Long-term retinal changes following unilateral retrobulbar optic neuritis
1 June 2015
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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OCT, optic neuritis, optical coherence tomography, RNFL, steroid
The aim of this study was to assess the longitudinal changes in retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness after a first attack of optic neuritis and to investigate the impact of treatment on RNFL thinning at one year after the...
Nicotine accelerates diabetes induced retinal changes
1 June 2015
| Khadijah Basheer
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Diabetes, SD-OCT, SLO, neurons, nicotine, retinal thickness
This study investigated the influence of nicotine in an experimentally induced diabetic rat model. They used non-invasive high-resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) imaging to provide quantitative information on the temporal alterations of retinal structures at the micrometer resolution...
Early surgery for epiretinal membrane
1 October 2014
| Nana Theodorou
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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epiretinal membrane, combined phakovitrectomy, OCT
This was a retrospective case review study in 120 consecutive patients with idiopathic epiretinal membrane. The average patient age was 72 years with a mean follow-up of 6.5 months. Inclusion criteria consisted of symptomatic patients with visual acuity of 1.0...
