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The management of retinal vein occlusions: a summary

1 February 2015 | Amy-lee Shirodkar | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are the most common cause of visual loss from retinal vascular disease second to diabetic retinopathy. Vision is lost due to ischaemia, macular oedema and / or haemorrhage which ultimately effects a patient’s quality of life...

Eyecare challenges in the Middle East: Priorities of a global ophthalmology task force

2 June 2025 | Fatma Shakarchi, Sila Bal, Joshua R Ehrlich, Marcia Zondervan, Mattan Arazi | EYE - General

Global ophthalmology is a rapidly evolving, multidisciplinary field that integrates clinical practice, research, and policy at national and international levels. One of its main objectives is to improve eyecare equity worldwide by preventing avoidable vision impairment. Since the launch of...

Cataract surgery in uveitis patients

1 February 2016 | Philip Murray (Prof) | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

Cataract formation is a common complication of uveitis, causing up to 40% of vision loss in these patients. Cataract results from inflammation +/- corticosteroid therapy and is usually posterior subcapsular, but a small proportion have a rapid increase in nuclear...

Discussing treatment modalities for bilateral wet AMD

1 December 2014 | Marie Tsaloumas, Bushra Mushtaq | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

A 65-year-old lady with bilateral wet AMD and vision of 6/24 comes with an internet search about current therapies. How do you explain the various treatment modalities available? There are two NICE approved treatments for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD)....

IN FOCUS - Prevention and treatment of blindness worldwide: the story of ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’

1 April 2020 | Hannah Faal | EYE - General

The story of blindness and efforts to prevent and treat it cannot be told without going back to the earliest recorded history of blindness. Trachoma was described in ancient Egypt, cataract surgery in India about the fifth century BC and...

Building research capacity through the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme

1 August 2017 | Philip Burgess, Stephen Gichuhi, Simon Arunga, Mike Burdon, Marcia Zondervan, Allen Foster (Prof) | 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

The aim is to build capacity for research in the region covered by the College of Ophthalmology of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (COECSA). The project will build research capacity in three ophthalmology training institutions by ‘training the trainers’ and...

100 years of insulin

3 October 2022

*Joint first authors The centenary of the discovery of insulin is a time to celebrate one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century. Background Before 1923, Type 1 diabetes mellitus [T1DM] resulted in death from severe ketoacidosis...

Issues with standard practice: Luer lock syringes in cataract surgery

4 December 2025 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Cataract

For a few years, we have worked together with the practice variance surveys to tease out differences in the way we work and to discuss issues that arise. I hope that we have learnt some lessons and reflected on what...

Belfast briefing: Retina Day roundup from the RCOphth 2024 Annual Congress

2 August 2024 | Rod McNeil | EYE - General

Belfast hosted this year’s Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ (RCOphth) Annual Congress, a meeting dedicated to sharing advances, knowledge and clinical practice points in ophthalmic care. This article summarises selected talks by medical and surgical retina specialists during the Retina Subspecialty...

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