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Moorfields Education: Hot topics in comprehensive ophthalmology
7 February 2025
Hot topics in comprehensive ophthalmology is a course for people who work in the field suitable for comprehensive/general ophthalmologists, urgent care and primary care, optometrists and nurse practitioners. This is an update on common themes which appear in the comprehensive...
Phaco nightmares
I am interested in the stressful nature of cataract surgery from the surgeon rather than the patient’s perspective. It is an issue that has quite literally kept me awake at night. Part of getting to grips with a problem is...Quiz Dec/Jan 2020
2 December 2019
History A 69-year-old female patient was referred to the uveitis clinic from her local district general hospital with a left posterior uveitis which had been unresponsive to high dose steroids. She had no other previous ophthalmic history nor significant systems...
Herpes zoster ophthalmicus: the essentials
Herpes zoster, also referred to as shingles, is a common infection most typically caused by the reactivation of varicella zoster virus that lies dormant (sometime for decades) in the dorsal root nerve ganglion following primary chickenpox infection [1]. In 10-20%...
Ocular blood flow changes in Behcet disease
1 December 2014
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
This study evaluates ocular blood flow changes in both ocular Behcets disease (BD) and non-ocular BD (with or without thrombotic disease) and compares these findings with a healthy control group. A total of 90 eyes with BD were evaluated with...
Diagnostic procedures in vitreoretinal lymphoma.
1 December 2014
| Nikolaos D Georgakarakos
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This paper presented a retrospective review of medical records of HIV negative immunocompetent patients diagnosed with vitreoretinal lymphoma between 1994 and 2012. The aim of the paper was to evaluate the type and number of diagnostic interventions required to confirm...
Detection of antiranibizumab antibodies in exudative AMD
1 December 2014
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this study the authors aimed to detect immune response to ranibizumab treatment in wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). An ELISA was employed to quantify the anti-ranibizumab titre which was compared against the control anti-abciximab titre. Titres of anti-ranibizumab antibodies...
Smoking and Behçet’s disease
1 October 2015
| Saruban Pasu
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between smoking and prognosis of ocular Behçet’s disease (BD). Records of 202 patients with ocular features of BD were reviewed from a Turkish hospital. Patients were divided into two groups according to their...
Acetazolamide and CMO
1 August 2019
| Saruban Pasu
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The authors set out to analyse the effect of acetazolamide therapy on inflammatory cystoid macular oedema (CMO) as defined by change in central macular subfield thickness (CST), as well as its effect on visual acuity. A retrospective chart review was...
Cystoid macular oedema following cataract surgery
1 October 2019
| Ivan Yip
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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NSAIDs, cataract, cataract surgery, corticosteroids, cystoid macular oedema
This review covers the history, incidence, diagnosis, risk factors, pathophysiology and medical management of postoperative macular oedema (PCMO), with a particular emphasis on key contemporary studies and novel observations. The authors revisit the incidence of well-established risk factors including intraoperative...
Paediatric enucleation in a tertiary eye centre in North China, 2001-2015
The authors review the demography and aetiology of paediatric enucleation over a 15-year period. A total of 9307 paediatric ophthalmic inpatients ranging from 0 to 14 years who underwent surgery at Shandong Eye Institute over the past 15 years were...
