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Outcomes for strabismus surgery dependent on access to insurance
The primary aim of this study was to compare postoperative outcomes in a larger cohort of paediatric patients having strabismus surgery with at least 11 months follow-up to determine the impact of low socio-economic status (SES) and health disparities and...New team member for Topcon Surgical
Topcon Great Britain Medical has announced a new addition to the Topcon Surgical team.Dr Sohaib Rufai – the UK’s newest NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology
Dr Sohaib Rufai has been promoted to National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology.End of an era: completing training. Tips for survival, fellowship applications and how to CCT
Tafadzwa Young-Zvandasara shares the things he wishes he had paid more attention to when approaching the end of training. It is the end of an era, you are now ready to move on. Training has been filled with a structured...The invisible touch: a VISION 2020 LINK with Indonesia
Indonesia’s population, the world’s fourth largest, is spread across 6,000 inhabited islands. Whilst some areas (e.g. Kalimantan, Papua) are relatively sparsely populated, Java is the world’s most densely populated island, with twice the population of the UK in half the...
Incidence of eyelid basal cell carcinoma in England
A retrospective review by using the ICD-10 and histology codes for eyelid basal cell carcinoma (BCCs) (including the inner canthus) from the English National Cancer Data Repository were used to identify incident events between the period 2000 to 2010. There...
Treatment for post stroke visual impairment – clinical practice versus literature evidence
The aim of this paper is to compare the treatments reported in a large scale stroke study (Vision in stroke (VIS) Study) against the treatments identified in a full systematic literature review. The purpose was to identify which treatment /...
Staged excision of primary periocular BCC
This is a 10 retrospective review of case notes study of 437 patients of staged basal cell carcinoma (BCC) excisions between 2000 and 2017. All patients had 3mm clinically clear margins with staged excision and standard reconstruction techniques were performed...
Choroidal thickness in strabismus and amblyopia
The authors examined the effect of exotropia, esotropia, anisometropic amblyopia and hypermetropia on choroidal thickness in a prospective cross section study. The study included 100 patients and 20 controls with a mean age of 8.5±2.9 years; 61 female and 59...
Significant associations to presence of significant retinal haemorrhages in suspected child abuse
The authors aimed to extract statistically significant associations between non-ocular clinical and diagnostic imaging findings and the presence of significant retinal haemorrhages, and then develop an evidence-based screening algorithm to determine when to consult an ophthalmologist in suspected child abuse...
Screening for ROP using wide-angle digital retinal photography by non-ophthalmologists
This is a systematic review article to evaluate the accuracy of digital retinal photography (DRP) performed by trained personnel (non-ophthalmologists) in diagnosing clinically significant retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The authors used search engines including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane databases....
