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Long-term outcomes of using intraoperative relaxed muscle positioning technique in thyroid eye disease
The authors present a retrospective case review of consecutive patients undergoing ocular muscle surgery by one ophthalmologist using the intraoperative relaxed muscle positioning (IRMP) technique for thyroid eye disease (TED)-associated strabismus over a 23-year period. The following data were extracted...'Esme's Friends' telephone chat service launched
A new telephone chat service has been launched for people who live with Charles Bonnet Syndrome.2nd Liverpool Nasolacrimal and Orbital Dissection Course
This course is aimed at Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) and Ophthalmology higher surgical trainees (ST5-ST8), senior fellows and consultants looking to improve their understanding and surgical skills in joint ENT/ophthalmology nasolacrimal and orbital surgeries. The aim of this course is to provide...
Chloral hydrate sedation
A systematic review of literature sourced from PubMed, EMBASE, ISI, Web of Science, Scopus, CENTRAL, Google Scholar and Trip database to 1 October 2015, about the safety and efficacy of chloral hydrate (CH) by meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs)...
How a paediatric population presented with diplopia
The authors present the results of a retrospective records review of 244 children presenting with diplopia over a three-year period. The majority of cases presented to paediatric ophthalmology clinic; other routes of presentation included eye casualty, neuro-ophthalmology or another eye...
Surgical management options for NLDO
The authors aimed to develop a current collective practice profile for management of nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO). They conducted an online survey of American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus (AAPOS) members of which 142 completed surveys were collected within...
Assessing possibility of deferring lumbar puncture in mild idiopathic intracranial hypertension
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,...
Should we be looking for anemia in the presence of papilloedema?
The authors present a retrospective case notes review of patients diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) presenting to a tertiary neuro-ophthalmology clinic over a 32-month period. The IIH group were age and sex matched with other patients attending the clinic...
The expanding spectrum of idiopathic intracranial hypertension
This is a review article from a tertiary centre in Atlanta, US. With rising obesity rates and increasing access for MRI scans there has been a large increase in patients requiring an urgent papilloedema check with incidental findings on MRI...
