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VISION 2020 LINKS: Retinoblastoma  in Africa

1 October 2015 | Marcia Zondervan, Lindsay Hampejsková, Sunday Abuh, Sharai Shamu, Mayuri Makan, Rosie Brennan, M Ashwin Reddy, Richard Bowman | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

The VISION 2020 LINKS Programme is part of the ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’ global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness [1]. The LINKS Programme works with overseas eye departments to help identify priorities and match their priority needs with...

Retinoblastoma – the challenges of a rare cancer and the role of international partnerships

4 October 2023 | Richard Bowman, Mattan Arazi, Aniruddh Heroor, Kahaki Kimani, M Ashwin Reddy, Ido Didi Fabian, Swathi Kaliki | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus

Introduction: the global challenge The global burden of retinoblastoma (Rb) is one in 15,000-18,000 live births, which equates to 8000 new cases worldwide each year. The global disparities in Rb outcome represent a paradigm of health inequality worldwide [1]. In...

Feb/Mar 2017 Quiz

1 February 2017 | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

History A 40-year-old male patient presented with a right lower eyelid swelling with gradual enlargement for two months. On examination there was a large lesion apparently involving lid margin, part of palpebral conjunctiva and skin. No other local or systemic...

Macular imagery: observing the visual sensations pre- and post-Jetrea injections

25 September 2021 | Marika Troiani, Manoj Kulshrestha, Gayathri Sreekanth | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

A 63-year-old woman, a professional painter, was diagnosed with vitreomacular traction (VMT) in 2017. She had a history of metamorphopsia, drop in visual acuity (VA) in the left eye (6/6 in the RE; 6/18 in the LE), foveal vitreomacular traction...

Should it be a mandatory requirement for medical students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to attend clinical attachments?

7 April 2021 | Charles O’Donovan | EYE - General

The vast majority of medical students have positive attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves and patients, however, what about the small inevitable minority who resist it? Should they be prevented from attending clinical attachments in the NHS? It is...

#KnowYourDrops: breaking down barriers to poor compliance

1 June 2017 | Sarah Thomas, Fiona Chiu | EYE - Glaucoma

Award-winning* #KnowYourDrops eye drop compliance campaign helps patients for World Glaucoma Week to achieve medicines optimisation in ophthalmology. The #KnowYourDrops campaign is fast becoming an internationally recognised model to help support healthcare professionals, with the provision of better tailored ophthalmic...

Complex Biometry Clinics: a new service development

1 December 2014 | Rumana Hussain, Martin Rubinstein, Maggie Mathew, Saurabh Ghosh, Matthew Wakefield, Vijay Savant, Jeremy Prydal | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

In this article we describe a new local service development, the ‘Complex Biometry Clinic’ at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Retrospective data analysis of patients referred between October 2012 and October 2013 was performed. The aim was to provide a one-stop service...

COVID-19 and Charles Bonnet Syndrome

14 April 2020 | Judith Potts | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology

As COVID-19 rips through the country, it is – of course – imperative that we stay at home to try and prevent the virus spreading through the whole community. We are all aware of the need to take special care...

Usher syndrome: an overview

22 September 2020 | Charles O’Donovan | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Usher syndrome is the most common hereditary condition that affects both vision and hearing. It is an autosomal recessive condition characterised by retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss [1,2]. Usher syndrome is the cause of approximately 10% of...

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