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Screening and adherence to glaucoma care in Enugu, Nigeria

2 December 2019 | Patty Mopamboli Mboli | EYE - Glaucoma | Follow up, adherence, eye screening, glaucoma care

The authors present the findings of a cross-sectional survey of participants diagnosed with glaucoma during free eye screening. A total of 830 participants were screened from two outreaches:182 new glaucoma cases were diagnosed (63 glaucoma and 119 glaucoma suspects). There...

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Effect of heredity on risk of diabetic retinopathy

1 September 2023 | Kurt Spiteri Cornish | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal | Diabetic macular edema, heredity, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, risk factors, survival analysis

This study used survival analysis on 2199 patients who had reached vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy to investigate the contribution of heredity to diabetes together with other known risk factors for the development of either proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) or diabetic macular...

New partnership to prevent unnecessary sight loss

13 December 2022

Sight loss charity the Macular Society has announced a new partnership with OcuPlan, a service designed to give patients with long-term eye conditions such as macular disease affordable access to specialist care to prevent unnecessary sight loss.

Glaucoma UK and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists announce research award 2023

15 February 2023

Glaucoma UK and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists are working in partnership to run this prestigious award which has previously funded a range of research topics from prospective stem cell treatments to the use of big data in patient risk stratification.

Intravitreal injections delivered by ophthalmic clinical nurse specialists

1 June 2015 | Rita McLauchlan, D Armstrong, Konstantinos Balaskas, Sajjad Mahmood | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Intravitreal injections of the anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agent ranibizumab, for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was approved by National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) in 2008 [1]. The Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH),...

The results of the last survey Feb 2020

5 February 2020 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General

I appreciate that I keep on reiterating it, but again we see so much practice variance. Who is right and who is wrong? Is there a right or wrong approach? And does it matter? I think it probably does matter....

District hospitals key to unlocking Global South surgical conundrum

20 December 2024 | research, LMICs, international, surgery

Patients attending first referral hospitals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) receive surgical care that is just as safe and effective as that provided by higher level referral centres, a new study reveals. Researchers found no significant difference in 30-day...

In conversation with Imran Rahman (CHEC)

1 August 2022 | Chris Henson | EYE - General

Imran Rahman, CEO and Consultant Ophthalmologist, CHEC, spoke to Chris Henson about tackling the COVID-19 backlog, community-based support for the NHS, and the digitisation of healthcare. Without major intervention, will we ever see an end to the COVID-19-induced NHS backlog,...

Changing the post cataract surgery review pathway – is patient safety compromised?

1 October 2014 | Andrew Walkden, Conrad Schmoll, Mark Wright | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

Cataract surgery continues to be the most commonly performed elective surgical procedure in the UK, with an annual rate of approximately 4150/100,000 people over the age of 65 accounting for a significant proportion of the surgical workload of most ophthalmologists...

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