucking for inferior oblique overaction
This study aimed to compare the outcomes and impact of inferior oblique muscle myectomy with and without tucking the proximal end of the muscle into Tenons capsule in two surgical groups as a treatment for inferior oblique overaction. Tucking the...
Myopathic ptosis and lower lid retraction surgery
This is a description of a surgical technique which simultaneously addresses both the upper lid ptosis and lower lid retraction in patients with moderate to severe myopathic ptosis. The procedure was performed on 16 eyes of nine patients and involved...
