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Understanding retinal ciliopathy through Bardet-Biedl syndrome
5 August 2022
| Zhihang Cheng
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This is a review article looking at up-to-date understanding and ongoing research in retinal ciliopathies. Syndromic ciliopathies consist of a group of disorders caused by ciliary dysfunction or abnormal ciliogenesis. These disorders have multiorgan involvement in addition to retinal degeneration...
Detecting glaucoma with only OCT
3 April 2023
| Zhihang Cheng
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EYE - Glaucoma
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Glaucoma, OCT, Optical coherence tomography, Retinal ganglion cell layer, Retinal nerve fiber layer
In this review article, the authors describe a probability model based upon only OCT to detect glaucoma. They explain how normal anatomical variation can lead to false positives and applying a model to account for this improves specificity. The application...
Under pressure: the constant drive to improve IOP monitoring
1 April 2025
| Zhihang Cheng
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EYE - Glaucoma
The authors offer a comprehensive overview of interplay between glaucoma and intraocular pressure (IOP), IOP measurement principles and historical measurement techniques and progress in IOP measurement devices. The authors explore the issues surrounding current thinking in IOP measurement and its...
What's trending Dec/Jan 2020
2 December 2019
| Stephanie Chiu
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Glaucoma
#eyedoctor #banned #visamix-up #HomeOffice #hostileenvironment An ophthalmologist was left stranded overseas when the Home Office refused him entry due to a visa mix-up. Dr Chan was working as a fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital until August 2019, then was offered...
A Nightmare on Doctor Street
3 October 2022
| Peter Cackett
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EYE - General
“Number one: you can never have sex. Big no no! Big no no! Sex equals death, okay?Number two: you can never drink or do drugs. The sin factor! It’s a sin. It’s an extension of number one.And number three: never,...
RNIB to host Inclusive Design for Sustainability Conference
26 May 2023
RNIB Scotland to host Inclusive Design for Sustainability Conference at Glasgow Science Centre on June 21-22.
Moorfields Education: myopia control in children
13 November 2024
This full day, online course will deliver a range of lectures from various experts involved in research and treatment of children with myopia. We will be covering myopia epidemiology, risk factors and causes, progression of myopia, current research and evidence,...
Can diuretics increase the risk of acute angle closure glaucoma?
4 December 2024
| Nishita Patel
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EYE - Glaucoma
Diuretics, used widely in the treatment of hypertension, oedema, heart failure and liver failure, have been implicated in case reports in scientific literature to be linked to bilateral acute angle closure glaucoma (AACG). The aim of this study was to...
A case of late spontaneous subluxation of in-the-bag intraocular implant
An 82-year-old frail lady was referred by her optometrist with a finding of subluxated implant in the right eye. She had uneventful phacoemulcification with in-the-bag intraocular implant 17 years earlier. There is no history of having had pseudoexfoliation (PXF) or...Glaucoma UK announces United Kingdom & Eire Glaucoma Society (UKEGS) Research Award 2024
Glaucoma UK is delighted to announce that this year’s UKEGS Research Award is now open to UKEGS members. The award, funded by Glaucoma UK and UKEGS, offers up to £50,000 for projects aimed at impacting patient care, scientific advancement, or understanding of glaucoma.OSA signs further 10 year deal with 100% Optical
The OSA and Media 10, owners of 100% Optical, have signed a further ten-year agreement to work together. This follows the three-year agreement which has been in place since the closure of Optrafair. The securing of this long-term relationship between...
Vitrectomy after ocriplasmin for VVMT adhesion of MH study
1 April 2017
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
This is a multicentre retrospective study of 51 eyes that received intravitreal ocriplasmin between January 2013 to January 2014 for symptomatic vitreomacular (VMT) +/- macular hole (MH), and then went on to PPV for persistent pathology, comparing a control group...
