The novel coronavirus pandemic has affected the whole world and forced all of us to think of new ways to manage our day to day personal as well as professional life. I am not going to talk about the clinical...
Silicone oil internal tamponade has been used for over 50 years, even prior to pars plana vitrectomy [1].Over a course of time silicone oil may migrate to the anterior chamber through the pupil. This may disperse in the form of...
1 December 2014
| Rumana Hussain, Martin Rubinstein, Maggie Mathew, Saurabh Ghosh, Matthew Wakefield, Vijay Savant, Jeremy Prydal
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
In this article we describe a new local service development, the ‘Complex Biometry Clinic’ at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Retrospective data analysis of patients referred between October 2012 and October 2013 was performed. The aim was to provide a one-stop service...
1 April 2019
| James F (Barry) Cullen
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EYE - General
In the early 1960s plans were afoot to create a new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to replace the existing building which dated from 1870, it having replaced an earlier one dating from 1729. It was originally planned to build on the...
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary year, we are reaching out to our glaucoma community, inviting everyone to join us in the fight against glaucoma so we won’t need to exist as a charity in 50 years’ time. Since the...
Staffing shortages, financial constraints, and an ongoing rise in demand: none of these factors remove the need for high-quality healthcare, yet combined they threaten its realisation.
CHEC announces national online CPD event covering critical eye condition that has seen 400% increase in secondary care referrals. The seminar is to be hosted by CHEC Clinical Director Mahmoud Rabie and follows the UK rollout of CHEC’s ground-breaking YAG Quantel Capsulo Laser System which significantly improves accuracy in eye treatments.
The early 1980s were a glorious time to be a teenager. Along with BMX bikes, Airwolf and Quattro, we had a plethora of new music genres to be enthralled by. The band Frankie Goes to Hollywood with their dance /...
A research team has been awarded significant funding by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to develop an innovative drug-device combination that aims to revolutionise how individual immune cells are monitored and treated in patients at Moorfields...
Firstly, my sincere thanks to those of you who responded to last edition’s survey. We had a record response. Laser was never my most exciting clinical treatment, but in this environment how I wish for even that degree of patient...
You are the on-call ophthalmologist. You receive a call from A&E regarding a 45-year-old man who sustained a chemical injury. He was mixing some cement, when a small amount entered his left eye. He was not wearing any protective goggles....