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Quality of life scores in strabismic children

2 August 2024 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
In this study the authors used the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (version 4.0) to evaluate impact of strabismus on health-related quality of life in Portuguese children. This was a prospective study of children aged 5–12 years over a nine-month...

UK Eye Genetics Group Annual Conference

9 June 2023
by Chloe M. Stanton, UK-EGG Treasurer, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh Delegates including ophthalmic clinicians, clinical geneticists, genetic counsellors and research scientists travelled to Edinburgh from across the UK and Europe to attend...

A case of late spontaneous subluxation of in-the-bag intraocular implant

1 April 2017 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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...

Time is vision in central retinal artery occlusion

4 August 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is a rare but devastating vascular episode that can have severe impact on vision. Treatment is very time-limited and needs to be initiated very quickly to salvage any vision. The majority of patients present to...

OBITUARY: James Finbarr (Barry) Cullen

16 October 2020 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
On the sad passing of Eye News’ first editor and long-term contributor JF (Barry) Cullen, his friend Hector Chawla takes a look at the life and career of this effervescent character and giant of the ophthalmology world. Barry Cullen was...

The New Zealand National Eye Centre and the land of the long white cloud

4 October 2023 | | EYE - General
Located southeast of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand (Aotearoa) is home to five million culturally diverse people. Renowned for its lush nature spanning from unexplored forests to active volcanos and snow-capped mountains, New Zealand has become both...

Acanthaemoeba keratitis

1 December 2017 | EYE - Cornea
In the second of this series I describe a case of Acanthaemoeba keratitis (AK) that was misdiagnosed for a prolonged period which resulted in a devastating outcome. This is one of half a dozen similar medico-legal cases I have dealt...

The approach to trabeculectomy postoperative complications

1 August 2016 | | EYE - Glaucoma
Performing a trabeculectomy is like giving birth to a baby. It may be traumatic and there is scope for devastating error but once the operation is completed only then does the real work begin. The bleb must be nurtured into...

Ocular Dirofilariasis: a diagnosis on the rise?

1 February 2015 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
Dirofilaria repens is one of 40 species of Dirofilaria. It is a zoonotic filarial nematode that commonly impacts dogs, however, human infection can occur through affected organs like skin, lung and eyes [1]. Although, there have been case reports of...

Sustainability in eyecare: Are virtual clinics the way forward in the diagnosis and monitoring of retinal disease?

2 August 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Virtual clinics can be used successfully in screening and management of ocular conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity and age-related macular degeneration. Virtual clinics should be a considered as a more clinically appropriate modality of consultation, diagnosis and...

Space age surgery

1 October 2016 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
I asked to do theatre lists at Moorfields as part of my timetable. The medical retina fellow jobs are a bit odd in that the vast majority of the different rotations lack a regular theatre session. This might suit some...

Modern practice options for UK ophthalmologists

4 December 2024 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
When I spoke on setting up private practice at the annual United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS) meeting in November ’23 there was a lot of interest in different types of practice models. If we...