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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...
Orbital rhabdomyosarcoma treatment characteristics
The aim of this study was to review the clinical presentation, management, local and systemic outcomes of 14 orbital rhabdomyosarcoma (OR) cases with the focus on the role of surgery as treatment. The mean age at presentation was eight years...
Photoscreening comparison
The A09/S09 photoscreener contains a fixation target of flashing lights (as for the S04) plus a smiley face which is new. Concerns were raised that the smiley face may stimulate less accommodation than the S04 attention lights and therefore potentially...
Recognising clinical characteristics of blepharospasm
1 August 2019
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Blepharospasm, benzodiazepines, focal dystonia, psychotropics, sensory-motor disintegration
Focal dystonia is regarded as a characteristic feature of blepharospasm, but patients do not always present with these motor symptoms. The authors present a retrospective analysis of data from a large number of patients treated for drug-induced or essential blepharospasm...
Practice Plus Group: Sedation to sleep - optimising anaesthesia for every cataract patient
30 June 2025
Practice Plus Group is delighted to offer an accredited event for local referrers: ‘Sedation to sleep- optimising anaesthesia for every cataract patient’ This presentation will clarify common misconceptions about anaesthesia for cataract surgery and help you understand the patient journey...
Microcatheter in the vertebral artery as a cause of branched retinal artery occlusion?
4 August 2021
| Rathin Pujari, Chuanyu Gao, Mohammed Haque
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
A 19-year-old male presented to eye casualty with a seven-day history of a ‘blurred patch’ in the left eye. The patient denied any other visual symptoms including flashes or floaters and there had been no change in visual symptoms in...
Coming to terms with AI
A machine might be called intelligent if its response to questions could convince a person that it was human, a test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 [1]. The author considers potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) using machine learning...Treating minor eye conditions in optometry practices: is this a viable model for the future?
1 June 2018
| Janet Pooley
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EYE - General
The role of the optometrist has expanded in recent years as community eye care services have changed. With the limited scope of general ophthalmic services (GOS) regulations in most parts of the UK, the funding to support additional care has...
Transferring imaging from primary to secondary care (part 2)
5 October 2020
| David Haider
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EYE - General
Transferring clinical imaging from high street optometrists to secondary care is an increasingly requested option, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. A wide variety of solutions exist to allow this, each with their own merits and shortcomings. In...
Assessing possibility of deferring lumbar puncture in mild idiopathic intracranial hypertension
4 October 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
This was a retrospective review of patients consecutively presenting with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) to a tertiary neuro-ophthalmology clinic without a lumbar puncture (LP) over an eight-year period. Inclusion criteria included true optic disc oedema, retinal nerve layer thickness ≤300µm,...
Addressing childhood blindness in sub-Saharan Africa
2 August 2024
| Barnabas Mshangila, Furahini Godfrey Mndeme, Bernadetha Robert Shilio, Rosie Brennan, Covadonga Bascaran
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EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
In this article, the authors explore paediatric ophthalmology subspecialist fellowship training in African nations south of the Sahara. Until recently, most African ophthalmologists who wished to pursue a subspecialty ophthalmology training fellowship had to go abroad. There is a huge...
The challenges of rural optometry and how independent prescribing has helped
1 February 2017
| Ian Rough
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EYE - General
Why move from a busy professional independent Aberdeen optometry practice over 200 miles to one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom? I could talk about the professional challenge of supporting a rural community, or the chance to...
