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New Moorfields stem cell treatment improves vision for untreatable condition
A new breakthrough stem cell treatment for ARK (aniridia-related keratopathy) has seen patients’ vision improve for this previously untreatable rare genetic eye condition in a first-in-human clinical trial at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, published in...The unlabelled syringe: An avoidable medication risk in ophthalmic surgery
Ophthalmic surgery is a specialty of small volumes, clear fluids and unforgiving anatomy. In cataract, glaucoma and vitreoretinal surgery, a theatre trolley may contain several syringes that look almost identical: balanced salt solution (BSS), lignocaine, intracameral mydriatic, phenylephrine, antibiotic, dye,...Simulated ocular surgery
See also Simulated ocular surgery - strabismus surgery and Simulated ocular surgery: pars plana vitrectomy and scleral buckling surgery This is the first of a series of articles that will have three aims. Firstly, to demonstrate why simulated ocular surgery...
The willingness of patients to participate in an eye donation registry for research
This paper explores the willingness of ophthalmic patients to donate their eyes post-mortem for research purposes. A total of 300 German patients with a median age of 70 years (range 19-95) completed the standardised questionnaire; 45.3% were female and the...
What caregivers know about VKC and effect of this on compliance
The authors aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice among caregivers of children with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) to assess their level of understanding of the disease and factors that affect compliance with medical advice and compel them to use...Mucormycosis: In conversation with Dr Deepak Haldipur and Dr Aditya Moorthy
COVID-19 has ravaged the world in the past 18 months. The second wave in many countries was deadlier than the first. Mucormycosis, infamously labelled ‘the black fungus’ has affected some countries, such as India, in epidemic proportions within this COVID...The results of the last survey Feb24
Thank you to all those who participated in this edition’s survey and for those of you who attended my recent Medico-legal Seminar at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. It was a fascinating and educational day, made a success by the...
