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Emerging therapies for geographic atrophy: complement inhibitors show potential to slow progression and preserve RPE and photoreceptor integrity
5 June 2023
| Rod McNeil
Geographic atrophy (GA) is an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) characterised by progressive, irreversible loss of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors and is estimated to account for approximately 10% of AMD-related blindness [1-4]. The Age-Related Eye...
The David J Apple International Laboratory for Ocular Pathology – a legacy of pioneering IOL research
David Apple and Gerd Auffarth. The Apple Lab at the David J Apple Center for Vision Research in Heidelberg is a thriving international laboratory for research into intraocular devices. The lab continues the work of David J Apple, a world-renowned...Pete’s day off
2 February 2024
| Peter Cackett
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EYE - General
“You’re not dying. You just can’t think of anything good to do” The above is the explanation given by high school student Ferris to his friend Cameron, who is lying in bed feeling sorry for himself when he should be...
Comparison of bleb grading and IOPs
1 October 2018
| Chrysostomos D Dimitriou
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EYE - Glaucoma
The purpose of this study was to compare a novel anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) bleb grading system with a clinical bleb grading system (Moorfields) and both with intraocular pressure (IOP) levels following trabeculectomy surgery. The authors developed a...
A pituitary tumour from 1927
The author shares a clinical case from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary’s archives. It is not often in the course of a clinical career that one gets the opportunity to review a patient who had been treated by a pioneer neurosurgeon some...
Atlas of Wide-Field Retinal Angiography and Imaging
Through extensive illustrations, this book, comprehensively yet concisely, covers the diagnostic speciality of wide-field retinal angiography and imaging. There are 15 chapters with contributions from 29 leading experts in this particular field who are mainly based in the USA, but...
Ophthalmology Lecture Notes (Twelfth Edition)
1 October 2021
| Omar Mostafa
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EYE - General
During medical school, our seniors often told us that the easiest way to remember something is to understand it. And rightly so, when I came across the Ophthalmology Lecture Notes textbook as a student I realised that the key to...
Use of Strabocheck to measure angle of deviation
Strabocheck (SK) is a free to access software and is a measurement of deviation angle based on the corneal light reflex in monocular and binocular photographs uploaded to the website. The purpose of this study was to evaluate SK in...Game show freak
3 April 2023
| Peter Cackett
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EYE - General
As a child of the 70s and 80s, there were limited television viewing opportunities. For the duration of the 70s there were only three channels, only moving to four with the launch of Channel 4 in 1982. Not only that,...
Making sense of the orthoptic assessment
1 April 2020
| Joe Smith
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EYE - Cataract
Following the Specialty Trainee article on this topic in the February/March 2020 issue, Joe Smith provides a more detailed breakdown of the orthoptic report. Orthoptists investigate, diagnose and manage a wide variety of patients with varying problems. In this article,...
British Council for Prevention of Blindness publishes annual review
12 January 2021
The British Council for Prevention of Blindness has published its new annual review.
Moorfields medical retina: design thinking and service delivery of intravitreal injection service
19 September 2025
The Medical Retina service is constantly evolving and developing due to a rise in disease prevalence and treatment evolution. This unique course is especially designed for managers and clinical leaders in medical retina services. The course draws on the strength...
