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Bilateral eye pain after contact lens wear: an inadvertent case of chemical eye injury

Introduction There are around 4.1 million contact lens wearers in the UK [1]. While the vast majority of them do not experience any complications, over the past years there have been cases of acanthamoeba keratitis and multiple retained contact lenses...

Winner Announcement - Glaucoma UK ‘Excellence in Glaucoma Care Award 2023’

Dr Sancy Low, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, wins the Glaucoma UK ‘Excellence in Glaucoma Care Award 2023’.

How common is ocular trauma in children and what are the clinical features?

The authors present a multicenter retrospective case review with the aim of reporting the incidence and characteristics of paediatric ocular trauma. Records for individuals aged 18 and under with a diagnosis of globe, orbit or adnexal injury over a 10-year...

Moorfields Education: Vitreoretinal wet-lab simulation course

The course provides structured, hands-on training in core VR surgical skills using high-fidelity simulation models. It is designed for ophthalmology trainees and early fellows who want to develop practical competence in basic VR techniques in a safe, supervised environment.

RNIB’s free online resource for pupils and teachers gets a brand-new web platform

Thousands of children and young people across the UK with vision impairment and/or difficulty reading standard print, due to conditions like dyslexia, can now access more than a million books and images more quickly and easily after RNIB’s Bookshare service...

Low cost drainage device use in paediatric glaucoma

This is a prospective study from a tertiary referral centre from India of 34 eyes (31 patients) under 16 years with uncontrolled refractory glaucoma with medical treatment. A low cost glaucoma drainage device (GDD) – Aurolab aqueous drainage implant (ADDI),...

Association between serum triglycerides and pan retinal photocoagulation in type 1 diabetes

This retrospective cohort study aimed to examine whether dyslipidaemia is a risk factor for progressing to proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and consequently requiring pan retinal photocoagulation (PRP) treatment in type 1 diabetics. In previous studies including the ETDRS study an...

Wet AMD outcomes post cataract surgery

The authors present the findings of a retrospective study looking at the progression of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in patients who underwent cataract surgery. They recruited a series of 111 patients of which 38 were men and 73 were...

An unusual case report of bilateral abducens paralysis

In this case report a nine-year-old girl develops bilateral abducens nerve paralysis, caused by vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia. Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia is characterised by dilation, tortuosity and marked elongation of the vertebral and basilar arteries. Clinical findings result from the compression and displacement...

Association between smartwatch usage and myopia progression

This is a study exploring the association of smart watch usage in children aged 11–13 and myopia in a Chinese cohort of 526 students. The authors present data showing high daily smartwatch usage (>1hour) showed more myopic shift (-0.95) and...

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

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...

Bosch-Boonstro-Schaaff optic atrophy syndrome (BBSOAS) NR2F1 mutation

An experienced ophthalmologist can make an anatomical diagnosis of childhood visual impairment based upon the surgical sieve, i.e., congenital and acquired. But an ophthalmologist cannot work in isolation to make an aetiological diagnosis – one would require the help of...