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IN FOCUS - Prevention and treatment of blindness worldwide: the story of ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’

1 April 2020 | Hannah Faal | EYE - General

The story of blindness and efforts to prevent and treat it cannot be told without going back to the earliest recorded history of blindness. Trachoma was described in ancient Egypt, cataract surgery in India about the fifth century BC and...

Ophthalmic learning through the lens of cognitivism and constructivism

9 October 2020 | Rasan Burhan, Andrew Ross, Sajeel Ahmed | EYE - General

Learning in ophthalmology is multi-faceted, from understanding the fundamentals of eye anatomy and physiology to higher order skills such as performing cataract and vitreoretinal surgery. Having a strong foundation in the basics is a necessity for higher order knowledge synthesis,...

Robotic assisted orbital surgery (RAOS) – a novel approach to orbital malignancy surgery

3 June 2024 | Jean-Pierre Jeannon, Asit Arora, Claire Daniel, Jimmy Uddin, Jack Faulkner, Moshan Malik, Hubert Stein | EYE - Orbit, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - General

Robotic technology in ENT surgery has been used in certain areas of head and neck cancer care but, in this article, we hear of an exciting development from the team at Guy’s & St Thomas’. Advances in surgical robotic technology...

Immunoglobulin G4-related ophthalmic disease – what is it? (Part 2)

3 April 2023 | Li Yen Goh

Part 2: Clinical presentation and treatment (see part 1 here) Introduction IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is understood to have a vast clinicopathological spectrum; nearly every organ has had reported involvement. Similarly, IgG4-related ophthalmic disease (IgG4-ROD) is known to affect nearly every...

Watch your back: Ergonomics and Ophthalmology

2 August 2022 | Aadil Hussain | EYE - General

Aadil Hussain discusses an ophthalmologist’s risk of musculoskeletal injury and highlights the importance of ergonomics education, to ensure a pain-free career. Chronic and disabling musculoskeletal injury has been identified in the field of ophthalmology with increasing prevalence. The ophthalmologist is...

Management of proliferative diabetic retinopathy

1 August 2014 | Felicity Allen, Samantha S Mann | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Diabetic retinopathy is a major cause of blindness in the working-age population. Due to the worsening global epidemic of diabetes, the incidence of morbidity caused by the disease is set to increase [1]. The prevalence of diabetes in the UK...

Assessing everyday visual function in dry AMD – what matters to the person?

1 April 2019 | Bethany E Higgins, Deanna J Taylor, David P Crabb (Prof) | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the primary cause of blindness in the developed world and is accountable for more than one half of sight impairment registrations within England and Wales [1]. AMD is prevalent in people aged 60 years and...

The results of the last survey Feb 2020

5 February 2020 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General

I appreciate that I keep on reiterating it, but again we see so much practice variance. Who is right and who is wrong? Is there a right or wrong approach? And does it matter? I think it probably does matter....

It’s not all about ARED - Time for a pragmatic approach to nutrition for eye health?

1 April 2016 | Christine Purslow (Prof) | EYE - Cornea

Advances in treatment for retinal diseases involving neovascularisation have undoubtedly changed the future of eye care across the UK for the better, but also created great challenges for service delivery in ophthalmology, particularly within the NHS. Some statistics are starting...

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