Ophthalmology

My top five: Emerging alternatives to manage and treat nAMD

3 April 2024 | Nikhil Sharma, Paras Agarwal | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Wet (exudative or neovascular) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is characterised by choroidal neovascularisation, in which new blood vessels from the choroid invade through Bruch’s membrane. These blood vessels proliferate beneath or through the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), causing patients to...

Diagram representing the ophthalmology escape room idea.

The Escape Room and gamification of ophthalmology teaching

3 April 2024 | Akash Dharni | EYE - General

Recently, there has been an interesting development in medical education and its ‘gamification’. Educators are constantly looking for new ways to engage their students by adding a friendly element of competition, as evidenced by the great success of online education...

Image showing the evolution of the Arclight device.

Part 1: The Arclight Project – Frugal tech for sight

3 April 2024 | Andrew Blaikie, Immaculate Atukunda, Obaid Kousha | EYE - General

Click here for Part 2 on this topic, and here for Part 3 The Arclight Project is a mix of frugal design, manufacturing, distribution, teaching, research, and advocacy, all wrapped up in a social enterprise based at the University of...

Bar charts showing delegate feedback from vitrual suturing workshop.

Virtual ophthalmic conferences: learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic

3 April 2024 | Sarah Suleyman Omran, Andre Ismail | EYE - General

The Covid-19 pandemic was the catalyst for a number of paradigm shifts in numerous industries. The demand for proxies that follow social distancing measures created a hotbed for digital solutions and transitioned these to social convention. In the aftermath, the...

Photo showing worked carried out byAll Eyes Foundation.

The All Eyes Foundation

3 April 2024 | Haidar Al-Hakim | EYE - General

At its core, All Eyes Foundation (AEF) wishes to help bring vision back to Iraq, and it intends to do this through ophthalmic subspecialty training, mentoring and infrastructure development. Based in Najaf, just over 100 miles south of Baghdad, the...

OM diagram depicting presence of a V pattern. Inverted lines would indicate A pattern.

Strabismus and ocular motility, demystified

3 April 2024 | Rhys Gitau-Jones, Catrin Bertalot | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - General

I am a former orthoptist, now trained in medicine and working as a foundation doctor. In my previous work, I was frequently approached by ophthalmology trainees eager for guidance with strabismus and ocular motility. Drawing on my clinical experience, I...

Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery: What options are there and when might they be considered?

25 March 2024 | William Spackman, Jonathan Goodfellow | EYE - Glaucoma

In recent years there has been a rapid expansion in a group of operations termed ‘minimally invasive’ or ‘micro invasive’ glaucoma surgery (MIGS). These options generally offer less significant IOP reduction, but with a more favourable safety profile when compared...

My top five: Innovative approaches to dry AMD

2 February 2024 | Nikhil Sharma | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness in the developing world with its prevalence rising alongside age. In societies characterised by ageing populations, it is imperative we explore more effective treatment to alleviate the...

Image showing how FLigHT treatment (ViaLase) non-invasively creates precise trabeculotomy channels in the trabecular meshwork.

Evolving towards an interventional glaucoma mindset

2 February 2024 | Gus Gazzard (Prof), Jan Beiting | EYE - Glaucoma

Traditionally, a newly diagnosed glaucoma patient would be treated first with medical therapy. As the disease progressed or the initial intervention failed to adequately control intraocular pressure (IOP), clinicians would add more drops, selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT), repeated SLT and...

Portrait of Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder.

100 years since Sir William Duke-Elder graduated from the University of St Andrews

2 February 2024 | Andrew Blaikie, Andrew King | EYE - General

With sincere thanks to Andrew King, Ophthalmic Optician and owner of Andrew King Opticians near Glasgow, for his extensive research into Duke-Elder’s life.' Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder. Photo credit: Edward Irvine Halliday, Institute of Ophthalmology. In the world of ophthalmology,...

Image showing Sp.eye device injection delivery position.

Running a high-volume nurse led intravitreal service using the Sp.eye device – the Stanley Eye Unit experience

2 February 2024 | Julia Baxter, Eoin Guerin, Catrin Bertalot, Alison Birch, Tracy Turner, Karen Evans | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Introduction The vast majority of ophthalmology units utilise allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) to deliver intravitreal injections (IVIs). The Royal College of Ophthalmologists issued a statement 10 years ago advocating the use of non-medical practitioners performing IVIs [1]. The main benefit...

Graphs comparing densitometry values between 50–59 years and 60–69 years age groups.

Investigating the link between corneal clarity and statin use

2 February 2024 | Mohammad Nofal Usman, Nadia L Chaudhry | EYE - Cornea

Transparency is a vital attribute of the cornea, necessary in preserving healthy vision. Maintaining this requires the collective input of the various layers of the cornea. Mostly, the layers implicated in this are the corneal stroma and endothelium [1]. Our...

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