Microbiology, risk factors and outcomes of microbial keratitis in Sydney, Australia
5 February 2020
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
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Microbial keratitis, cornea, dry eye, keratitis, ocular surface disease
The authors present a retrospective case series including all patients with microbial keratitis and ocular surface diseases (OSD), including dry eye, blepharitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome and / or ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, over a five-year period between 2012 and 2016. A total...
Paediatric enucleation in a tertiary eye centre in North China, 2001-2015
2 December 2019
| Patty Mopamboli Mboli
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Enucleation, evisceration, ocular trauma, pediatric, retinoblastoma
The authors review the demography and aetiology of paediatric enucleation over a 15-year period. A total of 9307 paediatric ophthalmic inpatients ranging from 0 to 14 years who underwent surgery at Shandong Eye Institute over the past 15 years were...
Lens surgery in patients with lens subluxation misdiagnosed as primary angle-closure glaucoma
1 August 2019
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Glaucoma
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Angle-closure glaucoma, intraocular pressure control, lens subluxation, lens surgery, misdiagnosis
Lens subluxation can be caused by many conditions including Marfan syndrome and other hereditary conditions, and blunt trauma. Lens displacement can cause pupillary block and angle closure. This is commonly misdiagnosed as primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG), which can lead...
Glaucoma and capillary perfusion
1 August 2019
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Glaucoma
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Glaucoma, OCTA, field of vision, intraocular pressure, macula, optic nerve
Elevated IOP is important but not the sole factor responsible for retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death and optic nerve damage in glaucoma. There is increasing evidence that visual loss correlates with macular inner retinal thinning. A total of 148 eyes...
Ocular neuromyotonia features
1 August 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Carbamazepine, hypovitaminosis, ocular neuromyotonia, peripheral neuromyotonia
The authors present eight cases of ocular neuromyotonia (ONM) with an overview of the pathophysiology, aetiology, clinical presentations and possible treatments. Diagnosis was made only after thorough and repeated orthoptic examinations and review of medication history. An overview of the...
Diclofenac versus Bromfenac after cataract surgery
1 April 2019
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, bromfenac, cataract surgery, diclofenac, intraocular inflammation
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used after cataract surgery to reduce inflammation and cystoid macular oedema (CMO). Diclofenac 0.1% is used three to five times daily for 28 days and Bromfenac 0.09% twice daily for 14 days postoperatively. The...
Corpus callosum in infantile esotropia
1 April 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Binocularity, corpus callosum, diffusion tensor imaging, infantile esotropia, strabismus
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) imaging was undertaken with four infantile esotropia (IE) patients and nine controls. All with IE showed an asymmetrical distribution of callosal fibres when comparing two hemispheres. Many fibres terminated near the tips of the occipital cortices....
Vertical disparity effects on horizontal fusion
1 December 2018
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Binocular vision, convergence, divergence, fusional reserves, horizontal, vertical disparity
This study was designed to investigate the effect of induced vertical disparity by prisms on horizontal fusional reserves at near distance. One hundred and seventy students were recruited and vertical disparity was induced by small vertical prisms of 0.5 and...
Optical quality difference between monofocal and multifocal intraocular lenses
1 August 2018
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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Optical quality, cataract, intraocular lenses, monofocal, multifocal
It is well known that multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) can generate more than one focus to restore distance and near vision, but patients may experience adverse optical phenomena such as decreased contrast sensitivity and induced glare or halos. The authors...
A case of post-viral ocular microflutter
1 August 2018
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Ocular flutter, ocular microflutter, opsoclonus, saccadic intrusions, video-oculography
A number of eye movements disrupt visual fixation, one such movement being saccadic intrusions which are described as small involuntary saccadic movements. Among saccadic intrusions without intersaccadic intervals, ocular flutter and opsoclonus are prominent. When the saccadic amplitude is very...
Meta-analysis of HLA B27 associated acute anterior uveitis
1 August 2018
| Mrinal Rana
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Ankylosing spondylitis, fibrin, glaucoma, hypopion, ocular inflammation
A literature-based meta-analysis was carried out to look at the various clinical features associated with HLA- B27 acute anterior uveitis (AAU). After an extensive search of literature for HLA B27 uveitis was conducted, 735 results were obtained. Twenty-nine articles were...
Binocular summation responses in strabismic amblyopia
1 June 2018
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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amblyopia, binocularity, stereopsis, strabismus, strabismus surgery
A preliminary study was conducted to determine whether binocular summation (BS) in strabismic amblyopia is more decreased than in strabismus alone and whether strabismus surgery improves BS. The study included 15 strabismic amblyopes, 30 normal controls and 30 strabismic controls....
