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Moorfields- Nd:YAG laser for posterior capsulotomy training for nurses and ophthalmic health care professionals

Are you a senior nurse /health care professional who is ready to take your clinical skills to the next level ? Do you have a long waiting list for your patients who require YAG posterior capsulotomy? If the answer is...

Moorfields Education YAG laser training for nurses and AHPs

Are you a senior nurse /allied health professional who is ready to take your clinical skills to the next level? Do you have a long waiting list for your patients who require YAG posterior capsulotomy? If the answer is yes,...

HOYA Vision Care’s Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments Spectacle Lenses demonstrated significant trend of myopia control in children

Interim analysis from the Observational French Study in children presented at EPOS 2024 meeting in Paris. Data from an interim analysis of the Observational French Study, OPHTAMYOP, has demonstrated a significant trend of myopia control in children with spherical equivalent...

Practice patterns of uveal melanoma management with Iodine-125 brachytherapy

With the 2006 Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study Group (COMS) study demonstrating no difference in survival outcomes for participants randomised to either iodine-125 brachytherapy or enucleation, the majority of primary uveal melanomas in the United States are now treated with brachytherapy....

Troubleshooting in LASIK

Contemporary laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) is safe and effective. It remains the dominant intervention in routine refractive surgery for a good reason: predictable results, rapid visual recovery, and relatively simple strategies for revision treatment. Over 95% of patients are...

Does paediatric uveitis reactivate after treatment with anti-TNF-a drugs?

As a potentially blinding disease that can affect 7-27/100000 children, uveitis remains a rare condition, where little evidence based data is available to guide management decisions. Most paediatric uveitis cases are chronic, anterior and non-infectious and may be associated with...

Macular holes: A brief review

The classification of macular holes has been modernised by OCT findings. This is a brief review and encompasses the historical literature on macular holes. A macular hole is an anatomical discontinuation of the neurosensory retina at the centre of the...

Making sense of the orthoptic assessment

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,...

Eye research: where next?

Eye research in the UK is underfunded relative to other areas of medical research and general awareness of sight loss and its prevention remains poor, messages that were reinforced in presentations and discussions during a recent research summit meeting in...

Haag-Streit launches 5th ‘Slit Lamp Imaging Competition’

Haag-Streit UK (HS-UK), the leading manufacturer and distributor of gold-standard diagnostic and surgical devices and instruments for ophthalmologists, optometrists, and orthoptists, is delighted to announce the launch of the ‘Slit Lamp Imaging Competition 2023’.

Retrograde maculopathy in glaucoma

Macular optical coherence tomography (OCT) analysis can be used for quantitative measures of optic nerve atrophy at a location far away from the optic nerve head. This has recently led to the discovery of microcystic macular oedema (MME), in the...

Scheimpflug images and graft rejection

This study aimed to assess corneal changes using 360-degree Scheimpflug images and pachymetry readings to outline screening parameters, which define graft rejection. Seventeen eyes of 16 patients developed clinically manifest allograft rejection two to 42 months after surgery – those...