Journal Reviews archive for August 2024
Portable vision reading device shows promise for low vision after brain injury
The authors report a small sample cohort study evaluating the impact of a portable vision reading device (OrCam Read) on vision-related quality-of-life and independent functional status in patients with low vision due to stroke or brain tumours. Six patients with...
Septo-optic dysplasia – a case note review
Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) is a congenital disorder belonging to the midline brain malformation group. The condition manifests as a classical triad, including optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH), agenesis of midline structures (absent septum pel-lucidum and agenesis of the corpus callosum), and...
Characteristics of neuro-ophthalmic visual disturbances post-cataract surgery
The authors present a retrospective case review of adult patients seen by neuro-ophthalmology over a nine-year period. The aim of the study was to identify the cause of neuro-ophthalmic referrals within six months of cataract surgery. Individuals already known to...
Tumour characteristics influencing visual field outcomes
This retrospective study aimed to explore correlations between pituitary tumour characteristics which influenced visual field changes. Cases of transsphenoidal surgery from a six-year period resulting in a pathologic diagnosis of pituitary adenoma from a single centre were identified. Individuals were...
Orbital fat density as a diagnostic tool in pre-septal and orbital cellulitis
This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of orbital fat density in identifying post-septal involvement when initial differential diagnosis between orbital (OC) and periorbital (POC) cellulitis is unclear. This was a retrospective study of 57 patients with clinical diagnosis of...
Proptosis reduction with teprotumumab versus surgical decompression
This study aims to explore whether fat-to-muscle ratio (FMR) can be used to determine the efficacy of teprotumumab when compared to surgical decompression. Simply put, a high FMR equates to more fat expansion and low FMR equates to more muscle...
EOM enlargement in carotid cavernous fistulas
This study evaluates the radiological patterns of extraocular muscle enlargement and proptosis in carotid cavernous fistulas (CCF). At least one muscle was enlarged in 27.5% of cases. The inferior rectus was most commonly enlarged, followed by the medial rectus. Proptosis...
Occlusion vs. video gaming for treatment of refractive / anisometropic amblyopia
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
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
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
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
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...
