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AI breakthrough brings geographic atrophy treatment a step closer
20 September 2021
A team led by Dr Konstantinos Balaskas at Moorfields Eye Hospital Reading Centre has developed a fully automated, deep-learning model (algorithm) that can detect and quantify geographic atrophy using standard optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans.
Macular pigment and dark adaptation in older population with normal maculas
1 December 2018
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Macular pigment, Müller cells, aging, dark adaptation
Macular pigment (MP) such as lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin are highly concentrated in the fovea. They protect the retina from damage of ambient blue light via antioxidant properties. In older eyes with normal healthy retina, macular pigment optical density (MPOD)...
Multicentre PCO rates in different brands of monofocal intraocular lenses
5 October 2020
| Hadi Ziaei
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Cataract and Refractive
This was a longitudinal, retrospective cohort study featuring 47,754 (three years) and 20,763 (five years) eyes with age-related (≥65 year) cataract surgeries between 2010-2013 across seven UK ophthalmology clinics. The three- and five-year incidence of posterior capsular opacification (PCO) and...
What's trending Jun/Jul 2018
1 June 2018
| Stephanie Chiu
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Ophthalmology
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #BusyPhillips #photokeratitis #sunglasses Last time, we were in the throes of the Beast from the East. Here in the UK, it’s...
Renewed momentum in ocular gene and cell therapy, broadening application to chronic disease
Gene and cell therapies offer the prospect of ground-breaking new avenues for the treatment of diseases, reflected in a renewed explosion of interest and investment in retinal gene therapy. Rod McNeil reports recent clinical trial readouts across a diverse range...Student Ophthalmology Review Day: SORD
16 November 2023
by Josephine A Bates, FY2 Doctor, North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, UK. Opening its doors to medical students across the country once again, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists hosted the Student Ophthalmology Review Day (SORD) with a fantastic turnout. Dr...
Stereotactic radiotherapy for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
1 August 2015
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is a variant of neovascular AMD. It is a disease of choroidal vasculature characterised by abnormal branching vascular network with aneurysmal dilatations (polyps). Features of PCV include pigment epithelial detachments (PED), subretinal fluid (SRF) accumulation and...
A look into the IOL space
1 October 2014
| Rod McNeil
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Cataract and Refractive
Advances in the design and performance of intraocular lenses (IOLs) continue to be driven by demand for better outcomes, presbyopia correction and spectacle independence, alongside a better understanding of the dynamics of the crystalline lens, newer theories of accommodation and...
What's trending Apr/May 2023
3 April 2023
| Stephanie Chiu
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Ophthalmology
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #Cyborgeye #flashlighteye #prostheticeye #BrianStanleyeye Brian Stanley is a California-based engineer, who lost his eye to retinoblastoma when he was six-years-old. A...
Oral glycerol effect on anterior chamber depth during cataract surgery
3 June 2021
| Kareem Waleed Alsaffarini
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Cataract and Refractive
The authors present the findings of a controlled clinical trial where cataract patients having surgery for both eyes at least seven days apart were given oral glycerol preoperatively when operating on the right eye. This meant that the left eye...
The bionic eye – behind the headlines
Multiple visual prosthetic projects and other vision regeneration initiatives being tested in preclinical and clinical development worldwide illustrate continuing progress and opportunities in addressing profound blindness from hereditary retinal diseases and other causes (Table 1). Three implantable bionic vision systems...All eyes on Twiggy as she fronts new campaign warning us: don’t lose focus of your eye health
13 October 2022
Dame Twiggy Lawson fronts a new public awareness campaign focused on eye health, as cases of macular disease increase with our ageing population.