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Anisometropia following cataract surgery and its non-surgical treatment

1 April 2015 | Inderpaul S Sian, Antonio Berarducci | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

The desired result of cataract surgery is improved visual acuity without the use of spectacles. In practice most patients following initial cataract extraction are likely to be symptomatic of anisometropia giving rise to prismatic effects (anisophoria) and unequal retinal image...

The Leicester Grading System for Foveal Hypoplasia

1 April 2020 | Sohaib Rufai | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - General

The University of Leicester Ulverscroft Eye Unit have published the first medical grading system named after the city of Leicester. Infantile nystagmus is characterised by constant and involuntary eye movements and affects 24 per 10,000 people [1]. Onset is usually...

Forward-tilt technique for intraocular pressure measurement in upgaze

5 June 2020 | Sohaib Rufai, Jahangir Alom, Joyce Burns | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

The authors suggest a technique to improve the accuracy of measuring IOP in upgaze using Goldmann applanation tonometry. Graves’ ophthalmopathy, also known as thyroid eye disease, is an autoimmune inflammatory condition affecting the orbit and periorbital tissues [1]. It was...

Thinking outside the box – adapting to the COVID-19 lockdown

5 August 2020 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

How can we avoid further delays to follow-up in glaucoma patients? The author asks if there is a socially distanced way to check IOPs in those at high risk of losing vision. Glaucoma is an asymptomatic condition. Loss of the...

My top five eye-related webinars during lockdown

12 August 2020 | Yarrow Scantling-Birch | EYE - General

1. Alcon Experience Academy The Alcon Experience Academy ran a non-promotional educational series from 12 May to 23 June 2020. Being mildly biased as a junior trainee, this has to be rated by far the best series due to its...

Blind Faith: In Conversation with Mariya Moosajee

16 August 2023 | EYE - General

In light of the BBC releasing Blind Faith: Do genetic eye disease ‘treatments' work? earlier this year, a documentary which follows BBC journalist Ramadan Younes as he investigates practitioners who falsely claim to have ‘treatments’ for genetic eye disease, Eye...

My Top Five: Eye-related webinars during lockdown

12 August 2020 | Yarrow Scantling-Birch | EYE - General

Through the eyes of artists, part two: The effects of retinal degeneration on Degas and O’Keeffe

3 April 2026 | Adina Smith | EYE - General

Last issue we discussed Monet and Cassatt’s experience of painting through cataract. We now move to two stories of resilience in the face of macular degeneration, Edgar Degas and Georgia O’Keeffe. Edgar Degas. (c1873) ‘The Dance Class’, oil on canvas....

A rare case of endogenous panophthalmitis: Nidus from an E. coli urinary tract infection

3 June 2026 | Sanjana Ashok, Clara McAvoy | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Pathology

Endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis (EBE) is a form of severe inflammation caused by haematogenous spread of a virulent bacterium from a nidus elsewhere in the body to intraocular tissues. It is a rare occurrence and only constitutes around 2–8% of all...

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