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One-week intubation in external dacryocystorhinostomy
1 October 2021
| Rina Bhatt
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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Dacryocystorhinostomy, epiphora, silicone stent intubation, success rate
Whether to routinely intubate or not in dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) surgery has been a subject of controversy among lacrimal surgeons. Similarly, if intubated the timing of removal of stent is not standard. Here, the authors carried out a survey of their...
FEVR characteristics
3 February 2023
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors report a series of 16 cases of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) in Northern Ireland (NI) to characterise the genetic patterns and identify other common characteristics relevant for current and future practice. This was a retrospective study including 12...
Sensorimotor outcomes following paediatric ocular trauma
9 August 2023
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
A retrospective assessment of sensorimotor outcomes was conducted in paediatric patients after ocular trauma to evaluate potential predictors of poor outcome including time of treatment deprivation, Paediatric Ocular Trauma score (POTS) and patient characteristics. The review was from 2006-2020 and...
Adjuvant oral voriconazole or oral ketoconazole for fungal keratitis
1 April 2018
| Magdalena Popiela
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This randomised double-blinded trial examined clinical outcomes of 50 patients with severe fungal keratitis treated with either adjuvant oral voriconazole or oral ketoconazole. Inclusion criteria were culture or smear proven fungal ulcers >5mm in maximum diameter, involving >4mm of the...
Platelet-rich fibrin for conjunctivoplasty after pterygium excision
1 April 2018
| Sofia Rokerya
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The authors report a prospective, comparative, non-randomized clinical trial of 35 pterygium patients with unilateral nasal primary pterygium infiltrating the cornea 2-5mm in size, who underwent pterygium excision between June 2013 and September 2014. Thirty-five eyes of 35 patients with...
Risk factors for intraoperative floppy iris syndrome
1 January 2017
| Sofia Rokerya
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Cataract and Refractive
Intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) is charcterised by flaccid iris stroma leading to fluttering and billowing of iris, tendency of iris to prolapse through surgical incisions and causing intraoperative pupil constriction. IFIS is characterised as complete when all three features...
Persistence of Ebola virus in ocular fluid during convalescence
1 August 2015
| Jonathan CP Roos
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The most recent Ebola outbreak has infected over 26,300 patients, but also resulted in the highest number of survivors in history. Uveitis has been described during the convalescent period, but Varkey and colleagues report, for the first time, finding viable...
Effect of anti-VEGF treatment on PED morphology
1 June 2015
| Jaya Myneni
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Choroidal neovascularization, optical coherence tomography, ranibizumab, VEGF
This retrospective study of 30 eyes assessed the effect of anti-VEGF on morphology of pigment epithelial detachments (PED) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Thirty eyes of 28 patients with PED were compared to 30 eyes of 30 patients with...
Chemical injury
6 April 2021
| Abdul Muhyemin Tarin
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Ophthalmology, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology
You are the on-call ophthalmologist. You receive a call from A&E regarding a 45-year-old man who sustained a chemical injury. He was mixing some cement, when a small amount entered his left eye. He was not wearing any protective goggles....
Is optician led service an answer to ever increasing demand on eye emergency clinics?
1 April 2015
| Ritu Chaturvedi, Nikhil Cascone, Conrad Yuen, Richard Brown
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Emergency Ophthalmology
The demand for eye casualty appointments has been steadily increasing in the UK, leading to pressures on the hospital emergency services. The incidence of presentations to eye casualty services has been estimated at 20-30 per 1000 per year [1]. Evidence...
Paediatric spectacle dispensing: more than a frame and lenses
1 April 2017
| Barry Duncan
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Optometry
It’s incredibly rewarding to fit a child’s first pair of spectacles and see their face light up; looking around to see the wider world for the first time. Sometimes it is so obvious that even the most reluctant parent will...
Did the COVID-19 pandemic affect quality of life of patients newly diagnosed with intra-cranial hypertension?
3 April 2023
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology, COVID-19
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COVID-19, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, pandemic, quality of life
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. This article aimed to explore how the care of patients with idiopathic intra-cranial hypertension (IIH) was affected during the COVID-19 lockdown. The...