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Genetic cause for idiopathic foveal hypoplasia

The authors present a small cohort study of 19 patients with idiopathic foveal hypoplasia diagnosed based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) features. Peripheral blood samples from all 19 patients underwent next-generation sequencing and 33 genes known to be involved in...

Limitations of next generation sequencing

This is a report of a young female patient with clinically diagnosed retinitis pigmentosa who underwent genetic testing using an inherited retinal disease panel and whole exome sequencing by next generation sequencing (NGS) technology. This approach did not identify any...

Clinical characteristics, risk factors and treatment outcomes of adult AACE

This study analyses the clinical characteristics, risk factors and treatment outcomes of adult patients diagnosed with acute acquired comitant esotropia (AACE) with small angle deviations. This was a retrospective study of 16 patients (10 males) with mean age of 36.94...

Sustainable prevention of blindness from diabetic retinopathy through prevention and control of diabetes mellitus – LINK partnership experience in Dominica

The Caribbean Diabetic Retinopathy Project (DR Caribbean) is a five-year project that aims to reduce blindness due to diabetic retinopathy (DR) across four Commonwealth countries: Belize, Dominica, Jamaica and St Lucia. The VISION 2020 LINKS Programme at the London School...

Anterior segment imaging: a photographer’s view

My name is Rosalyn Painter and I work within the vision science and ophthalmic imaging team at Bristol Eye Hospital, where we cover all aspects of imaging within the hospital, including fluorescein angiograms, fundus photography, optical coherence tomography (OCT), slit-lamp...

Developing community eye care: the evolution of Wales’ eye care services

In the third in our series about community eye care in the home nations, David O’Sullivan explains how Wales has developed its community eye care services. Since the devolution of healthcare to Wales on 1 July 1999 [1], significant changes...

Sexually transmitted conjunctivitis – the REALLY sticky eye

Let’s face it, patients with conjunctivitis don’t always produce the most stimulating consultations and most of the time we can manage them in auto-pilot. The prospect of delving into such a patient’s sexual history is not overly appealing, but this...

Light in darkness – manual small incision cataract surgery in India

Cataract has been documented to be the most significant cause of bilateral blindness in India, where vision <20/200 in the better eye on presentation is defined as blindness [1,2]. Estimation of blindness in India by the World Health Organization (WHO)...

Pituitary tumours: why are they so often missed?

Part 3: Clinical features, assessment and management (see also Part 2, and Part 1) As previously mentioned in this treatise [1] pituitary tumours are common, occur in all age groups and can present with anything from minimal visual symptoms to...

My journey as advanced ophthalmic emergency nurse practitioner

Grace Eni explores her own achievements as an advanced nurse practitioner, emphasising the influential range and significance of this role in ophthalmic care. A pioneering position and job title in the UK and possibly globally, advanced nurse practitioner roles were...

Eye News to host educational day focused on AI and new technology

We’re delighted to announce that we will be hosting a symposium again next year as part of Eyecare 2020.

RNIB launches new campaign to dispel myths and encourage people to ‘See the person, not the sight loss’

Leading sight loss charity RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) and The&Partnership has today (3 October 2022) launched a new campaign ‘See the person, not the sight loss’, challenging outdated public attitudes and misperceptions of sight loss.