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Treatment for post stroke visual impairment – clinical practice versus literature evidence
1 April 2018
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Management, stroke, treatment, vision, visual impairment
The aim of this paper is to compare the treatments reported in a large scale stroke study (Vision in stroke (VIS) Study) against the treatments identified in a full systematic literature review. The purpose was to identify which treatment /...
SLT short-term results
1 June 2014
| Lorraine North
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EYE - Glaucoma
The aim of the study was to evaluate the risk of adverse effects and short-term results after 360 degrees selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) in glaucoma patients. The authors enrolled 64 eyes of 64 patients all who had poorly controlled primary...
Systemic rituximab immunotherapy in the management of primary ocular adnexal lymphoma single institutional experience
Ocular adnexal lymphomas constitute 2% of all non-Hodgkin’s disease and 5-15% of all extranodal lymphomas and are usually localised, low-grade and of B-cell origin. This opens them up to potential treatment with a systemic monoclonal antibody-based drug (rituximab) directed at...
Corneal suture sample evaluation
This is a prospective study of 35 patients’ suture samples taken from a tertiary cornea clinic, Miami, Florida, with a history of penetrating keratoplasty. The aim is to study the relationship between corneal suture bacteriology, biofilm and the clinical setting,...One million people complete The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism e-learning
Over one million people have completed The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism’s e-learning in the year since it was launched.Exciting opportunities for ophthalmic work in Victoria, Australia – consider moving ‘down under’
27 July 2023
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Recruitment & Personnel
Opportunity: We are looking to expand our growing practice of four ophthalmologists.
Recurrent unilateral preseptal cellulitis secondary to herpes simplex virus infection
3 April 2023
| Shaheryar Ahmed Khan, Bridget Hemmant, Radomir Babovic, Yomi Imasogie
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EYE - General
Introduction Periorbital (sometimes called preseptal cellulitis) is a common condition which on its own is not normally an ophthalmic or surgical emergency, however it has the potential to cause severe and serious morbidity in cases where the infection has crossed...
Meta-analysis of treating meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) with topical / oral azithromycin
This study pooled the clinical outcomes of 18 high-quality studies managing MGD with azithromycin. Symptom score was the primary and clinical signs were the secondary outcome measures. Overall effectiveness of topical azithromycin (TA) and oral azithromycin (OA) was measured by...The medical student syndrome
1 April 2016
| Alysha Bhatti
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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 - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
It is often said that “a little learning is a dangerous thing,” but being super savvy can’t put us at the brink of harm, can it? Each year as thousands of students commence their medical degrees, they begin a journey...
Low-dose atropine 0.01% for the treatment of childhood myopia: a pan-India multicentric retrospective study
This is a retrospective multicentre study (20 centres) in India over two years, monitoring the progression of myopia after starting treatment with 0.01% atropine drops. Seven-hundred and thirty-two children were recruited in the study, between six and 14 years old,...Optical coherence tomography – reinventing the eye examination
It has been 25 years since Huang et al. presented the first optical coherence tomography (OCT) images in Science [1]. With vast improvements in OCT technology over the years, it is now possible to acquire high-resolution cross-sectional images of the...
