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Risk of CNV related to angioid streaks in PXE
7 April 2021
| Tasmin Berman
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This retrospective cross-sectional study investigated 301 patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) for prevalence of choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) and macular atrophy. Some patients were excluded due to missing or poor-quality imaging or the fact that they didn’t have angioid streaks, leaving...
Microdroplet and splatter contamination during phacoemulsification in COVID-19 era
3 June 2021
| Ivan Yip
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, aerosol-generating procedure, microdroplet generating procedure, phacoemulsification cataract surgery
Half a millilitre of fluorescein was incorporated into 400ml of balanced salt solution to identify microdroplet and splatter from phacoemulsification to simulate possible COVID-19 contamination. Five porcine eyes were mounted to an ophthalmic mannequin head and two surgeons (height 189cm,...
Optical practices to continue to provide urgent and essential care
25 March 2020
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COVID-19
The UK Government has now published further guidance clarifying that opticians are exempt from the general requirement for retail businesses and premises to close.
Optical practices may therefore continue to provide urgent and essential eye care to the extent that they can, including remote care, while managing COVID-19 risk to keep patients, staff and the public as safe as possible.
Ophthalmology in the COVID-19 pandemic
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...Optimising an acute eye service in the current COVID-19 crisis
5 June 2020
| Patrick Hughes, Julia Sieberer, Inderpaul S Sian
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EYE - General
With the current global pandemic of COVID-19 we have all had to redesign and reorganise our normal working practices. Non-urgent hospital work has been postponed to allow redistribution of resources, redeployment of hospital staff and to reduce the risk of...
25-gauge PPV for retained lens fragments
1 February 2016
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This was a retrospective study including 40 eyes of 40 patients with mean age of 78 years, 19 females and 21 males, who underwent 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for retained lens fragments with a minimum of six months of...
Occurrence and risk factors for RD after PPV in acute postcataract bacterial endophthalmitis
1 February 2017
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This is a prospective multicentre study from France between March 2004 to December 2011 in four university hospitals; 123 consecutive patients treated with pars planar vitrectomy (PPV) were included in this cohort. The rate of retinal detachment (RD) of post-PPV...
Preoperative RPE alterations in macular holes
1 April 2017
| Saruban Pasu
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This retrospective interventional case series from Japan assessed whether preoperative alterations of the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) in idiopathic macular holes correlated with postoperative functional and morphological changes in the macula. Fifty-nine eyes had preoperative Spectralis OCT using the ‘detailed’...
RPE tears after intravitreal Lucentis
1 February 2017
| Saruban Pasu
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The current hypothesis regarding retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears is the contraction and fibrosis in choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) tissue after anti-VEGF therapy can induce rips in the overlying RPE. This South Korean study aimed to identify the association between RPE...
Does intravitreal bevacizumab help in diabetic retinopathy related vitreous haemorrhage?
1 October 2017
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This retrospective, interventional case series, aimed to assess the effectiveness of intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) in vitreous haemorrhage secondary to proliferative diabetic retinopathy. The primary outcome was the rate of vitrectomy (PPV) after IVB, with secondary outcomes the number of IVB...
Novel changes during COVID-19 – transforming a walk-in Eye Casualty to a telephone triage service
18 February 2021
| Karishma Parmar, Riddhi Thaker, Deepa Rathore
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EYE - General
With the current pandemic climate due to COVID-19, out of the norm approaches have been adopted in different hospitals across the UK to ensure patient safety. At our Eye Casualty (EC) department at Northampton General Hospital (NGH), we felt the...
ABCA1 mediates lipid efflux in the retina
1 June 2018
| Graham Wallace
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly population. There are two forms of AMD, dry and wet, the latter so named because of the presence of choroidal neovascularisation. Both forms lead to retinal pigment...