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Sensitive cilia – eyelashes in health and disease

5 October 2020 | Jonathan CP Roos, Rachna Murthy | EYE - Cornea, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - General

In health our eyelashes protect the eyes, but in disease they can disfigure, impair quality of life and threaten vision. In this review the authors discuss aspects of lashes that are relevant to all professionals working near the eyes and...

Obtaining US clinical experience in ophthalmology as a UK medical student or junior doctor

2 April 2025 | Vishanna Balbirsingh | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Oculoplastic

Medical students or junior doctors in the UK may be interested in gaining US clinical experience for many reasons. Unfortunately, many trainees do not know how to arrange these and there is a common misconception that it is difficult to...

Moorfields Education: Glaucoma level 3 (College of Optometrists Professional Diploma in Glaucoma)

22 January 2024

This course is designed to develop the required management skills for patients with glaucoma, and it's now at a reduced rate of £1500 (previously £2,300). Optometrists will also be able to gain CPD points, for both level 2 and 3...

The posterior capsular rupture rate post COVID-19 pandemic

1 October 2021 | Mahmoud Ahmed | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

In this retrospective single centre consecutive case series, the authors investigate the effect of suspending elective cataract surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic for a period of 19 weeks. They divided the study period, September 2019 to January 2021, into three...

Primary care optometry poised to help demand on GPs

21 July 2023 | AOP, waiting times, optometry

The 2023 GP Patient Survey (GPPS) published last week shows a decline in the number of patients reporting a good overall experience with their GP practice.

Acetylcholine receptor antibodies in the diagnosis of ocular myasthenia gravis at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital

3 August 2023 | Nouf Alnafisee, Joanna M Jefferis | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is the commonest autoimmune condition to affect the neuromuscular junction. In the UK, its prevalence is 15 per 10,000 [1,2] and recent studies have shown that rates are steadily increasing [3,4]. Aims of this audit The aim...

Chronic dacryocystitis?

1 February 2018 | Michael E Grinton, Kristhnamoorthy Narayanan | EYE - General

Lacrimal drainage system tumours are rare and lymphomas account for less than 10% of these tumours [1]. Most patients presenting with lymphoma infiltration of the lacrimal drainage system have a history of previously diagnosed lymphoma elsewhere. We report a case...

A case of Miller Fisher Syndrome and bilateral asymmetric globe retraction

1 February 2022 | Anna Gkountelia, Shabnam Khan | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General

Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) is a rare, acquired nerve disease that is considered to be a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome. It was first recognised by James Collier in 1932 as a clinical triad of ataxia, areflexia and ophthalmoplegia. Later, it...

Sclerochoroidal calcification masquerading as ocular malignancy

5 April 2022 | S Vamshi Merugumala | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Case 1 A 68-year-old Caucasian gentleman was urgently referred to eye casualty by his optometrist after seeing an unusual incidental finding of protruding lesions from the retina, suspecting choroidal melanoma. He was asymptomatic and this was his first eye test...

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