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Management of giant retinal tears with vitrectomy and perfluorocarbon liquid postoperatively as a short-term tamponade
1 April 2018
| Saruban Pasu
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The authors report an eight year retrospective case series study of 30 eyes of 29 patients with who underwent a giant retinal tear-related retinal detachment repair. M: F ratio was 23:6. Right to left eye ratio was 16:14. The mean...
Can 3D facial imaging improve patient management in disfiguring eye disease?
Fight for Sight is the leading UK charity funder of eye research. Since the 2013 Sight Loss and Vision Priority Setting Partnership we have encouraged our researchers to work on priorities jointly identified by people affected by sight loss and...Sexually transmitted conjunctivitis – the REALLY sticky eye
Let’s face it, patients with conjunctivitis don’t always produce the most stimulating consultations and most of the time we can manage them in auto-pilot. The prospect of delving into such a patient’s sexual history is not overly appealing, but this...The results of the last survey Jun22
Thank you once more for your time in answering the latest survey. The first question relates to the number of staff required for a routine cataract list. There was a big variance in practice. Some of us are luckier than...Systemic sarcoidosis presenting with acute myopia and angle closure
1 June 2016
| Naser Ali, Sher Aslam
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Case report A 40-year-old Asian man presented to the Emergency Department with a one day history of sudden onset visual disturbance in his right eye. He complained of image distortion and noted that objects now appeared smaller. He also described...
UKPGS (UK Paediatric Glaucoma Society) Meeting 2023
27 January 2023
by SP Gurney The UK Paediatric Glaucoma Society (UKPGS) 2023 annual meeting took place on 27 January at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London. Professor Sir Peng Khaw, UKPGS President, welcomed nearly 100 delegates from around the world, with representation...
Cataract surgery in uveitis patients
Cataract formation is a common complication of uveitis, causing up to 40% of vision loss in these patients. Cataract results from inflammation +/- corticosteroid therapy and is usually posterior subcapsular, but a small proportion have a rapid increase in nuclear...
Management of diabetic macular oedema (DMO)
1 February 2018
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
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Anti-VEGF therapy, Diabetic macular edema, Steroids
The authors present guidelines on current diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the management of DMO. Fluorescein angiography (FA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are recommended before starting treatment to help diagnose and stage DMO, and can be repeated if there...
Ocular complications in retinal vasculitis
1 February 2018
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this retrospective study the authors aimed to characterise the incidence rates of visual loss and ocular complications associated with retinal vasculitis (RV – annual incidence of 1-2/ 100000/ per annum). A secondary objective was to compare the visual outcomes...
Bandage contact lens cultures after corneal collagen cross-linking
1 August 2016
| Saruban Pasu
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EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
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Bacterial contamination, contact lens, corneal collagen cross-linking, keratoconus, photorefractive keratotomy
Corneal collagen cross-linking (CCL) is a treatment modality that has been shown to stop the progression of keratoconus. There have also been reports that CCL acts as an antimicrobiologic agent in treating resistant microbial keratitis. This study aimed to investigate...
Endophthalmitis after intravitreal injections in France
1 June 2015
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this nationwide, retrospective, multicentre case series, the authors looked at the incidence and characteristics of endophthalmitis after intravitreal injections of anti-VEGFs and steroids, given for a variety of posterior segment conditions (macular oedema secondary to diabetes or retinal vein...
Comparison of two interferon gamma release assays (IGRA) for tuberculous uveitis
1 December 2014
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this prospective cohort study the authors compared QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and T-SPOT.TB to evaluate their diagnostic accuracy. They enrolled 120 consecutive new uveitis presentations over a two year period in a tertiary centre. The majority were Chinese (61.3%), followed...
