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Switchover study from Botox to Xeomin for facial dystonia

7 April 2021 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology | facial dystonia, incobotulinumtoxinA, onabotulinumtoxinA
This study carried out in the UK compared the clinical effectiveness and efficiency of switching patients from Botox® injections to Xeomin®. This was carried out in 20 essential blepharospasm, 12 hemifacial spasm and six aberrant facial nerve regeneration patients. Patients...
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Whiteboard illustrations added to pre-surgery timeout procedure

1 October 2021 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
The authors present results of a quality improvement initiative. A whiteboard illustrated with right and left eyes with views of the extraocular muscles was developed, the board also contained spaces for the patient’s name, deviation, versions and the procedure name....
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Children’s visual acuity test without professional supervision

3 April 2024 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
With increasing outpatient demand there has been an innovative shift to involve patients managing their own condition. This article compares visual testing carried out by an orthoptist with usual clinical methods, an orthoptist using the iSIGHT Test Pro and a...
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Diagnostic yield of routine metastatic work-up in conjunctival melanoma

3 April 2026 | | EYE - Orbit
Conjunctival melanoma (CM) is a rare but potentially aggressive malignancy of the ocular surface with high rates of local recurrence and metastasis. Eighty-one consecutive patients with invasive conjunctival melanoma treated by the senior author over the course of 23 years...

Life as a Global Citizen Consultant Ophthalmologist: a personal view of working in Scotland and Tanzania

3 October 2022 | | EYE - General
Global Citizen post - a new challenge I was looking for a new challenge. I had been in the same consultant post with a subspecialty interest in paediatrics and strabismus for 17 years and was rattling around in an empty...

Biometry and IOL choice errors

1 April 2018 | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
In the next instalment of this series I focus on problems associated with biometry and intraocular lens (IOL) selection for cataract surgery. I have taken previous medicolegal cases I have dealt with and tried to extract some learning points and...

Home testing can help glaucoma patients, new study shows

29 June 2021
Nearly 60,000 people in Scotland living with glaucoma could benefit from carrying out tests at home, a study funded by Sight Scotland and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has shown.

Optoversity Challenge draws 12 universities together

27 February 2025 | charity, Vision Care for Homeless People, VCHP, fundraising, trainees, medical school, students, opportunities, competition
Out of the Box Optic’s Optoversity Challenge 2025 has brought 95 students from 12 UK universities together to take part in the exciting competition. The annual event – now in its ninth year – is a major fundraiser for Vision...

Serendipity

3 October 2024 |
“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter” – Julius Comroe Jr (Surgeon, Medical Researcher and Author) One of the attractive features of ophthalmology, apart from the good quality of life and the relatively...

Interspecialty referrals

4 February 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Referrals between the many and varied branches of ophthalmology sometimes underline how sub-specialised we have all become nowadays. The old era when everyone was an ophthalmic jack of all trades is gone, for better or for worse, and instead of...

The results of the last survey Aug21

4 August 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
We are often referred patients noted to have an optic disc haemorrhage (ODH) without any other features of pathology. How we manage these patients can have a significant impact on our struggling capacity. The significance in glaucoma and, in particular,...

“I can’t see nothing out of that eye, you ....!”

1 February 2015 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Orbit, EYE - General
This is exactly the call you don’t want to receive at 11 at night. The A&E colleague phoned to inform me about a young man who was kicked several times in the face and could not see out of one...