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A unique case of macular burn from ‘toy’ laser

2 February 2024 | | EYE - General
The first laser was created in 1960 and its name is an acronym for ‘light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation’. Laser technology has been used for medical, industrial, research and entertainment purposes in a variety of fields following extensive...

Oculogyric crisis with B12 deficiency

1 June 2022 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
An oculogyric crisis (OGC) is a dystonic movement disorder of the eyes which can last from seconds to hours. Although there is no published diagnostic criteria for OGC, typically the onset is acute, and it is characterised by conjugate upward...

Envision Glasses – A different take on a sight impairment wearable (part 2)

1 February 2022 | | EYE - General
This is the second part of the review of the Envision Glasses (see Part 1 here), a wearable piece of assistive technology. Features From the main menu four feature modes can be chosen: Read, Identify, Find and Call. The Glasses...

Innovation update: key advances in eyecare transformation in the last year

1 December 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General
Vishal Shah and his co-authors reflect on examples of innovation in eyecare delivery published in the last year and the implications for the future of eyecare services. The “new normal” is an overused phrase to describe extraordinary measures that have...

A closed angle seldom comes alone

1 June 2017 | | EYE - Glaucoma
Case report An 89-year-old lady with dementia was referred to me out of hours by her GP with a few days history of an angry looking left eye for suspected elevated intraocular pressure (IOP). I discovered that this lady first...

Cataract incidence rates in patients from the UK suffering with diabetes mellitus

1 October 2018 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
The authors summarise the main findings from a recent study which investigated the incidence rates of cataract in patients with or without diabetes mellitus (DM). Background to the study Worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 253 million people...

Nanosecond laser cataract surgery

2 December 2019 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
The authors review the evidence for nanosecond laser cataract surgery: is this the future? Cataract is a leading cause of visual impairment worldwide, and cataract surgery is one of the most successful and cost-effective healthcare interventions, with a great impact...

Decoding the red eye

15 February 2021 | | EYE - Cornea
Red eye, or hyperaemia, is one of the most common presentations to primary care [1] and the emergency department [2]. However, despite this the underlying cause is often misdiagnosed which can lead to severe, sight-threatening conditions being missed [1]. Thorough...

My Top Five: Innovations in the diagnosis of ocular tumours

4 February 2025 | | EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Pathology
Ocular tumours can vary widely in origin, from benign growths to metastases from distant disseminated malignancies. Although rare, ocular tumours pose a significant health and economic burden globally, with ocular cancers accounting for 0.2% of all diagnosed malignancies in the...

Making sense of the orthoptic assessment

1 April 2020 | | 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,...

Therapy for limbal stem cell deficiency: cell fate after limbal stem cell transplants

1 October 2014 | | EYE - Cornea
“The beauty of scientific research lies in that the search for answers often yields yet more questions.” A large body of evidence points to the corneoscleral limbal location as the repository of putative epithelial stem cells [1]. Thoft proposed the...

The treachery of images – making sense of OCT imaging

1 June 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging
In 1929 Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte produced his painting La Trahison des Images. It depicted an old fashioned pipe for smoking tobacco and underneath were the words “ceci n’est pas une pipe”, this is not a pipe. You may wonder...