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Measuring patient-reported outcomes after refractive surgery to assess patient satisfaction

Patient-reported outcomes enable surgeons to evaluate patients’ symptoms and satisfaction after laser vision correction. The great majority of patients are pleased with their outcomes from laser vision correction, whether it is with photorefractive keratectomy, laser in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK), or small...

My Top Five: Debunking common myths in ophthalmology and vision care

In the field of eye health, numerous misconceptions persist. Let’s examine five prevalent myths and uncover the truth behind them. Myth 1: Wearing glasses weakens your eyesight Origin: This myth likely originated from the observation that people often need stronger...

Moorfields medical retina consent pathways course

This brand new, unique MR Pathways consent course is specially designed for nurses, optometrists, doctors and others healthcare professional groups working in medical retina subspeciality in ophthalmology. The MR Pathway consent course enables the multi professional groups to embed the...

Moorfields: Medical retina pathways consent course

This brand new, unique MR Pathways consent course is specially designed for nurses, optometrists, doctors and others healthcare professional groups working in medical retina subspeciality in ophthalmology. The MR Pathway consent course enables the multi professional groups to embed the...

Customised corneal crosslinking with supplemental oxygen

In this prospective interventional case series, the authors investigate using supplemental oxygen delivery during epithelium-on corneal crosslinking (CXL) with specially designed oxygen delivery goggles. Twenty-seven eyes of 24 patients underwent epi-on CXL with Riboflavin and Ultraviolet-A irradiation. At six months...

Comparison of SS-OCT and SD-OCT in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

Swept source OCT (SS-OCT) is known to have a longer wavelength than spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT), allowing deeper penetration into retinal and choroidal layers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether SS-OCT is superior to SD-OCT in imaging...

Safety and efficacy of a nurse-led intravitreal injection service using an Precivia® injection assist device

Nurse-led intravitreal injections have become of great importance for busy eye units. In this article, the authors present safety data from five years of a nurse-led service with the use of the Precivia® intravitreal injection assist device. Intravitreal injections of...

The results of the last survey Dec24

This edition’s survey results are fascinating. They focus more on your impressions and views rather than on the facts of your clinical practice. Effectively I asked you to take the role of an expert and comment on the cases I...

Light view in night view!

Canary Wharf marked its eighth edition of the Winter Lights Festival earlier this year. Exhibiting new spectacular light installations alongside the permanent immersive art displays, a tiny spark of an idea has grown into the most anticipated event, already planning...

Glaucoma diagnosis with spectral-domain OCT of GCL and IPL

This is a prospective, cross-sectional, observational study by the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, which recruited normal subjects and glaucoma patients with a range of visual field loss representing various degrees of glaucomatous optic neuropathy. A total of 69...

Heidelberg Engineering Celebrates Eye2Gene™ AI Breakthrough in Precision Ophthalmology

Heidelberg Engineering proudly announces a significant advance in the use of artificial intelligence for ophthalmic diagnostics, with the publication of the Eye2Gene™ study in Nature Machine Intelligence. Titled “Next-generation phenotyping of inherited retinal diseases from multimodal imaging with Eye2Gene”, the...

Amblyopic choroidal thickness

The authors studied choroidal thickness in 38 paediatric cases (76 eyes) with unilateral amblyopia to evaluate the differences between amblyopic and fellow eyes, and compare them with 19 healthy control subjects (38 eyes). Anisometropic amblyopia was present in 17 cases...