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NYU Langone Health performs world’s first whole-eye & partial-face transplant
15 November 2023
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NYU Langone, eye transplant, Face transplant, surgery, therapies, Aaron James, USA, Eduardo D. Rodriguez
Landmark whole-eye transplant is a major paradigm shift for potential vision therapies.
Designing ophthalmology services Part 2: How do we address the queues for a clinic?
1 April 2020
| Kate Silvester
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EYE - General
The first of this three-part series showed how systems engineering can be used to correctly diagnose and address the causes of delays in a clinic. This second article describes how to design a more productive system that meets the new...
The results of the last survey Feb 2020
I appreciate that I keep on reiterating it, but again we see so much practice variance. Who is right and who is wrong? Is there a right or wrong approach? And does it matter? I think it probably does matter....Unilateral central scotoma following dengue fever
12 October 2023
| Prabakaran Selvaraj, Shery Thomas, Isabel Ash, Arun Lakshmanan
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
Case report A 16-year-old Caucasian male was referred to the eye casualty at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust by the infectious diseases unit in September 2013. He gave a history of photophobia, pain on eye movements and central blurred vision...
Digital eyecare – enabling better communication between primary and secondary care
Alexander Chiu and his co-authors highlight innovations influencing healthcare advancement and how trainees can get involved. Hospital eye services (HES) were under great pressure to meet demand, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. This pressure has increased with the cancellation and...How to write and publish a case report – tips and common pitfalls
2 August 2024
| William Evans
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EYE - General
Ophthalmology is an extremely popular specialty, with the competition ratio at ST1 level entry being 10:1 in 2023 [1]. Consequently, applicants are required to achieve higher portfolio scores to remain competitive. For those considering a career in ophthalmology, two points...
Letter from America: Orbit and oculoplastic fellowship, University of California, San Diego
I was the fortunate recipient of the 2012 Keeler Scholarship, granting me the incredible opportunity to undertake a fellowship at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in orbital, oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery. My fellowship mentors were the renowned Professor...A day in the life of...an ophthalmic imager / an orthoptic assistant
1 February 2014
| Richard Hancock, Anne Fifield
The ophthalmic imager My role as an ophthalmic / medical photographer has evolved, dramatically, since I began my career at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, 30 years ago. Long gone are the days of developing and hand printing fluorescein angiograms in...
A missed intraocular telescope – an opportunity to re-focus the evidence
4 February 2021
| Hani Hasan, Jennifer McMahon, Guy Smith
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EYE - Cornea, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
Intraocular telescopes allow magnification of the image so that it would be projected into a larger area of the macula, this makes the central defect caused by dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) smaller. The most common approach is a Galilean...
An optometrist’s view of the Emergency Eye Day
1 October 2017
| Nicholas Rumney
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EYE - General
Liverpool is steeped in history, from its mercantile history, home to Cunard and the White Star line, to the Merseybeat and Derek Hatton. Not to be outdone at their annual meeting in the city, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists made...
VISION 2020 LINKS Programme and DR-NET World Sight Day Workshop
7 December 2020
| Covadonga Bascaran, Nyawira Mwangi, Hazel Shillingford-Ricketts, Nick Astbury, Marcia Zondervan
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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
World Sight Day (WSD) was celebrated globally on 8 October 2020 [1]. From Australia and the Pacific to the Americas, via Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, awareness-raising and advocacy activities took place throughout the day, to focus attention on unnecessary...
The International Centre for Eye Health: weaving the global threads together
4 October 2023
| Marcia Zondervan, Hannah Faal, Covadonga Bascaran
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EYE - General
The VISION 2020 LINKS & Networks Programme has been writing regular articles in Eye News about its capacity-strengthening activities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for more than a decade. This, the first International Issue, is a landmark for Eye...
