Trochleitis features
1 April 2018
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Brown syndrome, headache, primary trochlear headache, trochlear inflammation, trochleitis
The authors evaluate the epidemiology, clinical signs, treatment and outcomes of trochleitis in a retrospective review of 59 cases. Estimated prevalence was 12 per 100,000. Eighty-six percent were female and mean age was 43±18 years. All but one case was...
MISS vs. fornix approach
1 December 2016
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Fornix approach, horizontal strabismus, inflammation, minimally invasive strabismus surgery, surgical time
The objectives of this study were to compare minimally invasive strabismus surgery (MISS) with the fornix approach in paediatric horizontal strabismus surgery (<12 years) and to evaluate early postoperative inflammation, visual acuity and operating time after a four-year training period...
Bisphosphonates can cause orbital inflammation
1 April 2016
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Bisphosphonate, complication, orbital inflammation, orbital inflammatory syndrome, side effect, zolendronate
The authors describe four patients with bisphosphonate induced orbital inflammation and review a further 25 cases in the literature. Intravenous zoledronate was the most common precipitant (76% of cases) with the mean time until onset of inflammation being three days...
