Anything new in the control of myopia progression?
1 October 2021
| Zhihang Cheng
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Axial length, Children, Efficacy, Myopia, Myopia control, Retinal disease
This is a review article looking at up to date concepts and evidence in myopia control from current literature and studies. The authors identified that myopia control is best measured in absolute change in axial length as opposed to refraction...
Transient macular thinning with Densiron 68
4 August 2021
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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OCT, Retinal detachment, heavy silicone oil, macula
Densiron 68 is a heavy silicone oil (HSO) used to treat rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRD) with inferior retinal breaks. The authors compared changes in retinal thickness during and after the use of Densiron endotamponade, and looked at any association between...
Visual outcomes after surgery for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in era of microincision vitrectomy
This is a prospective, multicentre, nationwide study between 2016 and 2017, to investigate the preoperative ocular factors, surgical techniques (pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) or scleral buckling (SB), or combined procedures) for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) and postoperative best corrected visual...
Subconjunctival anaesthesia in vitreoretinal surgery
4 August 2021
| Ed Rule
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Peribulbar anesthesia, Retrobulbar anesthesia, Two-step anesthesia, Vitrectomy
The authors present a technique that combines topical and subconjunctival anaesthesia for vitreoretinal surgery. In this ‘two-step’ procedure, three drops of proparacaine were applied to the conjunctival fornix, followed by subconjunctival lidocaine injected in three quadrants. This was compared with...
The effects of anti-VEGF therapy for NvAMD on retinal vasculature
4 August 2021
| Su Young
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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aflibercept, foveal avascular zone, neovascular age-related macular degeneration, ranibizumab, retinal vessel density
This retrospective consecutive case series examined 54 eyes of 54 treatment-naïve neovascular age-related macular degeneration (N-AMD) patients. Thirty-three eyes received intravitreal aflibercept injections, and 21 eyes received intravitreal ranibizumab injections with unaffected fellow eyes (54 eyes) as controls. All image...
OCTA in geographic atrophy
4 August 2021
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Age-related macular degeneration, Angiography, Choriocapillaris, Choroid, Optical coherence tomography
In this article the authors aim to give an overview of the current literature concerning the application of OCT-A in geographic atrophy (GA). GA is a disease characterised by loss of outer retinal layers including photoreceptors, degeneration of the retinal...
Control of diabetic retinopathy after bariatric surgery
3 June 2021
| Tasmin Berman
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This systemic review and meta-analysis assessed prevalence of diabetic retinopathy including sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy after surgery. They included 14 studies with 110,300 surgical patients and 252,289 control subjects. They proposed that the risk of having any form of diabetic retinopathy...
Migraine and risk of retinal artery occlusion
3 June 2021
| Tasmin Berman
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This retrospective cohort study assessed whether migraine was associated with an increased risk of retinal artery occlusion. They reviewed a large insurance database of 418,965 patients who suffered with migraines between 2007 and 2016. These were then matched with an...
Ocular toxoplasmosis
3 June 2021
| Jonathan Chan
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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acute chronic infection, ocular toxoplasmosis, serology IgG IgM
This is a retrospective study of 106 patients between March 2011 and June 2018, of 37 IgM + group and 69 IgM - group of patients. The clinical features, demographics of patients with ocular toxoplasmosis (OT) were studied according to...
Why is there subretinal fluid at the macula?
3 June 2021
| Zhihang Cheng
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC), Differential diagnosis, Retinal disease, Serous fluid accumulation, Serous maculopathy
This is a review article looking at the differential diagnosis of subretinal fluid in the macula that could be diagnosed as central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR). The authors have categorised them into 12 groups: neovascular diseases, vitelliform lesions, inflammatory diseases, ocular...
What is paracentral acute middle maculopathy?
3 June 2021
| Zhihang Cheng
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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PAMM, Paracentral acute middle maculopathy, Retinal capillary plexus, Retinal ischemic cascade, Retinal vascular occlusion, Retinal vasculature
This is a review article characterising a clinical entity called paracentral acute middle maculopathy (PAMM). The article highlights the fact that retinal capillary plexuses are organised predominantly into three trilaminar capillary layers occupying the area between the nerve fibre layer...
Prevalence and incidence of uveitis
3 June 2021
| Patty Mopamboli Mboli
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Incidence, epidemiology, prevalence, systematic review, uveitis
Uveitis encompasses a group of diseases characterised by the inflammation of fovea uvea which are potentially vision threatening. However, the frequency of this condition is unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to provide estimates of the frequency of uveitis...
