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Microbiology, risk factors and outcomes of microbial keratitis in Sydney, Australia
5 February 2020
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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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...
Is optic disc drusen a risk factor in young patients with anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy?
7 December 2020
| Tasmin Berman
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This retrospective cross-section multicentre study reviewed 65 patients all younger than 50-years-old with non-arteritic anterior optic neuropathy (NA-AION) between April 2017 and March 2019. The purpose of this study was to investigate if there was a link between Optic Disc...
Sjogren’s syndrome in association with ophthalmoplegia
4 February 2021
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Sjögren’s syndrome, total external ophthalmoplegia, xerophthalmia
This is a case report of a 28-year-old female complaining of horizontal and vertical diplopia with inability to move her right eye and sudden onset right ptosis. She complained of retro-orbital pain with headache and a foreign body sensation in...
COVID-related mucormycosis
The authors report a retrospective case-control study of 73 patients with COVID-19 associated mucormycosis (CAM) between 1st March and 30th May 2021. They compared various factors between the two groups – patients who survived CAM (47 [64%]) and those that...Clinical features and mortality of endogenous panophthalmitis in China
This longitudinal cohort study aimed to report the clinical features, treatment strategy, and mortality of 15 consecutive patients (16 eyes) with endogenous panophthalmitis (EP) at a tertiary medical centre of the largest eye centre in Northern China. Mean age was...Risk factors for non-arteritic ischaemic optic neuropathy in an Asian population
1 October 2017
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Korean, non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy, systemic risk factor
The authors reviewed the medical records of 45 Korean patients with non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAION) and 45 healthy controls, in order to determine risk factors for the condition in an Asian population. Previous studies looking at risk factors...
Occurrence and risk factors for RD after PPV in acute postcataract bacterial endophthalmitis
1 February 2017
| Jonathan Chan
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This is a prospective multicentre study from France between March 2004 to December 2011 in four university hospitals; 123 consecutive patients treated with pars planar vitrectomy (PPV) were included in this cohort. The rate of retinal detachment (RD) of post-PPV...
Resveratrol protects against steroid induced intraocular pressure
1 April 2016
| Graham Wallace
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Genetics
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Glaucoma, Intraocular pressure, Resveratrol, Retina, Steroid-induced, Trabecular meshwork
Topical and systemic steroid delivery is a very effective treatment for many ocular conditions but is compromised by raised intraocular pressure which in turn leads to death of retinal ganglion cells and irreversible blindness. This is an important consideration with...
Risk factors for NTG in a young Korean population
1 April 2015
| Anjali Gupta
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Glaucoma
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diabetes mellitus, myopia, open-angle glaucoma, risk factor, young adult
Previously known ocular and systemic risk factors for normal tension glaucoma (NTG) include myopia, peripapillary atrophy, disc haemorrhage, migraine, obstructive sleep apnoea, thyroid disease and cerebral infarction. However, most NTG risk factor studies have examined patients aged 40 years and...
Nonarteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy
1 April 2015
| Nana Theodorou
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
This review article describes nonarteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAION). This condition is one of the common causes of visual loss in adults. The article uses a good range of references and is divided under the headings of; demographics, clinical...
Neurotrophic keratitis
1 October 2014
| Sofia Rokerya
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The authors present an overview of the aetiology, diagnosis, current and future management options of neurotrophic keratitis. This is a degenerative corneal disease that occurs following the compromise of trigeminal innervation, leading to hypoesthesia and / or anaesthesia. The aetiology...
Risk factors and untreated POAG
1 December 2013
| Lorraine North
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Glaucoma
The authors examined 50 untreated open angle glaucoma patients to determine if there was an association between the level of glaucomatous damage and documented risk factors. In this study the authors measured the extent of morphologic and functional glaucomatous damage...