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XXII SARCS (State of the Art Refractive Cataract Surgery) Symposium 2024
14 June 2024
by Andrew Bourne, BSc, MCOptom, DipTp(IP), Dip Glauc, Principal Optometrist, Hull & East Yorkshire Eye Hospital, UK. Once again, Milind Pande welcomed over 220 ophthalmologists and allied professionals to his annual symposium, this year held once again at the University...
Image Analysis and Modelling in Ophthalmology
1 April 2015
| MN Abdul Karim
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EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
Recent advances have revolutionised ophthalmic imaging and helped understand the pathophysiology of ocular diseases and thus help in the diagnosis and management of ocular diseases. The authors of this book have gone through most of the available imaging techniques available...
New Treatments in Noninfectious Uveitis
As a specialist registrar training in Aberdeen there were two important lessons I learned which have proved to be invaluable over the years for two very different reasons. The first lesson learned was to never underestimate the wind chill factor...
The Eye: A Very Short Introduction
25 April 2025
| Michael Milad
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EYE - General
I am a big fan of the ‘Very Short Introductions’ series and find them a great way to gain a basic understanding of several topics, ranging from science to philosophy. The Eye: A Very Short Introduction is no exception. It...
Stargardt disease in a Turkish cohort
2 August 2024
| Ian Reekie
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The authors present a study of 27 Turkish patients who were seen in a single centre over a five-year period. All patients had macular optical coherence tomography (OCT), colour fundus photography and 30-2 Humphery visual fields performed, along with clinical...
Patients’ perspective over quality of care and cataract surgery
1 August 2017
| Mrinal Rana
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Cataract surgery, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), patient satisfaction, quality of care, treatment process
This study analyses the factors of perceived quality of care among patients undergoing cataract surgery. A questionnaire was designed to assess the patients’ views about the quality of care using QUOTE (Quality of Care through the Patient’s Eyes), which assessed...
Conventional vs. accelerated cross-linking
1 August 2016
| Anjali Gupta
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EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
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accelerated corneal collagen cross-linking, corneal collagen cross-linking, keratoconus
The Dresden protocol of 3mW/cm2 irradiance for 30 minutes has been extensively studied and has shown advantageous clinical and topographical results. However, this protocol is time-consuming and therefore accelerated CXL using higher irradiance to shorten treatment duration has emerged. The...
Retinal changes in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy
1 August 2016
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Ganglion cell complex, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, optical coherence tomography, retinal nerve fibre layer
The objective of this study was to describe the changes in the retinal ganglion cell complex (GCC) relative to the retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) over time, in patients with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). For this study, 21 patients...
Recession and resection surgery in TED
The aim was to investigate changes in ocular ductions in thyroid eye disease (TED) patients undergoing recession in comparison to recession / resection surgery. This was a retrospective study of 119 patients with inclusion of 102 eyes in final analysis....The role of virtual Rb-NET Multidisciplinary Team meetings in the management of children with retinoblastoma in low- and middle-income countries
6 April 2021
| Ido Didi Fabian, Nick Astbury, Elizabeth Dennis Nkanga, Anne Ampaire Musika, Susanna Ajayi, Marcia Zondervan
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EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - General
A selection of participants in an MDT meeting with Uganda. In 2017 the LINKS Programme developed a new network of LINKS to support and coordinate action against retinoblastoma (Rb) in response to requests from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), called...
Shifting the paradigm of managing patients in medical retina: how real-world data can help us to improve clinical practice
1 February 2015
| Pearse A Keane (Prof), Adnan Tufail
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The ophthalmic subspecialty of ‘medical retina’ has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. With the introduction of ranibizumab (Lucentis, Novartis), a specialty formerly dominated by laser-based therapies has been transformed to become, in large part, pharmacotherapy-based. To date, these pharmacotherapies...
