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Fight for Sight to maximise impact by funding solutions-focused research in priority eye conditions
Fight for Sight aims to stop sight loss by funding pioneering research. Rod McNeil takes a look at the Primer Fellowship Awards programme, which provides funding for up to £60,000 for individuals to undertake vision-related research for one year. Among...Can OCT predict Alzheimer’s disease?
Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are based on facts and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: Can OCT predict Alzheimer’s disease? In 1986 Hinton et al. demonstrated evidence of optic nerve degeneration...
5-FU vs. Avastin as adjunct to conjunctival autograft
The authors compare the outcome of pterygium treatment using 5-fluorouracil as an adjunct to free conjunctival autograft versus bevacizumab (Avastin) as an adjunct to free conjunctival autograft, via a randomised controlled prospective study. Seventy eyes of 70 patients were included...
Epiretinal membranes in uveitic macular oedema
Epiretinal membrane (ERM) formation in uveitic macular oedema is a fairly common structural complication of the retina. The authors describe a retrospective case series of 104 eyes of 77 patients with uveitic macular oedema from a tertiary centre. The treatment...
DISC lens slow myopia progression in Hong Kong Chinese schoolchildren
This is a prospective double-blind randomised trial between September 2007 and October 2009. It included 221 children aged 8-13 years, with myopia between -1 and -5 Dioptres ≤1.00D. There were 111 patients in the defocus incorporated soft contact DISC group...
Can diuretics increase the risk of acute angle closure glaucoma?
Diuretics, used widely in the treatment of hypertension, oedema, heart failure and liver failure, have been implicated in case reports in scientific literature to be linked to bilateral acute angle closure glaucoma (AACG). The aim of this study was to...Vision for the future: Changes to Glaucoma UK’s research programme in 2025
Glaucoma UK is excited to announce a new, reshaped Research Grants Programme for 2025. Set to open in January, this programme aims to support innovative research to improve the understanding, treatment, and care of glaucoma. Alongside opportunities for researchers at...
Incidence and factors associated with complication of sutured and sutureless cataract surgery following PPV
This is a retrospective review of 485 patients who had undergone phacoemulsification and IOL implantation after previous pars planar victrectomy (PPV) surgery between May 2000 and May 2014. The incidence and factors contributing to complications were studied. The most common...
LR/SR surgery for high myopia strabismus
The authors evaluated the outcomes of a surgical procedure involving the muscle union of the superior rectus and lateral rectus muscles with and without medial rectus recession and the anatomic changes before and after surgery in 35 eyes of 20...
Ocular manifestation of Marfan Syndrome
This repeated cross-sectional study collected data in 2003-2004 and 2014-2015 to investigate changes in ocular features in Marfan syndrome (MFS) fulfilling the Ghent-2 criteria. Ghent-2 is a set of criteria by which MFS are identified and includes aortic root aneurysm...
