App usage to improve compliance with amblyopia therapy
3 October 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
In this study, the authors report the development of the software ‘Magical patching’ for iOS and Android (for smartphones and tablets) as the first version of the amblyopia treatment Chulalongkoru university (ATCU) app. In this randomised controlled trial, they aimed...
Factors associated with inferior oblique transposition surgery and occurrence of anti-elevation syndrome
3 October 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The purpose of this study was to correlate the frequency of anti-elevation syndrome (AES) with the magnitude of the anterior transposition of the inferior oblique. This was a retrospective study of 312 eyes of 170 patients. Mean age at surgery...
Cadaveric measurements of the Spiral of Tillaux
3 October 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors conducted a cadaveric study to investigate and analyse the variability of the mean distances of the extra-ocular muscle insertion sites from the limbus as well as corneal diameters. The study included measurements taken from 30 white cavaders; 50%...
Clinical features of basic acquired nonaccommodative esotropia requiring surgery
3 September 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Basic acquired nonaccommodative esotropia (BANAET) is a concomitant esotropia occurring after the age of six months without significant refractive error or accommodative element. Esotropia is similar for both near and distance and children have prior binocular single vision. The purpose...
Comparison of motor and sensory outcomes for nonaccommodative esotropia and partial accommodative esotropia
3 September 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Motor and sensory outcomes of surgery are compared for partial accommodative refractive esotropia (pARET) and acute nonaccommodative comitant esotropia (ANAET) to evaluate factors affecting their surgical success. This was a retrospective study of 38 ANAET (26 males, 12 females) and...
Ahmed and Baerveldt glaucoma drainage implant outcomes
3 September 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This study reports the surgical outcomes of both the Ahmed (AGV) and Baerveldt (BGI) glaucoma drainage implants in a cohort of patients with primary congenital glaucoma over a long follow-up in a single tertiary centre. This was a retrospective study...
Occlusion vs. video gaming for treatment of refractive / anisometropic amblyopia
2 August 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors conducted a comparative study of a novel low-cost video game platform – BarronVision (BV) – with standardised occlusion in the treatment of paediatric amblyopia. BarronVision uses a monocular perception learning approach in which the size of optotypes can...
Quality of life scores in strabismic children
2 August 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
In this study the authors used the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (version 4.0) to evaluate impact of strabismus on health-related quality of life in Portuguese children. This was a prospective study of children aged 5–12 years over a nine-month...
Choroid and retinal changes post COVID-19
2 August 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors aimed to evaluate choroid and inner neural layers in people previously recovered from Covid-19 compared to healthy controls using optical coherence tomography (OCT) over a six-month period. They recruited 96 people: 56 with Covid-19 at least three months...
Female participation at the AAO conference
2 August 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This study sought to understand whether female participation among paediatric ophthalmologists at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting resembles the sex distribution of the field as well as whether the Covid-19 pandemic significantly affected female involvement. From 2018–2022,...
No risk of dry eye disease in concomitant strabismus cases
2 August 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This preliminary assessment of the ocular surface of patients with concomitant strabismus before surgery was undertaken to determine if the presence of strabismus increases the risk of dry eye disease. This was a cross-sectional study of 204 patients with concomitant...
Types of nystagmus and associations in a large international database for nystagmus
2 August 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors aimed to characterise a large international cohort of children with nystagmus. Data were taken from a prospective database which was started in 2010. Up to 2020, this contained 1774 patients with nystagmus from 38 US states and 30...
