This study investigates the differences between extraocular muscles in patients with intermittent exotropia and normal controls regarding muscle fibre arrangement and diameter, and distribution and activation of satellite cells. Fifteen patients were recruited having medial rectus resection surgery. Resection sections...
The authors aimed to assess how the increased use of technology during a day of virtual school as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the eyes of healthy children. Children aged 10 to 17 years who attended school virtually...
The authors evaluated a binocular Tetris game for Android phones and compared its effectiveness, compliance and adverse events with part-time patching in children with anisometropic amblyopia. This was a prospective randomised study. Group 1 played the game for two hours...
The authors present a discussion paper on hypothetical, but representative, examples of post-referral costs that may result from different screening options up to the point of discharge from specific services. Data was taken from a recent (2019) systematic review (with...
The authors conducted a comparative study of a novel low-cost video game platform – BarronVision (BV) – with standardised occlusion in the treatment of paediatric amblyopia. BarronVision uses a monocular perception learning approach in which the size of optotypes can...
The authors present a cross-sectional study which recruited patients with paediatric migraine without aura along with age and sex-matched healthy controls. Both groups were recruited following attendance to an ophthalmology outpatient clinic. Children diagnosed with any of the following were...
The aim of this study was to describe the population trends of incidence and survival rates of ocular cancer in Cali, Columbia. Data was retrieved from the Registro Poblacion de Cancer de Cali (RPCC, i.e. Population Cancer Registry of Cali)...
The authors present a retrospective medical notes review of babies attending outpatient appointments for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) examination, over a 12-month period. The aim of the study was to assess compliance with these appointments at a single centre. Data...
Cataract surgery is the most common elective surgical procedure in the UK [1], with in the region of 350,000 cases being conducted each year. With an ageing population, this figure will only continue to rise over time. Cataract surgery is...
1 October 2015
| David Tabibian, Farhad Hafezi
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EYE - Cornea
Corneal cross-linking with riboflavin and UV-A light (CXL) is a technology that has been initially developed to treat corneal ectatic disorders [1]. Its effect in stabilising diseases such as keratoconus was reported in numerous trials with excellent long-term outcomes and...
5 February 2020
| Salina Zaheen, Yasmin Riaz
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EYE - General
With 90% of the world’s visually impaired living in developing countries, Pakistan is no exception to this on-going global healthcare challenge. Despite massive leaps over the last few decades in targeting this issue, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that...
Sophie: Bye. Love you! Mark: I love you, too. (It’s okay, everyone says it. I say I love Häagen-Dazs and my broadband provider, and I like Sophie more than them. In most respects.) Yes, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching again...