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Reforms to primary eyecare in Wales welcome but concerning
Some areas of the Welsh Government’s proposals have come under scrutiny by eyecare practitioners practising in Wales since a consultation on reforms opened in April.OSCE Fair 2024
by Ping Hei Alfie Lee, Y5 Medical Student, Newcastle University, UK. OSCE stands for Objective Structured Clinical Examination. It consists of a series of simulated scenarios evaluating student’s clinical competencies based on a set of standardised scoring rubrics. In the...Small grant award
Fight For Sight/Stargardt's Connected: Short Grant Award Fight for Sight and Stargardt's Connected are pleased to invite calls for early career clinical or research scientists proposing Stargardt’s research projects to collect preliminary or pilot data for developing competitive follow-on funding...SAVE THE DATE - Optos Peer Discussion Webinar
‘Working with ultra-widefield multi-modality retinal imaging: the clinical and practical value this technology adds to your ophthalmology clinic.’Trans-sinus endoscopic removal of retrobulbar air gun pellet within the orbital apex
Injuries to the eye have been widely reported in medical literature due to a variety of mechanisms causing significant morbidity and occasional unexpected mortality for the patient [1]. It is often wrongly assumed that air gun pellets lack this potential....Thyroid eye disease
Thyroid eye disease (TED) is an autoimmune condition with a spectrum of signs and symptoms, usually associated with Graves’ hyperthyroidism. The diagnosis is based on history and physical examination but there are further investigations that can aid diagnosis if unclear....
Prognostic factors for visual acuity in patients with LHON after gene therapy
This retrospective study investigates prognostic factors affecting the visual acuity after a single intravitreal injection of rAAV2-ND4 gene therapy in 53 patients with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) with mutation at site 11 778. Patients were reviewed one and three...
Predicting visual prognosis of patients with methanol poisoning
Symptoms of methanol poisoning often occur 12–24 hours after oral consumption, and visual symptoms are seen in approximately 50% of cases. This study aims to investigate the role of optic nerve diffusion status on cranio-orbital magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in...Strabismus in thyroid eye disease
Pathogenesis Thyroid eye disease (TED) is an auto-immune condition, in the initial phase there is lymphocytic infiltration and oedema of the extraocular muscles with deposition of glycosaminoglycans and hyaluronic acid and adipogenesis, which can lead to an increase in the...
Visual acuity conversion to digital acuity
The author proposes a basic set of evidence-based digital acuities for alpha vision to facilitate formatting of visual acuity data uniformly. This work was informed by a review of the literature. A full table provides US and international classification of...VISION 2020 LINKS: Retinoblastoma in Africa
The VISION 2020 LINKS Programme is part of the ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’ global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness [1]. The LINKS Programme works with overseas eye departments to help identify priorities and match their priority needs with...
